Whatever your reason for installing flood lights, ensure you position them correctly and they will also keep your home and grounds safe from intruders; install them incorrectly and you will actually help undesirables to target your home.

The point is that light always creates shadow and the bad boys love shadows because they create a brilliant place to hide; the brighter the light the darker the shadow.

With that in mind, here are some security lighting guidelines to help you thwart the lurkers rather than play into their hands:

• Anything brighter than 150 watts is both unnecessary and counterproductive

• Direct the beam down into your grounds, aim it high and what you are actually doing is casting shadows exactly where intruders find them most useful – on the ground around your house

• Aim for the most vertical beam you can manage; 22 degrees from vertical is optimum

• Consider using LED spotlights for their more directional light.

Do remember to consider other measures you can take, garden lighting is just one aspect of your home’s security. It has to be said that the number one security measure is to ensure your doors and windows have good security locks – and that you use them!

If you already have floodlights, double check their installation now. If you don’t have floodlights – it might be a good idea to get some…

With the way most people’s finances are at the moment, going out on the town will be relegated to special occasions only. Nevertheless, garden lighting, particularly deck lighting, will allow you to party every night – and you won’t have to leave the car behind and get a taxi home!

When you do go into town, your senses… Continue reading this article..

If you’re looking for simple, no-fuss garden lighting, spike lights are for you. Quite simply, the lamp is fixed to a long spike that can be pushed into the ground to provide light wherever you want it. If you change your mind, you simply pull up the spike and stab it into another part of the garden.

The… Continue reading this article..

Garden bollard lights can be thought of as the way-markers of garden lighting, tracing a safe route through the garden and delineating separate areas. Garden bollards also produce extremely attractive, low level lighting that not only illuminates pathways and lawn edges but also adds to the beauty of your night-time garden.

LED garden bollards fulfill both functions, that… Continue reading this article..

The term Victorian when applied to anything, not just garden lampposts, is a little misleading; remember Queen Victoria ruled Britain and it’s Empire for around 60 years so a Victorian lamppost can come in many guises.

If you think of today’s fashions and then compare them to the style of the 1940’s, you’ll see that there’s little… Continue reading this article..

It might seem strange to have a whole article on black garden wall lights, and perhaps it is, however what kick started this article was a themed garden at this years Hampton Court Palace Garden Show.

The obviously very talented garden designer had created a garden based purely on colour, and not the easiest… Continue reading this article..

For the majority of folk, the thought of adding a garden lamppost to their outside space never really crosses their mind – lampposts are for streets, not for gardens. Wrong! Advancing technology and the discovery of new materials have brought garden lampposts in from the cold.

But, you may be asking yourself, what’s the big… Continue reading this article..

If you intend to make use of your pool at night, then some sort of lighting is essential but why not take the opportunity not only to make your pool safer but to make it more beautiful too by using underwater lighting?

In days gone past the only way to get lighting beneath the water line of your pond or… Continue reading this article..

Although it might seem obvious, its worth stating that brick lights are designed to replace, well, bricks! Just like house bricks, brick lights come in a range of standard sizes, so that whatever size brick has been used to build your wall, there will be a brick light to fit.

Many people are a little… Continue reading this article..

If you have yet to be turned on to the wonder of LED lighting, you have something amazing in store and where better to assess this new source of light than as part of garden lighting scheme, specifically LED garden wall lights?

We’re quite sure that once you’ve experienced the advantages of LED lighting, you be installing LED… Continue reading this article..