Lighting of the adjacent territory of a private house

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Lighting is a means of artificially increasing visibility at night. The lighting of the summer cottage performs several basic functions: it creates a cozy and comfortable atmosphere, decorates the backyard, scares off criminals, and complements the overall picture of the style. According to statistics, the light on the site stops 9 out of 10 unwanted visitors.

Each owner cares about the beauty of his home, but do not forget that the backlighting of the country house should be well planned. How to do this, and what nuances will arise, further.

The main types of lighting for local areas

Lighting is made according to the developed project

The range of street lighting market is very rich and divided into groups. Separation helps to clearly understand what the lighting device is used for.There are three main types of lighting:

• decorative - used to illuminate decorative elements, shrubs and trees, surrounding areas. Can be made in different colors;
• technical lighting - used to illuminate the main entrance, doors, garage doors.
• Accompanying - backlight, which turns on thanks to sensors and helps to illuminate the path when moving to the desired area.

Outdoor gazebo lighting option.

To make it clearer and easier for you to decide, then we will consider lighting planning for certain areas. After the considered options for supplying light to the site, it will be much easier for you to draw up a project for future lighting and purchase the necessary equipment.

Localization of courtyard lighting

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All types of lighting are interconnected and complement each other. Let's look at this with specific examples and take a closer look at what you have to work with and what needs to be taken into account. Site lighting is a creative process that has a technical side.

LED pole type lamps powered by solar panels.

garden lighting

The type of this lighting came to our country relatively recently from the West along with landscape design and won the respect of millions of citizens, having found a fairly wide application.

Lighting is carried out along the contour, emphasizing the boundaries of the garden with an emphasis on its individual zones. Basically it is soft and diffused light with point positioning of decorative places.

A good contrast to the darkness of the night will give a flood of soft light. If your garden has lawns and small clearings, it is best to highlight with a lamp, established on a pillar, this will emphasize the peculiarity of such a place and make it possible to inspect it from all sides. The contrast is achieved by low power LED spotlights and a warm glow color.

Creating a warm and soft light by lighting with a low power spotlight and a reflector. In this case, the reflector should not be specular.

For contour lighting, LED lights of small size and low power are used, which are installed on a leg or column around the perimeter of the garden or its individual sections.

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Feel free to experiment and use all kinds of lights. They will make your garden more beautiful and cozy.

Useful video: Creating evening garden lighting.

facade lighting

We figured out the lighting on the street in the country, followed by an equally interesting topic. The lighting project has become interesting and relevant facade country house. The fact is that few today have managed to implement such an idea. Perhaps you will be lucky, and you will be the first to bring such an idea to life.

The concept of the project is that the lighting is directed at the house itself, and not at the adjacent perimeter. The illumination of the perimeter will be supplemented only by the reflection of light from the facade of the building.

Properly planned light flow will emphasize those elements that you see fit. Unwanted domestic destinations are easy to hide in the darkness of the night.

Illumination of the facade of the building gives a unique look to the building at night.

Contour lighting is performed using LED strips. Their design allows you to install lighting with a mode of changing the color shades of the facade illumination. The equipment is programmable, this allows you to turn on the right color at the right time.

The second way to install facade lighting is to use searchlights. Installing spotlights around the perimeter of the building will have quite a nice effect and will give a lot of additional light around the building. The disadvantage is the light that enters the windows. At night, you will definitely need to close the blinds or curtains.

Illumination of the building with spotlights.

Path lighting

The most common path lighting option is garden lamps on small poles. It is not at all necessary to separately install wooden or concrete poles under them, because almost all garden lamps have their own low base. Of course, you can turn on your imagination and order unique forged stands and place universal lamps on them.

Forged lamps. An LED lamp is used as a light source.

The right moment would be to connect such lighting with a motion sensor. When stepping on such a path, the backlight will light up, and the path will be illuminated.

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An alternative option could be contour lighting. If there is a flower bed 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 your own hands.

Primary requirements

By ennobling the area with lighting, you are faced with work that primarily concerns the electrical network. The safety regulations must be observed.We note important nuances:

1. Be sure to draw up a plan of the site where the cable lines will be accurately marked so as not to damage them if you have to dig something after many years. Calculate how much load each lamp takes.
2. Connect the street lighting line through a separate circuit breaker. If there is grounding, it is better to use a difavtomat, which will be responsible for illuminating the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe adjacent territory of a private house.
3. For greater convenience, make it possible to control lighting from several places - near the entrance to the yard and near the front door. This can be done using walk-through switches or impulse relays for lighting control.
4. Lighting network elements (lanterns, power supplies) must have degree of protection IP68 is dust and water resistant and marked as suitable for outdoor use.
5. The supply wire is laid in a protective corrugation.

Option to highlight individual elements and tracks.

Possible mistakes

So that your creative endeavors take place in the right way, we will leave a few tips that will help you avoid mistakes.

1. Before installation, carefully look at how each of the lamps shines, namely, so that the light from it does not fall into the windows to you or your neighbors.
2. Do not use a lot of lamps, the goal is to make accents and add beauty to your site, and not to achieve lighting like in a shopping center.
3. Miser pays twice. If you want the equipment to serve for a long time, buy only high-quality and certified products. This is especially true in the private sector with poor electrical networks, where frequent power surges occur.

Conclusion

Illumination of a plot of a country house is a creative and not complicated matter, but it requires careful planning and project creation.It is important to think carefully and not to miss the details. You already know the basic nuances and got acquainted with what you should pay attention to first of all. We wish you creative success and useful ideas.