Outdoor Lighting Fixtures
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There is a huge range of brands for outdoor lighting fixtures, and a list is provided below. This list isn’t exclusive and if one of your preferred light makers is left out, don’t worry it’s not significant.
Buying Outdoor Lighting Fixtures
Which light fixture is “better” or “best” is a difficult question and depends on what you are looking for and of course how much you want to pay.
One thing to remember is that outdoor lights are exposed to the full effects of weather and need to be built for durability. This means that outdoor lighting fixtures may look great in the shop or catalog, but if they aren’t made of quality, weather resistant materials they won’t look good for very long.
So if a light doesn’t look and feel solid, it probably won’t last well. Check what materials it’s made of - look for materials such as stainless steel, bronze, copper, glass and so on.
As an example, you can buy a pack of 4 or 6 solar powered path lights for only 20-30 dollars or so, but the ones I have tried at thaty price point have all broken within a year or so.
Outdoor Lighting Fixture Brands
- Access Lighting
- Alliance
- Ambience
- Artistic Lighting & Designs
- Corbett
- Crystorama
- CSL Lighting
- ELK Lighting
- ELK Outdoor
- ET2
- Fine Art Lamps
- Flos
- Fontana Arte
- Forecast
- George Kovacs
- Hampton Bay
- Hinkley
- Hinkley Outdoor
- House of Troy
- Hudson Valley
- Kichler Lighting
- Kichler Landscape
- Kichler Tiffany Classics
- Kichler Westwood
- Juno Lighting
- Lutron Dimmers
- Maxim Lighting
- Maxim Outdoor
- Metropolitan
- Minka Lavery Lighting
- Minka Energy Star
- Minka Great Outdoors
- Murray Feiss
- Murray Feiss Lamps
- Murray Feiss Outdoor
- Quoizel Lighting
- Savoy House Lighting
- Savoy House Outdoor
- Sea Gull Lighting
- Sea Gull Outdoors
- Sonneman
- Triarch International
- Triarch Outdoor
- Troy Lighting
- Troy Outdoor
- Westinghouse Lighting
- Westinghouse Outdoor
- Zaneen
Outdoor Lighting Fixtures Discounts
Similarly there are many vendors that offer discount outdoor lighting fixtures. As you would expect many merchants will offer lighting fixtures at a discount from time to time. Here are a few.
- Amazon
- Arcadian lighting
- Home Depot
- Lampsplus
- Lamp USA
- Lighting Showplace
- Lighting Universe
- Soho lighting
Two of the most popular fixture types are:
- Outdoor Lighting Fixtures Wall Mounted
- Outdoor Lighting Fixtures Posts
The first type is typically used to highlight an aspect of a home or building, whereas the second is popular for path lighting.
Both types are also usually available as low voltage outdoor lights or solar outdoor lights. As we cover in how to install landscape lighting solar lights and low voltage lights are often simpler and cheaper to install.
Mains powered lights are simple to install if you are mounting them on the side of your home and access to mains power is simple. When running power around your property for lights, low voltage is easier than mains to install.
Outdoor Decorative Lighting
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Outdoor decorative lighting can make a dramatic improvement to your nightime landscape. It also provides safety and security to your home.
Basically you need to first create a lighting plan (see Planning Outdoor Lighting), decide what areas you want to light, where you want to create highlights, set your budget and then install the outdoor lights.
In most cases, a simple outdoor lighting system where you are using low voltage, or solar outdoor lights is a project that you can complete in a weekend.
Outdoor Lighting Fixtures
There is a huge range of lighting fixtures you can choose from, in a wide range of styles.
Most likely you will choose an overall theme for your outdoor decorative lighting, probably in tune with the style of your home. Then you can choose outdoor lights that fit into that theme.
There are modern lights, ultra-modern, art deco lights, traditional lights and so on.
Outdoor & landscape Lighting Styles:
Accent Lighting
With this style, you use spotlights or minispreads to generate intense light that is focused on a specific object to contrast it against a dark background.
Spread Lighting
This style uses so-called spread fixtures to create circular patterns of light to highlight items such as flowers and low shrubs from above.
Downlighting
With downlighting you usually use spotlights, floodlights and spread light fixtures mounted high up, either on a wall or in a tree and then aimed downwards to create a soft and romantic feeling.
Uplighting
As you would expect, uplighting is the opposite of downlighting and uses fixtures that are surface or ground mounted and angled upward to highlight a feature. This technique uses spotlights, floodlightss, or in-ground light fixtures.
Cross Lighting
With cross lighting, the fixtures - usually spotlights or floodlights - are mounted on the side of a tree, feature wall, or arbor to reveal detail and soften shadows.
Silhouetting
With silhouetting, you normally use spotlights, floodlights, or in-ground light fixtures to light the surface behind an object to create a striking effect.
A variation on silhouetting is “grazing”, where you use a beam of light that just grazes the surface of an object to reveal its texture.
Enjoy!