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Outdoor Lighting Perth & Subiaco

Outdoor lighting plays an important role in enhancing the safety, appearance, and functionality of your home or business. Whether you want to illuminate your garden, highlight architectural features, or create a welcoming outdoor entertaining area, choosing the right outdoor lighting Perth and outdoor lighting Subiaco solutions can transform your space.

At Hiddleston Electrics, you’ll find a carefully curated range of outdoors lighting designed to suit modern, heritage, and contemporary homes across Perth and Subiaco. From stylish wall lights to practical garden lighting, outdoors lighting helps you create a beautiful and functional outdoor environment.

Why Outdoor Lighting Matters

Outdoor lighting does more than brighten your exterior spaces. It enhances safety, improves visibility, and adds value to your property. Many homeowners across Perth are investing in quality outdoor lighting to improve their outdoor living areas.

  • Improve Safety and Security – Outdoor lighting reduces dark areas around your property, helping prevent accidents and improving visibility. Well-lit pathways, driveways, and entry points make your home safer for family and guests.
  • Enhance Outdoor Spaces – Outdoors lighting highlights landscaping, architectural details, and outdoor features, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere.
  • Extend Outdoor Living – With the right lighting, you can enjoy patios, gardens, and outdoor entertaining areas well into the evening.
  • Boost Property Appeal – Quality outdoors lighting enhances the overall appearance of your property and adds value.

Outdoor Lighting Perth

If you’re searching for outdoor lighting Perth, you’ll find a wide variety of lighting options suited to different styles and needs. From modern homes to traditional properties, outdoors lighting provides both functionality and aesthetic appeal.

Popular outdoor lighting options include:

  • Outdoor wall lights
  • Garden lighting
  • Pathway lighting
  • Deck lighting
  • Security lighting
  • Outdoor pendant lights
  • Landscape lighting
  • Spotlights

These lighting solutions are commonly used throughout Perth to enhance outdoor living spaces and improve safety.

Outdoor lighting is particularly popular for entertaining areas such as patios, pergolas, and outdoor dining spaces.

Outdoor Lighting Subiaco

The suburb of Subiaco features a mix of heritage homes, modern residences, and commercial properties. Choosing outdoor lighting Subiaco helps homeowners and businesses enhance their properties while maintaining their architectural style.

Outdoor lighting is ideal for:

  • Heritage homes
  • Modern houses
  • Apartments
  • Cafés and restaurants
  • Retail stores
  • Offices

Outdoors lighting helps create a welcoming and stylish atmosphere, especially in areas with outdoor seating and entertaining spaces.

Types of Outdoors Lighting Available

At Hiddleston Electrics, you can explore a wide range of outdoors lighting solutions.

  • Garden Lighting – Garden lighting highlights landscaping features, plants, and pathways. It adds depth and creates a relaxing outdoor environment.
  • Wall Lighting – Outdoor wall lights provide functional illumination for entrances, patios, and exterior walls.
  • Pathway Lighting – Pathway lights improve safety and guide visitors around your property.
  • Deck and Patio Lighting – Perfect for outdoor entertainment areas, deck lighting enhances ambience and comfort.
  • Security Lighting – Security lights improve visibility and enhance safety around your home or business.
  • Outdoor Spotlights – Spotlights highlight architectural features, trees, or landscaping elements.

Each lighting option offers unique benefits depending on your needs.

Outdoors Lighting for Residential Properties

Homeowners across Perth choose outdoors lighting to improve their outdoor areas. Whether you want subtle garden lighting or bright security lights, outdoor lighting provides flexible solutions.

Common residential applications include:

  • Front yard lighting
  • Backyard lighting
  • Pool area lighting
  • Patio lighting
  • Driveway lighting
  • Entryway lighting

Outdoor lighting helps create comfortable and stylish outdoor living spaces.

Outdoors Lighting for Commercial Spaces

Outdoors lighting is also essential for businesses in Subiaco and across Perth. Well-designed outdoor lighting improves visibility and enhances customer experience.

Commercial applications include:

  • Restaurants
  • Cafés
  • Retail stores
  • Office buildings
  • Hotels

Outdoors lighting creates a welcoming atmosphere and improves security for customers and staff.

Choosing the Right Outdoors Lighting

Selecting the right outdoor lighting depends on several factors:

  • Purpose – Decide whether lighting is for security, ambience, or functionality.
  • Placement – Consider where lighting will be installed.
  • Style – Choose lighting that complements your property.
  • Brightness – Select appropriate lighting levels for your needs.

Proper planning ensures your outdoor lighting enhances both appearance and functionality.

Modern Outdoors Lighting Trends

Outdoors lighting trends across Perth include:

  • LED outdoor lighting
  • Minimalist designs
  • Warm ambient lighting
  • Smart lighting solutions
  • Decorative garden lights

These trends help create stylish and energy-efficient outdoor spaces.

Benefits of Quality Outdoors Lighting

Investing in quality outdoors lighting offers several advantages:

  • Durable and weather-resistant
  • Energy-efficient options
  • Long-lasting performance
  • Stylish designs
  • Improved safety

Quality lighting ensures your outdoor space remains functional and attractive.

Why Choose Hiddleston Electrics?

Customers searching for outdoor lighting Perth and outdoor lighting Subiaco choose Hiddleston Electrics for reliable lighting solutions.

  • Wide Range of Lighting – Explore various outdoors lighting styles.
  • Local Expertise – Understanding of Perth homes and outdoor spaces.
  • Quality Products – Carefully selected lighting solutions.
  • Trusted Service – Reliable lighting specialists serving Perth and Subiaco.

Shop Outdoor Lighting Perth & Subiaco

If you’re looking for outdoor lighting Perth or outdoor lighting Subiaco, choosing the right lighting can transform your outdoor spaces. Whether you want to enhance safety, create ambience, or highlight your landscaping, outdoor lighting offers the perfect solution.

Explore the range available at Hiddleston Electrics and discover stylish and practical outdoors lighting solutions for your home or business.

FAQs

1. What types of outdoors lighting are best for homes in Perth?

Popular outdoor lighting options in Perth include garden lights, wall lights, pathway lighting, deck lighting, and security lighting. These lighting solutions help improve safety while enhancing outdoor spaces.

2. Where can I buy outdoors lighting in Subiaco?

You can explore quality outdoor lighting options at Hiddleston Electrics. They offer a wide range of outdoors lighting suitable for residential and commercial spaces.

3. Is outdoors lighting weather-resistant?

Yes, most outdoors lighting is designed to withstand harsh weather conditions. Quality outdoor lighting available across Perth is built for durability and long-lasting performance.

4. What outdoors lighting is best for security?

Security lighting such as motion sensor lights, wall lights, and floodlights are ideal for improving safety. These lighting options are commonly used in homes across Subiaco and Perth.

5. How do I choose the right outdoors lighting?

Consider the purpose, location, brightness, and style of lighting. The team at Hiddleston Electrics can help you select the best outdoors lighting for your needs.

AN ELECTRIFYING TIME (CONT.)

The tyre business followed, with a retreading service proving to be a smart move due to the high cost of new car tyres, which they also stocked. They used steam boilers in what was called ‘recapping’ and, even though the equipment was quite primitive by today’s standards, they must have done a pretty good job, because they had customers in their cars lined up around the corner that unfortunately led to the odd traffic jam.

Eventually the brothers shifted the business to bigger premises with more options when they purchased 83 Rokeby Road, on the opposite side of their original site (140 Rokeby Road – pictured), closer to Hay Street.

The new premises were in the middle of the very busy Rokeby Road. They solved the log-jam created by customers waiting on the road for their tyres and batteries to be changed by parking them in the laneway, now known as ‘Hiddlestone Lane’, beside the shop where the drivers wouldn’t get ‘pinched’. (Apparently the ‘grey ghosts’ were already out and about in the 20s.)

Vern takes up his story again:

“Because the electrical business was going so well, and growing so fast at that stage, the tyre and battery side was ‘put on the shelf’. Besides, there were a number of other bigger tyres companies opening up in the area. So, they switched their focus to the electrical business, which boomed because of the close relationship the business had with Subiaco and its people.

“Dad said that he was pretty glad to see the back of the tyre and battery business because of the smells. They would vulcanise the rubber to patch the tyres and recap them and the stench of burning rubber would fill the air.

“And then there were the batteries, bubbling away with their harsh acid-smell they created while they were recharged. Combine that with the steam from the boiler and unbearable heat of the furnace, all confined within the walls of a solid brick property, originally designed as a shop, with no ventilation, it was not only
unpleasant but also a fire trap.”

The Subiaco of the 1920s was a vastly different landscape to the one it is today. With electrification of the town less than a decade old, driven by a new stand-alone power station, located in Wellington Street, East Perth (that is still there to this day), the little township experienced rapid growth and development.

After a bit of a sleepy start, Subiaco had gone from initially being the site for a Catholic orphanage for young boys, established by a group of pioneering Benedictine monks from Subiaco in Italy, to a burgeoning settlement.

Later, with the advent of a rail siding in 1883 and the introduction of an electric trolley service, running along Hay Street from the Perth CBD, it would become a bustling little working-class village that would attract the eye of struggling settlers – some coming back disillusioned and destitute from the Kalgoorlie goldfields, looking for somewhere to put down roots in Perth.

Along with new residents, fledgling businesses were emerging to service Perth’s, and Subiaco’s, growing population. Ironmongers, timber yards, shops, stores and the ever-present pubs like the Subiaco Hotel, resplendent with its towering Victorian era style cone and ornate verandahs, started springing up along Hay Street and on the corners of the growing network of packed-earth cross streets.

With the pain and loss from the Great War in Europe now receding in people’s memories, Australians focused their efforts on nation building. Federation had taken place two decades earlier and there was a distinct, emerging sense of national pride that was being felt strongly by West Australians, even though the state was so geographically isolated.

It seemed to inspire the pioneering spirit of the rapidly growing working-class of Subiaco that embodied that quintessential Aussie trait of ‘having a go’.

Pictured: Original Hiddlestone Bros. premises, 140 Rokeby Road, Subiaco

From our book: ‘100 Not Out’ by Ross Addison

AN ‘ELECTRIFYING’ TIME (cont.)

The tyre business followed, with a retreading service proving to be a smart move due to the high cost of new car tyres, which they also stocked. They used steam boilers in what was called ‘recapping’ and, even though the equipment was quite primitive by today’s standards, they must have done a pretty good job, because they had customers in their cars lined up around the corner that unfortunately led to the odd traffic jam.

Eventually the brothers shifted the business to bigger premises with more options when they purchased 83 Rokeby Road, on the opposite side of their original site, closer to Hay Street.

Vern takes up his story again:
“Because the electrical business was going so well, and growing so fast at that stage, the tyre and battery side was ‘put on the shelf’. Besides, there were a number of other bigger tyre companies opening up in the area. So, they switched their focus to the electrical business, which boomed because of the close relationship the business had with Subiaco and its people.

“Dad said that he was pretty glad to see the back of the tyre and battery business because of the smells. They would vulcanise the rubber to patch the tyres and recap them and the stench of burning rubber would fill the air.

“And then there were the batteries, bubbling away with their harsh acid-smell they created while they were recharged. Combine that with the steam from the boiler and unbearable heat of the furnace, all confined within the walls of a solid brick property, originally designed as a shop, with no ventilation, it was not only unpleasant but also a fire trap.”

Pictured: Our original premises, 140 Rokeby Road, Subiaco

Excerpt from our book: ‘100 Not Out’ by Ross Addison

 

AN ‘ELECTRIFYING’ TIME (cont.)

Young Cecil Hiddlestone, or ‘Cec’ as his name, like his brother Bert’s, would also be shortened to, didn’t care too much for school and spent all his weekends and spare time helping his older brothers out in the shop and on job sites. He was keen to join Howard and Bert and would, in years to come, play a major role in shaping the future of the family business.

Even back then, the idea of a ‘mixed business’ outlet was taking root – with Howard running his growing electrical business from premises that would later also house an automobile tyre and battery service. One half of the shopfront was for the range of car batteries, tyres and a retreading and repair services and the other side was for their electrical wiring and contracting business, with Bert overseeing the smooth running of both businesses.

In an interview Vern Hiddlestone, Cec’s son, gave to the Subiaco Historical Society in the late 1980s, Vern recalled memories of the business related to him by his father:

“Howard, Dad’s oldest brother, was interested in radio and was quite the pioneer, building some of those early valve radio sets. The brothers all loved their sport and always used to listen to the cricket broadcast from England. Howard built these major towers, at least 50 metres high, with all these insulators and wires hanging off them that he would feed into the shop so they could listen to the cricket.

“His interest in, and knowledge of radio, led him to serve as a motorcycle dispatch rider in the Army during WWI. He was a Sapper who was attached as a signaller in the famous 10th Light Horse, while his father and my grandfather, Albert was a Corporal who served in Egypt.

“When he returned from the war, he used the radio repair skills learned in the Army to add a radio repair service as part of the electrical business he opened in 1920.

“Dad said that, as the company grew, they added more ‘luxurious’ transport to their work fleet – a Model T Ford and an old Chrysler. Apparently, the place was always pretty busy. In response to growing demand from automobile drivers, they also set up a battery business that proved very popular.”

Pictured: Young Cec with sister Isabel holding radio aerials built by brother Howard, listening to early radio

Excerpt from our book: ‘100 Not Out’ by Ross Addison

HOWARD’S CLAIM TO FAME

According to Howard Hiddlestone’s daughter Eunice, his one big claim to fame from his service in Egypt during WWI was that he met Colonel T.E. Lawrence, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.

The story goes that Howard encountered Lawrence coming out of the desert on a camel while Howard was in the process of delivering a message as a motor-bike dispatch rider. Lawrence hailed Howard and asked if he could escort him to the battalion HQ, which Howard, not knowing who he was, did as instructed by his superior officer.

As a thank you, Lawrence then invited Howard to join him for a drink and took him into the Officer’s Mess. Being an ordinary rank soldier, Howard declined, saying that he would get into trouble. Colonel Lawrence apparently didn’t stand on ceremony and said to Howard, “They wouldn’t
dare do anything to you. Not when you are drinking with Lawrence of Arabia.”

Pictured: Father & son in AIF uniform, WWI (Albert Hiddlestone, left & son Howard, right)

Excerpt from our book: ‘100 Not Out’ by Ross Addison

#lestweforget

AN ‘ELECTRIFYING’ TIME

The year was 1920 and 22-year old Howard Hiddlestone, a young ex-soldier not long returned from the Great War with big dreams and a vision for the future, slowly pushed his rickety old push bike in a southerly direction up Rokeby Road in Subiaco towards King’s Hall, where his newly opened business was based.

His trusty pair of pliers and wooden-handled screwdriver rubbed uncomfortably in the back pocket of his overalls, adding to his feeling of weariness after a long day on the tools. Distracted by the irritation in his back pocket, he nearly dropped the old step ladder that was balanced precariously on his shoulders, as he steered his bicycle up the hill.
The modern wonder of electrification had not long come to households and businesses in Perth and the town of Subiaco, itself a fairly recent incarnation, just a stone’s throw from the city centre down along Hay Street, the recently sealed road that linked Perth to Subiaco.

Young Howard had seen the potential to service this exciting new utility and had initially established H. Hiddlestone Electrics in the hope of building a successful business.

Howard was the only qualified electrician in the family. After starting his working life as a technician with the Post Master General’s Office (the ‘PMG’ as it was known), he volunteered to serve in the AIF with his father, Albert, and the other brave young Western Australian men, who signed up to defend King and Country.

Fortunately, Howard and his father returned safely from the war and, under the auspices of a Federal Government scheme to help veterans integrate back into the workforce, Howard decided to try his hand as an ‘electrical wireman’ in this relatively new industry, no doubt seeing the opportunities that would open up as electrification gained popularity with local residents and businesses.

He had plans for his younger 13-year old brother Cecil, to join him as his apprentice and other brother Albert, who everyone called ‘Bert’, was already on board handling the walk-in trade to their King’s Hall premises.

Pictured: A young Howard Hiddlestone posing for the camera on his dispatch rider’s motorbike in Egypt during WWI

Excerpt from our book: ‘100 Not Out’ by Ross Addison

#lestweforget

 

CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO SUBIACO

Without the foresight and courageous commitment of three determined brothers, Hiddlestone Electrics would not be here today celebrating 100 years of service to the fledgling little Perth settlement, whose name was taken from a small order of Benedictine monks, from Subiaco in Italy, who settled the area in the early 1850s.

Without the foresight and courageous commitment of three determined brothers, Hiddlestone Electrics would not be here today celebrating 100 years of service to the fledgling little Perth settlement, whose name was taken from a small order of Benedictine monks, from Subiaco in Italy, who settled the area in the early 1850s.

When Howard, Albert (Bert) and Cecil (Cec) formed H. Hiddlestone Electrics in 1920, the last thing on their minds would have been the creation of a 100-year family dynasty, that would remain forever faithful and steadfast to its local roots.

Subsequent generations continued to maintain and grow the family business by never losing sight of the core values of loyalty, service, quality and value that determined the company’s enduring success in an environment where many larger, more high-profile business endeavours came and went. Despite rapid advances in technology and digital innovation, Hiddlestone Electrics will continue to remain successful and relevant in years to come by focusing on the delivery of the ‘good, reliable service’ promised by company stalwart, the late Vern Hiddlestone, to all customers in his beloved Subiaco and surrounding area.

Pictured: Albert and Esther Hiddlestone with two of their children, Albert (on knee) and Howard standing
 
Excerpt from our book: ‘100 Not Out’ by Ross Addison