The aim of this work is to show something of what can be achieved in lighting a garden and to give advice on how to achieve it by practical and affordable means. Starting by defining some of the more common terms, it goes on to discuss the nature and qualities of light, and follows with advice on how to plan a lighting scheme. Part two takes the reader on a tour of the garden with inspirational ideas and practical guidance on how to best light every garden situation, including decks and patios, paths and steps, statuary, trees and shrubs, water features and eating areas.
Garden Lighting: Contemporary Exterior Lighting
• 13 years ago





expert opinion Well-written, organized and illustrated but curiously out-of-date fora book published in 1999. Very little about low voltage lighting whichmust be a rarity in the UK (this is a Brit book). The emphasis is on”mains” lighting (240v in the UK, 120v in the US) and therecommended lamp types and wattages are much too intense forresidential projects. Definitely not a DIY book; the author states:”Before anybody electrocutes him- or herself and reaches for alawyer, I say now-leave electricity to a qualified electrician.”Some nice photographs (and some strange ones too) but many of thenight lighted scenes were photographed well before dusk and did notprovide the kind of view that one would experience after dark.
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