LED Outdoor Lighting

It is easy to see why LED lights have become so popular for outside lighting and garden design. This type of lighting may not be as bright as professionally fitted mains lighting, but it will light up a path or define a planting area. By positioning units with care, DIY garden lighting systems can readily provide plenty of light which will let you use the space into the night. You can always add more lights until you achieve the result you want.

Garden Lights for Entertaining Outdoors

Depending on the type of group or party you are arranging, either the seating, mingling area or dining table is likely to be the central focus of your lighting plan. By fixing a high level spotlight, either on the building or in a tree, a beam of light can be directed onto a specific area to be lit. You could choose a narrow focus bulb to spotlight dining table, for example. Alternatively, a wider angled bulb would provide pleasant, natural-feeling top light for a wider area, maybe where guests will stand and chat.

Outdoor Solar Lighting

Outdoor solar lighting offer many advantages. There are no wires, they are reliable and very safe. Being low voltage, they are exempt from building regulations and do not need to be fitted by a qualified electrician.Solar garden lights are  ridiculously easy to setup. No wires, just set the units where you want. When it goes dark, you can move the lights around until you are happy with the positions. They tend to cost slightly more to buy than wired outdoor lights but they cost almost nothing to run.

Gazebo Outdoor and Garden Lighting

A gazebo in your garden is a boon for entertaining or just relaxing on a summer's day. But by adding even fairly simple lighting, you can make it a useful living space for the evening too. As many of us relax in the evening, it makes sense to use the garden in the evening too. 

How to build a Fire Pit

Summer is just around the corner. Do you intend to spend more time outside in the garden after work? If the chilly evenings often stop your dreams, a  fire pit could be the answer. A fire provides warmth and light and you can even cook around the edge of it. Toast marshmallows whenever you want. A fire pit moves a step beyond the barbecue, but complements it perfectly! 

Ideas for Lighting Features within the Garden

Outdoor Lighting Effects using Spike Spotlights and Spike Uplights

Adjustable spike spotlights are one of the most flexible light fittings, and they shine light from below. This provides a dramatic effect, reversing daylight perspective of even light from above. The light can be made to cover more area if it is tilted diagonally, into the shrubs and plants.

Get the Most out of your Garden this Summer

Good garden lighting can make a dramatic difference to your home, and can be used to effect in the smallest space. If the only light in your garden is a security flood light, you are missing out on a magical night time world. Make long summer evenings in your garden a reality- it is fine enough to sit out for plenty of evenings in a British summer, and you can extend this with drizzle and shower cover. A lighting scheme doesn't have to be elaborate, although it certainly it can be.

Garden Lighting Choices

GardenLight is here to help you to choose the best garden lights for your outdoor space, to help you achieve the lighting effects you want to achieve. There is a huge choice of a garden lights, and it's easy to get carried away, but you first need to look at function.

What do you need the lighting to do? 

What effect do you want to create?

Where a light fitting could be placed to achieve this?