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Landscape Lighting
The yard doesn't have to disappear at sunset.
For a good stretch of the year here it's dark before dinner. Everything you spent money on out front disappears at five o'clock, and the walk from the driveway to the door turns into a guess.
We install low-voltage LED: path lights along walks and steps, uplights on the trees and stonework worth looking at, softer fixtures near the seating so the patio still works after sundown. Low voltage means shallow cable and fixtures you can handle safely, so it's a much smaller job than running line voltage through a yard.
Lighting a yard well is mostly restraint. Too many fixtures at full brightness and it reads like a parking lot. A few bright spots with dark in between, fixtures angled so you see the light and not the bulb, and enough on the steps that nobody has to feel for the edge.
A timer or photocell handles the rest. On at dusk, off when you want them off, instead of burning until sunrise.
What's included
Path lighting for walks, steps, and driveways
Uplighting for mature trees, stone, and architecture
Patio and seating-area lighting for evening use
Transformer, buried cable, and fixture layout planned as one system
Timers and photocells so the lights run themselves
Adding fixtures to a low-voltage system you already have
Field notes
What 20+ years here taught us
November into January the sun is down before 5 p.m. here, which is most of the hours anyone sees the front of your house.
Ice and packed snow on steps are the real winter hazard. Lighting the edge of every step and any change in grade is worth more than lighting anything decorative.
Our freezes are hard on buried connections and on fixtures sitting where snow gets piled and shoveled. Where a light goes matters as much as which one you buy.
Common questions
- Will this run up my electric bill?
- LED draws very little, a fraction of what the old halogen fixtures pulled. On a timer it's only on a few hours a night. It shows up as a small line on the bill, not a jump.
- Do you have to dig up the yard?
- Not much. Low-voltage cable goes in a shallow trench along bed edges and walk lines where a spade cut is enough, and the lawn recovers quickly. The transformer mounts near an exterior outlet.
- Can I start small and add more later?
- Usually, as long as the transformer has room. Tell us up front if you're thinking about a second phase and we'll size it for that, so the next step is a fixture and a connection instead of starting over.
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