Home Outdoor Lighting Ideas to Enhance your Outdoor Space

There are as many options for exterior lighting as there are for interior lighting. Using the different options available will help you improve your outdoor area in the most effective way possible. This allows you to create a versatile environment all year round.

With numerous outdoor lighting solutions to choose from, it can be challenging to know where to start. Each lighting fixture serves a different purpose and creates a unique atmosphere. That's why here at EGLO UK, we have compiled our favourite home outdoor lighting ideas to help you enhance your home’s exterior.

Modernise your Exterior Wall Lights

Wall lights provide the perfect starting point for any outdoor lighting project. These fixtures are great for creating a cosy atmosphere in your garden, usually offering a wide range of illumination with minimal installation required. Furthermore, wall lights provide both form and function, with various stylish designs available to add a decorative touch. 

Consider LED wall lights to modernise your outdoor space. Not only do they come in stunning and contemporary designs, but they also provide many benefits. LED wall fixtures are more efficient, requiring only small amounts of energy whilst producing a much brighter light than traditional halogen lightbulbs. These fixtures are perfect for the patio area, providing a wide blanket of illumination and highlighting garden decor. Combined with these benefits, LEDs also offer more hours of illumination with a longer lifespan. They last between 15,000hrs and 50,000hrs on average, which is a minimum of 2 to 10+ years of usage, ensuring the dark spaces in your garden are always well-lit.

Wall lights are versatile light fixtures, providing a solid foundation for your outdoor lighting. They can also help improve security, with some having integrated motion sensors.

Highlight Outdoor Features with Recessed Spotlights

Recessed spotlights offer practical and aesthetic benefits. They suit stylish and modern interior design, evoking a minimalistic look but can also be used to cast light on steps and borders. Because of their surface-mounted design, recessed spotlights help prevent accidents by ensuring that steps are visible at night and can be illuminated from below, above, and from the sides. 

Alongside their practical advantages, recessed lighting fixtures can enhance the outdoor area by emphasising features that are obscured in low-light situations. Some key examples of this are garden ornaments, sculptures, and water features, allowing these facets of the garden to become a focal point day and night. Outdoor recessed lighting increases the amount of time you can enjoy your open-air spaces, allowing you longer hours for relaxing and entertaining. With their low profile and subtle design features, recessed lights blend seamlessly into your favourite outdoor areas. 

Try positioning a recessed spotlight by a tree, making it a natural feature and creating a display of light and shadow with the texture of the tree trunk. Although requiring a more involved installation, recessed spotlights are the perfect choice to enhance the details of your garden.

Illuminate your Space with Hanging Lights

Don’t limit yourself to ground surface lighting. Use height to your advantage and invest in hanging lights to add a sense of scale to your outdoor space. Explore the possibility of using chain-hung lighting options, which can be draped across your garden from end to end using hooks. Lantern-style designs would add a decorative element, along with a sense of welcoming and homely ambience from above. Easy to install, hanging lights are ideal for use over a garden table or a comfy seating area.

Go Green with Solar Lighting

An increasing number of households are striving to achieve an energy-efficient home, which not only helps them adopt a greener lifestyle but also promotes environmental awareness. Opting for solar lights will provide a green and reliable lighting solution for your outdoor space. Solar lights come in various shapes and sizes, from decorative to practical and functional. Outdoor solar lighting is an ideal solution if you do not have a power connection, or your garden is subject to a lot of sunlight during the day.

Without the need for power and connection points, solar lights offer you the most flexibility when it comes to placement and positioning within your garden. Flowerbeds, driveways, and garden paths are where solar lights come into their own, bringing your garden to life once the sun goes down.

You can find solar lights in many forms:

Ground spike solar lights: These are easy to install as you simply use the ground spike to dig into the soil and align the panels. They are perfect for placing along a garden path to light your way in the dark.

LED solar light chains: Hanging lantern-style lights and lighting strips look elegant when used against trees and small structures to brighten your home exterior. 

Decorative solar lights: From playful animal and mythical creature designs to intricate ethnic-inspired patterns and detailing, decorative solar lights come in a variety of styles and designs.

Experiment with Landscape Lighting

When you're looking to upgrade your outdoor lighting, let nature inspire you. The trees and plants in your garden can help channel your creativity, so use your lights to enhance and complement the greenery and foliage. For example, spotlights shining over flower beds and shrubs will make a stunning display of light and shadow over the garden. To really make a statement, add outdoor tree lights to illuminate your pathways, or you could wrap fairy lights around the trunks and branches to create some cosy ambience and sparkle in your garden. Outdoor tree lighting can be a beautiful addition to your garden, adding visual height and illuminating the otherwise dark and unappealing part of your garden at night.

Add a WOW Factor with Colour Changing Lights

Nothing draws the eye more than bold, vibrant colours. Introduce some colour into your garden with colour-changing lighting fixtures and lightbulbs. Adding pops of colour with Smart lighting can create a dynamic exterior that complements a modern and contemporary home design. EGLO's Connect. Z range offers 16 million colours and 50,000 tones of white which are controllable, so everyone can create their ideal lighting for every mood. Setting your lights in a mix of colours will create an eye-catching atmosphere, transforming your garden or patio area into a playful party scene.

Don't neglect your outdoor space 

A well-lit exterior and garden can give you home the finishing touches it needs, completing its look and style. Your exterior is just as important as your interior, so try experimenting with our home outdoor lighting ideas. Watch your space transform and make your outdoor space an extension of your interior area.

You’ll be surprised at how the smallest changes can completely reinvent your garden and breathe new life into your outdoor space. Remember to experiment, be creative, and treat your garden as a blank canvas with endless possibilities for creating the ideal outdoor environment for your individual style.  Do you want to explore our wide range of lighting products? Please contact us at EGLO UK anytime.