Creative Garden Lighting Ideas
At Moonlight Design, we’re experts in transforming outdoor spaces with beautiful and functional garden lighting.
Whether you want to highlight key features, create ambiance, or enhance security, the right lighting makes all the difference. With so many options available, choosing the best solutions can feel overwhelming—but we’re here to help. Explore our expert advice to find the perfect garden lighting ideas for your space!
5 Ways to Illuminate your garden
1. LIGHT YOUR PATHWAY AND STEPS
One of the primary uses of garden lighting is to provide practical illumination for people navigating your property in the dark. If you have dark outdoor steps or garden paths, use path or step lights to gently and safely guide your visitors to the front door.
Pathway lights will help prevent accidents and stop people straying from the path into the flower beds! Discover how to arrange and choose garden path lighting from the experts in our ultimate guide to path lighting.
Garden Path Lighting Options
2. ILLUMINATE YOUR DECKING
Enjoy your decking area all year round and after dusk with the perfect deck lights. Discover ten stylish ways to illuminate your decking area and create a welcoming haven to entertain guests, enjoy your garden or create a modern indoor-outdoor living space to relax with family. From permanent lighting solutions to portable ones, find all the help and advice you need on illuminating your deck area here.
10 stylish decking lighting ideas
3. LIGHTING FOR WATER FEATURES AND PONDS
If you're lucky enough to have a fountain or a garden pond bursting with life, don't keep it in the dark. Enjoy your tranquil water features day and night with carefully placed pond lighting. Adding lights to your pond will enhance the serenity of your water feature and add a safety element to the pond perimeter. Discover how to illuminate your pond using the correct submersible lights at Moonlight Design and all the information you need in our complete pond lighting guide.
Pond Lighting Guide
4. HIGHLIGHT THE BEAUTY IN NATURE
If you're a keen gardener or landscaper, showcase your gardening handiwork with tree and plant lighting. Illuminate magnificent trees and silhouette potted plants, or mark out your well-kempt flower beds so anyone can admire them night or day. If you're new to landscape lighting, learn from the experts and find out how to beautifully illuminate your plants and trees in our tree and plant lighting guide.
Tree & Plant Lighting Guide
5. DECORATE YOUR FENCE
Create a warming and welcoming space by adding lighting to your garden fence. Fence lighting is a cheap and easy way of transforming an outdoor space from dark and dull to vibrant and aesthetically pleasing. Discover how easy it is to hang fence lighting without damaging your panels in our fence lighting guide.
Fence Lighting AdviceOTHER GARDEN LIGHTING CONSIDERATIONS
COST EFFECTIVE LIGHTS
It's true that garden lighting can become costly. Expensive fixtures, installation costs, new wiring and extra money added to your energy bills can be off-putting. However, there are cost-effective ways to illuminate your garden. Follow our guide to enjoy garden lighting for less and prevent your electricity bill from skyrocketing.
SECURITY LIGHTS
Garden lighting is a fantastic way of adding additional security to your property. Whether you opt for floodlights or PIR motion sensor lights, deter intruders with bright security lights on your property perimeter. Discover the best security lights to use on different parts of the house in our complete security lights guide.
NOT SURE WHICH GARDEN LIGHTS TO CHOOSE FROM?
Let the lighting experts guide you to the perfect lighting solution. There are many things to consider and options to browse when choosing garden lighting. Luckily, with our expert lighting knowledge and guidance, we have everything you need to know when shopping for your new garden lights.
SOLAR LIGHTS
For eco-friendly, easy-to-install garden lighting, opt for solar lights. Getting their power and energy from the sun, you won't need to wire these lights into the mains or use any extra electricity. Discover high-quality solar light at Moonlight Design today.
LED LIGHTS
With halogen lights phasing out of the lighting market, the only garden light options you need to consider are LED lights. They can save you electricity and last ten times longer than traditional bulbs. Discover LED garden lights at Moonlight Design.
COLOURS
What are Kelvins? What is the difference between warm white light and cool white light? What light colours are best for the outdoors? Find the answers to these questions and everything you need to know about light colours vie our outdoor colour lighting blog.
CONSIDER WILDLIFE
Lighting can be used to brighten up your garden all year round, but artificial light can disrupt the natural behaviour of local wildlife. From re-positioning lights to light temperatures and hoods for your lights, there are many ways in which you can reduce the impact of your outdoor lights on wildlife. Read our blog for more information and top tips.
REDUCE LIGHT POLLUTION
Light pollution is harmful to both humans and wildlife alike. It has a big impact on the UK population, with the view of the stars completely obscured in major towns and cities. As lighting experts, we can help you reduce the impact on the environment and sky glow in your area with some practical lighting tips to create a dark-skies friendly lighting scheme.
PROFESSIONAL LIGHTING DESIGN & INSTALLATION
Moonlight Design is an award-winning lighting design and installation practice, constantly innovating and pushing the boundaries to go that extra mile. We work on the smallest of properties to the largest private estates. We create and install interior and exterior lighting for residential and commercial clients throughout the UK and internationally.
Every project is bespoke and personal to you, created to enhance your home, workspace and living. Whether you want atmospheric, moody, romantic lighting or theatrical, statement making illuminations, we can turn your dreams into reality.