Home & Garden Lighting
Article by Kimberly Quang
RLLD serves an online community dedicated to enhancing their residences with the best home and garden lighting products and coordination strategies on today’s market. The online inventory borders on the astounding, featuring popular home and gardening lighting styles while simultaneously offering eclectic options for the innovative and the bold. Home and garden lighting really should be called “house and garden” lighting because your true home is both indoors and outdoors. With this awareness in mind, we strive to create a feeling of home with every product we inventory for home garden lighting because we know that heart and feeling define the center of the whole living experience.
If this is your first time to visit the online lighting store, you will soon notice the uniqueness of both our home and garden lighting inventory and the overall user-friendliness of our site. We have made it a point to make our inventory quickly accessible to the consumer without requiring advanced computer skills. Most home and garden lighting customers greatly appreciate the respect and accommodation we show to them as creative personalities. Imagine the frustration of trying to work as an artist and suddenly having to quit your project to troubleshoot a complicated website! We refuse to put our customers through this hassle. In the online showroom, you can find any home or garden light you need by searching by category, manufacturer, description, lighting family, or keyword. It’s that easy!
For your indoor home garden lighting requirements you will find a tremendous selection of art lights, under cabinet lights, ceiling lights, desk and table lamps, and even piano lights. There are also lighted clocks offered and special mood lights in virtually every color and style. You can find some of the best track and bathroom lighting anywhere online simply by browsing through our simple category listings or by typing in a keyword.
If you already have in mind a specific lighting design family, you will be amazed at the choices that affords you. There is a variety of selection from Baroness, Bellevue, Berkley, and Blackforest, just to name a few. Find also in online showroom Geneva, Charleston Collection, Dauphin and French Quarter lights. If your loyalties lie with specific manufacturers of home and garden lights, there are Aziano, Arroyo, Hobby Hill Lighting Inc, House of Troy, Halo Lighting, Visual Comfort, Mitronix, AdjustaPost, TIC Industries Corporation, and many, many more.
We also know that home and garden lighting is an art even more than it is a science, and art requires inspiration both as its originating force and its sustaining energy. Ideas, therefore, go hand-in-hand with products and cannot be neglected no matter how diverse and numerous product offerings become. For this reason, we frequently publish magazine-quality articles on our site that provide you with tips on how to coordinate our many home garden lighting products into aesthetic and functional schemes. These summaries recommend design strategy; spell out product technology in layman’s terms, and highlight particulars of customer interest. If at any point you can’t find the information you need on home and garden lighting in our articles or product specifications, just browse our discussion archive, or start your own dialogue with one of the lighting experts.
How To Construct A Formal Herb Garden Design
It is important to not approach a formal herb garden design in a casual manner and there are a lot of different things that should be considered. It is possible for herbs to be planted in a formal garden or they can be plated alongside flowers or even as part of a themed garden.
It is also possible to make a patch that is just for culinary herbs. This patch can be kept just outside the kitchen door or you could even create a medical herb garden.
If the yard is big enough and the garden has at least some experience then they could experiment with growing an herb garden that is formal. These gardens can be constructed using a number of rectangle or small square beds and these should be laid out in a grid shaped pattern with paths between the different beds so that there is adequate access to each of the plots.
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The plans for a good formal garden of herbs would include a number of rectangular beds that feature various different herbs. These rectangular beds should be surrounded by smaller beds, which are square in shape. These small square beds should contain a range of medicinal herbs. The formal garden can be laid out at ground level however it is very common for the beds to be raised and each of the beds are devoted to some specific species of herb.
In order to increase the level of formality within the garden flowering or ornamental herbs can be planted in large pits that are made from clay and these can be placed at the points where the paths meet. There is really no need to restrict the beds to just squares and rectangles as you can experiment and do some fancy shapes. It is possible to incorporate a wide variety of things into the design of an herb garden.
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Creating The Ideal Garden Space With Outdoor Wall Fountains
Your garden area or outdoor relaxation area is one of the most important places in your home. It provides a refuge, a haven from the cares of the day. It’s a place to walk or sit and let all your stress and worries wash away. You can use outdoor wall fountains to enhance the beauty, elegance and restfulness of your garden or relaxation area, as well. There are some very good ways that you can do this by using different types of water features.
French Country Style
If you love French Country style, then you can bring that into your garden or relaxation area with outdoor fountains. You will find water features that feature the fleur-de-lis, as well as other traditional French motifs. Winding vine motifs, flowers and even tapestry patterns can help you achieve a stunning, relaxed look that will make you feel like you’re in Provence.
Medieval Castle
Do you love the look and feel of medieval architecture? If so, then there are some great options available to you. You can enjoy a fountain with a gargoyle motif, or a rampant lion. You can also find other types of outdoor wall fountains. For instance, starbursts and suns, reproductions from areas like Hampshire and Canterbury, as well as many other options can be found. These can give you the feel that you’re in an English garden and that the days of chivalry are not quite gone yet.
Renaissance Style
If you prefer something a bit more Italian, then you’ll find a range of different Renaissance themed water features available. For instance, you might choose to use flower and leaf designs, or reproductions from Tuscany to help you feel as though Da Vinci might walk through your garden at any time.
Making Your Choice
While all of the abovementioned outdoor wall fountains might seem appealing, you will need to determine what overall look and feel you want. Some people prefer to mix and match their styles, but it’s far more common to use a single theme throughout your outside area to provide the most relaxation and pleasure for your eye.
The best option is to find a trusted retailer that offers the widest range of styles, designs and construction materials. You’ll find that doing so will give you access to far more options than you would have otherwise, and help you create the perfect space.
Polly Godwin has been an expert on outdoor wall fountains since 1998 and is the owner of KineticFountains.com, a company specializing in the highest quality wall fountains. Visit KineticFountains.com today for expert advice and quality water fountains.
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Leave a commentA London Interior Designer Reflects on Magical Garden Designs. Part III: Steps and Stones.
Article by Lili Candice
When interior designers say the words “garden design”, they are crossing an invisible boundary – from interior to exterior. Historically, interior designers have focused exclusively on what lies within the home. But today some of London’s most prestigious interior design teams are starting to apply their wealth of knowledge and experience to garden schemes. The resulting whole-estate approach means that top interior designers can now offer homeowners full-service comprehensive expertise that covers every possible need. London is a splendid city in which to work as an interior designer who also focuses on gardens because it is so easy to find fabulous garden furniture, plantings and exterior illuminators from the many outstanding garden centres and wholesalers across the home counties.
If there are walls on either side of a set of steps, you may hear your interior designer start to talk of a “brick-light”. The name comes from the fact that its size and shape are precisely the same as a brick! This clever little illuminator can be set back into the wall to provide a general wash of light across the steps. Some prestigious London hotels will use this approach, but it can also be effective for private homes, provided your interior designer specifies a special louvre cover that focuses the light downwards. Some clients crave extra drama – in such circumstances, your interior designer may choose to incorporate directional spotlights, set into the wall to chase the light down. For even more atmosphere, especially in Central London where street lights may be bright, directional spotlights can be set into the wall to light each step individually. Your interior designer may turn to fibre optics – their tiny pretty fixtures are ideal for this type of application. If you have only a few stone steps, it may be best to conceal a lengthy low-voltage strip under the front trim of the steps to provide a continuous downward wash of light. This works well only if the light source is well-hidden; otherwise the effect will be too glittery and glamourous and your interior designer might as well be designing a London hotel!
Well that brings to an end my series titled “Welcome to my Designer Garden! A London Interior Designer Reflects on Magical Garden Designs”. Thank you so much for reading.
A rough video clip of a visit to the home and garden of world renowned plant explorer, Dan Hinkley and his partner, Robert Jones. I ditch the tour group to personally witness garden design with rare plant selections at its best with unusual plants such as Schefflera taiwaniana, a golden leaf Leycesteria formosana (Himalayan Honeysuckle), the cold hardy banana Musa basjoo, a Mahonia ‘Lionel Fortescue’ and others. A rare evergreen Magnolia from Vietnam is also mentioned.
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How Small Garden Designs Can Help You Feel Better About Your Home
Article by Harry Worthington
Gardens are lovely and good for the soul. They can become our private sanctuaries away from the day to day grind and stresses in the world or they can simply be a place to have a grand time. Some people simply enjoying sitting in their garden while others love to plant seeds and watch flowers and bushes grow. No matter what your garden is used for, chances are you love having one and appreciate what it offers you. A great looking garden that is designed well is a wonderful investment because it adds value to your property and makes it much more desirable on the open market if you were to sell.
Often times it is very difficult to design your garden because it is hard to find good ideas. You may very well know of some small garden designs that you like but you may find it a challenge to know where to begin. You do not have to make drastic changes to your garden in order to improve it, as small changes and innovative use of focal points can make all the difference in the world. One thing that may interest you is to have a fountain installed. Fountains can make the perfect focal point in the middle of a rock or flower garden and they also provide birds with a natural bathing and drinking source. A fountain can be as elaborate or as simple as you desire. For the small garden, building a small environment in one corner that consists of a sloping hill made of stone with a fountain toward the top, can provide a lovely little oasis of your very own.
Small garden designs can also be things as simple as planting your flowers in rows, according to colour and type. Once grown, you will have created a very dramatic effect of contrasting colours. Use your creativity and plant the flowers following the contours of your flower bed for a more integrated look. Be sure to plant flowers that have similar lifespans so that all of the flowers last equally as long. You could add a few portable solar powered lamps that sit on spikes. You need to only push the lamps into the ground. In the evenings the warm glowing lights illuminating the flowers and plants will offer a very welcoming and serene feeling.
One of the most popular types of small garden designs involves putting a small wooden corner deck into one of the corners of your garden. You can choose one with a railing or without and by adding a table and a couple of chairs, you have created a nice place to enjoy your morning coffee. Corner decks can be purchased as kits and it takes just an hour or two to complete the job yourself. If you have a nicely designed garden, you will feel good about your entire home, as the garden is a nature-inspired living space located just outside your door.
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A great way to pave your garden is with interlocking blocks. This will give you a lot of freedom to make unique designs. These blocks come in many different styles and colors which are great for complimenting the exterior of your home. Interlocking paving blocks also last for a long time. They can even be used to make steps in your garden.
When planning a garden paving project you will think of the end result first. Begin by drawing a plan of what you would like your garden to look like after you are done. This plan should be as detailed as possible and will have to include all the things you want so you can get all the materials you need for the job. This initial plan is also very helpful when calculating your budget. While getting a professional design done with the help of a landscape designer is the best way, a simple sketch will often be enough to get started.
Paving a garden is a job that will usually require at least some experience.
Having a professional do it for you is the best option. By contacting several professional installers you will be able to get an idea of the cost. Often the contractor will supply the paving materials and install them for you as well. If you want to do the paving yourself they will also be able to give you advice on how to do it. If you are serious about paving your own garden you can also get a stone laying machine to make the task easier.
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Vegetable Gardening: The Rabbits Ate My Tomatoes, Now What?
Seven years ago I moved into my new home in the suburbs. I lived in a city where the sight of a rabbit was as a rare as Halley’s Comet. In fact in the city in which I lived, pigeons were more of a problem than any other type of animal you could think of.
So I started my garden in my new home. A row of beefsteak tomatoes, a row of grape tomatoes, peppers and so on made up my plot of land that I designated to grow my produce. With no experience in protecting my garden from rabbits, once my plants were in the ground I figured I was done so I simply walked away.
The next morning I arose to see that both rows of tomatoes (beefsteak and grape) were absolutely decimated. Chewed down to the stem with about an inch of height from the topsoil, the rabbits left near nothing.
After doing some research, instead of buying new plants I learned that the tomatoes will return and that they grow like a weed, meaning, that even though they were chewed down to the stem, tomato plants will still grow even though their solar collectors (their leaves) no longer existed.
But I also knew that if I did not take any preventative measures the rabbits would be back to finish the job. So here is what I did. First, I outlined my garden with landscaping bricks and set them two bricks high. That alone will not keep the rabbits out so I also added a fence. I use poultry fence which is available at any home center. Sixteen inches of height is all you will need for rabbits (at least in my area).
I attached the fencing to some pieces of cedar wood that acted as fence posts, which holds the poultry fence in place. If you are unfamiliar with poultry fence, it is very wobbly, “bendy” you could say, so you will need to attach it to something in order to stabilize it. I used J-T50 staples to attach it to my posts. They are also available at any home center.
The bottom of the fence sits about an inch to two inches lower than the top layer of brick. I am not sure if rabbits can squeeze in, but I did not want to take any chances.
The bricks were the most expensive at about two dollars per brick, and the fence was thirteen dollars for a fifty foot roll. I found the wood on Craigslist for free, so other than the cost of gas to drive a couple of miles to go get it, that part was free, and I already had the staples from a pervious project. So the cost to secure my garden from rabbits was nominal at best.
If you are having issues with rabbits give these solutions a try. It is a cost effective solution without having to spray any chemicals that are developed to “deter” rabbits. Also make sure you buy poultry fencing and not the “so called” rabbit fence. The rabbits can and have gotten through the “rabbit proof” fence in my area in the gardens that belonged to some of my neighbors.
About the Author
Michael is the author of the book Vegetable Gardening for the Average Person, a practical easy to follow guide for the home vegetable gardener. You can follow him on Twitter as well as join his Facebook Fan Page.
Home Exterior Design
The intent of home exterior design is two-fold. On the level of aesthetics, home exterior design provides an external and sophisticated compliment to the architecture of a house. By integrating Nature and man-made structures, the home interior designer creates a framework into the usefulness of the home interior can be expanded into the world beyond without compromising the beauty of the landscape. This is very important, because the functional elements of the outcome must blend effectively with indigenous vegetation, manicured lawns, outdoor decorations, and fountains in order to create an environment that is suitable and comfortable for quality outdoor family time and home entertainment functions. Only a few companies in the world of landscaping, such as Houston’s Exterior Worlds, provide this sophisticated blend of natural harmony and human creature comforts for the discriminating homeowner who is seeking a living experience beyond the norm.
Home exterior elements vary widely based on several important factors. The lifestyle of the homeowner is first among these. At the end of the day, what the resident plans to do outdoors provides our team with a great deal of information on what we can build for them. Careful analysis of the house and surrounding landscapes also plays a key role in helping us shape the specifics of a home exterior design plan. Landscaping itself forms the foundation of this plan, and acts as a framework where structures and activity centers can be blended with pockets of indigenous vegetation, gardens and manicured lawns, and large, stately trees that rise prominently in various locations within the yard.
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Some of our most popular home exterior designs include, but are not limited, to the following elements
Screened-in rooms
These are ideal for parties, family gatherings, and even important, formal events. They can be equipped with anything from fine furnishings to extend a living room outdoors, or be outfitted with an entertainment system and an outdoor bar as an open entertainment area that provides convenient exposure from insects and other pests during outdoor events.
Outdoor kitchens with garden elements included
People that enjoy grilling for large groups love these open-air structures that can include everything from smokers to refrigerators. There are a number of ways that they can be designed, as well. Some can be built out of hedges, while others can be simple gravel areas open to the elements.
Pools and Patios
Many people fail to realize that pools and patios are actually exterior design elements just as much as they are home entertainment areas. Many also realize after the fact that it is much easier to have a pool installed or a patio built as part of a larger, more comprehensive design plan than it is to attempt working directly with a pool specialist or carpenter. These professionals are more used to working with general landscape contractors like Exterior Worlds and can much better serve the resident when a well-developed schematic is shown to them by an expert who speaks their language.
Arbors, Gardens, and Shade Structures
Much can be done with the simplicity of a group of trees or an ornamental garden with a fountain. Outdoor tables and benches can be placed around these areas to create gathering spaces for mingling guests. Landscape path lighting can be installed that creates walkways for people to takes short walks along winding trails that increase an illusion that the property is much bigger than it really is.
Indeed, almost all elements of a home exterior design will create a feeling of freedom and expansiveness by strategically positioning a variety of structures and conveniences in convenient locations around the property. When done correctly, it can make a property to look as large as 2 ½ to 3 times its normal size-much the way adding furniture to a room makes it look larger. The amazing range of options that this science offers to the homeowner makes it one of the most customizable design disciplines practiced. With so many natural and structural elements to work with, virtually anything can be created within the boundaries of safety, comfort, and proportional harmony that will provide lifestyle and entertainment to today’s eclectic homeowner.
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Landscaping Sydney ? Landscaping Designs Sydney
Landscape designs has been established and known, not just for home areas as well as for business areas as well. There are numerous tips that you can expend for landscaping design careers, but it requires a skilled and innovative landscaping artist to come up with the desired results for every form of commercial and residential spot. The foremost goal of landscaping designs is to combine hues, designs, and things to the organic beauty as well as amazing things associated with nature.
Non commercial panorama may concentrate on changing each side of the region.
Landscaping designs can be achieved on the front yard, the backyard, the pool area, the terrace or roadways. It can also concentrate on gardening or changing the shape of the land or area. The primary goal is always to develop lovely landscapes while supporting conservation and suitable nourishment.
Alternatively, your business landscaping designs are centered on creating diverse artistic demonstration for both mid-size and huge-scale types of companies. The creative landscaping design used by such business areas are important for firms as well as companies, as the external appearance of their structures could be the source for their clients as well as consumers’ first notion concerning the organization.
Landscape designs can be extremely stunning when it comes to decorations and house physical appearance, apart from that, it can also help the environmental and natural equilibrium of nature as plants and trees are used to preserve and boost the green house effect in managing the downsides of climatic change.
Plant and bushes are excellent organic resources for environmental balance. And since plants and trees are used as materials for landscaping, the skill of landscaping design also needs to look at the necessary procedures in reducing and also preserving the nature.
Additionally, there are lots of landscape gardeners who make use of tips that could increase the beauty of the backyard. The vegetation could be adorned with artificial supplies like fences, rocks, stones, pebbles, woods, and other related resources to create asphalt driveways, imaginative decks, pavements, driveways, as well as garden accessories. The location can be added with swings, hammocks, fountains, fowl crates, and others, so long as it does not hurt the nature and also the people or animals around.
Landscapers at Landscaping Sydney can help to further improve the appearance of the region, residential or commercial. A newly made landscape reflects the worth of the people and the home owners. More importantly, a magnificently landscaped land or terrain supports environmental and less-polluted surroundings.
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Garden Designers London: – Creating Paradise In Your Backyard
Sometimes, it becomes very difficult to travel because of delay, excessive traffic or bad weather situations. In that case you can find a paradise in your own backyard, by making some designer changes in your backyard or in your garden. This all will give you a chance to enjoy your holiday with your family in an exotic place. This will also provide you an opportunity to spend some unforgettable precious moments with your loved ones in your home only, with all exotic facilities.
For this the first thing what you have to do is to attract the different friendly wildlife into your garden. This can be done by keeping different foods for the different birds in different feeders. Tubes of red-colored sweet liquid bring hummingbirds to sip the nectar. Chickadees like seeds; you can watch them husk sunflower seeds before they eat them. Woodpeckers prefer suet, which provides both fat and protein.
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You can have all these from the hardware stores in the market near to you. Many hardware stores provide all these for your garden. If you want to be creative you can make your own, or you can buy bird feeders that look like barns, parrots, angels or houses and birdhouses that look like churches, garden statues, or even gas stations.
These birds will carry the life to your garden during the day time, and in the evening you can light up your garden with the solar lights. Solar lights are the energy efficient lights, which collects the solar energy from the sun during day time, which charges the solar cells. These solar cells will than provides the solar lights energy in the evening and will light them up. This will also reduce the electricity consumption in your paradise garden. The pathways and the mushrooms of the garden can also be lighted up using these solar lights.
Candles in your garden will also provide flickering compliment to the solar lights. You can also give your paradise an international look by using Asian or Moroccan candle lantern, or let an elephant sculpture hold your candle. Tee lights placed along the edges of a deck create an intimate and welcoming atmosphere.
To make the environment of your paradise even more soothing you can also create an artificial river flowing from one to another end of your garden, or just a fountain. The sound of water will make the environment even more soothing.
You can make your paradise even more soothing with the sounds of the chimes. For this you can use the acrylic or aluminum or ceramic chimes. For all this you need an expert , to create a paradise for you in your garden or in your backyard.
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