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Lights, Music, Action |
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The finishing touches for your deck or patio |
The neighbours are over for dinner, admiring your new deck while
you fire up the barbecue. As dusk falls, the solar-powered lights
underneath the patio umbrella begin to glow. “Where’d
you get that?” your neighbour asks. You flick the switch
on the low-voltage spot lighting and your favourite CD starts
to play over the outdoor speakers. “That would look great
on our deck,” your pal whispers to his wife. As the evening
grows chilly, you throw a few logs in the firebowl. “We
really have to get one of those,” your friend says aloud.
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| Sescolite
low-voltage spotlight |
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| LiteCast
fire pit |
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| Ornamental
post caps |
What’s
cool about this low-voltage spotlight (shown right) is it has
its own transformer, so it will run on household current, great
for your driveway, with no fade in brightness at the end (Hadco,
Sescolite, www.sescolite.com,
$166)
It’s OK to lead guests down the garden path when it’s
illuminated by solar-powered LED landscape lighting that’s
a cinch to install (Malibu, Home Depot,
$18 for two)
Watch your step with 2'-long copper low-voltage lighting that
goes under steps or railings (Hadco,
Sescolite, www.sescolite.com,
$190)
Light it up and let it burn, with a 24" gas-powered firebowl
(shown right) that’s not as heavy as it looks because
it’s made of fibreglass and concrete (LiteCast
Celtic Gas Log Fire Pit, Canadian Tire, $300)
Are you ready to rock? These high-fidelity weatherproof speakers
will blast the tunes at your next get-together (Rockustics,
Kevro, 905-428-2800, $2,100)
Cap off your deck-building efforts with a post cap (shown right,
clockwise, from top: 6" x 6" copper and western red
cedar, Maine Ornamental, Home Depot, $20; 4" x 4"
copper and pressure-treated, PuirWood, Home Hardware, $10; 4"
x 4" stainless steel and pressure-treated, Maine
Ornamental, Home Depot, $13)
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by Susan Peters, photos by Simon Cheung |
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