Outdoor Lighting Guide
The full planning walkthrough: what to light, fixture types, brightness, color temperature, controls, and common mistakes.
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Resources
Read Before You Spend
Planning guides for homeowners deciding what to light, and how much.
Overview
The best-lit properties belong to homeowners who asked good questions first.
Landscape lighting is one of the few home improvements where the difference between a good result and a mediocre one is almost entirely decisions, not materials. Where fixtures go, how bright they run, and what stays dark matter more than the brand on the housing.
These pages cover the decisions in the order they usually come up, so you can arrive at a walk-through already knowing what you want.
Where to start
Six places to read next.
Start with the guide if you are early. Jump straight to pricing or process if you already know what you want.
Pricing Guide
The six factors that move a landscape lighting quote up or down, and where money is worth spending.
Read GuideOur Process
Stage by stage, from the first walk of the property to the night-time aiming pass.
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Low-voltage basics, fixture life, trenching, timers, and repairing an existing system.
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Where we work around Bakersfield, and how lot size and planting change a lighting plan.
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Finished work by area, which is often the fastest way to explain what you want.
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How to use these
Bring a list, not a fixture catalog.
The most useful thing you can hand us is a list of the areas that disappear at night and a sentence about how you want the property to feel. Everything else — fixture type, optic, spacing, transformer size — comes out of the walk-through.
If you would rather arrive with opinions, the guide covers the decisions that are genuinely yours to make: how bright, how warm, and how much of the property to light at once.