Outdoor Design

Go with the glow

Outdoor lighting can bring with it beauty, warmth and ambience, and illuminate areas for safety. Award-winning garden designer Myles Baldwin says outdoor lighting is a definite value-add. “In real estate it’s a massive advantage when selling a home to have outdoor lighting in your landscape design,” he says. In fact, Myles says outdoor lighting really is essential to showcase your garden and surrounds — and every home should have it. “There isn’t a single garden that I’ve designed in the last 10 years that hasn’t had garden lighting,” he says.

“These days your house can start at the front gate — you can feel like you’re home when you approach your house, not only when you enter it,” he adds. And of course one way to definitely give your house

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