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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Alex David

How to light a garden path – lighting designers reveal 8 ways to avoid the dreaded 'runway light'

A path light .

Lighting a garden path can be surprisingly hard to get right. It's easy to swing between two extremes: on the one hand, you can have a bright, safe path, but one that looks severe and stark - the fearsome 'runway lights'. On the other, you can make moody, atmospheric path lighting that wows your guests but doesn't, you know, actually light the way.

On top of that, path lighting can be expensive to buy and install. Get it wrong, and you've made an expensive mistake.

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