The models are listed on the cast aluminium gate lights range for architects and dealers across India. This page is how a homeowner picks a style once the pillar is known. Measuring the cap is covered in pillar size to lantern size, and a long farm approach is in farmhouse and large gate lighting.
I have watched that choice go wrong since I was a kid in my father's workshop in Aligarh. After 35 years of making gate lights for homes, hotels and housing projects, this is what we tell a buyer before the order.
Size the light to the pillar
The most common mistake we see is a light that's too small for the pillar it's mounted on. A six-inch-wide pillar needs at least a 6×6 or 6×8 light. If your pillar is a foot wide and you've mounted a four-inch fitting on top, it looks like an afterthought, however beautiful the light is by itself.
When the cap measurement is close, go slightly larger. A small fitting on a wide pillar looks added on later.
Cast aluminium for anything outdoors
Iron lights look identical to aluminium lights in the showroom. After six monsoons, you'll see the difference. Cast aluminium doesn't rust and it doesn't corrode from moisture, which matters in India's climate of humid North Indian summers, coastal salt air and hard water. The longer comparison is in aluminium versus iron, and what a wet July does to a cheap hinge is in the monsoon note.
We've made lights in cast aluminium since 1990. The same models we sold in the early 2000s are still on homes today, and we still get calls from those customers for replacement bulbs, not replacement lights.
Finish and colour temperature
The catalogue finishes are antique gold, antique copper, matte black and raw grey. Antique is a wipe over powder coat. It hides dust longer than matte black and it will still dull, and that dulling is the wipe, not the aluminium failing. Antique gold is the most forgiving finish outdoors, because it holds warmth in direct sunlight. Matte black is the usual choice on contemporary homes, especially with cool-white LED, though it shows highway dust sooner.
Match the gate ironwork, or pick a finish that sits beside it on purpose. An accidental clash, such as ornate iron next to a finish that fights it, looks unfinished even when each piece was expensive alone. We don't print an ingress rating we haven't tested, including for a homeowner who was told to ask for one.
For the bulb, stay between 2700K and 3000K (warm white). Daylight LED at 5000K or higher outdoors makes the gate look like a petrol station at night.
One light or two
If your gate has two pillars, you need two matching lights. One head on a two-pillar gate looks unfinished, as if the second one broke and was never replaced. A single-pillar gate takes one light, centred and sized to the cap you measured.
Questions to answer before you order
- What is the exact pillar width and height?
- What finish are the gate ironwork or handles in?
- Is the gate in direct rain, or sheltered by a porch or canopy?
- Is there existing wiring, or is this a new installation?
- Is the home traditional or contemporary in style?
Holder, orders and what to send
The standard holder is B22, and the bulb isn't in the box unless the quote says so. A household order of one to five pieces is at retail list. Trade lots are a different desk, written up on About, with freight extra and billing in INR ex-works Aligarh. Download the 2026 PDF or browse the catalogue, then WhatsApp +91 70176 62533 with the pillar width and a photo of the gate. Mention if the wiring doesn't exist yet, and if a porch or canopy shelters the head, because a fully exposed pillar and a covered one are not the same weather.
Wall lanterns beside the door, hanging lights under a soffit and poles on the drive are other jobs. Don't solve them by ordering four extra gate heads. The category pages are there when the brief moves off the pillar. The range is cast aluminium gate lights.