Backyard lighting is the highlight of the entire backyard design. Backyard lights at night can adjust the atmosphere and give the garden a unique flavor. Different backyard light fixtures play different roles. Choose the right LED light fixture for your outdoor garden lighting.
Why Are There Lights In The Backyard?
Perfect LED lighting can enrich the content of the backyard space. Through the contrast of light and dark, the landscape to be expressed is highlighted in the background with low ambient brightness, attracting people’s attention.
In addition, it is able to decorate the backyard space with art. The decorative effect of backyard light design can embellish or strengthen the space through the shape and texture of the LED light fixtures and the arrangement and combination.
LED Backyard Lighting Types
Different garden lighting methods have different presentation effects, and each LED lighting method needs to pay attention to many details. Below we will give you some common LED garden light tips.
2.1 LED Security Lighting
The LED security lights mainly meet the clear vision needs of people for activities and work in the courtyard, provide security, and understand the surrounding environment.
The LED light for walkways and steps is very necessary, you can use waterproof led strip lights to be installed on the edge of the road or deck, or under the stair steps, so as to illuminate the courtyard path and ensure aesthetics.
For contour lighting, it is recommended to use white LED lights with warm tones and low brightness. Regarding white LED color temperature, you can click here to know more.
2.2 LED Plant Light
Plant LED floodlights are usually divided into LED garden lights and LED tree lights, their light beams are more concentrated. RGB+CCT color changing led lights suit your colorful need for your garden light.
LED plant lighting is generally installed on both sides of park roads, at the corners of important road sections, or under the tree, most commonly used to decorate lawns or trees in courtyards. Choosing milky white or frosted glass lawn lights can effectively prevent glare.
Appropriate use of the LED plant light can adjust the backyard ambient atmosphere at night.
2.3 LED Water Features Lighting
If there is no light in the water features of the courtyard, it is generally not appreciated at night.
Waterscape lighting must pay attention to the safety of electricity. Pay attention to distinguishing between spotlight sources and linear light sources. LED underwater lights spotlight emit more uniformly, and waterproof led light strips with linear light can outline the edge of the water feature.
2.4 LED Wall Lighting
The light combined with the hard landscape makes it more dazzling and prominent at night, producing a good visual effect, increasing the visual level of the environment, and softening the surrounding buildings. Wall washer LED lights evenly sprinkles the light on the wall, highlighting the wall building.
Wall lights are usually installed on the outer wall of the courtyard or on the pillars of the gallery to play the role of accent lighting. The use of low-energy human sensor solar LED wall lights can greatly reduce lighting costs.
2.5 LED Ambient Lighting
Create a romantic atmosphere in the backyard, and you can talk and relax at night in a warm and comfortable light environment.
As a kind of decorative lighting, LED string lights are simple to install, have a strong sense of decoration, and can be flexibly arranged according to the needs of the scene, making the atmosphere of the backyard more beautiful and more emotional, so it has been widely used in backyard decoration.
Precautions For Backyard Lighting
3.1 Pay attention to the coordination of LED brightness with the environment
According to the different levels of the courtyard environment, the choice of LED light illumination should be appropriate. For example, entrances and exits require sufficient lighting intensity, while in quiet paths, only general lighting is required. Soft and relaxing LED lighting will make the backyard environment more peaceful and comfortable.
The entire backyard lighting should be uniformly laid out, and the LED illumination is both uniform and undulating, with an artistic light effect. At the same time, it is also necessary to prevent the appearance of inappropriate dark corners.
3.2 Pay attention to the appropriate height of the LED light
To ensure uniform LED brightness, in addition to the right location of the LED lights and the distance should be reasonable, the height of the backyard LED light should be appropriate. The setting height of the garden light is related to the purpose. Generally, the height of the lighting lamp is about 30-60cm, and the height of the LED light used for the landscape should be determined according to the situation.
LED Outdoor Backyard Lighting Principles
4.1 Functionality
The LED courtyard lighting should be reasonably designed within the scope of ensuring illuminance and brightness to ensure its functionality.
4.2 Aesthetics
LED lighting is a means of beautifying the environment and creating an artistic atmosphere. It can create a sense of spatial hierarchy and artistic mood through various means of light and shade, strength, transmission, refraction, and reflection, and create beautiful courtyard lighting.
4.3 Economical
LED lighting is not the more the better, scientific and reasonable arrangement is the key.
4.4 Security
The LED outdoor lighting design requires absolute safety, and strict safety measures must be taken to prevent electric shock and short circuits.