13 Tips Garden Lighting-OVERS
gardens at night
- layer your lightingBeacon:Layered lighting creates multipledimensions of depth to enhance the mood and to highlight focal points. Bylighting up pieces in your garden and home you create a visual story that alsohas a practical application.4. What are the main3-4 elements you’d want to include in a layered lighting scheme for the garden? The main elements for successful layeredlighting in a garden are silhouettes, cross-lighting, up-lighting, andback-lighting. To create an up-lighting effect or focal point, I would use theLucci Connect range, specifically the Gecko spike spot in front of a treesplashing light onto the trunk and underlighting the canopy. For cross-lighting,I would use the spike spot on either side of an item such as a feature pot orwater fountain. To create an up-lighting effect, I would use the Lucci Connect Geckoin-ground spot which is ideal for highlighting a feature wall. Lastly,back-lighting or silhouetting is created by placing a light behind an object.The object will then be in complete darkness and outlined by a glow of light. TheLucci Connect Gecko range has the added benefit of being ‘Smart’ – it lets youchoose from a spectrum of colours and is dimmable. ...
- Avoid glary downlightMint:Also, using glary downlights outside is just awful – they’re bad enough indoors, but outside with a dark sky behind, the contrast is so strong that they’re blinding. Get it right by lighting up “What you want to see” and lights walls and ceilings – reflected light is far more peaceful than bright downlights.
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