The first street lamp appeared in the 15th century in London. Today, outdoor lighting is an integral part of our comfortable and safe life. For the garden area, this important element of landscape design will add extra appeal and even romanticism in the evening. Therefore, when developing a project for lighting a suburban area, it is so important to choose the right street lighting fixtures.
Types of street lighting fixtures
Today, such types of lamps are very popular:
- wall lighting fixtures of street lighting are fixed, as the name suggests, to the wall of the building. They have a variety of forms. Such lighting objects include spotlights, which are used to illuminate large areas and perform a protective function. Decorative street lighting luminaire is designed to illuminate garden paths . In some cases, it plays the role of a kind of emphasis in the landscape design of the site;
- The floor lamps of street lighting have the form of a rack with a ceiling on the top. There are many different models of this type of luminaires, from classical ones with a single circular bubble top to modern ones with several plafonds fixed at different heights;
- pendant lamps, similar to a chandelier, have the form of a plafond on a chain that is fixed on the ceiling of a terrace or a gazebo:
- Ground luminaires are designed for installation in the ground, along the sides of tracks or even embedded in them. Such lighting devices perfectly cope with the function of highlighting tracks, various small architectural forms or garden plants;
- Floating lamps often have the form of a ball and are used to illuminate water bodies. Very beautiful look these luminous glass balls floating on the water surface in the evening or at night. Sometimes you can find underwater floating balls that create the effect of glowing water from the inside;
- recessed spotlights for street lighting at home today are very much in demand. During the day they are not visible, and at night they turn into the original light accent of the whole site. They can be built in both vertical and horizontal surfaces. Such luminaires with diode lamps can be used for street lighting of tracks, lawns, stairs on a suburban area. To avoid the effect of blinding, the built-in lamps have matte ceiling and special reflectors of light.