London Renovation Company Shares Secrets of the Profession - Garden Illumination

"Pleased to Meet You.... Welcome to My Designer Home and Garden!" A London Interior Design Consultancy Shares Secrets of the Profession. Part I: Garden Illumination


When interior design consultancies promote their services in "garden design", they are branching out from internal spaces to the outdoors. In the olden days, interior design consultancies were 100% about the "indoors"side of things. But now in 2010 several of London's most acclaimed interior design consultancies routinely deploy their unique know-how and expertise towards the design of cutting-edge garden concepts. The result: top interior design consultancies can now offer residents a full and all-inclusive design workflow that meets every client need. London is a fabulous city in which to work as part of an interior design consultancy that also focuses on gardens because it is so easy to find amazing garden furniture, rockeries and exterior lighting solutions from the many well-appointed garden centres and suppliers across the capital.


One of the secrets of the interior design profession is how to use lighting in diverse garden situations. If the foliage is dense, with low planting to the front, a general flood of light will work best. Miniature flood fixtures, fitted with shutters known as "barn door' attachments, are discreet and your interior design consultancy can use such fittings to cast light exactly where it is needed. If the plants themselves have large, dense leaves - such as London rocket or Lobelia - they will restrict the path of light and create hot spots. Your London interior design consultancy may suggest an alternative solution such as offset lighting, where the light source is remote from the object and floods it from a distance.


For small trees or feathery bushes, your interior design consultancy may prefer a spiked spotlight instead of a floodlight. When installed below a birch tree or hedgerow, it can serve as a subtle uplighter, shining through the foliage. In a formal London garden, a box hedge looks elegant if lit with an offset spotlight, which will define its geometric shape. Your interior design consultancy may recommend placing it in silhouette as another effective treatment.



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