Lighting the area around your own house has long ceased to carry only a functional value. Unique, unusual decorative lighting of the garden, paths, patio, allows you to bring a special atmosphere and mood, highlight the most attractive elements of your home. Here it is worth observing the measure, since an excess of light can deprive the garden of mystery and originality, and a lack will not allow you to fully enjoy all the elements of the landscape, and in the dark, it will generally make it unsafe to move around your yard.
There are three areas of decorative lighting: accent lighting, water lighting, creating luminous objects.
Accent lighting is used to highlight objects of architectural design, garden sculpture, trees and the like. A modern design technique looks quite impressive, which consists in projecting shadows from various elements located in the courtyard onto the walls of buildings.
Water backlight. Most often, pools are illuminated in order to give the surface of the water a special, incomparable shimmer or an unusual shade. More spectacular is the illumination of fountains, the light refracted by jets of water will create bizarre patterns, reflecting on the objects surrounding the fountain, creating its own atmosphere, unlike anything else.
When designing a lighting system, you should take into account a lot of different subtleties that will allow you to optimize your design project. Pay attention to the required voltage and the type of fixtures used, and also do not forget about the literacy of color design.
Subject to all the necessary elements of lighting design, you will be happy to enjoy the result in the evening and at night.
