Exterior Lighting - Design Ideas and Advice

If you want something a little different in your garden use our decorative Floor or Table lights. Try creating your lounge or living room outside with comfy rattan furniture and a Floor light to read a good book.
With a contemporary style but robust finish they are fantastic for providing illumination at night and creating ambiance for garden parties. Great for patios, tables or even in the ground

Don’t forget our festoon lights with painted pastel or harlequin lamps to add a touch of colour to any outdoor seating area. Use in a gazebo, along a fence or simply draped around your seating area. You don’t even have to have an excuse for a party to decorate your garden! Then to finish off your patio nicely add our illuminated planter pots which will highlight the area and add a subtle glow to foliage.

As the days start to get longer and the weather (hopefully) begins to improve, you may find yourself drawn out in to the garden for gatherings with friends and family and as always happens at social functions, time may slip away from you and before long you’ll find yourself sat in the dark with only the glowing embers of the barbeque for light.

You might think that the best solution is to fit a large PIR floodlight and whilst this type of fitting offers the widest pool of light they’re usually far from attractive and you often have to perform an interpretive dance in order to get them to switch on, then in five minutes time you’ll be repeating the process.

Perhaps the best way to light your garden party is to use a fitting with a dusk till dawn sensor, this will cause your light fittings to turn on when the natural outdoor light reaches a certain level and on most sensors this level is adjustable.

Dusk till dawn sensors can be wired in to practically any outdoor light fitting, meaning your choice of fixture is expanded greatly and you won’t have to sit in the overwhelming beam of a floodlight, instead allowing you bask in the warm glow of a traditional style lantern or even the subtle light of an up and down fixture.

At Lighting Styles we have a wide range of outdoor light fittings in many different styles to suit any home from traditional cottages or modern new builds.