You can enjoy the theater of light and shadow in your garden. The only thing that is required is properly selected landscape lighting, which will turn a country plot into a fabulous romantic kingdom.
Light transforms buildings beyond recognition, emphasizing successful architectural solutions, effectively shades paths and plants, helps to mask problematic areas of the garden and emphasize the individuality of its corners.
Functional illumination
With the help of functional lighting, you can mark the boundaries of a plot divided into zones with a large garden, and visually expand the boundaries in a small one.
Philips street lamps (Ledino at the top and Ecomoods at the bottom) successfully combine practicality and elegance of forms.
They will help to create an atmosphere of magic in the garden.
The magic lessons
Accent light is used to highlight certain details, such as garden sculpture, trees and shrubs. Directional lighting fixtures do an excellent job with this task, they are usually placed low from the ground. If the area is a tree, point the intersecting light at it or highlight the lower part.
Important: the shape of the shadow depends on the location of the lighting fixtures, as well as the distance between them and the illuminated object. The most romantic type of illumination is “moonlight”, special filters that can limit the brightness of the luminous flux and make it mysterious allow to achieve this effect.
Garden lamps
The design of garden lamps can be both classic and modern. For example, retro-style lamps fit perfectly into a strict minimalist landscape. There are also many glowing objects in the Arsenal – from furniture (tables, benches and chairs) to pots and vases, which successfully play the role of lamps. The Council: if there are a lot of different small objects in your garden (for example, flower beds or different figures), make a hidden backlight for them.
For uniform illumination of the garden use classical lamps, floor lamps, diffused light of a matte lampshade made in the shape of a ball or cylinder. Floodlight lighting is used in the yard or on playgrounds. For uniform bright lighting, choose a powerful lamp (mercury, sodium, metal halide), which you hang quite high. For recreation areas (terraces and patios), soft, diffused light of warm tones is suitable. This will create a cozy atmosphere in these places, conducive to friendly and family meetings. Convenient and mobile solar-powered devices, equipped with a battery and LEDs.
Track lighting
Road lighting is the “light skeleton” of the night garden. Usually, low lanterns are chosen for this, which are installed along the paths. Prefer unusual solutions – use LED tubes or “glowing stones”. The latter are inserted into the tile and are practically invisible during the day, evening and night, they transform the garden with soft spot lighting. If you want to throw the starry sky at your feet, place a set of LEDs on the path or on the ground near the house. Important: there should be a balance between light paths and other objects in the garden. The maximum brightness should be left for light accents – illuminated trees, shrubs, gazebos.
To better navigate in space, “shed light” on the turns of paths, stairs, bridges. Use LEDs and garlands to create glowing tunnels and arches on the site. When lighting stairs or any other ascent, focus on each step separately.
Sets of lamps can make any part of the garden attractive. Miracle lanterns are easy to install, easy to operate and maintain, and also have a beautiful view all year round.
Hidden in the ground, asymmetrical spotlights emphasize the beauty of a garden gazebo or an alpine slide. Interesting retro-style lanterns – small porcelain dome lamps with ordinary incandescent bulbs will create a romantic mood.
Tiffany-style balloons are decorated with elegant hand-painted. They do not need an electrical outlet to work, they are “powered” by sunlight.
The use of candles
If you want to see unusual glowing objects in your garden, you can use laser and fiber-optic technologies, but you can also just dream up. For example, to create a bright light image of a garden, use fabric colored glowing cones, balls and cylinders. Festive lighting in the garden is created by highlighting trees and architectural details with the help of LEDs and miniature twinkling garlands. You can use ordinary candles: for example, stick several long candles in a clay jug filled with pebbles or soil, and place small candles in colored glass jars and arrange them around the perimeter of the gazebo. Important: it is better to abandon the dazzling white on the site – this will make the landscape lifeless.
“The Shining Tree” will turn an ordinary garden into a fairy-tale kingdom.
illumination of the reservoir
Another possibility of decorative garden lighting is the illumination of the reservoir. From waterproof LED and halogen lamps, you can select a spotlight or a flash. A stunning effect is created by light balls, boats or water lilies floating on the surface of the water.
You can also draw attention to the plant composition on the shore by hiding the lamp in the dense foliage.
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