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Design your garden lighting with Hot Electric Inc.
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Beautiful garden lighting can enhance your homes value and desirability, not to mention creating a beautiful outdoor setting for entertaining in. 

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Show off your garden’s best side with lighting designed and installed by HOT ELECTRIC INC.

We emphasize on quality, affordability and creating a unique look that highlights your garden’s features and best side.

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Outside lights are fundamental to any successful landscape scheme!

 

You should light the areas adjacent to the house.  Then, depending on the size of your garden, choose some key features, such as a tree or sculpture, further out to help give the garden some depth.

99% of the time, the outside lights will be seen from inside. It will negate the need for curtains because Instead of looking out onto blackness, a beautifully lit garden can become a magical kingdom of silhouettes and shadows.

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Outside lights have 4 main functions:

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Access:      To direct the safe movement of people around the property;

Security:     To discourage people entering the property uninvited;

Usability:    To allow the garden to be used at night as an extension of the inside;

Aesthetics: To allow the landscape to be admired 24/7 from both inside and outside the house.

There are 5 main types of lighting effect:

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Up-lighting- Focuses light and attention on an object from a low fixed location. The object can be a shrub, tree or architectural feature like a gazebo, arbour or wall sculpture.

The fixtures and lamp strengths are specified according to the mature size of the plant or the size of the hardscape area to be illuminated.

Well-lights are extremely effective for aiming light up a tree or column. They should be located 2 to 4 feet from the trunk base for small ornamental trees to light the canopy. Or for mature trees like Oak or Beech, close to the base and positioned so the light grazes the side of the trunk and illuminates the upper branch structure.

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Downlighting / Moonlighting - Usually accomplished with bullet type fixtures placed well above eye level on a structure (or even in a tree), this technique illuminates general areas for safety, security and aesthetics. Fixtures and lamps are chosen for the required brightness and width of illumination.

You can also use downlighting to highlight a smaller area or single feature or to create a sense of perspective. Lighting from above can provide both security and aesthetics.

 

Spotlighting- This technique uses a strong, narrowly focused beam of light.

Spotlighting is great for sculptures, statues, address number signs, landscape features and flagpoles. Bullet fixtures are ideal for this application.

 

Path Lighting-  Uses low fixtures, which direct illumination downward and outward.

These fixtures are shielded on top to prevent flare. They are used along paths, stairs and anywhere else that safe night access is required. Resist the tendency to “over light” and be very aware of light spill.

Path lights are commonly used for small pathways, walkways, flowerbeds and ground cover areas, with a spacing of at least 2-3m.

 

Backlighting- It is a technique where an aura or corona is generated around an object by projecting a light onto the back of it. Most of the direct light is blocked from view by the object itself, but some of the light leaks around to outline the object with a “glowing” effect.

For more information please give us a call.

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