The term “exterior lighting” encompasses a variety of outdoor lighting fixtures… outdoor pole lights, outdoor wall lights and porch ceiling lights. This article is going to focus on the various styles and shapes displayed by the lighting fixtures that hang on an outside wall or pole.
When a home has a traditional looking post lamp at the entrance to the driveway, then it should have fixtures with a classical style hanging on the exterior walls. A Madera or Benner lamp would seem appropriate. Both of those items copy the look of the traditional lamp, i.e. they have four sides and a sloping top.
A lamp from the Cambridge Collection would also match with outdoor accessories that feature more traditional lines. The lamps in the Cambridge Collection have a flat top, under which four panes of glass slope downwards for about two to three inches. At their base, those panes connect with a metal bar, and under that bar a second four panes of glass slope inward for about ten to twelve inches.
Most of the items meant for use on outside walls hang form a hook, a long hook that attaches to the wall. However, not every light has that same style. The items in the Braxton Collection all come in close contact with the up and down, exterior surface. Each Braxton fixture features ribbed glass in a frame of bronze plated steel, with a white painted interior.
Homeowners that want to match a wall light with a ceiling light can do so with relative ease. They will find, by examining the outdoor ceiling lights online, that the elements in each collection of the most popular styles include both wall and ceiling fixtures. Even the practical looking Harbor light comes in two designs. One that can light a darkened wall, and another that can shine light from a ceiling.
