Guide - Garden Lighting - Lunares Blog

Most garden lighting advice stops at “light the path and the plants”. Then you are standing in a shop in front of forty lamps and every one of them looks like it can take rain. So we did it the other way round. Ten lamps from ten manufacturers, each for a different job: a ball light on the lawn, a lantern by the door, a bollard along the path, a spike spot in the border, a drive-over fitting in the driveway. For each one we give the things that really decide whether it survives its second winter: IP rating, impact rating, the bulb and the warranty. Almost every one of them has siblings in other sizes and finishes, so we say what else is in the range too. In a hurry? The table is enough. Want to know why the cheaper lamp is sometimes the better one — keep reading.

Outdoor lighting usually grows one fixture at a time: first a wall light by the door, a year later a few lamps along the path, and later still a floodlight over the garage because someone tripped in the dark. The result is a random mosaic of lights that never quite work together. This guide shows how to plan lighting for the whole property in one go: entrance, façade, driveway, terrace and garden as a single coherent system, not a pile of separate purchases.