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Use of pergola lights
A pergola is a beautiful addition to a garden and creates a wonderful space for entertaining and relaxing that can become a focal point in your garden. In order to extend the life of your pergola into the evening you need to add pergola lights, and there is a great variety from which to choose. You need to decide the effect you want to create, as outdoor pergola lights can be very simple or quite complicated to install, involving outdoor cables and circuit breakers. You need to match lights for pergola with the use of your pergola. If this is an eating space, you may want stronger lights than if it is a relaxing spot. Alternatively, some people have very simple pergolas whose prime purpose is decorative and as a frame for climbing plants. In this case, you may simply want to add lighting to spotlight the plants.
Installing different types of Pergola Lights
Pergola lights can be simple battery powered fairy lights, colored lights to add some interest to your pergola. Alternatively you can install proper outdoor cabling, linked to a junction box from the electric circuit either from your house or your shed. If you are going to do that, unless you are very confident with electrical installation, it is probably best to employ an electrician to do this. This is an opportunity to install a system of outdoor lighting in your garden, perhaps even on a timer, or light sensitive so that the lights come on at dusk. A much cheaper alternative is solar pergola lights, and the availability of these has increased over the years. They do not require installation as such, as they collect their power from the sun, and emit light as it becomes dark. They do need to be attached to the pergola, and you need to choose carefully to get the best output you can find.
Styles of pergola lights
It will depend on the design of the pergola, but usually the style of light that works best for a pergola is down-lighting, where the light is cast downwards, rather than outwards or up. The attachment of the lighting to the actual pergola will also affect the style you choose. Many people choose to fix their pergola lights to the corners of their pergola, this gives even lighting, or to the roof using spotlights, both places where there is more of a substantial space to attach the light. A rather attractive alternative is to buy pillar lights and affix them to the struts of the pergola, allowing lighting at a more comfortable level if you are sitting in the pergola, a bit like having wall lights. Pergola lights are available from specialist garden lighting outlets, come in brass and nickel fittings and you must choose outdoor lighting as it has been designed to deal with the elements, indoor lighting is not robust enough.
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