Landscape Lighting
Lighting designed with the landscape rather than added after it — so the work you paid for is still there after dark.
Designed with the landscape, not added after it
Most landscape lighting is an afterthought. The patio gets built, the beds get planted, everyone stands back — and then somebody adds lights. That order is why so many yards look busy in daylight and blank at night.
We treat lighting as part of the design instead. It gets planned at the same time as the paver layout, the wall heights, the grade changes and the planting, by the same person drawing the rest of the property. The result is a yard where the good work is still visible at eight in the evening, and where the steps you have to walk down are lit because somebody thought about them on paper.
It also means one conversation instead of three. The lighting, the hardscape and the planting are quoted together, scheduled together, and answered for by the same company.
Three jobs good lighting has to do
The first is safety: steps, slopes, seating walls and the walk from the driveway to the front door should not require guesswork in the dark. The second is use — a pool deck, an outdoor kitchen or a fire pit that is unlit is a space you own and do not visit after sunset. The third is the one people notice last and appreciate longest: depth. Light placed with intent gives a yard shape at night, so the trees, the walls and the planting read as a composition instead of disappearing at the edge of a floodlight.
A plan that only does one of the three is the one that gets regretted. We design for all three at once, which is far easier to do while the layout is still on paper than after the whole yard is finished.
What we light
Lighting on our projects follows the things we build. Each of these is a decision made during design, not a fixture added at handover.
Driveways and entry walks
The approach to the house is the first thing a guest sees after dark and the last thing you see on the way in. Lighting it well makes the paver work read as intentional rather than disappearing into black.
Steps, walls and grade changes
Anywhere the ground changes height is somewhere a person can misjudge a step in the dark. Seating walls, retaining walls and stairs are the first places we look when we plan a lighting layout.
Pool decks and water
A pool deck gets most of its use in the evening. Lighting the deck edges, the surround and the planting behind it keeps the space usable without turning the backyard into a parking lot.
Outdoor kitchens and bars
Cooking outside after sunset needs light where the work happens — the counter, the grill, the bar top — separate from the softer light that makes the rest of the yard look good.
Fire features and gathering areas
A fire pit throws a lot of light on the people around it and almost none on the path back to the house. The lighting around a fire feature is planned to complement the flame, not compete with it.
Planting and specimen trees
Plants are what stop a lit yard looking like a stage set. Trees, palms and structural planting give the design its depth once the sun is down, which is why the lighting plan and the planting plan get drawn together.
Drawn by a landscape designer
Our Director of Hardscapes, Bruno Adaro, is a certified landscape designer and a Florida-Friendly Landscaping Certified Professional. He draws the planting and the hardscape, and the lighting plan comes off the same drawing — which is the whole reason it lands where it should. Lighting designed by somebody who has never seen the planting plan is guesswork with a price tag.
One project, one point of accountability
A backyard that needs a deck, a kitchen, planting and lighting is one project here, not four contractors pointing at each other. We manage the whole build end to end — one schedule, one quote, one number to call — and you talk to the same company at the start of it and at the walkthrough.
How lighting fits into the project
Nothing about the process changes because lighting is in scope. It joins the same sequence everything else follows.
We come out and look
Estimates are done in person. We walk the property, talk through how you actually use the space after dark, and look at what is already there before anyone draws anything.
The plan gets drawn with the landscape
Lighting is designed alongside the hardscape and planting by our landscape designer, so the layout, the grading and the light are settled as one set of decisions.
A written quote promptly
You get the scope in writing promptly after the visit — so you can read what is included rather than take anyone's word for it.
It gets built on one schedule
Lighting is sequenced with the rest of the project rather than bolted on at the end, and the whole build is managed by us from the first call to the final walkthrough.*
Where we do this work
We light properties within about an hour of Jacksonville and St. Johns County — north to Fernandina Beach, south as far as Palm Coast, and west through Orange Park, Fleming Island, Green Cove Springs and Middleburg. That includes Ponte Vedra Beach, Nocatee, Julington Creek, Shearwater, Durbin Crossing and eTown. If you are just past the edge of it, call anyway and we will tell you honestly whether the trip makes sense.
Wherever you are inside that ring, the process is the same: somebody comes out and looks at the property in person, the scope comes back in writing promptly after that visit, and one company answers for the design, the schedule and the build.
FAQ
Lighting questions.
Call us — a real person answers weekdays 9–5, and every inquiry gets a same-day response during business hours.
Call (904) 925-3089We design it. Our Director of Hardscapes is a certified landscape designer and a Florida-Friendly Landscaping Certified Professional, so the lighting plan is drawn against the planting, the grade and the hardscape rather than picked off a shelf at the end. That is the difference between a yard that looks composed after dark and one with a row of identical lights pointed at nothing in particular.
Landscape designYes — bring it up at the estimate, not after. Lighting is far easier to plan while the layout of the driveway, patio, walls and beds is still on paper, because that is when we can decide what gets lit and where the runs should go. It is not impossible to add later, but the earlier it enters the conversation the cleaner and cheaper the result tends to be.
It depends on how much of the property you want lit, what is being lit, and what else is happening in the project — which is why we do not publish a price list. Your estimate is done in person so the number is real, and the written quote follows promptly after that visit.
Book a free estimateMost of the lighting we do is designed alongside a hardscape or landscape project, because that is when the design decisions are actually being made. If lighting is the only thing you want, tell us when you call and we will be straight with you about whether it is a fit rather than book a visit and figure it out at your kitchen table.
If the lighting is part of a larger build, it runs on that project's schedule: engineering comes first after you approve the quote, then the permit goes to your county, and install follows once the permit is in hand. St. Johns, Clay and the beaches tend to move at a steady pace on permitting, Nassau a little longer, and Duval is genuinely unpredictable. We will tell you your county's reality before you sign.
See how a project runsRoughly an hour around Jacksonville and St. Johns County: north to Fernandina Beach, south as far as Palm Coast, and west through Orange Park, Fleming Island, Green Cove Springs and Middleburg. If you are just outside that, tell us anyway and we will give you a straight answer instead of a maybe.
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Get a Free Estimate
Tell us what you want your yard to look like after dark and we'll schedule your free in-person estimate. Your written quote follows promptly after the visit.