ᐅ Number and Placement of Exterior Lights for a Square House Approximately 9.40m x 9.40m
Created on: 4 Aug 2021 18:34
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Pinkiponk
Our selection appointment is approaching, so I would like to ask for some feedback. I know it’s a fairly standard, plain house, but it suits us well.
Attached you will find the house elevations from the four cardinal directions. Could you please advise where and how many exterior lights you would install on the outer walls? I’m unsure whether one or two exterior lights on a 9.40m (31 feet) wall might be too few. The house is 9.20m (30 feet) high including the roof. Without the roof, meaning the wall height, it is 6.51m (21 feet). At a later stage, we might add shutters, if that is relevant for the placement of the exterior lights.
The blue dots mark my initial suggested mounting points. On the east and west sides, I have initially planned two exterior lights each, and on the south and north sides, one each. Our main terrace will be on the west side. On the other three sides, there will only be small seating areas, more like garden spots than terraces.
There will also be various other lighting fixtures in the garden among the plants, but their exact locations will be decided during the landscaping planning. We might also add solar-powered gutter lights to the rain gutters, but that would be at a later time.
Attached you will find the house elevations from the four cardinal directions. Could you please advise where and how many exterior lights you would install on the outer walls? I’m unsure whether one or two exterior lights on a 9.40m (31 feet) wall might be too few. The house is 9.20m (30 feet) high including the roof. Without the roof, meaning the wall height, it is 6.51m (21 feet). At a later stage, we might add shutters, if that is relevant for the placement of the exterior lights.
The blue dots mark my initial suggested mounting points. On the east and west sides, I have initially planned two exterior lights each, and on the south and north sides, one each. Our main terrace will be on the west side. On the other three sides, there will only be small seating areas, more like garden spots than terraces.
There will also be various other lighting fixtures in the garden among the plants, but their exact locations will be decided during the landscaping planning. We might also add solar-powered gutter lights to the rain gutters, but that would be at a later time.
untergasse435 Aug 2021 09:19HarvSpec schrieb:
When I drive through the new residential areas here and look at the house lighting, I would personally wait for my plasterer’s work to be finished...
I wouldn’t want to highlight those wavy surfaces that are sometimes illuminated. It’s pretty bad here as well. But those ugly up/down lights seem to be regularly "standard"—if not, the wires hang out of the walls for years until someone finally picks something sufficiently unattractive.
We have bollard lights all around (plus a few spotlights on plants) and some above the front door. That’s enough to create a nice atmosphere 🙂
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hampshire5 Aug 2021 10:11Light to safely get to the house, lighting on the terraces, with as little stray light as possible.
As a result, it now looks like ego lighting at our place. 😱
As a result, it now looks like ego lighting at our place. 😱
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Pinkiponk5 Aug 2021 20:28One thing I should probably manage soon is to stop thinking about the photos of the illuminated Art Nouveau villas and historicist houses. ;-) Fortunately, here in Leipzig – where some of the mistakes of the West were avoided – there are wonderful homes that look like something out of a fairy tale when lit up at night. They always seem to overlay themselves onto our house in my mind. This could turn out to be a serious mistake. ;-) Especially since I have a tendency toward nostalgia and kitsch, which I’ve been fighting my whole life.
Anything that is not installed additionally does not need to be replaced later.
Path lighting around the house is fine; nothing more is necessary.
I equipped the outdoor stairs with LEDs, the house number lighting with integrated entrance lighting, the balcony lighting at the back of the house (ground floor), and in the basement, two corner pathway lights, each with continuous LED lighting.
Garage driveway has LED floodlights.
For a 300 m² (3,230 sq ft) villa, I find this appropriate and stylish; for small facades, it is “unnecessary.”
Path lighting around the house is fine; nothing more is necessary.
I equipped the outdoor stairs with LEDs, the house number lighting with integrated entrance lighting, the balcony lighting at the back of the house (ground floor), and in the basement, two corner pathway lights, each with continuous LED lighting.
Garage driveway has LED floodlights.
For a 300 m² (3,230 sq ft) villa, I find this appropriate and stylish; for small facades, it is “unnecessary.”
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