Crouch End, London

Project location: London Borough of Haringey

Date: 2021

Size: Small

Lights used: low voltage Hunza Lighting, LuxR, Bover Barcelona

Controls: Light Symphony

Garden Designer: Ula Maria


About this project

Crouch End, in the London Borough of Haringey, is the setting for this small residential lighting design from 2021. The garden sits behind a brick house and is arranged as a series of places to sit, dine and gather by a fire.

Soft light does most of the work here. Trees, grasses and timber are gently lit, and portable style lanterns add to the glow around the furniture.

The lighting
  • Multi stem trees and pleached trees are uplit, giving the garden height at dusk.
  • A bronze spike light glows at the base of slim tree stems among grasses.
  • Grasses and lavender are uplit around a round stone water bowl.
  • Woven and rope lanterns with red or leather handles glow on the outdoor dining table, with a woven floor lantern beside a wicker chair on the deck.
  • A hardwood slatted wall and a timber fence are washed with warm light behind the seating.
  • The outdoor fireplace on the patio glows beside a lit timber screen and cushioned seating.
Fittings and controls

We used low voltage Hunza Lighting, a New Zealand brand known for long lasting, maintainable fittings, with LuxR and Bover Barcelona. Light Symphony controls the scheme.

Credits

The garden was designed by Ula Maria.

Rear of a brick house at dusk in Crouch End with uplit tree, path light and a lit fireplace on the patio
Wicker lounge chair and glowing woven floor lamp on a pale deck beside an uplit multi stem tree, Crouch End
Two lit woven lanterns with red handles on a stone table at dusk, planting softly blurred behind in Crouch End
Close view of a bronze spike light glowing at the base of slim tree stems among grasses in Crouch End
Warm uplighting on grasses and lavender around a round stone water bowl in a Crouch End garden at dusk
Four glowing lanterns on an outdoor dining table with rope chairs among planting at dusk in Crouch End
Dusk garden in Crouch End with lanterns on a dining table, uplit pleached trees and a lit timber fence
Four lit rope lanterns with red handles in a row on an outdoor dining table at night in Crouch End
Glowing woven floor lantern beside a wicker chair on a timber deck at night in a Crouch End garden
Two glowing woven table lanterns with leather handles on an outdoor dining table in Crouch End
Hardwood slatted wall washed with warm light behind a garden chair and uplit pleached trees in Crouch End
Woven floor lantern glowing beside an uplit multi stem tree on a timber deck in Crouch End
Concrete water bowl in Crouch End at night, with uplit multi stem tree and grasses around it
Outdoor fireplace on a patio in Crouch End at dusk, with glowing timber screen and cushioned seating