Landscape of Lights

April 1, 2010 Posted by Home and Fashion

If you’re looking for cheerful landscape lights to brighten up your pathways at night, these tulips could be a fun choice.
The set of three tulip lights are solar powered, so there are no trenches to be dug for installing cables. You just stick them into the ground where the sun will hit the integrated solar panels during the day, and they’ll light the way at night.
The set comes with one red, one ivory, and one pink light. The flowers, stakes, and rechargeable batteries (which hold the solar charge) are included in the $40 price tag.
From SmartHom

Decorative Outdoor Landscape Garden Lighting Fixture

You have a beautiful garden with many flowers and plants. It looks nice during the day time, but you would like your friends to be able to see it at night. The right set of garden lighting can help focus the attention on beautiful plants. Landscape lights can be a great way to highlight a front of back yard. There are many different types of lights and each one might have a unique affect on the yard or home. Landscaping can raise the resale value of a house significantly. Often, landscape lighting can be an important part of the landscaping project since it is required in order to see landscaping at night.

Set of 3 Rechargeable LED Atmosphere Lights: Rechargeable Atmosphere Lights will certainly create a unique atmosphere during outdoor gatherings, holidays or when being used an attractive decoration for your patio, pool area or dining room. Each light features a versatile clear hanger which allows you to hang and display in a variety of ways. All lights charge on a stylish base cradle and will emit a warm glow to a room for up to 8 – 10 hours after fully charged. Set of 3 lights come in an inviting green, blue and red color while the set of 5 lights include additional amber and white colors.

Solar Charged Decorative Pole Accent Lights: Solar Garden Accent Lights is an economical, safe and efficient way to decoratively illuminate walkways, gardens, patios and driveways. A high-tech solar panel charges by day and automatically turns on at night and then switches off at dawn. You will no longer have to fuss with installing electric wiring throughout your garden or yard! Each light is constructed with highly durable weather resistant materials and includes hardware for ground, wall or deck mounting. We offer a variety of designs to meet any type of décor.

Landscape Lighting Pagodas: Outdoor pagoda lighting for your landscape lighting. Great for garden lighting, yard lighting, pathway lighting or driveway lighting. These pagoda lights are available in different sizes and shapes as well as different colors. Choose from black rust verdi bronze or even a raw brushed aluminum pathway light pagoda light. Pagoda lighting also available in your choice of 12 Volt low voltage or 120 volt and most come with mounting stakes or mounting cup bases. Landscape lighting pagoda lights will nicely enhance your yard lighting or garden lighting.

Area Lighting and Pathway Lighting: Contractors Choice Lighting offers many different high quality area lights and path lights for your yard or garden lighting at affordable prices. Choose from mini area lights in raw copper brass or brushed aluminum to pathway lighting available in a variety of finishes and designs to pagoda lights available in low voltage or high voltage that will make great outdoor lighting fixtures for your garden. In addition, Contractors Choice Lighting guarantees the lowest prices on pathway lights with the highest quality on the planet. Our line of landscape lighting can be used for many indoor and outdoor lighting applications and will add elegance to any garden.

Progress Lighting Tree Low Voltage Path Light: Landscape 12-volt tree path light with clear pattern glass. Includes 1/2 NPS treaded adapter, connector, mounting stake and lamp.

Access Lighting Poseidon Contemporary Outdoor Bulkhead Light: Select compact fluorescent lamping option for energy-efficient lighting. Available in compact fluorescent lamping. Certified wet location.

LBL Lighting Visir 20 Outdoor Wall Sconce: Wall luminaire features self-extinguishing (V-2 850C glow wire test) technopolymer housing and cover and satin glass diffuser. Wet location.

World Imports Revere Transitional Outdoor Wall Sconce: In aluminium with water seedy glass.

Maxim Lighting Essex Traditional Outdoor Wall Sconce: This unique design features beautiful styling.

Quoizel Lighting Autumn Ridge Traditional Large Tiffany Outdoor Wall Sconce: Enjoy the beauty and drama of art glass on the outside of your home. This design was inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, and features a handcrafted, genuine art glass shade with an attractive, three-dimensional geometric pattern in rich earthtones.

Installing Your Own Landscape Lighting Made Easy

If you have considered installing your own landscape lighting but think it is too difficult,Iam here to show you that it is not. Landscape lighting can be super simple to put in if you have a plan. A solid plan is a needed part of any landscape lighting installation. Low voltage landscape lighting comes in several different types and before you begin planning you should pick which one you want to go with.

The Two Types Of Landscape Lighting

The first kind of landscape lighting is cabled, electric landscape lighting. In order to install this you will need to have an available outlet outside you home. Each of the lights is connected along a chain of shielded electric cable. Planning for this setup you must consider both the lights and the cord they are connected to. Before you place any of the lights I highly suggest outlining your front or back yard, depending on where the lights are begin installed. Draw out and measure an equal distance between each of the lights then plot them out within your yard. You want to make sure that you have enough cable and room for the cable behind the lights.

Advantages of using the electric landscape lighting system are that you can turn it off and on when you want, it always has power, and you can get more powerful lights for the system. The wired systems are usually cheaper as well.

The other type of landscape lighting system is a solar system. A solar system takes the sun rays and charges up all day long then turns on when the sun goes down. These systems are very easy to install and do not require nearly the plan that the wired system has. In addition it is very easy to move the lights if you do not like where they are. There is no maintenance for this system and it is very easy to maintain. If any component breaks it can be easily replaced.

The advantages of the solar system are how easy it is to setup and how easy it is to adjust. It can also be fixed very quickly if there are any problems with the components within the system. The major disadvantage is that they generally are more expensive and are not nearly as bright as an electric system. In addition this type of landscape lighting requires about 8 hours per day of sunlight to be fully charged, so if you live in an area with little sunlight

it can be tough to keep the system up and bright.

As you can see there are plusses and minuses to each system so consider your location before you decide.

Landscape Lighting Globes Have Modern Appeal

One of the latest trends in landscape lighting design is the globe light. They come in various sizes, can be used in a range of applications such as post lamp lights, landscape bedding lights, tree lights and even floating pool lights. The globes were introduced by a company out of Germany called Moonlight Inc. and have won many awards for their shatterproof polyethylene design and functionality. The globes are available in four sizes: 10″, 14″, 22″ and 30″ diameter and are also available in half globes. The globes are also available in many different colors and designs that can really add some creativity and life to your landscape.

Floating, cordless globes are great for events like pool parties because they add such a creative, modern element to the landscape but are easily removed and stored for later use. Another application would be to attach globes in mature trees for adding extra overhead light to the garden. Since the globes can be hard wired, plugged in or cordless and they come in a variety of colors and designs, the possible applications are endless. An obvious garden application would be in a Japanese garden or in the modern, minimallistic garden. Both styles use basic shapes and lines to define spaces and the globe light adds an both a design and functional aspect to both of these design styles.