The Most Beautiful Garden Lighting Ideas

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Light up your Outdoor Space by Choosing The Best Garden Lights

Garden lighting is usually an afterthought, but it is the key to setting the mood and adding a decorative and dramatic touch to your outdoor space, whatever the size.

Every garden needs a focal point and, with well-positioned lighting, you can accent parts of your garden to give it personality and atmosphere, marking paths and boundaries. For best results, use a combination of different garden lights to bring out texture, depth, and drama on walls, fences, steps, patio edges, foliage, trees, and water.

Work from scratch, then add wall lighting and spotlights to create a layered look, but don't over-light it. Be careful with wall designs on a terrace, for example. You can create a better atmosphere by using garden lanterns, candles, and tealights.

"Do not turn on everything in sight," warns Darren Staniforth, a technical expert at the regulatory agency NICEIC (National Inspection Council for Contracting Electrical Installations). To help you plan his project, Darren suggests highlighting the most attractive features and providing lighting for tasks where you need them, such as at a dining room table or next to entrances and exits to different areas of the garden.

Upward lighting works well at the edge of the garden, where you can illuminate a fence to make space appear larger, while downward lighting can be used to highlight features such as a tree or placed on a table to provide light for eat or relax.

Easy Garden Lighting Idea: Create shadows by placing a light in front of a plant or sculptural object for a dramatic look.

If you're planning your garden, you should plan the lighting project early in the project,  as all cables generally need to be run under difficult gardens and plantings.

And don't forget the borders - drawing attention to them can create a complete design for your modern garden. You can create this effect by installing waterproof LED lighting strips around the bottom edge of your edge. This is also a great option for any patio, deck, or deck area.
Finally, choose LED garden lamps instead of halogen as they are very energy efficient and the lamp life is much longer. We recommend using warm white instead of cool white as it adds a softer glow to your outdoor space.

Solar Garden Lights

Solar lights are a fantastic option for garden lighting, as they can function as both functional and decorative. As well as being much more energy-efficient and saving money in the long run, they are also easy to install and can stay in place for a long time.

Although solar-powered garden lights don't require external electricity, they depend on a constant supply of strong sunlight, so you can't always depend on them. Some solar outdoor lights take up to eight hours a day to fully charge, so battery-backed solar lights or those that recharge via USB are ideal for the duller winter months. If the weather turns wet and windy, it's a good idea to put solar lighting aside until conditions improve, as fragile steel cables can easily break.

Garden Lighting Ideas: Solar lights are available in virtually every type of lighting design, including fairy lights, festoon lights, stake lights, lanterns, path lights, and wall lights. Put them in the places where you will hang out on a summer night and hang solar lights where you can see them from inside the house; They will come in handy when it is too cold to leave the house.

Garden Fairy Lights

Fairy garden lights and festoon lights, also known as garden lights, are key features in making your garden space more attractive. With outdoor fairy lights, the power source will be battery, plug-in, or solar. If you want to bring some plants to life, choose a battery-operated timer (make sure it's in a sheltered position) or solar-powered string lights. The flexible yarn means you can style and style them with ease. The plugin is the best option if you are using extendable light strings, where you can add lengths to cover hundreds of meters for a magical effect.

Garden Lighting Ideas: Winter or summer, a garden full of bright lights is a magical sight. Fairy garden lights are very decorative and colorful, so you can use them to really enhance your garden. They perfectly illuminate any space, not emitting a strong and bright light, but a soft and warm glow. For the most effective results, run colored lights throughout the planting, but you can also wrap string lights around trees or hang fences. Another idea is to tie festoon lights back and forth over a living room to create your own starry sky.

Garden Wall Lights

Practical and functional, outdoor wall sconces highlight the area around your home, garden or balcony, or even the shed. Garden wall lights are solar or mains powered. Electricity ensures that light is guaranteed, but solar energy can be a good alternative. PIR motion sensor lights are popular choices - often used in front of the house, the sensor will welcome visitors and is good for security and illuminating pathways or gates.

Garden Ground Lights

Pay attention to the texture of the floor with low-level lighting. Combine up and downlights on features and define paths and edges with LED strips. Floor lights (especially flat and circle lights) are perfect for decks and can be easily distributed around deck areas, steps, walkways, and patios for instant ambiance and appeal.

Garden stake lights or spike lights make great ground lights too - they're easy to install and make a great decorative feature, especially if they're nestled between flower beds or foliage. You may also want spotlights on the floor to highlight a path or illuminate a particular corner, and lanterns on pillars or lamp posts are great for illuminating the entire garden.

Remember that some grounding lights, especially recessed (in deck or pavement), will require wiring and the wire connections must be watertight. If you are considering this for your garden, make sure the installation is done by a qualified and licensed electrician.

Electric Garden Lights

All garden lighting cables must be installed by a qualified and certified electrician. Make sure the wiring is well protected from rodents, squirrels, and foxes.

An electrician generally advises taking the electrical supply for the lighting directly from the house and may also suggest the installation of a new external outlet. The external outlets must be located in a protected place; They must have a weatherproof cover for protection and an appropriate IP (ingress protection) rating.

All external plugs must be protected by RCD (residual current device) for safety. An RCD works by cutting off the flow of electricity when a cable or flexible cable is cut. To create the electrical circuit, armored cables are laid around the garden with 'spurs' that provide outlets for individual lights.

Underground cables should be buried in a trench deep enough to avoid damage to garden tools, pets, and wildlife. You should always buy outdoor lighting equipment from a reputable retailer and make sure it is certified waterproof, especially if it is to be used in water resources. Unless clearly labeled waterproof, lights plugged into an external outlet are not designed to be outside year-round, so they should be brought indoors as soon as summer ends. And, most importantly, always use a registered electrician.

We hope you enjoy watching this video about the most beautiful ideas to light up your garden

Source: MassIdea TV

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