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Outdoor Lighting and Garden Lighting

Great lighting for gardens and outdoor spaces creating ambiance and a sense of theatre:

Garden lighting, outdoor lighting, exterior lighting, floodlight lighting and mood lighting. Whatever you require for your outdoor space you'll find your lighting here!
 Architectural - Up & Down
Architectural - Up & Down
A wide selection of multi directional lighting for stunning effects. Perfect for front door lighting.
 Exterior Wall Lights
Exterior Wall Lights
Large range of Garden and Outdoor Lighting. Many contain PIR movement sensors to aid security and visibility.
 Wall Lights - Downlights
Wall Lights - Downlights
Wall mounted downlights give a great high contrast light effect in outdoor spaces. They also reduce glare and light pollution.
 Garden Spike Lights
Garden Spike Lights
A range of spike lights in a variety of finishes for use outdoors in beds to highlight shrubs, trees and plants.
 Adjustable Spotlights
Adjustable Spotlights
Fixed in location but adjustable to allow flexibility in landscape lighting. Now available with energy saving lamps too!
 Exterior Post Lights
Exterior Post Lights
Post lights for use on outdoor posts, raised planters, and brick walls in a variety of styles and finishes.

IP65 Soffit Downlight - Square
Price £22.89

400w Metal Halide Floodlight E40
Price £205.85

Illuminated Planter Pot - Large
Price £54.05

House Plaque - Illuminated
Price £132.25

Polished Aluminium Single Spike Light
Price £26.95

Polished Aluminium Twin Spike Light
Price £41.25

Silver painted 12v spikelight with shroud
Price £25.75

Vaned Low Glare Wall Light
Price £26.60

Miniature Bulkhead Light - Two Finishes
Price £34.16

Clover Exterior Wall (or Ceiling) Light
Price £50.72

 Opulent Outdoor Lighting
Opulent Outdoor Lighting
These products are made from die cast bronze and solid copper. They are an expression of good taste. Do not be put off by the price.
 Traditional Garden Lighting
Traditional Garden Lighting
Vast range of Traditional Garden Lighting available in many finishes and styles to compliment outdoor space.
 Bollard Lighting
Bollard Lighting
Bollard lighting - a complete range of bollards for domestic and commercial use.
 Buried Exterior Uplights
Buried Exterior Uplights
A variety of outdoor buried uplights for use in paths and driveways or to up light trees and shrubs.
 Decking and Walkover
Decking and Walkover
Lighting for your paths, decking and driveways. Wide range of styles and finishes.
 Decorative & Party Lights
Decorative & Party Lights
Decorative lighting for the garden both individual and stylish. You'll find festoon lights and a few unusual things here.
 Architectural Floodlights
Architectural Floodlights
A selection of floodlights and projectors to provide lighting to large exterior spaces and for highlighting architecture.
 Garden Floodlights
Garden Floodlights
Garden floodlights & garden lights for security or to provide general illumination.
 Soffit and Eaves Lighting
Soffit and Eaves Lighting
Discreet lighting in your soffit gives a great wall wash effect. Click to see the full range of outdoor recessed lighting
 Exterior LED Lights
Exterior LED Lights
A range of LED lights suitable for exterior use in a range of colours and styles.
 Colour Change Lighting
Colour Change Lighting
LED technology has made it possible to create moods in your outdoor space without a huge outlay.
 Drive Over Lighting
Drive Over Lighting
A selection of outdoor drive over lighting for use in drives and paths in residential and commercial settings.
 Designer Outdoor Lighting
Designer Outdoor Lighting
The search page displays all external light fittings with heavy design influences.
 Hanging Porch Lights
Hanging Porch Lights
Want a suspended light in your porch? Chain or lantern? Click through to see our range.
 Lamp-Post Lighting
Lamp-Post Lighting
A wide range of lamp posts for domestic and commercial use.
Lamp posts give a wide distribution of light.
 PIR's and Home Automation
PIRs and Home Automation
Independent PIR motion sensors to switch single & groups of outdoor lights that do not have built in sensors.
 Double Insulated
Double Insulated
No earth? Need double insulated garden lighting? This search page shows all double insulated outdoor lighting.
 SPECIAL OFFERS
SPECIAL OFFERS
This search page shows all special deals in our garden and exterior lighting range.
 Illuminated House Numbers
Illuminated House Numbers
Make sure that guests or emergency services can see your house number.
 Brick and Low Level Lights
Brick and Low Level Lights
Wall recessed brick lights and surface mounted lights, suitable for lighting paths or patio.
 
Outdoor and garden lighting Outdoor and garden lighting can be a lot more than a means to extend the day. Think of the mood created on a stage with lighting and consider what you can do with your own outdoor space if you use garden lights. Sunlight is great as it makes the garden thrive but it provides a very uniform light to everything in the garden regardless of whether it is something you want to see or not. However, when night falls you can control what is seen and what is not with creative outdoor lighting.

Security lighting should only be used as security lighting. You will never create an outdoor oasis with a halogen flood light filling the garden with stark light. Consider, and imagine instead, some of these options: a statue with an up light highlighting the features, perhaps a warm tone spike light picking out your favourite plant, a buried up light close to the trunk of a tree for a shadowy, moonlight effect or maybe a wall mounted spot light to highlight the walls tones and hues.

There is also hard landscaping that may require garden lighting, decks and paths that need indicator lights or lights within and around a swimming pool that can used on warm summer evenings.

Lighting the garden at night not only creates light and shadows but a real sense of drama to the garden, totally transforming the area when daylight fades and night begins.

With a little planning and thought your outdoor lighting can make the outdoor space unique and useable throughout the year.

There will be more tips and tricks in each lighting category above.

Resources

LIGHTING
Lighting fixtures come in a wide variety of styles for various functions. The most important functions are as a holder for the lighting source, to provide directed lighting and to avoid visual glare. Some are very plain and functional, while some are pieces of art in themselves. Nearly any material can be used, so long as it can tolerate the excess heat and is in keeping with safety codes.

An important property of lighting fixtures is the luminous efficacy or wall-plug efficiency, meaning the amount of usable light emanating from the fixture per used energy, usually measured in lumen per watt. A fixture using replaceable light sources can also have it's efficiency quoted as the percentage of light passed from the "bulb" to the surroundings. The more transparent the lighting fixture is, the higher efficacy. Shading the light will normally decrease efficacy but increase the directionality and the visual comfort probability.

Lighting is classified by intended use as general, localized, or task lighting, depending largely on the distribution of the light produced by the fixture.
• Task lighting is mainly functional and is usually the most concentrated, for purposes such as reading or inspection of materials. For example, reading poor-quality reproductions may require task lighting levels up to 1500 lux (150 footcandles), and some inspection tasks or surgical procedures require even higher levels.
• Accent lighting is mainly decorative, intended to highlight pictures, plants, or other elements of interior design or landscaping.
• General lighting fills in between the two and is intended for general illumination of an area. Indoors, this would be a basic lamp on a table or floor, or a fixture on the ceiling. Outdoors, general lighting for a parking lot may be as low as 10-20 lux (1-2 footcandles) since pedestrians and motorists already used to the dark will need little light for crossing the area.

OUTDOOR LIGHTING
Just as moonlight can introduce an air of magic and mystery to your garden, so carefully applied artificial outdoor lighting can produce equally beautiful effects. Night outdoor lighting in your garden extends your enjoyment of its natural panorama and a little outdoor lighting, if it is well positioned, can have an extraordinary impact given the extreme contrasts. So your decision about where to position outdoor lighting and what sources to use are critical.

Outdoor lighting is complicated by the changing seasons. Using outdoor lighting in your garden in December will involve a different set of aesthetic criteria from those which apply in August - unless of course your garden is full of evergreens.

BATHROOM LIGHTING
Bathroom lighting is important and should be considered at the start of the project. You will need bright targeted bathroom lighting for shaving or applying makeup. This can take the form of wall or ceiling mounted bathroom lighting spotlights, a mirror, or mirrored bathroom cabinet with integrated bathroom lighting. For relaxing in the bath you may require your bathroom lighting on dimmer switch postioned outside the room. For bathroom lighting as with all electrical installations, safety regulations must be observed, so only choose bathroom lighting fittings that have been specifically designed for use in the wet atmosphere of the bathroom.

KITCHEN LIGHTING
Ambient kitchen lighting is general kitchen lighting which should be used for your whole kitchen area. You may wish to use a single pendant (or a group of say three) over your kitchen breakfast bar or table to create an ambient kitchen lighting mood. Not only will the kitchen lights be practical but there are many stunning designs which can bring together the whole design of your kitchen.

Task kitchen lighting is more focused kitchen lighting. You will want to use task kitchen lighting over your sink, cooker or other food preparation areas so that you can see what you are doing. You may want to consider kitchen downlights, track kitchen lighting, under cabinet kitchen lighting. Accent kitchen lighting is used to highlight features of your kitchen - cabinets, cooker alcoves, or art work for example. Kitchen downlights or wall kitchen lights can be used plus there are many different shelf kitchen lights which can add a real wow factor to your kitchen. Use under cabinet kitchen lighting, kitchen island lighting, pendant kitchen lighting, side by side other types of contemporary kitchen lighting. You may be surprised at how much you can change the look and feel of your kitchen by simply changing the type of kitchen lighting that you use! Whether you’ve spent the money on a brand new kitchen with new units and appliances or simply updated an existing kitchen isn’t it worth investing in new kitchen lighting to show it off?

RECESSED LIGHTING
Recessed lighting uses fixtures that are installed into a hollow opening in a ceiling. When installed it appears to have light shining from a hole in the ceiling, concentrating the light in a downward direction as a broad floodlight or narrow spotlight. There are two parts to recessed lighting, the trim and housing. The trim is the visible portion of recessed lighting. It is the insert that is seen when looking up into the fixture, and also includes the thin lining around the edge of the light. The recessed lightinghousing is the fixture itself that is installed inside the ceiling and contains the lamp holder.

These are the fitting to have in your home. Ideal for the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom whether you choose fixed recessed lighting or adjustable recessed lighting to highlight a favourite piece of art. Low voltage recessed lighting, despite what an electrician might tell you, are the better option. Low voltage recessed lighting may cost slightly more at the outset (a transformer will be required) but will be more cost effective (longer lamp life) and produce less heat. Low voltage recessed lighting also has the added benefit of wide beam angle lamps to give you a better spread of light.

TRACK LIGHTING
Track lighting is a method of lighting where track lighting fixtures are attached anywhere on a continuous track lighting device which contains electrical conductors. This is as opposed to the routing of electrical wiring to individual light positions. Track lighting can be mounted to ceilings or walls, lengthwise down beams, or crosswise across rafters or joists. Track lighting can also be hung with rods from especially high places like vaulted ceilings.

PENDANT LIGHTING
Pendant lighting is not to be mistaken for chandelier lighting,which casts a softer more ambient light. Pendant lighting is usually hung from a single sconce on the ceiling from which sprouts a single chain or metal tube. The pendant lighting lamp shade itself is the 'pendant' that dangles at the end.

Pendant lighting is considerably more practical than other types of lighting, which is why you often see pendant lighting in kitchens, bathrooms, hallways and other places that need to be well lit.

PICTURE LIGHTING
Most people will have seen artwork lit in a gallery or museum, but will not have understood how picture lighting, good or otherwise, affects the presentation. Many people purchase artwork but never include picture lighting in the artwork installation process - it is definitely worth the effort. Proper picture lighting will bring out fine distinction and effects in the artwork that might not have been noticed before. Picture lighting will also tend to bring out the colour and, in terms of importance in the design of a room or environment, the piece of artwork will make much more of a statement.

Artwork needs to be protected from picture light damage but the most damage will always come from DAYLIGHT! But if your artwork is protected against the fading effects of sunlight you should also ensure that any artificial picture light does not damage your artwork too. Try only to picture light the art when you are likely to view it and keep the picture light off at other times. Incandescent picture lighting is less harmful than fluorescent picture lighting, but a standard bulb gives a very imbalanced picture light, with too much light coming from the red end of the spectrum which can over emphasise warm colours while muting blue, green and violet colours. Do not consider using “daylight” lamps as these are for colour matching, not colour rendering. In museums, the debate is still in progress as to the status of halogen lighting. Museums pieces have their own special needs and rules. Contact us if you require more information on this matter.

CHRISTMAS LIGHTING
Christmas and festive lighting has seen big improvements over the past few years. We've all seen green cabled Christmas lights with lamps draped over trees indoors and big incandescent Christmas lights on trees outside, but with further developments in Christmas lighting technology, (particularly with LED's), almost anything is possible.
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