Let There Be Light: Installation Begins at Easthampstead Park

This week marks the start of our exterior lighting installation at Easthampstead Park Hotel. A carefully phased scheme designed to respect the building’s heritage while elevating arrival, wayfinding and atmosphere after dark. Thoughtful, elegant lighting that reveals character rather than shouting for attention.

There’s a particular moment I always enjoy on projects like this – the point where drawings, surveys and conversations finally give way to spades in the ground and fittings coming out of their boxes. This week, that moment arrived at Easthampstead Park Hotel.

Set within mature parkland, the hotel has real presence. Our approach has never been about flooding it with light, but about revealing what’s already there: architectural rhythm, depth, texture and those long, elegant sightlines that deserve to be enjoyed well into the evening.

The installation is being delivered in clearly defined zones, starting with arrival areas and key façades before moving into garden routes, secondary paths and landscape features. Warm white tones dominate, carefully controlled to avoid glare, spill or intrusion into the surrounding grounds. Every fitting has been positioned with purpose, lighting people’s journeys, not just the building itself.

What matters most on heritage sites like this is restraint. Good lighting should feel inevitable, as if it has always been there. Guests shouldn’t notice the fittings first; they should notice how welcoming the place feels, how easy it is to navigate, and how quietly impressive the building looks after dusk.

Over the coming weeks we’ll be fine-tuning beam angles, adjusting levels and allowing the scheme to settle into its surroundings. Like all good lighting, the real success will be measured not by how bright it is, but by how comfortable and confident it makes people feel.

Thinking about lighting your own hotel, estate or garden?

Garden Lighting Solutions can design, supply and install a complete exterior lighting scheme – with a free initial survey to get things started.

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