Custom Lighting Design
Receive a lighting plan tailored to your home’s architecture, mature landscaping, outdoor features, and evening goals. Each design balances beauty, safety, efficiency, and carefully placed illumination.
Turn your property into a welcoming evening retreat with thoughtfully designed outdoor nightscape lighting from Landscape Lighting Designers Plus. Craig Collins combines subtle low-voltage illumination, architectural emphasis, and practical visibility to reveal the best of your home, garden, paths, patio, or deck after dark. Every system is tailored to complement your landscape, support safer movement, and create a polished nighttime presence.
Custom low-voltage lighting techniques that improve nighttime beauty, comfort, visibility, and outdoor living enjoyment.
Receive a lighting plan tailored to your home’s architecture, mature landscaping, outdoor features, and evening goals. Each design balances beauty, safety, efficiency, and carefully placed illumination.
Define walkways, garden paths, sidewalks, and driveways with evenly spaced fixtures that improve nighttime wayfinding while giving the landscape a refined, welcoming edge.
Highlight specimen trees, stonework, columns, façades, and distinctive architectural details with upward lighting that adds depth, texture, and a dramatic yet tasteful nighttime presence.
Create soft, broad illumination from trees, pergolas, or rooflines. Downlighting can cover patios, lawns, and paths with a natural moonlit effect that avoids harsh glare.
Extend the use of pools, patios, seating areas, and surrounding hardscapes with ambient, task, and perimeter lighting designed for comfortable outdoor evenings and entertaining.
Add low-voltage stair, railing, perimeter, and under-deck lighting to improve visibility, define your deck’s layout, and make outdoor living spaces more inviting after sunset.
Outdoor nightscape lighting should feel intentional, not overpowering. Landscape Lighting Designers Plus designs low-voltage systems that layer soft ambient light with focused accents for an elegant, usable exterior. From historic DC row homes to mature Bethesda gardens and Potomac entertaining spaces, Craig Collins considers the architecture, planting, pathways, and how you use your property. The result is energy-efficient illumination that enhances curb appeal, comfort, and confidence after dark.
See how thoughtful lighting transforms outdoor spaces into beautiful, functional evening environments.
"Craig is a very nice person. You will enjoy talking with him. He is a real âlighting professional.â Thank you Craig for what you brought to this process."
"Very highly recommend! I would absolutely use Craig's service again and provide positive referrals to friends and family. Craig was amazing to work with on our exterior lighting project. He was both professional and punctual He kept every commitment he made and was communicative throughout the process. In addition to..."
"Craig was great. He didn't try to up sell me on lights. In fact, he listened to what I wanted and then gave his assessment and tweaked my idea to something more grand. The end result was amazing and regal."
"Craig did a phenomenal job at designing and installing lighting at our townhome in DC. He approaches the job with such thoughtfulness and understood exactly what we needed - beauty and safety - from our lighting design. He even started the work the day of our consultation! A week later..."
"Craig did an awesome job. He met with us a few times to get a feel for what we were looking for, made recommendations on placement and fixture type. After the installation, he came back a few times to reposition lights to ensure we got the best presentation."
"Craig is an ARTIST!!! We had Craig do some work for us 3 years ago when we first moved in, and now that we were ready to do something more substantial to brighten our backyard, we called him back. He did not disappoint! He created beautiful ambiance, with warm and..."
"Craig is a very nice person. You will enjoy talking with him. He is a real âlighting professional.â Thank you Craig for what you brought to this process."
"Very highly recommend! I would absolutely use Craig's service again and provide positive referrals to friends and family. Craig was amazing to work with on our exterior lighting project. He was both professional and punctual He kept every commitment he made and was communicative throughout the process. In addition to..."
"Craig was great. He didn't try to up sell me on lights. In fact, he listened to what I wanted and then gave his assessment and tweaked my idea to something more grand. The end result was amazing and regal."
"Craig did a phenomenal job at designing and installing lighting at our townhome in DC. He approaches the job with such thoughtfulness and understood exactly what we needed - beauty and safety - from our lighting design. He even started the work the day of our consultation! A week later..."
"Craig did an awesome job. He met with us a few times to get a feel for what we were looking for, made recommendations on placement and fixture type. After the installation, he came back a few times to reposition lights to ensure we got the best presentation."
"Craig is an ARTIST!!! We had Craig do some work for us 3 years ago when we first moved in, and now that we were ready to do something more substantial to brighten our backyard, we called him back. He did not disappoint! He created beautiful ambiance, with warm and..."
"Craig is a very nice person. You will enjoy talking with him. He is a real âlighting professional.â Thank you Craig for what you brought to this process."
"Very highly recommend! I would absolutely use Craig's service again and provide positive referrals to friends and family. Craig was amazing to work with on our exterior lighting project. He was both professional and punctual He kept every commitment he made and was communicative throughout the process. In addition to..."
"Craig was great. He didn't try to up sell me on lights. In fact, he listened to what I wanted and then gave his assessment and tweaked my idea to something more grand. The end result was amazing and regal."
"Craig did a phenomenal job at designing and installing lighting at our townhome in DC. He approaches the job with such thoughtfulness and understood exactly what we needed - beauty and safety - from our lighting design. He even started the work the day of our consultation! A week later..."
"Craig did an awesome job. He met with us a few times to get a feel for what we were looking for, made recommendations on placement and fixture type. After the installation, he came back a few times to reposition lights to ensure we got the best presentation."
"Craig is an ARTIST!!! We had Craig do some work for us 3 years ago when we first moved in, and now that we were ready to do something more substantial to brighten our backyard, we called him back. He did not disappoint! He created beautiful ambiance, with warm and..."
A personal, design-led approach to landscape lighting from consultation through completion.
Craig Collins personally designs every project, providing direct expertise without sales reps or project managers.
Exclusive low-voltage fixtures deliver safe, efficient illumination that stays harmonious with your landscape.
Twenty-one years designing for Bethesda gardens, Washington row homes, and architecturally distinctive DC metro properties.
Fully insured since 2003, with award recognition and verified reviews reflecting attentive, lasting client relationships.
Outdoor nightscape lighting is a planned arrangement of landscape fixtures that reveals a property’s architecture, trees, gardens, paths, and living areas after dark. Rather than simply adding bright exterior lights, it uses techniques such as uplighting, downlighting, path lighting, and accents to create depth, guide movement, and support comfortable nighttime use. A well-designed system balances visual appeal, safety, and energy efficiency.
Speak directly with a knowledgeable landscape lighting designer today.
Owner-led outdoor lighting design for homes across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
21 Years
Experience
Within 24 Hours
Response Time
Residential Design
Service Type
Request a consultation for your DC metro property.
Service award recognizing exceptional client experience.
4.7-star rating from 32 verified reviews.
Perfect 5.0-star rating and 500+ saves.
Tell us about your property and lighting goals. Craig will review your needs and help shape a tailored low-voltage lighting concept.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at (888) 582-8845. You can also send us a quick email at contact@landscapelightingnow.com.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at (888) 582-8845. You can also send us a quick email at contact@landscapelightingnow.com.