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Choosing the right outdoor chandelier is as important as selecting the right patio furniture or siding for a home. Lighting not only is important at night, but many hanging lights, lamp posts, and even walkway lighting can be as much for enhancing decor as they are for illumination after dark. So let’s take a stroll through the process one might use to select outdoor chandelier lighting.

The first step in selecting a light is to determine where the light will be placed. Location- it doesn’t take too much imagination to think to hang a chandelier on a covered porch. But other areas that one might work well are in gazebos, sunrooms, and even portable gazebos.

Once the location has been selected, then a careful eye must be paid to how high the light can be mounted and also how much headroom is required underneath the outdoor chandelier. Lower hanging chandeliers can be used over tables, or even in wooden gazebos with steep pitched roofs. Light fixtures with less length or height to them are good for areas where people will be walking under them. One perfect example of this is when a pennant or single light outdoor chandelier will be hung over a doorway or entrance way. Sheltered in the entrance of the home by an alcove or covered walkway, the outdoor chandelier is protected from the wind.

This spring many people have been searching online for outdoor chandeliers for gazebos. Gazebos can add an interesting twist to light selection. Sometimes outbuildings such as a gazebo have no electricity run to them. So having the option of a solar powered chandelier is a real plus. Solar powered gazebo chandeliers do grow dimmer as the darkness hours progress, but the solar or candle outdoor chandelier may be your only choice in the absence of electricity.

So think carefully before you purchase your outdoor lighting. Consider head room, electricity availability, what type of building or home exterior location you are going to hang it, and above all, choosing one that meets your needs and matches your design ideas.