Woldingham, Surrey

Project: Surrey

Design: 2021

Install: 2023

Size: Medium

Lights used: low voltage Hunza Lighting, LuxR, Jean-Philippe Weimer

Controls: Light Symphony

Garden Design: Matthew Wilson Garden & Landscape Design


About this project

Our work in Woldingham, Surrey began as a lighting design in 2021 and was installed in 2023. It is a medium sized residential garden in a naturalistic, woodland setting, separate from our other Surrey scheme at Oxshott.

The garden combines a courtyard rill, a timber deck, a pavilion, a sauna cabin and wildflower banks, and the lighting keeps these features visible after dark.

The lighting
  • A long rill with twin water spouts, with uplit tree ferns on a board marked concrete wall above it, beside the timber deck.
  • Amber light on the wall behind a raised planter of ferns, where water falls into a pool.
  • Gravel paths through wildflower and thyme planting, marked by bollard and path lights, with stone steps rising to the glazed house.
  • A timber pavilion with warm lit canopy beams and deck steps, seen across the lawn with uplit pines and boulders.
  • A branching tree sculpture uplit in a gravel garden, among ground lights and purple salvia.
  • A dark timber sauna cabin in the woodland, with a path light on the gravel path.
Fittings and controls

We used low voltage Hunza Lighting, LuxR and Jean-Philippe Weimer fittings, with Light Symphony controlling the scheme. Hunza is a New Zealand brand known for long lasting, maintainable fittings.

Credits

Garden design by Matthew Wilson Garden & Landscape Design.

Long rill with twin water spouts below uplit tree ferns on a concrete wall, beside a timber deck at dusk
Curving gravel path through wildflowers lit by a warm spotlight and an uplit multi stem tree at dusk
Dark timber sauna cabin in a woodland garden with a path light on a gravel path among wild flowers
Close view of a timber garden pavilion with warm lit canopy beams, deck steps and gravel seating area at dusk
Timber garden pavilion at dusk across a lawn, with uplit pines, boulders and wildflower banks
Stone steps rising through a hillside of wild daisies, marked by small path lights, towards a glazed house
Gravel garden at dusk with an uplit branching tree sculpture, ground lights and purple salvia planting
Gravel path through a naturalistic wildflower and thyme planting with bollard lights glowing at dusk
Courtyard with a long water rill, uplit tree ferns on a board marked concrete wall and a timber deck with red chairs
Water spout falling from a raised planter of ferns into a pool, with the wall behind lit in amber light
View from a house through sliding glass doors to a deck and uplit tree ferns on a board marked concrete wall