I recently posted a question about garden lighting.
We wanted to be different. We didn't want boring standard white lighting. Instead, we decided to have blue lighting. I was looking at a way to turn the white light from garden lights blue.
(I know it sounds awful, but it does seem to work). It creates a very relaxing colour scheme - and you can still see.
Several people suggested using coloured filters that are used with theatrical lighting.
We found a company called Sabre International and ordered the coloured filters (filter gels as they are known).
The garden lights in question are 10 watts each. They consist of a glass/plastic bowl that sits on top of a post. The bowl houses the bulb. A cap fits on top of the bowl to keep out water.
We didn't buy our lights from B&Q but I found, by way of example, a light on their site that was similar to ours.
This looked OK, but we found that the filter dulled the intensity of the light. To get around this problem we cut out a square of silver foil and stuck this to the top inside of the cap. This significantly increased the light given off by the unit. (Before anyone asks - no it is not overheating).
It now looks really good.
In addition, we went for outdoor blue LED decking lighting. The original aim was to bury the led lighting flush with the decking.
The decking is raised. On either side of the decking is a border with slow growing baby fern trees.
Instead of installing the LED lighting into the floor of the decking, we have installed the lights into the side of the decking so the blue light shines out from the side of the decking onto the baby fern trees.
When you stand on the decking you cannot see the blue LEDs - only the light that they give off. At night, the blue of the LED lights combines with the green of the fern trees to give the fern trees a really strange colour.
Thanks to everyone for their help.
Graham