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Exterior Wall Lights

Shop our range of exterior wall lights, from sensor lights to high IP rated lights. When choosing your outdoor wall lights.

Function

When choosing outdoor wall lights, the most important aspect to consider is your intended purpose. Depending on your needs, wall lighting can be both a great way to create a warm glow in your garden, as well as a great tool for increasing the safety of your property by acting as a deterrent to anyone thinking they can do anything around your property while remaining unseen.

For decorative purposes, softer fittings like coach lights, or even just choosing a nice warm globe, can be the perfect way to bring warmth to your outdoor space. Whereas if your focus is on secure outdoor lighting, bulkhead lights, or PIR sensor lights and strong flood lights are probably a more appropriate solution. There is also no reason that you cannot have a mid of the two.

Location

Location and positioning of your outdoor wall lighting is also another very important factor that goes hand in hand with function. 

For example, if your main aim is to make your home safer and deter intruders with outdoor lights, floodlighting in an entrance or near a path or high traffic areas in your surrounds are a great idea.  

If you’re looking to use lighting to transform your garden into an ambient entertainment space, more decorative lanterns, garden spot lights, feature lighting may be the way forward.

Keeping the above in mind, having a clear location selected for your outdoor wall lighting is also incredibly important before making a purchase as you need to be sure that the wall lights you choose will be the correct size and style for the space.

Power

Before selecting and buying your outdoor lighting, it is also essential to consider the power source. Often wall lighting is available in various forms, so it is important to understand the benefits of each power source to decide which option is the best for you. 

Outdoor wall lighting can generally be either 240 volts, or 12 volts. These will need to be installed by a licensed electrician. However, this solution allows you to have the wall lights on for as long as required, and ensures that they will be consistently bright. 

Solar-powered lighting is a mains-free option that is also more eco-friendly and cost-effective. Though, as this form of wall light relies on sunlight to charge the batteries, there is a limit to illumination time, which varies depending on the time of year. This lighting will generally be a very low wattage as well as they are solar powered.

Bulbs

The final consideration with outdoor wall lighting is the bulbs that your lights use. The colour temperature, and wattage are both important factors for this. You will need to take note of what kind of fitting your globe will need and which colour temperature and brightness you would be looking for, to reach the desired effects like we mentioned above in function.