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Landscape Lighting
The yard doesn't have to disappear at sunset.
For a good stretch of the Colorado year it's dark before dinner. Without lighting, everything you spent money on out front vanishes at five o'clock, and the walk from the driveway to the door turns into a guess.
We install low-voltage LED systems: path lights along walks and steps, uplights on the trees and stonework worth looking at, and softer fixtures near seating so the patio still works after the sun goes. Low voltage means shallow cable and fixtures that are safe to handle, which makes it a far smaller job than running line-voltage lighting through a yard.
Lighting a yard well is mostly restraint. Too many fixtures at full brightness and the place reads like a parking lot. We aim for a few bright moments 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 with their foot.
A timer or photocell handles the rest. Lights come up at dusk and shut off when you want them off, instead of burning until sunrise.
What's included
Low-voltage LED path lighting for walks, steps, and driveways
Uplighting for mature trees, stone, and architectural features
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
From November into January the sun is down before 5 p.m. along the Front Range, which is most of the hours anyone actually sees the front of your house.
Ice and packed snow on steps are the real winter hazard here. Lighting the edge of every step and any change in grade is worth more than lighting anything decorative.
Freeze-thaw is hard on buried connections and on fixtures sitting where snow gets piled and shoveled. Placement matters as much as which fixture you buy.
Common questions
- Will this run up my electric bill?
- LED landscape lighting 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, usually along bed edges and walk lines where a spade cut is enough, and lawn recovers quickly. The transformer mounts near an exterior outlet.
- Can I start small and add more later?
- Usually, as long as the transformer still has capacity. Tell us up front if you're thinking about a second phase and we'll size the transformer and run the cable with that in mind, so the next step is a fixture and a connection instead of starting over.
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