Are you looking for ideas on how to light the pathways around your house or light your driveway? Perhaps you need to light up some steps outside your home as an additional safety measure. When coming home in the dark, Brick lights recessed into your outside wall can illuminate a walkway or even define an external patio area.
Recessed brick lights are an ideal form of low cost low level outdoor wall lighting. These brick lights can be recessed into your outside walls to light the way to the door of your house or can be used to light up a garden wall or your drive way. Perhaps you have brick pillars at the gate or entrance to your driveway. It would be an easy job for your Electrician to recess brick lights into the Brickwork of your brick piers.
Brick lights come in 3 versions. Brick lights that take a standard light bulb which would accept low energy light bulbs if required. Dedicated energy saving Brick lights that will only accept energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps. The dedicated low energy brick lights will give out a low level of light output which is ideal to give enough light to guide your visitors along the path way to your door.
Thirdly, LED recessed brick lights are the most energy efficient. Available with either Blue or White LEDs, LED brick lights will give out light for a considerable number of years. No need to keep changing light bulbs. Although it must be said that the light bulbs used in energy saving versions of brick lights will last a considerable length of time, making them a highly cost effective form of outdoor lighting.
The brick lights come in Black, White and Satin Silver finishes either with a grill diffuser or a plain opal diffuser.
All the recessed brick lights are IP44 rated which means that they are ideally suited to outdoor use. Rain and moisture will not penetrate into the light fitting.
Consider using a time clock to switch your brick lights on and off. You could set the timer so that the brick lights switch on at dusk and illuminate your garden area in the evening. A dusk to dawn sensor couldĀ also be used.
Altogether brick lights are a highly adaptable method of lighting your home, paths, garden, drive way or patio area.