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Conservatory Lighting
Thu 22 Feb 2007 - 15:00
Conservatory Lighting
By Toby Frost
Conservatory lighting.
While every room in your house can be described as having a colour, what colour is your conservatory? You may answer that it is white, or a stain colour but really, for most people the colour of your conservatory is green or, the colour of your garden because that is what you can see through all of the glass. This relationship with the garden is clear and the main reason that people love being in their conservatories during the day.
Inside lighting;
Inside your conservatory during the day natural light will be coming in from outside creating a wonderful view of your garden and giving a light and airy room. At night the situation reverses, with any inside light being reflected back into the structure if it is dark outside. You will also notice that if you have double glazing then you will actually have two reflections of the light (with triple glazing you will have three) This can be a feature that you can take as an advantage; during the festive season a string of lights hung in the rafters will cast double or even triple reflections back into the room looking like a fabulous starry scene.
Unfortunately most of the time these reflections are not as dramatic. One way past this problem is to properly light your garden as I will discuss later, sensible lighting within the conservatory will also minimise this light pollution. When lit as other rooms in the house, with a hung light at a high level you will be lighting everything in the room maximising the amount of reflections. What is needed is low level lighting, illuminating what is needed, minimising reflections. A lighting ring can easily be used for lamps, with a number of points at a low level switched as normal by the entrance. This gives all the advantages of low level lighting with the convenience of switched lights.
Outside lighting;
One problem that does have to be remedied is that once it becomes lighter inside the conservatory (at night) the 'colour' of the conservatory changes as you will be looking at a reflection of yourself in the glass. The conservatory has become introverted where it was extrovert during the day.
The answer is to light your garden at night so that it is once again lighter and becomes the view from the conservatory again. Having the switch for the outside lights in the conservatory is an ideal place as you have control in the place where you want it. Also, look at the colour of outside lighting, you are best to think of what to light in January as in July you can cast a light on anything and it will look nice as everything is in full bloom and growth. January is the time when most plants are dormant but you will still need to light it to get maximum use out of your glasshouse. In general this means architectural features that stay year-round such as tree trunks, walls, fountains, ponds and hedges. It is common sense to light using similar a colour so that they look natural at night so green light for plants and blue lights for water features. A red light on a green bush at night will reflect little light and produce a dark red bush that will look unlike the naturally lit form.
When the lighting is thought about, a conservatory can be an equally stunning place to be at night as during the day and a place that you will spend more and more quality time as the seasons pass.
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