Creating Ambience with Garden Lighting
Today, people have begun to add lights of one type or another to their garden for both accent and functionality. You will find little strands of lights that twinkle, resembling tiny stars, solar lights that provide a clear, safe path for you to walk down or Tiki torches that produce a rustic yet romantic glow to a garden. While these types of lights are all excellent ideas that work very well, you have another option that many people are simply overlook - the swag light.
If you remember back to the 1970s, swag lights were a popular choice for indoor decorum. These lights were designed to hang from a chain in the corner of a room, making it look cool and hip! However, you can now put your creativity to work by coming up with all types of ideas that look great in the garden. Using the swag light, you can set the mood, creating ambience. The result will be a beautiful garden where you can relax or entertain with family and friends.
Swag lights found today are colourful and bright, making them perfect choices to hang under a porch, from a deck, or from a tree. The beam is the perfect choice for giving character to your garden décor. Just imagine having your swag light off in one corner with clematis or honeysuckle vines climbing around it, a nice padded garden bench below, a small water fountain or garden pond just a few feet away, and friends gathered around eating, drinking, and laughing. What a wonderful way to enjoy garden lighting.
Keep in mind that if you use an existing swag light, you want to make sure the light is placed in an area where it will not get wet or become a fire hazard. Typically, choosing a covered area would be the best choice. However, you can purchase swag lights from your local gardening centre or home improvement shop that are made specifically for outdoor enjoyment.
In addition to swag lights, you could choose other garden lighting such as twinkle lights. These stringed lights resemble a string of Christmas lights but in addition to plain lights, you can choose colourful butterflies, dragonflies, stars, balls, and a number of other colours and styles. Intertwined around the spindles of a deck, hung around the roof of a gazebo, or draped over shrubbery, these lights are soft and subtle, providing just enough light for the perfect ambience.
Another option for your garden is to use landscape lighting, which will add appeal to your home. With landscape lighting, you can change the appearance of your home, making it more inviting while also creating a better sense of security. The nice thing about the garden lighting designs available today is that they can create pure distinction from your home to another, whether up close or from down the block.
Using landscape or garden lighting gives your home depth and a rich appearance. With the right type of lighting, your garden will look three-dimension because of shades and shadows of the lighting system. Many times, this type of lighting can be used as transitional lighting, which means instead of seeing light only, you have gradual lighting. In other words, the intensity of the light may start off as a soft glow from the deck, which then transitions to brighter light on the steps, and by the time you reach the garden, you have magnificent coloured lighting. Garden lighting can also be used for a focal point, which would be a specific group of flowers, plants, a tree, a statue, pond, etc. As you can imagine, this is gorgeous and inviting.
Next is quality and direction, which allows you to choose the size and shape of the light fixture so you have a specific look. For example, the garden lighting might illuminate the entire garden or just spotlight certain areas. You can even place landscape or garden lighting in front of or behind something, using the beam shape and spread, diffusers, or coloured lenses to create an incredible canvas. When it comes to garden lighting, the possibilities are endless so try several things until you come up with a look that you like. Remember, if you get tired of one particular look, you can always change it to something different.