The lighting design for the garden contributes to the creation of the house's exterior atmosphere. For this reason, it is essential to take care of the entire design in detail, paying particular attention to the selection of the most suitable lights.
In decorative lighting for the home, it is essential to introduce designer garden lamps since, in addition to restoring a captivating external image of the home, they are essential in terms of functionality and safety.
In this article, you will find some guidelines to create an ad hoc lighting design composition for your client.
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Lighting design for the garden: advice on choosing and positioning the lamps
Creating a lighting design project for the garden means choosing the right solutions and knowing how to find the ideal places for them.
In order to do it correctly and create an impactful setting, we recommend that you follow our 5 tips on choosing and positioning the designer garden lamps.
Specifically, it is important to:
- Evaluate the perimeter and the space available
- Sketch out the layout of the lighting complex
- Choose lights with appropriate temperatures
- Opt for lamps of different materials and finishes
- Consider the location's interior design concept
Let's take a closer look at each point.
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1. Evaluate the perimeter and the space available
To start your project in the best possible way, it is necessary to evaluate the space available in the garden, carrying out inspections, and subsequently mapping out the perimeter.
By doing this, you will have a clear idea of the location's size and square footage, but not only. In fact, by carefully inspecting the location, you will be able to identify the transit areas and strategic points for all the various light sources.
The rendering of the location must be precise and detailed; therefore, it must include:
- The house plan;
- Any type of decoration and/or architectural element present in the garden;
- Plants, flower beds, greenhouses, and trees;
- Various benches and seats;
- Lanes, walkways, and small paths (including the height and length measurements).
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2. Sketch out the layout of the lighting complex
Once you have taken stock of the situation regarding the location's perimeter and identified the main areas you want to illuminate, you can proceed with sketching out the layout of the lighting complex.
Now you can choose where you will place the various light points. On the sides of a cobbled path or at the foot of a picturesque natural stone staircase, or in the center of an elegant dining area sheltered under a pergola, a luxury gazebo, or a wooden structure.
3. Choose lights with appropriate temperatures
When you have decided together with your client where to place each lamp, you will know what type of light—hot or cold temperature— will be needed to illuminate the areas of interest.
Remember that every self-respecting lighting design project requires three main levels of functional lighting that can ensure excellent visibility and safety.
In particular:
- Ambient lighting: suitable for creating the general atmosphere
- Task lighting: useful for carrying out daily activities and ensuring freedom of movement
- Accent lighting: ideal for enhancing architectural details and external decorative elements
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4. Opt for lamps of different materials and finishes
In a scenario of decorative outdoor lighting, light is not only used to illuminate but must also act as decoration and integrate into the location.
For this reason, we recommend you choose lamps with a creative concept made with different materials and finishes. In this way, you will create a bold synergy between variegated details and textures, playing on contrasts.
Karman designer lamps, with their inimitable charm, are able to immerse themselves with versatility and elegance in outdoor locations, making the atmosphere magical and welcoming.
Here are some ideas for the lighting design for the garden:
Alibabig
With its unmistakable stage presence, Alibabig could be perfect for illuminating the garden. This floor lamp, designed by Matteo Ugolini, is ideal for giving optimal lighting to outdoor spaces and outlining their atmosphere.
The structure, entirely made of fiberglass, allows the light to filter through intensely and free itself into the space, creating ideal light spots to decorate the area and at the same time guide the observer.
Alibabig
Tobia
If you are looking for a lamp with an evocative shape and that can decorate and illuminate the location, Tobia could be the ideal solution.
It is a floor lamp in white technopolymer, created by Matteo Ugolini, that echoes the appearance of ancient tools used in working the earth. That's why this lamp is perfect for lighting the garden and staying in total harmony with its bucolic atmosphere.
Tobia is perfect for highlighting architectural elements, passages, or large centuries-old trees. Thus, in addition to making the entire location more intimate and fairytale-like, you will introduce excellent levels of accent lighting.
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Don’t Touch
Don’t Touch evokes functionality and decorative potential. It is a floor lamp designed by Matteo Ugolini with a gray technopolymer base and PVC rods, designed to preserve the intensity of the light source placed in the center.
Ideal along the edges of a swimming pool or fountain, or simply in the garden at the edge of a path made with large stone slabs, it will give a new image to the space it will occupy.
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Ottavo
Ottavo is a floor lamp, also created by Matteo Ugolini, with a decidedly curious appearance that decorates spaces and makes lighting a real attraction.
Its matte white technopolymer body echoes the physical features of a classic garden gnome holding a torch.
To create a captivating composition, place several models in random order in the garden or next to a flowerbed full of flowers and plants with vitaminic colors.
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Cell
To create a more sophisticated outdoor mood, you could choose Cell: a floor lamp, designed by Matteo Ugolini, which reinterprets the aesthetic language of ancient Chinese lanterns in a modern way.
It has a metal wire structure—available in white or bronze—and a white linen diffuser that allows the light to be released purely and intensely into the environment. Cell can find its place in large spaces of the garden or next to stone walls or even by the pool.
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Ululì Ululà
To create a picturesque atmosphere in the garden, choose Ululì Ululà: a floor lamp designed by Matteo Ugolini with an unmistakable spherical shape, made with fiberglass and finished with lace inserts.
The warm light filters through the material and releases itself into the environment, becoming pure splendor. Picnic areas and extensive lawns are the ideal settings for many Ululì Ululà solutions.
Ululì Ululà
5. Consider the location's interior design concept
To instill a dynamic and daring atmosphere, it is advisable to guide your client during the process of selecting the solutions so that they can choose lamps in aesthetic agreement with the furnishings of the outdoor spaces.
In this way, the entire project will be complete and restore a sense of stylistic continuity.
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Combining design and visual comfort to give character to lighting design for the garden
Lighting design for the garden requires special care and attention at each design stage.
Follow our advice: by selecting Karman lamps you will create a decorative lighting project of great aesthetic and functional content.
