Stylish Deck Lighting

Everyone knows that LED deck lighting is available in a huge variety of colors, sizes and brightness levels and can stand up to a pretty serious pounding plus extremes of weather. But did you also know that the average LED deck light also lasts until the crack of doom (or 60,000 hours, whichever is soonest) and is so cheap to run you really don't need to care?

But you don't have to fit LED deck lights only into deck boards. Have you considered the side panels, uprights and lateral supports of pergolas? LED deck lighting is so robust and well, light, and frankly not very expensive, that it's actually an easy option to install in just about any solid outdoor structure - shed, fence, anything you can drill a hole into really.

As an aside before you run off, cordless drill in hand, to deliver a disturbingly convincing impression of a demented woodpecker, I have often wondered what the difference between a pergola and a gazebo is. Thanks to the modern wonder of the world that is Wikipedia I now know that a pergola is in fact a type of gazebo. So there you go.

Back to the matter at hand... LED deck lights are mostly blue or white, but you can find other colors as well as color changing LED deck lights. How you use colour in garden lighting can significantly influence the effects you can achieve. The cooler blues and to a lesser degree whites create an illusion of being further away while warmer yellows and reds (and even "warm" whites) seem much closer. Obviously, brightness can also be used to similar effect - lower level lighting will appear to be distant and brighter lights quite close - and at night of course this effect works best since any extraneous context that might shatter the illusion is lost in the darkness.

If you install LED deck lighting so that it both incorporates its primary function of enhancing your deck and "spills over" into the wider garden, you can fully integrate home-patio-garden to create a stunning night time environment to appreciate night after night. Fit deck lights into existing structural elements or create some for the purpose - a set of short wooden stakes hammered into the ground alongside a path would make an ideal platform for LED deck lights to illuminate the pathway, for example.