Landscape Lighting Installation in Charlotte, NC

Good landscape lighting is planned around what needs to be seen, not around how many fixtures fit. We walk the property and mark where people actually move after dark — the path from the driveway, the steps down to the patio, the edge of a seating area — and which features are worth showing: a tree, a stone wall, a planting bed.
From that walk comes a layout: where each fixture goes, what it lights, and how the cable runs back to the transformer. Too many fixtures or light aimed toward the house or the neighbors is as much a problem as too little, so the layout aims for even, low light where it is useful and darkness where it is not.
We plan the layout, place fixtures, run low-voltage cable, and connect the lighting system to a transformer. If a new exterior outlet or changes to household electrical wiring are required, that work should be coordinated with a licensed electrician.

Lighting falls into two groups: light that makes the yard safer to walk through, and light that shows the landscape itself. Most projects use both.

A low-voltage system runs from a transformer that steps household power down for the fixtures. Its size and location are planned around the number of fixtures, the length of the cable runs and where an exterior outlet is available.
Systems are set to come on and off automatically, and the layout leaves room to add fixtures later if the landscape grows or a new patio or bed is added.

Lighting is easiest to install while other work is under way. When a paver patio or retaining wall is being built, cable is routed before the surface is finished and fixtures are set into walls, caps and steps as they go up — nothing has to be cut or lifted afterwards.
Lighting can also be added to an existing yard as a separate project. Cable is run through beds and along edges, and the layout works around the hardscape and planting already in place.