Landscape Lighting

Landscape lighting design is one of the areas of landscape architecture we enjoy the most.

A landscape lighting designer should understand the voltage and wattage of a system. Those are essential to designing and building the system correctly. There are also various other complexities to consider, such as voltage drop, size of the system, and others.

The artistic part of designing landscape lighting is what's the most fun for me. There's no one right answer, but there are a lot of wrong ones. In a landscape design, I use light in many ways, depending on the home, surrounding plants, and hard elements such as patios, driveways, walkways, and others. I also take into account my client's artistic tastes. Depending on the home's architecture and materials, up lighting and wall-washing areas with big swaths of light can have a fun effect. These techniques add interest when the home is made of a high-texture material such as stone or logs.