Lights and shadows

Lighting your garden means extending the hours of use and enjoyment of your outside space. This practical result, considerable by itself, is achieved with a number of pleasant side effects originated by the fact that artificial light reverses the daylight 'rule of brightness'. While during the day everything is visible, at night when you turn on the lights you are the one who has control of what is to be seen. And this gives the opportunity to create just the right atmosphere you want to be surrounded by when you are in the garden, or that you want to admire when you look out from the inside of your house.

A good lighting scheme is a constituent element of a good garden design and has to be arranged from the start. It is part of the design itself and it changes the way you use your outdoor space, facilitating and encouraging garden activities after the sunset. Moreover, a correct use of the light allows to visually underline focal points and garden features, enhance the effects produced by the planting, alter the appearance of buildings and structures and more generally give depth and perspective to the space. In addition, nowadays it is affordable and practical thanks to the development of energy saving lamps and always more compact models.

At Design in Latitude we have the skills to play with combinations of light and shadows and fully exploit their potential to achieve truly impressive results. Through the correct positioning of the right light type, the control of light direction and beam angle, we can suggest dramatic effects and to create a wonderful experience in your garden after the sunset.