Lighting Solutions for Your Backyard
Proper outdoor lighting makes every house eye-catching and interesting. Lighting has an emotional impact. Good lighting helps emphasize a house's facade or highlight house details. Every well-lit house automatically lifts the mood and creates a safer sense of home.
What outdoor lighting is used?
Often, lighting is limited to the main entrances of the house and, for example, the house number lighting. The lighting at entrances has a clear practical purpose - to ensure safety during dark hours, for example when moving on exterior stairs, and certainly it's also easier to find the keyhole.
The purpose of lights at entrances is first and foremost greater lighting power and uniform light, which is achieved with various domes and fixtures, whether mounted on walls or for example attached under a canopy. Since these lights consume somewhat more electricity, motion sensors are often used, which turn on the light when family members approach the door, and which automatically turn off after some time.
Separately, so-called effect lighting is also used, with which light effects are created, for example to emphasize house details. This work is relatively difficult for an ordinary homebuilder to do, because without experience and without knowing the specifics of lighting fixtures, it is difficult to achieve good results. Proper outdoor lighting and especially effect lighting require proper design so that the overall lighting begins to "work."
Outdoor lighting design is not just house lights, but certainly also garden lights both along pathways and embedded in the ground and elsewhere.
Creating a lighting project as part of the electrical design is important if only so that you know early on to plan for wire routing and switch locations. Although there is a quite large selection of so-called solar panel garden lights and for example house number sign lights, most of these lights still have relatively low light output and reliability also leaves something to be desired.
As effect lighting, various LED lights are increasingly used nowadays, which have the advantage of low energy consumption and directed light beam, which is best suited for achieving effect lighting. The lights come in different shapes and sizes, and finding a suitable solution to match your house and garden is quite a challenging task.
The purpose of outdoor lighting is to balance the emphasis on the house or property boundaries, while protecting the viewer from direct excessive light load. Therefore, lighting is usually directed either upward or downward or at an angle to the walls, so that the light does not become overly intense and does not bother the viewer.
It is certainly important when designing lighting to create the possibility of partial switching on or some regulation of the lighting. This helps give the house a slightly different "face" and use lighting according to need.
Outdoor lighting must be above all durable and cope well with all weather conditions, so it's worth investing in quality lights. With lighting, it's certainly not important how many lights there are, but rather the combination with the house and garden. Lighting should be part of the house's visual appearance.
A good outdoor lighting solution is a useful investment for improving your living environment!
Article source: Finnlog
