Solar Path Light Placement Tips
30/06/09 23:20
There's a bit of an art to landscaping with solar LED path lights. Whether your garden style is formal and geometric -- or informal and very organic in layout.
In more formal garden settings, you really want to place path lights with a good degree of precision to reinforce the landscape style. Careful measuring and placement -- equidistant spacing along walkways helps. Using pairs precisely opposite along paths, grouping in fours on geometric corners helps guide both your eyes, and your guests navigating a nighttime landscape.
Alternate spacing of path lighting along curved walks (tho again consistently measured and spaced) helps maintain a visual aesthetic. This works well on the outside edges and inside curve of more meandering paths to help guests be aware of the wandering route.
Regardless of your garden style -- pairing solar lights at the bottom of steps, and again at the top of the stairway helps indicate where they start, where they end - and insures safe navigation at night.
Given the affordability of many solar landscape light sets - lean towards MORE rather than fewer, especially since cost per light is lower in quantity. There may be instances where a special garden feature deserves to be surrounded by 3 or more lights -- in addition to those needed along the route.
In more formal garden settings, you really want to place path lights with a good degree of precision to reinforce the landscape style. Careful measuring and placement -- equidistant spacing along walkways helps. Using pairs precisely opposite along paths, grouping in fours on geometric corners helps guide both your eyes, and your guests navigating a nighttime landscape.
Alternate spacing of path lighting along curved walks (tho again consistently measured and spaced) helps maintain a visual aesthetic. This works well on the outside edges and inside curve of more meandering paths to help guests be aware of the wandering route.
Regardless of your garden style -- pairing solar lights at the bottom of steps, and again at the top of the stairway helps indicate where they start, where they end - and insures safe navigation at night.
Given the affordability of many solar landscape light sets - lean towards MORE rather than fewer, especially since cost per light is lower in quantity. There may be instances where a special garden feature deserves to be surrounded by 3 or more lights -- in addition to those needed along the route.
