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No. 28 Outdoor Lighting · Colonial

Rectangular Pool Framed by Coping Lights

Captured at night, this stone patio features warm coping lights framing the pool, uplit palms, subtle pool lighting, and an open timber cabana beside a brick residence.

Design notes

Colonial design is symmetry and restraint. Look for a central axis from the back door, matched beds and hedges either side, bluestone or brick terraces with tight joints, and white or black picket and post-and-rail fences. Planting is disciplined — boxwood, hydrangea, holly, dogwood and shade trees — and furniture is classic: teak benches, Windsor chairs, a market umbrella. Georgian brick, clapboard and shingle houses all suit it.

What to look for

  • Layers: one overhead, one at eye level, one low along the ground
  • Whether you can see the fixture or only the light
  • Colour temperature — everything warm, nothing blue
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