There is a particular moment on a winter evening, somewhere between half past four and five o’clock in Sussex, when the sky turns a deep inky blue and a house either comes gently to life or quietly disappears into the dark. Good exterior home lighting is what decides which of those happens. It is the difference between arriving home to a front door you can barely find and arriving home to a place that seems to welcome you, with the texture of the walls softly revealed, the st

There is a particular moment on an autumn evening in Sussex when the light goes. One minute the garden is there, the lawn and the borders and the old apple tree by the fence; the next it has vanished, and all you can see from the kitchen is your own reflection in the glass. For many of us that moment arrives before five o’clock for almost half the year. It is the reason so many people start searching for garden lighting ideas, and it is the reason we do what we do. This artic