Outdoor Lights Colour Temperature
Outdoor lights exist on a spectrum between warm orange-white and cool blue-white. Here’s a helpful table that will tell you what outdoor light works best in common situations:
Outdoor Entertaining Lights: 2000K-3000K
Security Lights: 5000K – 6000K
Spotlights: 5000K – 6000K
Plant and Feature lights: 2000K – 9000K
Wall lights: 1000k – 10,000K
To find the best outdoor light for your application, work out what colour light you need.
Cool blue-white light (3000k – 6000k) is great for seeing.
if you drop a small screw on the garage floor, a cool blue light will help you find it faster than an orange-white light.
That being said, cool-blue white light is a terrible colour to sip a shiraz to in the backyard. If all you need to see is the cheese plate, orange-white light and the neutral colours in the middle are a more suave selection.
Light has palet. You choose the colour of light like you choose the colour of a wall. Done right it can set the mood and the hue of a space.
Outdoor Lights Obstacles
A really good place to use outdoor lights is at the top of a staircase. You know? Just in case.
light up uneven terrain. If you’ve a nasty tree stump, a retaining wall, a pipe that sticks out the ground, make it glow like the syrups of lycra wearing cyclists on a busy city road.
And you can’t just think about yourself here. It’s your house, you’ve learnt where the landmines are. Where are your friends and their ill-raised children going to slip and fall?
It’s hard to open pool gates in the dark and it’s unpleasant walking long distances at night and stepping into the unknown. Toads, dog poos, snakes and bindies, they’re all waiting for you. It’s not a question of when. It’s a question of will it be squishy or painful underfoot. Outdoor lights are how you tame your domestic environment. Show the darkness who’s boss.
Solar Lights are your Easiest Option for Outdoor Lighting
Solar lights are the cheapest and easiest outdoor lighting solution there is. They are automatic, dawn to dusk lights which cost nothing to run, are environmentally friendly and dead simple to install.
If you need light in the back of your garden, do you want to go to the trouble of digging a trench and running power? If not, you should seriously consider solar lights.
Perfect for lighting paths, or as I like to call them solar runways. They are environmentally friendly, save you money on electricity, and you don’t need to remember to turn them on at night or off before you go to sleep.
There’s more to solar lights than those big glowing pegs you push into the grass too. Look into solar garden lanterns! Cool right? Big glowing solar orbs are a great light feature, and there are dangling solar lights that twirl in the trees and throw beautiful shadows now.
Let’s wrap this up
I hope this article has been illuminating and has shone a light on some of the important considerations for outdoor lighting. If you need any help with anything we’ve discussed, colours, lumens, or you want to hear more about how solar lights are bloody awesome, click here to contact us. We love good yarn and would be happy to answer any questions.
