Some of our favourite designers share what inspires them when it comes to indirect lighting.

Ascher Smith is Perth’s leading exterior landscape designer & stylist, renowned for her contemporary coastal chic style and unique design consultations. Passionate about helping people uncover their outdoor style, Ascher is the go to Exterior Stylist on the West Coast transforming ordinary gardens into spaces you love to be in.

Specialising in renovations and new builds, Ascher Smith works with residential and commercial clients offering expert landscape design and styling services that focus on creating spaces that are beautiful and genuinely reflect the style and lifestyle of her clients.

For the past decade, she has successfully worked in all aspects of landscape design, styling and construction. Over the years she has merged from being a Landscape Designer to now solely an Exterior Design Consultant. Asher spend her days meeting with clients and designing concepts for their exteriors all within a consultation session of a few hours.

With a lifetime of garden love, over a decade of award winning landscape design projects and a passion for all design, she is very clever at quickly visualise a stunning new garden to perfectly suits each clients ever changing lifestyle.

-       What is your favourite form of indirect?

As a Landscape Designer over the years, I have always used subdued lighting for soft landscaping throughout foliage. Though I am finding over the years, as entertaining spaces become less about large planted gardens and more about ‘Hardscaping’ & that these areas require more ‘Accent Lighting’ to highlight features such as Stone walls, tiled steps, ornate pots, built in bench seating just to name a few! You only need a few outdoor ‘Accent Lights’, as you don’t want to overwhelm a small space with lighting.

-       Why is it integral to your design?

Lighting outdoors serves not only aesthetic but also practical purposes for gardens at night. It provides ambient light for evening entertaining, highlighting special features, water, stone & plants by adding creative dimensions to even small spaces. Mostly it allows you to enjoy the outdoor spaces during the day but also at night creating inviting views from indoors as well as out.

-       An example of indirect lighting in one of your designs?

In this garden design, the lighting was considered in the very early stages as I had designed a feature oversized day bed seat in the pool area that needed not only night lighting but a large light that would balance the sheer size of the seating itself without resulting in an excess of over-illumination! I used some delicate Antique Brass Eye Lid Wall lights on the face of the seat to compliment the brass Lighting above.

-       Fav product from our collection?

The Brass Gooseneck exterior wall light is one of my absolute favourites. The beauty and effect are conspicuous in the form of the fitting itself. The stylish Ornamental Gooseneck fitting constructed from Solid Brass, not only make this a durable exterior light but a grand statement or any home or garden.