Shopping at home and garden stores is big fun for many of us. Cool lights, neat gadgets to help with home organization and fun decorative touches all under one roof can be a productive afternoon and evening of shopping. When it comes to garden lighting, however, restraint is in order if only to save you from purchasing too much, purchasing the wrong kinds of lights and purchasing fixtures that you’re only going to have to take back later.
Before you go to the store or shop online, which makes it just as easy to spend too much and purchase too much at once, look at your garden carefully both during the daytime and at night. If you only do one or the other, you could end up with the wrong fixtures. A look at your garden at night is essential to figure out where you really need light. You could decide that you need a string of solar garden lights down a garden path. But rechecking during the day time might show you that the solar garden lights you had in mind aren’t going to look very good when the sun is up. So look at everything carefully with the appearance in both day and night in mind.
Also, buy the biggest and brightest fixtures first before you fill in with accent garden lights and smaller fixtures. Install them and then recheck your garden at night. The light fixtures like spotlights, up lights and hanging light fixtures might actually light up more space than you expect and make things like walkway lighting or smaller lights in the area unnecessary. It can also mean that if you add those smaller lights you’ll be adding too much and making the area cluttered during the day, and too bright at night. Put your biggest pieces in place first and then add smaller lights as necessary a little bit at a time for the best results.
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