In addition, practically every DIY, hardware and garden store stocks a wide selection, they're quite cheap to purchase and they're a doddle to install. Simply drill a hole the same size as the deck light body, feed the low voltage cables through and finally push-fit the LED deck light home. The cables are usually quite long and are easily connected to each other and the power supply (almost always a 12v transformer located indoors for weather protection, safety and ease of control) by plugging into supplied connector junctions.

But LED deck lights aren't restricted just to being placed in deck boards. You can fit deck lights into side panels, uprights and cross beams of pergolas where you can position LED deck lights to shine light back down at any number of different angles. But why stop at the deck? Being lightweight and robust, LED deck lights can be inserted into fence panels and posts and garden sheds and other outdoor structures, anywhere you might want some feature lighting in fact.

Coordinate colour schemes to add effects to your garden. Typical LED deck light colors are blue and white, but color changing LED deck lights s are also available as well as other fixed color lights. You could group sets of lights according to color to create zones or create an illusion of depth. Cooler colors such as blue give the impression of being further away while warmer colors appear closer. Also, brightness levels can produce a similar effect with comparatively lower level lighting seeming to be away in the distance - at night of course it's difficult to judge distances other ways and this effect works well.

LED deck lights can be fitted so easily into any available piece of wood (though you might want to draw the line at drilling holes in your cedar patio furniture). You can even use cheap LED deck lighting to provide pathway lighting. Simply hammer wooden stakes into the ground to mark out the relevant path and drill suitable holes into these. The low voltage cables can either be concealed slightly below the surface or run through an old hose (to help protect against accidental damage, from a spade for example).

In fact, so long as you have access to draw the cables thru, you can fit LED deck lighting to just about anything, outdoors or indoors; ceilings, walls, floors obviously, inside cupboards (LED deck lights operate completely cold), installed in shelving; pointing, up, down or sideways. Fitted to stair risers can look especially attractive as well as providing a safety element.

Another point to consider is that because the power consumption of LED deck lights is so low, they can even be powered by batteries and/or hooked up to solar panels to constantly recharge them. This makes LED deck lighting ideal as a form of emergency lighting.

In summary, hopefully you can begin to appreciate the astonishing versatility of the modest little LED deck light both throughout the whole garden and even in the home.

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