Light up your Garden and Balcony: 3 Tips for Purchasing Outdoor Lighting

Light up your Garden and Balcony: 3 Tips for Purchasing Outdoor Lighting

In gardens, driveways, and balconies, outdoor lighting serves as a safety measure: The entrance areas are brightly lit so that steps and paths won’t trip you up. However, the lamps also create visual effects and a pleasant ambiance. Here are four tips to consider before buying:

1. Lamp Style

Outdoor lighting combines functional and decorative elements. Depending on the lighting concept, these lamps can be used to illuminate large areas, or to provide stylish highlights in the form of decorative lamps. In this case, you should use free-standing lamps and spotlights that are mounted to walls and floors, or recessed luminaries.

  • Wall lights: A great way to light up large spaces on your deck and entryway. They are durable and can also be used on balconies.
  • Floor lights:
  • Bollard lights: their medium height provides the right lighting to guide your steps. Ground spikes are a movable and easy-to-install option.
  • Pillar lights: For fence or door posts.
  • Floor lamps: modern or lantern styles provide extensive lighting.
    Tip: Spotlights – either wall-mounted or on the ground – beautifully illuminate your house number, plants, and garden ornaments. Garden torches and gazing balls also contribute to a comfortable ambiance.

2. Quality

Durability is a basic necessity; in addition, outdoor lighting should also meet the following quality requirements:

  • Weather Resistance: Protection classes indicate how robust the lamp is. it should be resistant to water, heat, and UV light, if needed.
  • Maintenance: Special plastics for outdoor use, aluminium, and stainless steel are robust and easy to maintain. Wooden lamp bodies require special glazing for maintenance.
  • Brightness: Diffuse, soft light is a great way to illuminate large areas. Direct lighting, on the other hand, can create intense highlights.
    Hint: Swiveling lights can be used time and time again to bring a fresh look to movable elements, such as garden furniture.

3. Energy efficiency and solar lights

  • Energy-saving lighting options: LED, halogen
  • Energy efficiency class: A++ or A+
  • Solar lights: A natural energy source that can be used to store energy in special batteries (lighting is independent of daylight)
  • Motion Sensor/Twilight Switch: Saves energy, because it turns light on and off automatically.
    Important Note: The power supply of outdoor lighting should be operated using separate fuses and circuits than those used indoors.

Your outdoor area provides a first glimpse at the unique style of your home and can be staged safely and fashionably with the appropriate outdoor lighting. The great selection of lamps makes for a functional and decorative lighting concept.

Wide-reaching illumination or concentrated highlights: Outdoor lighting creates safe and comfortable spaces right outside your front door.

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