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Original ideas for lighting a summer cottage site with your own hands
Let there be light! This phrase is appropriate not only for the living quarters of a country house or apartment, but also for city streets, but also for a summer cottage: with its flowerbeds, paths, hedges, artificial pond and sprawling fruit and ornamental shrubs and trees. Indeed, the light in the interior of the cottage is not only a decoration, it is 100% practicality. And if you have not yet placed light accents in your summer cottage, then it's time to think about it. And our article will help you understand where, how and with what you can quickly, correctly and safely arrange the original lighting on your personal plot.
Content
- Cottage lighting: functions
- Decorative garden lighting: views video
- DIY lighting video
- Lighting cottage photo
Cottage lighting: functions
Starting any landscaping, for example, a lighting device and a lighting system on a personal plot, the first thing to understand is why will we do this, what do we want to get as a result? It is from this that it is worth starting from when choosing lighting systems for the garden, types and types of lamps And for this, you need to clearly understand that the lighting of a summer cottage, like any lighting, performs the following functions:
- direct coverage of the territory,both general and local or even built-in: after all, a garden, like any corner in the house, is better to make light, affordable and safe. For these purposes, they use different types and types of lanterns on poles of different heights or, at all, without them. The requirement for the light emitted by these flashlights is as follows: it must be bright, most often diffused to illuminate a certain territory. Typically, such lights are installed along garden paths, especially if they have steps around pools.
- decor of the territory of the personal plot: for these purposes, a variety of lights and fixtures, both factory-made and made with their own hands, are also suitable. The light of these flashlights can be of varying degrees of brightness, absolutely any color, most often, it is aimed at a specific object for its advantageous selection, highlighting against the background of the night.
Decorative garden lighting: views
Given the fact that you can illuminate and decorate with light absolutely any corner of the garden or the entire summer cottage, and the very desire to arrange lighting in the summer cottage arose for a very long time, then there are a great variety of types of garden lighting for every taste, wallet and for any place in the garden. And so, what is the illumination of the garden:
By type of light source:
- electrically flashlights and searchlights.For their installation, you need to think over the communication system in advance: lay in corrugated trenches, at least 45 cm deep, corrugated or plastic (PVC sewer pipes are well suited for this) tubes into which electric cables are laid that go from the house (power source) to every light source.
- solar-powered lights: This type of illumination of a personal plot does not require time and money for laying electric cables and preliminary thinking over the place for installing such a flashlight, because you just need to install it in the right place, and if necessary, move or remove it altogether. True, for such comfort and portability it will be necessary to pay not a small amount (about 5-20 cu) for 1 lamp, and they need even more than a dozen, even for a small garden site. But, on the other hand, one can forget about the costs of electricity.
- objects painted with luminescent paints (phosphors) The easiest, affordable and fastest way to decorate and illuminate your summer cottage in an original way. The light from such a paint is not very bright, but it is very effective and completely free.
- candles, i.e. open flame enclosed in decorative plafonds, most often made by oneself. Such decorative protection reduces the risk of both fires and the possible attenuation of a candle from blowing wind to a minimum. And the atmosphere creates a romantic!
By location and installation method:
- suspended:lanterns, garlands and decorated, using phosphors, objects placed on the ceilings, between the trees.
- wall lights:i most often use it as an option for lighting, the house itself or fences, as well as lighting in the winter garden. Only for the fixtures of the winter garden, you will need to choose fluorescent cold light bulbs so that the plants feel at home.
- spotlights with a directed beam of light, used to illuminate the crowns of trees, walls and fences.
- floor lamps: bollards - lanterns on a leg up to 1.5m high; ideal lighting of paths in the garden;
indices lanterns with a reflector directing the downward flow of light used both for lighting soda paths and for decorative illumination of flower beds, lawns.
- fiber optic lamps: they can be used not only as the main or decorative light source in the garden or around the house, but also to organize the illumination of the pool, pond, without the use of additional means of protection against water and moisture.
When using any type of luminaire, one must remember that it should harmoniously fit into the design of the garden, not only at night, but also please the eye or, at least, not cut it, in the light of day.
DIY lighting
Just gorgeous photos of the options for lighting and highlighting a personal plot may suggest the impossibility of creating the same magical game of colors and lights in your country house But, this is absolutely not true! Having shown imagination, ingenuity can easily make spectacular lamps for the garden with your own hands.
From the bottles
Cans
Old and unnecessary kitchen utensils
Tree
Or with the help of luminescent paints, creating original shades, patterns on paths, luminous stones
Lighting cottage photo
Correctly organized lighting of a summer cottage decorates the landscape, improves the mood and quality of rest in the country!
