Tips for beautiful garden lighting

Where can I place garden lights?

In the garden itself, suitable garden lighting is particularly suitable for highlighting your favorite areas. This can be the flower bed, bushes or trees, but also the pond lighting.

The green areas can be best illuminated with LED garden spotlights or outdoor garden globe lights, whereby the s.luce set of 3 globe lights is an effective and inexpensive option.

The round lights can easily be stuck into the ground with a skewer and you can create a pleasant ambience even in winter. Die s.luce garden globe lights are also available as pendant lights and can therefore be easily attached to trees.

In addition to the entrance area and the green space, garden lighting can of course also be installed on the patio, on the house wall, on the garden shed or fence and on a gabion wall. There are numerous ways to create an atmospheric ambience here.

With outdoor pendant lights, cube garden lights or simple outdoor wall lights, such as the individually configurable s.luce pro Ixa, almost any area can be illuminated.

What should I look out for in garden lamps?

Not every outdoor light is suitable for every garden area - depending on whether your garden lighting is located under a canopy or unprotected outdoors, a different IP protection rating is required. This abbreviation stands for Ingress Protection, which indicates both protection against the ingress of foreign bodies and sensitivity to water.

Your garden lights should have at least IP44 to be protected against solids > 1mm and splashing water such as rain. However, if your outdoor lights are located next to a pool, pond or in a flower bed, they may be completely submerged in water due to spillage or watering. In this case, the protection rating should therefore be higher or even the highest rating of IP68 should be selected.

Brightness of the garden lighting

As far as the brightness of the garden lighting is concerned, you can stick to 400 to 600 lumens for a discreet light, although there is no upper limit. The same applies to the light color, which depends entirely on the application.

When it comes to light sources, LED garden lighting is an energy-saving and technically high-quality choice and is therefore often used when planning garden lighting. If you want a particularly environmentally friendly option and are looking for a light that can be used practically anywhere, it is best to opt for Solar garden lamps.

How can I control my garden lighting?

Of course, you can operate your lights outdoors as usual with a light switch, but the smart home concept has now also been extended to the garden area. Smart garden lighting such as the Plug & Shine series from Paulmann can then be conveniently controlled by remote control. This means that you can both switch and dim your garden lighting with a remote control.

Dimmable garden lamps are also available from the luminaire designer FARO Barcelona, where you can choose between an outdoor wall spotlight, garden light spike or a dimmable ground light. Waterproof LED strips from ProLight also impress with their water protection and the option of dimming via PWM.

You can also control your garden lighting with motion detectors, which is particularly useful in the entrance area or for path lighting. With the Ruba Sensor LED garden lamp, SLV has a light that can be used for walls and ceilings.

How do I plan my garden lighting?

Depending on whether you are still building a house and your garden is just being created, you are converting it or you already have a perfect green space, you need to consider different things when planning your garden lighting. garden lighting. This mainly concerns the power connection, as garden lamps can either be connected to a socket on the house wall or to a garden socket, such as those available from Faro Barcelona or SLV .

These can be easily inserted into the ground with a spike and are available from skapetze® with different cable lengths. However, the laying of the underground cable must be considered here, as it should be laid frost-free and spade-proof, which is the case from a depth of approx. 80 cm - planning the garden lighting is sometimes not so easy.

What does good garden lighting cost?

Stylish and high-quality garden lamps don't have to be expensive - at skapetze® you can get garden lighting at a great price. With our own brand s.luce Mesh series, illuminated garden spheres with a wire look are affordable for everyone and create effective light and shadow effects in everyone's outdoor area. The portfolio of the Nova Lu ce lighting brand also includes beautiful and modern LED garden lamps, for which you don't have to dig deep into your wallet.

The Nova Luce range at skapetze® will also soon be stocked up with new designer garden lighting for you - so you'll be spoilt for choice.

Checklist for garden lighting planning

• What is your budget for garden lighting?
• Which areas should be illuminated?
• What purpose should the garden lamps fulfill and what brightness is required? Does a dimmer make sense due to the different purposes?
• Do the lights have to withstand certain weather conditions? Which IP protection classes are therefore required?
• What light colors should the garden lighting have?
• How will the luminaires be supplied with power? Is it necessary to lay underground cables or is sunlight sufficient?
• How should the garden lights be controlled? Is a Motion sensor or a remote control more useful than a conventional light switch?

Start the summer with the right garden lighting and spend more time outdoors again. We wish you lots of fun staging your garden!