Garden Lighting: Contemporary Exterior Lighting

Rating:
Summary: expert opinion
Review: Well-written, organized and illustrated but curiously out-of-date for
a book published in 1999. Very little about low voltage lighting which
must be a rarity in the UK (this is a Brit book). The emphasis is on
"mains" lighting (240v in the UK, 120v in the US) and the
recommended lamp types and wattages are much too intense for
residential projects. Definitely not a DIY book; the author states:
"Before anybody electrocutes him- or herself and reaches for a
lawyer, I say now-leave electricity to a qualified electrician."
Some nice photographs (and some strange ones too) but many of the
night lighted scenes were photographed well before dusk and did not
provide the kind of view that one would experience after dark.


Rating:
Summary: expert opinion
Review: Well-written, organized and illustrated but curiously out-of-date for
a book published in 1999. Very little about low voltage lighting which
must be a rarity in the UK (this is a Brit book). The emphasis is on
"mains" lighting (240v in the UK, 120v in the US) and the
recommended lamp types and wattages are much too intense for
residential projects. Definitely not a DIY book; the author states:
"Before anybody electrocutes him- or herself and reaches for a
lawyer, I say now-leave electricity to a qualified electrician."
Some nice photographs (and some strange ones too) but many of the
night lighted scenes were photographed well before dusk and did not
provide the kind of view that one would experience after dark.