Outdoor facilities: Light in the garden
From simple path lighting to festive illumination
It helps, to find the front door and the bell button. But it can also turn the whole garden into a stage set: Light between purpose and beauty.
When night falls, the garden must not sink into darkness – he certainly shouldn't. The well-dosed, Targeted illumination creates attractive effects. It's the same, whether the viewer is outdoors or enjoying the splendor from the living room. Apart from that, the lighting serves for safety and orientation.
Accordingly, three ways of dealing with light can be distinguished in the garden:
The purpose lighting, to the the
Lighting of the house entrance, the house number and the name tag, the illumination of the paths and stairs as well as possible action areas (garage entrance, Kaminholzstapel, Terraces etc.) belong. The decorative lighting, which is turned away from the viewer and is always subdued – powered by light sources close to the ground. This allows the garden to be set in scene, so to speak: ponds, Spring,
shrubs or trees, sculptures, Rock gardens emerge from the darkness and are stylized into a kind of stage setting.
The safety light helps, prevent burglary and theft. It turns on depending on the brightness (by twilight switch) and moving objects (by motion detector) on and off again after a specified time. The critical points must be illuminated so brightly, that there is both psychological deterrence and opportunity, Alert neighbors to suspicious activity. Safety lights must be protected against manipulation.
Light sources in the house and in the garden
Functional lighting is mostly used in new buildings or. Renovation of a house planned in the course of the electrical installation. The lights are fixed in place. They are controlled either manually from the vestibule area or automatically by a twilight switch or timer. Two- up to three thousand lamp models are available.
In the front yard it is best to use pillars- or pedestal lights mounted. Wand- or pendant lights can illuminate the house entrance or the house number. Is the access to the front door very long, Path lights come into question. Pole lights cover a radius of up to ten meters, should therefore only be used there, where there is adequate space.
Pure orientation light with reduced brightness should suffice to illuminate a terrace, especially since a floodlit garden comes into its own all the more. Fixed patio lights are more convenient to use, lassen sich aber nicht den verschiedenen Nutzungswünschen anpassen. Sockets are a good solution, die vom Innern des Hauses geschaltet und an die transportable Stehleuchten je nach Bedarf angeschlossen werden können. And of course, candles and lanterns should not be missing around the seating area.
Isn't the garden too big?, its lighting can be done from a central location. Such a so-called panorama lighting has the disadvantage, that hardly any brightness contrasts occur, there light- and line of sight are identical. For the viewer, the shadows lie behind the illuminated object. The decentralized installation costs a lot more, because this is an electric cable from an interior space, which is on the terrace, in the form of a loop – as far as possible along the paths – at a depth of about 60 cm around the whole garden and provided with garden sockets in several places. In this way, the lighting can be flexibly adapted to the respective season. Attention: The light emission must be aligned in this way, that neighbors are not disturbed.