Make your home a sustainable beacon of light, welcoming your visitors and making your outdoor areas visually enticing.  Solar lights are a fantastic use of a natural and renewable resource.  Here are a few ideas for lighting up your outside areas.

Make sure your visitors are able to find you, day or night.   This solar powered house number is apparently easy to fit, costs nothing to run and needs no wiring or professional skills to install.  It comes complete with everything you need to fix it to a wall, rechargeable batteries and a comprehensive set of numbers and letters to suit any combination. The light is made of high quality stainless steel, and automatically turns itself on at dusk. During the day the solar panel on top of the light fitting converts daylight into electricity to recharges the integrated rechargeable battery.  At dusk, when the light turns on, it runs on the electricity stored during the day.

Stay safe and keep baddies (and global warming) at bay with a solar security light.  The duo-security light provides bright light with twin white LED lamps and a passive infra-red motion sensor.  Because of its hinged mounting bracket, it can be positioned on the corner of a fence or wall, and each individual lamp can be swivelled up or down and from side to side.  The duo-security light illuminates for 30 secs when movement is detected, and when fully charged will come on over 500 times without further sunlight.   It’s easy to install (my sister has one and put it up herself no problem), and as is the beauty of these solar gadgets, once its going there are no running costs.

Brighten up your late summer garden parties with this rich red solar powered Chinese style party lantern.  As with the other lights mentioned, this lantern is powered by sun energy, it needs no wiring and will automatically switch itself on at dusk and off at dawn.   During the day the solar panel on top of the lantern converts daylight into electricity and stores the charge it the integrated battery.  In the evening when the light comes on it uses the electricity stored during the day.