Custom Outdoor Lighting Designed for Your Home

Custom outdoor lighting is a property-specific system designed around your home, landscape, architecture, and how you use exterior spaces after dark. Rather than using a standard fixture package, the design considers pathways, entries, decks, patios, trees, garden beds, focal points, brightness, beam angles, and color temperature. The goal is a cohesive effect that improves beauty, safety, and nighttime usability.

Low-voltage lighting uses a transformer to reduce household power for landscape fixtures, typically to 12 volts. It is an energy-efficient approach suited to paths, planting beds, trees, patios, and architectural accents. Landscape Lighting Designers Plus works exclusively with low-voltage landscape fixtures, avoiding 120V house-mounted lighting. Proper design and installation provide dependable illumination while preserving a softer, more integrated appearance.

The consultation begins with a discussion of your goals, such as curb appeal, safer walking routes, security visibility, entertaining, or highlighting mature landscaping. Craig Collins evaluates the property layout and key features, then explains how fixture types, placement, beam spread, and illumination levels can work together. You receive a customized concept based on your home and preferences, without a one-size-fits-all approach.

Yes. Consistent, well-positioned exterior lighting improves visibility around entrances, driveways, garages, walkways, and perimeter areas. It can make it easier for residents and visitors to navigate the property while reducing dark, unlit zones. Security lighting is most effective when it is planned as part of the overall landscape system, providing useful coverage without creating excessive glare or a harsh appearance.

A custom system can illuminate entryways, front walks, driveways, decks, stairs, patios, pool surroundings, garden beds, specimen trees, stonework, façades, pergolas, and other landscape features. Uplighting, downlighting, path lights, deck lights, and accent fixtures each serve different functions. A site-specific plan determines which techniques best support visibility, atmosphere, and architectural or landscape emphasis.

Low-voltage LED landscape lighting is designed for energy-efficient operation. LEDs use significantly less energy than older lighting technologies and are well suited to systems with multiple fixtures throughout a property. Actual operating cost depends on the number of fixtures, wattage, run time, and control settings. A carefully designed plan helps deliver meaningful illumination without using more light than the space requires.

Installation timing depends on the property size, fixture count, access conditions, and complexity of the design. Smaller, focused projects may be completed more quickly than comprehensive plans covering pathways, gardens, decks, patios, and architectural features. During the consultation, the project scope can be reviewed so you understand the anticipated installation sequence. The team also prioritizes clean completion and leaving the property in original condition.

Landscape Lighting Designers Plus supports long-term customer relationships, including ongoing maintenance and future lighting projects. Homeowners may choose to expand an existing system with additional deck, patio, garden, or feature lighting as outdoor spaces evolve. A review of the current system can identify opportunities to improve coverage, update fixture placement, or add lighting that complements the original design and power capacity.