Landscape Lighting Installation | Fort Worth & DFW

Why it matters

Roofline lighting without landscape lighting looks unfinished

A house with its roofline lit and nothing below it can look like it is floating. The light stops hard at the eave and the whole ground plane — trees, beds, drive, the walk to your front door — drops into black.

Landscape lighting is what connects the house to the property it sits on. Done together, the two read as one piece of work. Done alone, landscape lighting is still the single best value improvement you can make to how a property looks after dark, because mature trees do most of the work for you.

It is also the half most installers treat as an afterthought — a row of identical path lights at identical spacing and nothing else. That is not design, it is inventory.

“If every fixture on a property is the same fixture doing the same job, nobody designed it.”

Jaxen Wright, Owner

Fort Worth home with warm white roofline lighting and landscape uplighting across the front beds — Roofline and landscape on the same property

Single-story brick ranch with roofline and landscape lighting working together — The ground plane carries the house

The techniques

Six things, and when each one is right

Uplighting

A fixture at the base of a tree, aimed up through the canopy. On a mature live oak or post oak this does more for a property after dark than anything else you can buy. The angle matters more than the output — too steep and you light the trunk, too shallow and you light your neighbour's bedroom.

Moonlighting

Fixtures mounted high in the canopy, aimed down. The light falls through the branches and throws leaf shadows across the lawn and drive. It is the most natural-looking thing in landscape lighting and almost nobody asks for it by name, because most people have never been told it exists.

Path lighting

Low fixtures along walks and drives. The job is to make the route obvious, not to line it like a runway. Spacing is the whole game — fixtures too close together is the single most common mistake in residential landscape lighting.

Wall grazing

Fixtures set tight to a stone or brick elevation, throwing light up the face at a shallow angle. It rakes across the texture and makes the material read at night. On a Texas limestone or dry-stack facade it is worth more than three extra path lights.

Silhouetting

Light placed behind a specimen plant, aimed at the wall behind it. You see the shape, not the detail. Works on anything with a strong outline — agaves, ornamental grasses, a well-shaped Japanese maple.

Hardscape and step lighting

Fixtures tucked under caps, treads and seat walls so the light shows and the source does not. On a property with outdoor living space this is the difference between usable after dark and decorative.

“The commonest mistake in landscape lighting is too many fixtures at too high an output. It stops looking like lighting and starts looking like a car park.”

Jaxen Wright, Owner

What drives the price

Three things, and none of them is fixture count

What is actually out there

Two mature oaks and a stone elevation is a different job from a new build with young landscaping. The trees you already have are the biggest single factor in both the cost and the result.

Distance and runs

Low-voltage cable has to get from the transformer to every fixture. A deep lot with lighting at the back of the property carries more cable and more trenching than a compact front-of-house scheme.

How much you want lit

Most people start with the front — the trees, the beds, the walk and the drive. Back gardens, pool surrounds and outdoor living space are usually a second phase, and the system is built so adding later does not mean redoing anything.

We walk the property with you before anything goes in the ground, mark where fixtures land and where cable runs, and put the price in writing. There is nothing to sign on the spot.

What people say

Five stars, from people you can call

We would rather you drove past a finished job after dark than read a paragraph about one. These are verbatim from our Google profile.

★★★★★

“Jaxen and Colton did an amazing job on our lights. They gave us the options available to us and within one day our lights were installed and look beautiful.”

Terri HornGoogle review

★★★★★

“It starts with the communication from any company for me and Jaxson was great from the start. The pricing is incredibly reasonable — this is coming from a single mom so you know it has to be very reasonable!”

Lisa BuflerGoogle review

★★★★★

“Great customer service and did a great job putting lights on my house!”

Jace RollerGoogle review

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By city

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Different housing stock needs a different scheme. These go into what each one actually calls for.

Straight answers

Questions we get asked

Can I get landscape lighting without roofline lighting?

Yes, and plenty of people do. It is quoted on its own and there is no requirement to buy both. If you only ever do one, landscape lighting on mature trees usually changes a property more than people expect.

Should I do both at the same time?

If the budget allows, yes. One mobilisation, one crew visit, and the two systems get designed to work together rather than retrofitted around each other. But adding landscape lighting later does not mean touching the roofline install.

How many fixtures does my property need?

Fewer than most quotes you will get. Fixture count is the easiest thing for an installer to inflate and the hardest thing for a homeowner to argue with. We would rather put eight fixtures in the right places than eighteen in a line.

Will the lights get hit by the mower?

Fixtures are set back into beds and out of the mowing line wherever possible, and we will point out anything we think is at risk from whoever cuts your grass.

How is the wiring run?

Low voltage, below grade through beds where we can. We walk the route with you before anything goes in so you know where it runs — which matters later when somebody is planting or digging.

Do the landscape fixtures change colour like the roofline?

They can, and we will go through the options when we quote. A lot of people want warm white on the landscape regardless of what the roofline is doing; others want the whole property to change together for holidays and game days.

Landscape lighting
done with restraint

Roofline lighting without landscape lighting looks unfinished

Six things, and when each one is right

Uplighting

Moonlighting

Path lighting

Wall grazing

Silhouetting

Hardscape and step lighting

Three things, and none of them is fixture count

What is actually out there

Distance and runs

How much you want lit

Five stars, from people you can call

Landscape lighting where you are

Questions we get asked

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