Guides on Planning an Outdoor Lighting Layout

Outdoor lighting projects such as garden lighting, park, landscape lighting need a serious planing. A successful outdoor lighting plan requires selecting the right fixtures, then placing and wiring them correctly. The first thing before planing an outdoor lighting is Selecting the right design and components, Walk into any home center or garden center this spring and you’re guaranteed to run into a towering display of low-voltage lighting. You’ll find $69 prepackaged sets and $100 individual lights; plastic fixtures and metal ones; lights you can shine down from trees and up from ponds.

Use waterproof pond lights for illuminating pools, fountains and other water features; offset path lights for lighting walkways; cone lights for highlighting both walkways and the surrounding plants; tree-mounted spotlights for simulating moonlight; and flood lights for illuminating trees, buildings and other large elements.

Consider that a Special lights need special effects too, A MOON LIGHT should be installed 15 to 30 ft. high and have one or more branches between it and the ground to simulate moon shadows. Provide at least 24 in. between the light and branches to prevent “hot spots.”

Here are another tips on designing an outdoor lighting plan:

• If your lights come with press-on fittings—the type that bite through the insulation and into the wire to make their connection—cut them off and use the wire connectors shown in Photo 4. 
• The farther a light is from the transformer (and the more lights installed between it and the transformer), the less light it will put out.  
• Always leave a little extra wire as you hook up the lights. This will give you the freedom to move a light after you’ve hooked it up for testing or after you’ve installed it.
• Burying the wires should be your last step. Lay everything out, hook up your lights, test your voltage, and look at your results at night before burying the lines.
• Purchase a transformer with a built-in photocell and timer. Orient the photocell with some western (sunset) orientation so it doesn’t turn lights on too early.

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Outdoor Lighting System of Confort Myojindai with EYE CERA ARC lamps

The outdoor  lighting system for this housing complex was revamped along with exterior improvements of the housing development. Pole lights and approach lights of human scale and height have been set up along the pathways for the development. Here is an outdoor lighting system of Confort Myojindai, located in Yokohama City, Japan.

By combining wide-span light distributing Cerca fixtures and highly efficient EYE CERA ARC lamps, a lighting environment was created, which contributes to energy conservation while ensuring sufficient illuminant for safety. Environmentally-friendly lighting system that controls light pollution gently illuminates the garden.

The solar LED blocks are set up along the roads, for creating a visual guidance effect and therapeutic space, so it make a romantic and safety road to use the roads. [eye]

Bathroom Lighting Design in Several Specific Area Lights

Bathroom lighting is an important element in creating a convenience bathroom, a well designed bathroom lighting can bring your bathroom alive at night or in the day (if you don't have a natural light outlet). As compared to the amount of money you end up shelling out for the cumulative of bathroom accessories including the bathroom vanity. There are several areas that should specific in creating a bathroom light, you can choose one of them or combining several of bathroom lights focus.

The first area is the ceiling bathroom lighting, Scones work out perfectly for a central lighting, usually at the center of the bathroom ceiling. Try to keep central lighting to minimum, it should be just enough to illuminate the bathroom to a visibility level.

The other bathroom lighting design is on the shower room or steam room bathroom light. Here again you can experiment with wall inset lights or go in for frosted bulbs. If you use the shower room for shaving also, then do consider placing the bulb so that there is no reflection or glare onto the mirror

Bathtub lighting can bring the atmosphere of romantic sense. Ensure the use of water resistant sockets near the tub. You can have inset lights along the top corner of the wall near the tub with the lights pointing away from the center of the tub. You can have a artificial candle lights surrounding the tub to give it a romantic touch. Cove lighting would be the best preference for tub lighting as it adds a air of soothing illumination.

Landscape Sculpture, garden sculptures, and Andy Goldsworthy.

Sculpture by Bruno Torfs

Landscape Sculptures are the integration of nature and the landscape and express how natural forces interact with forms, figure, and the human creative spirit. These Landscape Sculptures provide a Feng Shui addition for the purpose of adding a garden accent in order to "move and lift the energy" of natural spaces.

 Bringing landscape sculpture into the garden not only creates a focal point for your garden, it also can create intrigue and a scene of playfulness that can let your fantasy and creativity run wild.

I have always been a fan of sculpture gardens, they can be a magical place. I have also always been a fan of landscape artists, in particular one of the founders of landscape sculpture, Andy Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy was (and still is) an inspiration to me when I was an art student and later on as a stonemason and as a landscaper.

Timber Sculptures by Andy Goldsworthy

The late 50es saw the emergence of landscape sculpture as a specific form of artistic expression. The innovators of landscape sculpture, such as Goldsworthy or Christo , set out to explore natural materials in there natural surroundings , adjusted by man to create a new exciting , inspirational form of sculpture.

Since the late 1950es sculptors like Andy Goldsworthy have been creating this new  form of sculpture which combines an appreciation for ‘mother earth’ and  influenced with artistic temperament with a feel of new-age influences.

Goldsworthy in particular seems to have a great respect for nature this is partly because when he was younger he worked on various farms where he developed his respect for nature, almost as a reaction against the abuse of the land by industrial farmers.

Stone Sculptures by Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy has produced a huge range of work over the years in a wide range of materials, however for me the most inspiring works are those made of stone.

Many of these stone sculptures can be used as inspiration for your own garden.

At a later date I will post a blog with some inspiration and information on creating your own sculptures for your garden.

Bathroom Design

if you want to enjoy and relax your body after went to office or the other jobs in the other place or in your town. you must go to bath room first to clean your body. so you must decorate your bath room to get more fantasy in there. there are many kind of bath room decoration.. so, why do you think more about it??

Interior Kitchen Set-Interior Kitchen Set

The Interior Kitchen-Set. Kitchen is one room that should have in our house, because in the kitchen of the house to do cooking activities – cooking for the whole family. Along with the development of community kitchens started to change. Previously, in general,in the kitchen divided into the kitchen clean and dirty kitchen and is located separate to the main house is located in a corner or back home the impression that.

interior decoration pictures

The interior decoration pictures that I put on the pictures above may you use to complete your interior design home. Up to you, where are you will use because all of them are beautiful.

Choosing Area and Type of Outdoor Lighting for Garden

Outdoor lighting type and design should considering several lighting effects, by placing the light at the base of a wall or hedge the light 'cover' over the surface creating a soft glow effect. However this can also be achieved by 'lifting' the light at certain angles to cover the desired area eg. garden area. Good areas and features to concentrate on:- Dining and seating areas, walkways, sculptures, water features, pots, specimen planting, trees, architectural features, garden features, buildings, etc can all be highlighted in a garden to create wonderful, varied ‘textures’ of light.

Uplighting, down lighting, mid-level lighting, step lighting, etc?

You may want to take into consideration how the garden will be used and how the garden will be viewed from the house. Also, consider security aspects, lighting can deter unwanted intruders! Consider how the lights are going to be ‘switched on’ – exteior switch or interior switch? How many lights are required to be switched on at any one time? If you require some areas of the lighting to be separate from others you will require different lighting ‘circuits’. You may want to consider ‘remote control’ lighting, whereby the lighting can be operated with a small keyfob, as opposed to using a switch. Do you require ‘sensors’? [greenways]

Good news at last, The Snowdrops are up!

So good news, the first snowdrops are up! And you know what that means, it is officially the end of winter……Well according to Irish folklore anyway.

In Irish folklore it is said that when the snowdrop is seen it is the end of winter and the start of spring.

It is amazing to think that anything can grow in the garden after the hard freeze we just experienced, but isn't it great to see something so beautiful and delicate pierce its way through the ground and lift our spirits.

The Snowdrop is now a familiar wildflower in Ireland, however it actually originated from central and eastern Europe. The Latin name for Snowdrop Galanthus literally means "milk-white flowers" arising from the fact that the snowdrop plant looks like three drops of milk hanging from a stem.

The flower grows to an average height of 15cm with three inner and 3 outer petals. It closes its petals at night and opens them in the morning to attract insects. Insects help to pollinate the flower allowing it to reproduce. Snowdrops like to grow in a moist soil with plenty of humus. They do not like hot, dry positions preferring part shade. Snowdrops can be seen in early spring and can be found at the moment beginning to peek up from its wintry sleep. Snowdrops grow from a hardy bulb just like daffodils and the crocus. There are almost 20 different types of snowdrop, all are white, however they differ in size and shading.

An interesting fact is that the little snowdrop has been linked to important medicine that could help in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Galantamine, a medicine used today to treat Alzheimer's disease, occurs naturally in several members of the amaryllis family (snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil). This important medicine was first discovered in the innocent Snowdrop.

Decorating For Newborn Baby Nursery Room & Bedding

Parents will be animated back the babyish was built-in and frequently asked: How to architecture and adorn a babyish nursery with style? The new built-in nursery is the appropriate abode for your baby, area the babyish are nurtured, parents can blow in their adequate chairs and the ancestors associates can adore and arena with the child. There are some tips in decorating your baby’s allowance (bedding / bedroom), amid added things:

* Decorating walls and aces a themes, chief on the absolute bank blush is a big task. The best accepted access is blush for a babe and dejected for a boy.

* Selecting the beautiful and adequate furniture, accede the time you appetite to use and allocation if there are pieces that are added as the babyish grows.

* Select Accessories, Use newborn-appropriate accessories that do not accept asthmatic hazards. Avoid long, blind bolt and strings. Mobiles, affected pictures, blimp animals and bendable toys accomplish ideal accessories in the nursery. Organize amplitude for toys in the anatomy of shelves, toy chests, boxes, etc.

* Lighting babyish room, accomplish the babyish nursery a affable one and you can additionally accumulate a babyish adviser to apprehend your babyish throughout the night.

Below are sample pictures of bairn babyish nursery furniture’s and bedding with nice avant-garde abreast designs forth with it actuality anatomic and practical.

Japan Dentist’s Office Modern Architecture Design

Japan Dentist’s Office Modern Architecture Design

This is a circuitous and its dental dispensary dentist’s residence, amid on a admirable acreage apple amidst by rice fields and acceptable orchard. A accurate bowl with 300 millimeters blubbery forms askew structure, which makes three shells and two accessible pages. And another lay in the shift, they face anniversary added on the plate. Anniversary bark has altered functions in, housing, clinics and cat-and-mouse rooms. In anniversary folio of two bottle boxes set and acclimated as a point and entered the amplitude amid two adjoining shells. This dental dispensary is a abode that can animate bodies to go analysis his teeth, and an absorbing abode to visit.

Open Dining Room Modern Interior Design

Open Dining Room Modern Interior Design

Whether you use your dining allowance for accustomed ancestors meals, or alone on appropriate occasions, it is an capital abode for acclaimed gatherings. A dining allowance ambiance should bleed archetypal appearance and abundance and actually set the date for admirable food, acceptable times, and abundant memories. You should airing abroad with some abundant account and inspirations for your dining allowance architecture afterwards examination the images presented actuality for your examination pleasure.