Despite their pretty boring name, LED ground lights are capable of providing some of the most stunning effects in garden lighting.

The low level of ground lights combined with the coloured light potential of LEDs was what led Liverpool, this year’s European City of Culture, to decide on LED lighting to welcome visitors to their city.

And one can hardly blame them in their choice because there are as many varieties of LED ground lights as there are applications for them. LED ground lights are suitable for illuminating:

• garden decking
• garden steps
• garden paths
• internal walkways and passageways
• skirting boards and floor boards

Be creative with your choice of colour and the angle at which you set the lights and you’ll be totally stunned by the light shows you can create. Invest in colour changing LED ground lights and you and your guests will be enthralled by a pure theatre of colour.

The reasons given by the City of Liverpool for using LED ground lights are telling:

• visual impact (“colour not achievable with other technologies”)

• Impressive energy savings and reduction in CO2 emissions not possible with conventional lighting – “traditional floodlighting would easily use at least 30% more energy

• A lifetime of 25 years, making it a truly “fit and forget” installation

If LED ground lights revolutionised the illumination of a city, just think what they could do in your garden!

Outdoor wall lights with integral PIR are an effective deterrent against any would-be-thief. It is a fact that any intelligently sited garden wall lamps are an integral part of any home security scheme.

However, let’s think about it for a moment; you’re walking down a street after dark, intent on intruding into one of the… Continue reading this article..

Lighting your garden isn’t just about flooding the whole place with light and creating an artifice, it’s about using just the right amount of light to enhance the special feeling of night time and garden wall lights are ideal for creating this effect. Think of the silvery, mysterious light of the full moon and you get the picture; of course, when it’s party time, all constraints are null and… Continue reading this article..

As with all design projects, there is nothing to be gained by wholesale copying of other lighting schemes you’ve seen, your landscape lighting should be as individual as you are. However, one thing to bear in mind is that garden lighting, and wall lights in particular, fulfil two functions – they… Continue reading this article..

Lighting isn’t just about your home and garden; it’s also about fish’s homes and gardens – aquariums! Aquarium lighting is a specialist subject and a vital one too – unless you get the lighting of your aquarium exactly right, the health of your fish will suffer; you hold the power over life and death in your own hands! And, as it’s the size of your tank… Continue reading this article..

Floor lamps, standard lamps, floor standing lamps, standard lamps – an embarrassment of terms to describe one form of lighting. Whatever term you choose to use, there is no doubt that a floor lamp or two is a brilliant addition to any interior lighting scheme; when floor standing lamps are used in tandem with table lamps or wall lamps, the result… Continue reading this article..

Most fish kept in marine aquariums are from light abundant warm, shallow seas, and standard aquarium lighting is perfectly adequate. However, some of the creatures you keep in a marine aquarium will need some extra thought given to their lighting requirements.

Even though the seas that are home to these creatures receive abundant, full spectrum light, the creatures may not… Continue reading this article..

Low voltage lighting is surprisingly flexible, and low voltage downlights can be used for ambient lighting in the lounge, as well as to illuminate areas of electrical danger such as kitchens and bathroom. What’s more, low voltage lighting is easier to install than you might think.

Home lighting is generally divided into three categories: ambient lighting… Continue reading this article..

Tiffany Lamps, chandeliers, etched glass, opal glass, Venetian glass – just some of the materials covered by the term glass table lamps! Glass is such a multi-tasking material that it’s difficult to believe that it started its life as sand.

Table lamps bring your home to life, and not just in the evening when they cast pools of intimate… Continue reading this article..

Lighting is easy, isn’t it, just flip the switch or touch the pad and your world is filled with light, simple eh? No, not really that simple at all; for the best lighting effect, all the lighting in you room needs to work together. Table lamps, floor lamps, ceiling lamps – all should be similarly styled, if not identical (which… Continue reading this article..