Enjoy Your Landscape After Dark
Outdoor Lighting Installation in Seattle
Outdoor lighting in Seattle can change the way you experience your landscape after sunset. A pathway becomes easier to follow, a tree becomes part of the view from the kitchen, and a patio feels ready for dinner long after the sun has gone down.
For homeowners who already work with us for regular yard maintenance, outdoor lighting can also be added as a one-time landscape improvement, giving the yard a new dimension.
If you want to conquer the dark side of your landscape, we can design and install lighting that reveals the parts of your yard you love most. Landscape lighting guides movement, highlights plants, and makes gathering spaces more comfortable to enjoy.
As a full-service landscaping company, we can also include landscape lighting as part of a backyard transformation featuring patios, pathways, pergolas, planting, and irrigation.
Guide the Way
Pathway lighting helps define routes through the landscape and makes steps, walkways, and transitions easier to see while improving safety at your property.
Highlight What You Love
Uplighting can reveal the structure of walls, trees and larger plants after dark, creating depth and drawing attention to parts of the landscape that disappear at night.
Stay Outside Longer
Lighting around patios, pergolas, outdoor kitchens, fire pits, and seating areas can make the space feel ready for dinner, conversation, or a quiet evening outside.
Landscape Lighting Design
Outdoor Lighting Options
We choose lighting systems based on what you want to see, how you use the space, and what makes sense for the landscape.
For most residential landscape lighting projects, we work with energy-efficient LED and low-voltage systems.
Low-Voltage Landscape Lighting
Low-voltage lighting uses a lower electrical voltage than standard household power and is commonly used for residential landscape lighting. It works well for pathways, gardens, patios, trees, and other outdoor features.
LED Landscape Lighting
LED fixtures use less energy and have long service lives, making them a practical choice for outdoor lighting systems. We use LED landscape lighting for both functional and accent lighting throughout the landscape.
Pathway & Step Lighting
Pathway lights and step lights help illuminate circulation through the landscape while keeping the lighting low and integrated into the surrounding planting and hardscape.
Accent & Uplighting
Accent lighting directs attention toward specific features such as trees, planting, retaining walls, architectural details, or other focal points.
Area & Gathering-Space Lighting
Area lighting provides broader illumination around patios, seating areas, outdoor kitchens, and other places where people spend time outdoors.
Solar Landscape Lighting
Solar lighting can work well for some applications. Seattle’s seasonal daylight and overcast conditions make system selection especially important, so we evaluate whether solar lighting is appropriate for the location and intended use.
Outdoor Lighting for Seattle Landscapes
Seattle landscapes provide plenty of inspiration to highlight: mature trees, curved gardens, narrow side yards, sloped entryways, patios tucked behind homes, and dramatic light changes between summer and winter. We design outdoor lighting around those conditions.
We also consider the practical side of installation, including existing irrigation, drainage, planting, pathways, and access. When we’re already working on a larger landscape project, we can coordinate lighting with the construction rather than treating it as a separate afterthought.
From Lighting Plan to Evening Glow
Once we know what you want the lighting to do, we design a lighting plan and take care of the installation.
Our team places fixtures, runs wiring, connects the system, and adjusts the lighting from the perspective of your landscape.
We look at the result after dark, make adjustments, and make sure the system works as intended.
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1. Plan
We identify what should be illuminated and how you move through the space. We look at the landscape as a whole before deciding where the fixtures go.
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2. Design
We consider pathways, planting, trees, patios, architecture, sightlines, and the way light will move through the space after dark.
We also think about what you will see from inside the house. Sometimes the best-lit part of a landscape is the tree outside the kitchen window. -
3. Install
We place fixtures and connect the low-voltage lighting system.
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4. Adjust
We fine-tune the direction and intensity of the light once we can see the landscape at night.
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Outdoor Lighting Considerations
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What type of outdoor lighting is best for Seattle homes?
LED low-voltage landscape lighting is a practical choice for many Seattle homes because it is energy-efficient, durable, and suitable for pathways, gardens, trees, patios, and outdoor living spaces.
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How much does landscape lighting cost in Seattle?
The cost depends on the number of fixtures, the areas being illuminated, the electrical system, and installation conditions. We can provide a project-specific proposal after understanding your landscape and lighting goals.
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Do you install low-voltage landscape lighting?
Yes. We design and install low-voltage landscape lighting systems for residential properties in Seattle and nearby communities.
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Do you install LED outdoor lighting?
Yes. We install LED landscape lighting for pathways, planting areas, trees, patios, entrances, and other outdoor spaces.
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Can outdoor lighting improve safety?
Yes. Properly placed pathway, step, entrance, and area lighting can improve visibility and make movement through the landscape easier after dark.
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Can you add lighting to an existing landscape?
Yes. We can design and install outdoor lighting within an existing landscape, working around established planting, trees, patios, pathways, irrigation, and other features. Check out our deck for more details.
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Do you install solar landscape lighting?
Yes. We can install solar lighting when appropriate for the location and intended use. Seattle’s seasonal daylight and overcast conditions are important considerations when choosing a solar system.
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Can outdoor lighting be part of a larger landscape project?
Yes. Contact the team, and we can coordinate outdoor lighting with landscape design and construction, including patios, pathways, pergolas, planting, irrigation, and other landscape improvements.
