Garden Lighting Design
If you were thinking garden lighting design was a case of festoon lights and the occasional candle, guess again. There’s everything from outside uplighters to front door lights to welcome into the mix.
1. SET THE SCENE WITH OUTDOOR HANGING LIGHTS
Go outside and look up. If your luxury garden furniture is in a sheltered area, go for hanging pendant lights as your exterior’s answer to a ceiling.
This garden lighting idea is all about making sure your garden feels like a serious contender for any interior rooms.
Supporting beams and rafters provide the perfect hanging spot so that you can hang chandeliers at a height that suits the space and run the cables along them.
Otherwise, look out for outdoor hanging lights that are solar-powered or even candle-lit chandeliers.
2. FRAME AN AREA WITH GARDEN WALL LIGHTS
Next up on the outdoor lighting list are wall lights which will achieve a few things for scene-setting.
First, they move the lighting into the mid-section, and everybody knows that you need to spread light sources from ceiling to floor to create a soothing atmosphere.
Second, choose wall lights that serve as outdoor uplighting and you can use them to highlight architectural detail at different heights in your garden.
3. HIGHLIGHT TEXTURE WITH OUTDOOR UPLIGHTS & DOWNLIGHTS
This type of outdoor garden light is fast-becoming a favorite in contemporary homes. The reason typically being because the light sources themselves are a more modern garden light design with minimal decoration, clean lines and often monochromatic in palette or concrete grey.
What makes them such an intelligent exterior lighting idea is how they take the wall light up a level by throwing light on what’s directly above and below the bulb, which is why they’re so successful at emphasizing textural parts of the garden.
But if you’re struggling to find one that suits your style, use standard garden uplights that you can angle so the beam direction changes from sconce to sconce.
4. WELCOME EVERYONE IN USING EXTERIOR FRONT DOOR LIGHTS
Some of your choices will be purely decorative garden lights whereas others will serve a precise function, such as the exterior house light you put outside the front door.
When night falls, being greeted with a warm glow as you approach the door makes the atmosphere ten times more inviting. Some front door lights come with a motion sensor too so they’ll illuminate all by themselves as soon as it detects footsteps approaching (meaning they have the added bonus of behaving as a security light too).
