Homeowners, garden designers, landscape professionals, and anyone with an interest in highlighting and improving the look of their home landscape will be inspired to learn how even the most drab setting can be transformed into a stunning showcase garden using simple, modern, and creative lighting schemes. Revealed in these pages are the secrets behind a wide range of lighting styles. Separate chapters cover topics such as different effects of lighting varieties available‹using complementary indoor and outdoor lighting, planning for safety, and much more.
This updated edition of The Landscape Lighting Book is the only comprehensive book that offers expert guidance on the theory, design process, project needs and techniques of lightning the landscape.
String a few mini-lights around a room and instantly there's a feeling of enchantment and magic. From simple strands to flashing galaxy ball, they twinkle as brightly as Christmas lights - but these mini-lights are not just for holidays! They are economical, safer than candles, available in many styles and they produce beautiful effects indoors and out.
While it may be easy to visualize fabrics from swatches and large samples, lighting is much more complex. One cannot touch or feel it, yet it is all around and responsible for what we see. Lighting by Design takes an imaginative and creative look at the potential of creating and using light both inside and outside the home. Since skillful lighting is the balance between light and shade, the book begins with a discussion on the nature of light and the interplay of light and shadow on buildings inside and out.
Residential Lighting is the complete guide to illuminating single-family homes.
The book examines the "how" behind the art of residential lighting. Emphasizes use of "light layering"- using variety of lighting sources together, and features more illustrations, room-based design strategies, common lighting mistakes, and a larger color section.
The lighting designer is at once an artist and an engineer. He uses the best technology available to reveal scope, space, and form - both in landscapes and in urban environments - and aims to do so in a way that achieves a functional, creative, and environmental result. This relatively recent profession is the focus of the latest title in teNeuesą Ultimate series.
Our visual world is made of light. We light to see and to communicate. We light for security, to create mood and atmosphere, to enhance and entertain. Where natural light fails man has learned to improvise, constantly developing new technologies to illuminate art and architecture.
Our visual experience and emotional reaction to buildings is shaped by the control of light and shadow. Light is increasingly integrated into the fabric of buildings and becomes a part of the architecture.
Outdoor lighting adds drama and depth to residential landscape. This guide shows how exterior lighting enhances spaces from roof decks to pool areas, and garden rooms to patios. It shows how to make the best of moonlight and why certain lights are best for appearance and safety.
A national authority on this emerging field offers a comprehensive guide to the art and science of designing, erecting and maintaining an outdoor lighting system. Presents in-depth coverage on how to plan, design and build a project; reviews all technical components and materials; discusses specific issues of landscape design setting and its elements-plants, sculptures and structures, water features, etc.
This resource shows the reader how to achieve the effects to highlight and optimize outdoor spaces. Considerations from aesthetics to functionality are presented for all areas outdoors - the garden, a dining area, a conservatory, or terrace - with seasonal variations and suggestions for achieving a wide range of lighting effects.
The aim of this work is to show something of what can be achieved in lighting a garden and to give advice on how to achieve it by practical and affordable means. Starting by defining some of the more common terms, it goes on to discuss the nature and qualities of light, and follows with advice on how to plan a lighting scheme.
Enjoy the summer evenings in your "outdoor room" with mood-setting lighting that you have made yourself. The smart and easy-to-make projects in this book can enhance the design elements of your home, extend the time you spend under the stars, and - improve the security of your property. 40 projects included.
A practical and inspirational guide to using lighting to maximize enjoyment of your garden; Lighting solutions for patios, eating areas, conservatories, roof gardens, pathways and terraces; Lighting techniques for different effects; How to choose lighting hardware, from solar power to fluorescent lights and projectors; 90 colour photographs of stunning schemes show how to achieve the effects you want.
Design and build a garden-lighting system yourself. Learn about lighting techniques, materials and fixtures, design principles, and installation methods. Numerous photographs help you plan the look you want.
A practical and inspirational guide to using lighting to maximize enjoyment of your garden; Lighting solutions for patios, eating areas, conservatories, roof gardens, pathways and terraces; Lighting techniques for different effects; How to choose lighting hardware, from solar power to fluorescent lights and projectors; Colour photographs of stunning schemes show how to achieve the effects you want.
