Garden Lighting Services In Norwood

Lighting a Norwood garden starts with the fact that most of them go up or down rather than straight out. Steps, terraces, retaining walls and changes of level are everywhere on the hill, and every one of them is both a safety issue after dark and an opportunity, since a low light washing across a tread or grazing the face of a wall does more for a garden at night than any number of spotlights aimed at nothing in particular. The tree cover here is the other defining feature, with mature limes, sycamores and cedars in gardens all the way along the ridge, and uplighting a good specimen from below is the single most transformative thing you can do to a plot like that, provided the fitting is positioned so you see the tree rather than the glare. There's a third thing worth thinking about in Norwood that rarely comes up elsewhere, which is the view, because gardens facing north off the hill look out across the whole of London, and a scheme that floods the foreground will wipe that out entirely. We light low, warm and sparingly so the distance stays visible. We also plan around how it reads from inside the house through winter, when the garden is mostly something you look at rather than stand in, and we get cable runs in while the ground is open if other work is happening. The result feels built in rather than bolted on afterwards.