Illumination of private house adjacent area
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Lighting is a means of artificially increasing visibility at night. Lighting of a garden plot, performs several basic functions: creates a cozy and comfortable atmosphere, decorates the homestead plot, scares off criminals, complements the overall picture of style. According to statistics, the light on the site stops 9 out of 10 unwanted visitors.
Every owner cares about the beauty of his home, but do not forget that the lighting of the site of the country house should be competently planned. How to do this, and what nuances will arise, below.
The main types of lighting for the adjacent territories
The range of street lighting market is very rich and divided into groups. The division helps to clearly understand what a lighting device is used for. There are three main types of lighting:
- Decorative - is used to illuminate decorative elements, shrubs and trees, adjacent areas. Can be made in different colors;
- Technical lighting - Used to highlight the main entrance, doors and garage doors.
- Accompanying - illumination, which is activated by sensors and helps to illuminate the way when moving to the desired area.
To make it clearer and easier for you to decide, next we'll look at lighting planning for certain areas. Once you've considered the options for lighting on the site, it will be much easier for you to design your future lighting and purchase the necessary equipment.
Localization of yard lighting
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All types of lighting are interconnected and complement each other. Let's look at specific examples and understand in more detail what you have to work with and what you need to consider. Site lighting is a creative process that has a technical side.
Garden lighting.
This type of lighting came to our country relatively recently from the west with the landscape design and gained the respect of millions of citizens, finding a wide enough application.
Lighting is performed on the contour, emphasizing the boundaries of the garden with an emphasis on its individual zones. Basically it is a soft and diffused light with point positioning of decorative places.
A good contrast to the gloom of night will be given by a flood of soft light. If there are lawns and small glades in your garden, it is best to highlight with a light fixture, installed on the pole, this will emphasize the peculiarity of such a place and give you the opportunity to view it from all sides. Contrast is achieved by LED spotlights of low power and warm color glow.
For contour lighting use LED lights of small size and low power, which are installed on a leg or pole along the perimeter of the garden or parts of it.
Feel free to experiment and use all kinds of lights. They will make your garden prettier and cosier.
Useful video: Creating evening lighting for your garden.
Facade lighting
We have dealt with the lighting outside in the country house, then follows an equally interesting topic. An interesting and topical lighting project is facade of a country house. The fact is that few people today have had time to implement such an idea. Perhaps you will be lucky enough to be the first to implement such an idea.
The concept of the project is that the lighting is directed to the house itself, not to the surrounding perimeter. The perimeter lighting will be supplemented only by the reflection of light from the facade of the building.
Properly planned light flow will allow you to emphasize those elements that you deem necessary. Undesirable areas of domestic use can easily be hidden by the gloom of night.
Contour lighting is made with the help of LED strips. Their design allows you to install lighting with a mode of changing colors of facade lighting. The equipment is programmable, it allows you to include the right color at the right time.
The second way to install facade illumination is the use of spotlight. Installing spotlights around the perimeter of the building will have quite a pretty effect and give a lot of extra light around the building. The disadvantage is the light that hits the windows. You will definitely need to close the blinds or curtains at night.
Pathway lighting
The most common option for pathway lighting is garden lights On small posts. It is not at all necessary to separately install wooden or concrete posts under them, because almost all garden lights have their own low base. Of course, you can turn on your imagination and order unique wrought iron stands and place universal lights on them.
The right point will be to connect such lighting with a motion sensor. When stepping on such a path will light up, and the path will be illuminated.
An alternative option can be contour lighting. If there is a flowerbed or a small fence along the path, you can install an LED strip, also on fences can be mounted LED lights with plafonds.
Useful video: Lighting the perimeter of the yard with their own hands.
Basic requirements
Ennobling the site with backlighting, you are faced with the work, which primarily concerns the electrical network. It is necessary to comply with safety regulations. Let us note the important nuances:
- Be sure to make a plan of the site, which will accurately mark the places of laying cable lines, so as not to damage them if you have to dig something in many years. Calculate how much load each lantern takes.
- Connect the street light line through a separate circuit breaker. If there is a grounding - it is better to use a disconnect switch, which will be responsible for lighting the area of the lawn of the private house.
- For more convenience, make it possible to control lighting from several places - near the entrance to the yard and near the front door. You can do this with the passage switches or pulse relays to control lighting.
- Lighting fixtures (lights, power supply units) must have degree of protection IP68 rating, i.e. protection against dust and water, and must be marked as suitable for outdoor use.
- The supply wire is laid in a protective corrugation.
Possible mistakes
To ensure that your creative endeavors were carried out in the right way, we will leave a few tips, they will help you avoid mistakes.
- Before installation, carefully look at how each of the lights shines, namely, to ensure that the light from it does not fall into the windows to you or your neighbors.
- Do not use a lot of lights, the task is to accentuate and add beauty to your area, not to achieve lighting as in the mall.
- A miser pays twice the price. If you want the equipment to last a long time - buy only high-quality and certified products. This is especially true in the private sector with bad power grids, where there are frequent power surges.
Conclusion
Backlighting of the site of a country house is a creative and not complicated, but requiring careful planning and creation of the project. It is important to think carefully and do not miss any details. You already know the basic nuances and are familiar with what you should pay attention to in the first place. We wish you creative success and useful ideas.
