Archive for Garden Lighting
Want to make your garden look dramatic? Want to illuminate the great landscape surrounding your Koi pond or other outdoor water feature? Landscape lighting and other types of outdoor lighting provides an easy and inexpensive solution to adding a touch of glam and a hint of magic to any landscape, be it your garden, front [...]
Garden lights are an elegant way to illuminate your garden and other outdoor areas. Lights can serve many different purposes and are available in a variety of styles. There are so many different types of lighting to choose from, so you should have no problem finding just the right combination of outside lights to get [...]
Lighting your garden should be both functional and aesthetic. It should illuminate paths, walks, steps, and living areas for use at night, as well as dramatize plant materials and other interesting features. Through the use of lights, you can change the personality of your daytime garden. You can emphasize a certain corner or area of [...]
Though commonly utilized contemporary yard lighting is powered by electricity, there are some instances where gas-powered lighting is used. Gas lighting uses gaseous hydrocarbon fuel like hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, propane, butane, acetylene or ethylene to produce light. However, these lighting fixtures also produce a lot of heat
Before electricity was widespread and economical, gas was [...]
Light is very crucial in the garden, and yet most garden designers devote little attention to the way it falls on plants – the low, warm light of early morning or evening, the sideways light of winter, which can back-light the most humble grass of a lawn beautifully, and the hard light of clear summer [...]
All homes, big or small, benefit from some outdoor space. But if you only have a small patch of grass or a walled concrete space just big enough to park your car, don’t despair. With some clever ideas you can turn even the smallest area of outdoor space into a relaxing retreat in which to [...]
Here’s the thing about garden lights – once you’ve caught the bug, it can be awfully hard to kick it. Not only that, but you may even find yourself painfully addicted! Another light there, a different-colored bulb there . . .
There’s always another little project that you can do when it comes to garden lighting. [...]
The purpose of outdoor landscape lighting is usually twofold – it makes an existing space both more usable and more attractive at night. Let’s face it, without any lighting at all you can’t really do anything outside at night and you certainly can’t tell whether or not the space is attractive.
But there’s garden lighting and [...]
By far, the best way to add landscape lighting to your yard is by utilizing and purchasing landscape lighting kits. Why is this? The reason is really easy to understand, as you usually can get a better deal if you buy things in bulk as opposed to buying things separately. A landscape lighting kit comes [...]
A cheerful, sunlit, daytime garden infused with butterflies and birdsong becomes a romantic setting of shadowy mystery with proper garden lighting. Lighting should be subtle and provide enough light to see, but not enough to cause harshness and detract from the night sky. To create an idyllic, inviting nighttime garden, less is more. There are [...]
Once you have your garden fully equipped, you also might want to look into paying attention to the lighting. Outdoor lighting is often the last thing people think of when they are redecorating their garden or patio, but it can create something special when you do it right. Besides the look it creates, if you [...]
Homes need lighting both inside and out. Outside lighting not only adds ambience and beauty to a home’s exterior décor, but it is an important feature for safety and security reasons as well. Outside house lighting ensures that visitors can see their way along paths and up and down stairs, highlights interesting elements in garden [...]