Product Description

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; Practical advice on safety, wiring, power and planning considerations; Artworks showing the practicalities of lighting, including wiring pond lights

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #201615 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Yoga and Health
"...this inspiring, beautifully illustrated guide will help you to
achieve exciting and imaginative effects in any outside area"

About the Author
John Raine has spent the last 20 years in the lighting and electrical industries, more recently specializing in garden lighting. He has designed lighting for hundreds of private gardens. He lectures frequently to garden designers and students and contributes to professional journals on the subject.

Customer Reviews

An inspirational introduction to lighting your garden
This book provides a wonderful introduction to garden lighting and would be useful to discerning householders as well as designers. It takes the subject well beyond what can be found in gardening magazines, the do-it-yourself shop, or the garden centre. The explanations of lighting effects are clear and well supported with examples and common-sense illustrations. Although the technical content is limited to a layman's level, I found it gave a good basic understanding of what can be achieved. More information on fittings and where to get them would have been useful, but I found out more about that from the author's web site... He even replied to a technical question I sent by e-mail.

Great garden lighting book
I purchased this book on the strength of the above reader review and was not disappointed. It provides excellent technical and creative information and I can't think of a single aspect of planning and installing your garden lighting scheme that it doesn't cover. This is probably the only book you'll need on the subject! Highly recommended.

Good Ideas
Presents the reader with some good ideas through excellent photographs and diagrams. More proactical help would have been helpful.