No. 12 Outdoor Lighting · Colonial
Timber Deck with Warm Night Lighting
At night, a weathered wood terrace displays complete deck lighting, featuring recessed stair lights, post-mounted railing lights, and hanging lanterns against a red brick exterior framed by dense foliage.
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



