If you've seen pictures or visited a beautifully lit garden, you may have considered bringing landscape lighting into your garden design. You may even have gone so far as to call a professional for a price quote. That quote might have been shocking. Many ambitious do-it-yourselfers out there have rejoiced at the alternative option of purchasing and installing their outdoor lighting to save costs. Enter the alluringly priced Professional landscape lighting kit.
Types of Background Illumination. Up illumination-This type of background illumination is used when illumination is to be focused on specific background elements- plant beds, shrubs, potted plants, trees tops, etc., . As the name of the technique indicates, the path of illumination is ascending with the sources appropriately placed to shed enough light creating an attractive and appealing ambiance. Down illumination- In Down illumination, the illumination is focused downward, showering light on the target background element from above.
Background illumination fixtures can be plugged into the mains via a plug and play system using low voltage illumination. There is no need for an electrician to install them, almost anybody can do it. You may also wish to choose to install solar background lights.
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.
Background lights that combine decoration and security can be installed in the garden. These will switch on automatically, activated by a movement sensor. To light the garden you can also use LED floodlights, which are very bright lights, usually mounted on a bracket on the wall of the house or any other strong support.
An upside to that plastic construction is that the stuff is surprisingly durable. Even should one of the lights be damaged by an errant lawn mower or a clumsy guest, replacing one of the units is painless and inexpensive. Not so should they inadvertently destroy one of your custom designed metal units.
Types of Background Illumination. Up illumination-This type of background illumination is used when illumination is to be focused on specific background elements- plant beds, shrubs, potted plants, trees tops, etc., . As the name of the technique indicates, the path of illumination is ascending with the sources appropriately placed to shed enough light creating an attractive and appealing ambiance. Down illumination- In Down illumination, the illumination is focused downward, showering light on the target background element from above.
Background illumination fixtures can be plugged into the mains via a plug and play system using low voltage illumination. There is no need for an electrician to install them, almost anybody can do it. You may also wish to choose to install solar background lights.
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.
Background lights that combine decoration and security can be installed in the garden. These will switch on automatically, activated by a movement sensor. To light the garden you can also use LED floodlights, which are very bright lights, usually mounted on a bracket on the wall of the house or any other strong support.
An upside to that plastic construction is that the stuff is surprisingly durable. Even should one of the lights be damaged by an errant lawn mower or a clumsy guest, replacing one of the units is painless and inexpensive. Not so should they inadvertently destroy one of your custom designed metal units.
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