Product Description

Homeowners, garden designers, landscape professionals, and anyone with an interest in highlighting and improving the look of their home landscape will be inspired to learn how even the most drab setting can be transformed into a stunning showcase garden using simple, modern, and creative lighting schemes. Revealed in these pages are the secrets behind a wide range of lighting styles. Separate chapters cover topics such as different effects of lighting varieties available—using complementary indoor and outdoor lighting, planning for safety, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #351136 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Released on: 2005-10-15
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Review
"Features images of lighting landscapes which have been used around the world, so readers will get plenty of design ideas for their own homes."—Greater Philadelphia House & Home, May 2006 (Greater Philadelphia House & Home )

"This isn't a how-to-do-it manual but rather an inspirational look at Osborne's designs ... this book convinces us that night lighting is vital to garden design."—Valerie Easton, Seattle Times, September 16, 2005 (Valerie Easton Seattle Times )

From the Publisher
Reveals the very best modern lighting effects in contemporary gardens around the world. Explores the different uses and effects of light in both indoor and outdoor gardens as well as offering practical advice on choosing lighting, hardware, planning, and safety.

About the Author
Award-winning garden designer Michèle Osborne started her landscape practice in 1984 after graduating from the Sorbonne in Paris. She has completed countless projects both in Britain and continental Europe, and her work has been featured in many books and magazines.

Customer Reviews

Useless Book
This is purely a picture book and the photographs are mostly bad. The whole point of photographing garden lighting is to capture the look of the lighting at twilight. When the photographs are taken too early the lighting has no impact; when taken too late the contrast levels result in hot spots of lighting that do not in any way replicate what is seen by the eye in that particular after-dark setting. The text merely gushes about what you are looking at but seldom provides any useful information about how the effects were achieved. There are a number of books about garden lighting that are better photographed and contain details about how the lighting effects were achieved. I have reviewed all of the books on outdoor lighting that were or are still available. If what is being sought is a well illustrated primer on lighting effects in a garden setting one will not find it here.