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25 August 2017

A Smart Look At Professional Landscape Lighting Kits

By Timothy Wood


Outdoor garden lighting has become fashionable for big gardens as well as for small patios. A lighted garden at night takes on another dimension. To light your garden, you need landscape lights. These can be put into trees, bushes, and edges as well as lawns, in decking and on walls. This will give a spectacular makeover to your garden. Putting Professional landscape lighting fixtures in the different parts your garden will allow you to make use of a part of your property that you work hard to make beautiful.

In the pond as in other areas, your garden will be enhanced by background lighting. Moreover, pond, paths, and steps are areas where it is better to have light fixtures for safety reasons. Background illumination will also help to make these parts of your property more inviting to your guests. Also, illumination the outside of your property can act as a good deterrent to intruders. It can be a means of making your home more secure. Modern exterior lights are easy to install, so don't let the thought it may be difficult put you off.

Path Illumination/ Walkway Illumination- The purpose of path/ walkway illumination is to illuminate walk/ drive paths since an upward source of light is not always adequate in such cases. Such illumination provides clearer walk areas as illumination is focused on a single area. Lights are usually installed 6-10 feet apart for optimal illumination. In addition to adding to the beauty of your background, Path Illumination prevents chances of possible accidents that can arise due to poor illumination along walk/ drive areas at home. Path illumination provides greater visibility and is particularly useful in case you have elder adults at home. With Path Illumination, you can have a safer driveway.

Moon illumination- A simulation of the ethereal beauty of natural moon illumination is created with this type of illumination. Sources of light are placed at very high points on trees to achieve the desired effect. The light bulb used as a source needs to be carefully selected as it plays a major role in deriving the objective. When adeptly set, moon illumination creates a perfect traditional romantic ambiance!

Similarly, proper lights, placed at strategic points in your background will enhance its beauty at night. Rather they will make it look like a fairyland. Apart from that there is the security factor as well. Your background consists of a vast open space with trees and shrubs and these provide ideal hiding points for burglars and criminals. Then there are reptiles that love to make such places their habitants. What if you were strolling at night in your background and came across one of them.

If you consider that these lights contain potentially hot bulbs and that they are made of a material that is prone to melting, you might have already concluded what I'm about to tell you. Low-cost, plastic landscaping lights contain low wattage bulbs so as not to melt the housings in which they are contained. Your average low is a 10-watt bulb for border illumination. Your average high for accent/spot lights runs about 20 watts. Is that enough? Commercially purchased single units run 20+ watt bulbs for border and path lights and 35+ watts for accent and spot lights, you may get the picture that, for some applications, the lights included in some kits are simply too dim.

The reason behind this is that one can use multi hued lights at night; along with special effect ones... An effect that can never be achieved by natural light. Spend some time browsing the internet, and you will find details about many special lights that are designed especially for backgrounds.

You will be amazed the changeover they can bring. If you cannot understand where to install such lights and are confused, you can always opt in for assistance from a background specialist. He or she will guide you to select and install the best possible background lights for your garden. All you need to do is specify the budget to them and tell them what your background will be used for.




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