With summer now in full swing and barbecue season underway, it’s the perfect time to introduce gorgeous outdoor lighting to your garden to help get the most out of the season.
Outdoor lighting has many benefits but the main thing to think about in summer is how it can make the exterior areas of the home look beautiful when the sun has set. Today, we’re going to discuss some of the different types of outdoor lighting available and areas where you can benefit from them.
Different Types of Outdoor Lighting
Lighting technology has developed over the last 20 years to the point where you can make the exterior areas of your home look like it belongs in a glossy magazine, while also improving safety around your home.
These are the main types of outdoor lighting:
Ornamental: when certain garden features are illuminated for visual appeal.
Amenity: intr oduced for safety and practical purposes – for example on a patio to light a dining area.
Task: makes it possible to carry out specific jobs such as cooking on a barbecue or fetching objects from an outbuilding.
Access: Permits safe movement around the garden by lighting paths, steps, doors, and walls.
Security: Deters intruders and creates an illusion of occupation which reassures homeowners.
Ideally, you would wish to have all these different types of outdoor lighting systems to be used in garden environments to achieve varying levels of light and address diverse lighting needs.
Each type presents different lighting design and placement solutions.
Transforming your Garden with Outdoor Lights
When buying things for a garden, people often focus on purchasing new furniture, a barbecue, plants and flowers. Lighting is usually bottom of the list, so when night does fall, they often don’t get as much as they perhaps could have out of the outdoor living space, they’ve invested in.
Here are some different options to consider when highlighting your outdoor space:
Path Lighting: lighting the paths around the home will enable more safety whilst navigating outdoor areas while doubling up to help provide a nicer atmosphere. Path lighting works especially well when installed on the ground leading up towards front entrances or alongside flower beds or garden features. There are many different designs to choose from, and we’re sure you’ll find something for everyone.
Deck and Step Lighting: this is another type of lighting that helps keep people safer with better visibility when walking on decking or up and down steps to avoid tripping or falling. Various styles of both decking lights and step lighting are available to suit a variety of traditional and contemporary garden environments.
Wall Lights: a brilliant and practical source of light for outdoor areas, outdoor wall lights are a great way to illuminate exterior areas whether it’s lighting up a doorway or bringing gardens to life over long summer evenings.
Make the most of the summer months in your outdoor living space with various lighting types and solutions as we’ve mentioned above. At Lighting for Gardens, we provide market leading Elipta lighting products, ensuring long lasting quality and everything you could possibly want as a designer, landscaper or someone who wants to take their garden to the next level.