Light Up Your Outdoor Spaces With Ansell Outdoor Lighting

Light Up Your Outdoor Spaces With Ansell Outdoor Lighting 

Cleverly placed and well-planned outdoor lighting not only creates a warm ambience, it can help make dark corners more inviting and long pathways more secure.

Whether you’re designing a small courtyard or large family garden, it’s important to remember no space is too small to light with a flexible solution that can include anything from innovative solar lights, colourful strips or state of the art digital systems.

What are the different types of outside lighting?

In general, there are 4 types of lighting that can influence how you want your outside space to look:

Task Lighting: Good task lighting is critical to helping you safely around the garden by picking out potential hazards like steps as well as illuminating key areas for cooking or catering for guests. Bright fittings such as the Ansell Downlight, Bulkhead and wall light ranges are all well placed in these sorts of areas.

Ambient Lighting, such as lanterns or bollards are perfect for adding atmosphere onto patios or seating areas with inviting pools of light. Softened Uplights also add to a warm ambience, providing the perfect fixture behind seating or in dark corners.

Feature Lighting is essential to draw attention to dramatic features of your garden. Staked spotlights shining up through a tree or laser projectors shining onto a wall deliver an instant wow factor.

Security Lighting is the most common type of outdoor lighting. Wall or ceiling mounted floodlights are essential to providing peace of mind and creating a secure outdoor space to enjoy.

What to Think About?

Before starting any outdoor lighting installations, it’s important to make sure you fully understand the areas being illuminated. Think about if you’re locating lights on exterior walls, or embedding them into the brickwork, or if you plan to use bollards to light up a pathway or patio and how you plan to get power to those locations. If you’re looking to install more complex lighting systems, employ a landscape architect or lighting designer who can help design the space from the ground up.

There is no definitive solution to lighting up and outside space, however other basics that need to be considered include mounting height of any fixtures, space & distance from object being illuminated and the specification of any outdoor lights including the IP rating.

Here at the electrical counter, we offer a huge range of Ansell outdoor lighting to suit every application – take a look at our full range here.