Landscape Lighting Design
What should be lit, how, and what should stay dark. Everything else follows from this.
Services
Everything we do happens after the sun goes down
Design, installation, repair, maintenance and LED upgrades for homes and commercial property across Greater Houston. One specialty, thirty years deep.
Residential
Eight residential services
Homes, estates, gardens, patios, pools, driveways and entrances — each one its own problem, all of them part of the same system.
Landscape Lighting Design
Landscape Lighting Installation
Fixtures, wiring, transformers and controls, installed so you notice the light and not the work.
Architectural & Accent Lighting
Stone, brick, columns, rooflines and entries — the house as the largest feature on the property.
Tree Lighting & Moonlighting
Uplighting mature trees, and moonlighting down through the canopy onto what is below.
Patio & Outdoor Living Lighting
Enough light to use the space after dark without turning it into an outdoor room with the lights on.
Pool & Water Feature Lighting
Water reflects, so the trick is usually lighting what is around and beyond it.
Pathway, Driveway & Entry Lighting
Routes and arrival, without lining the drive with identical fixtures.
Smart & Color-Changing Outdoor Lighting
Schedules, zones, dimming and colour for the evenings that call for it.
The approach
The lighting should suit the property, not the catalogue
A River Oaks estate with mature trees and a courtyard needs something different from a West University home on a compact lot, which needs something different again from an office property off the Energy Corridor.
None of them should receive the same number of fixtures in the same positions. We start with the architecture, the planting, the way the space is used and the angles it is seen from — then work out what the lighting has to do.
Commercial
Commercial property
Buildings, entrances, signs, landscaping, courtyards and campuses — lit so visitors can find their way and the property still represents the business after dark.
On a commercial site the lighting has a job before it has a look: people arriving after dark have to identify the building, read the sign and understand the route from the car to the right door. The architecture and the planting are built around that.
- Building facades, columns, stone and panels
- Entrances and the approach people actually arrive on
- Monument signs and building identification
- Walkways, courtyards and outdoor gathering areas
- Landscaping, specimen trees and water features
Aftercare
Maintenance, repair and upgrades
The part that decides whether a system still looks right in year eight. Including systems somebody else installed.
Outdoor Lighting Repair
A run gone dark, flickering fixtures, a transformer that trips, controls that lost their schedule.
Landscape Lighting Maintenance
Cleaning, re-aiming, clearing planting, checking voltage — before any of it becomes a repair.
LED Upgrades & Retrofitting
Converting an older system, keeping the fixtures, wire and transformer that are still sound.
What we install
Low-voltage LED and solid brass
Professional low-voltage LED systems: a transformer stepping the supply down, buried cable runs, solid brass fixtures and controls that follow sunset through the year.
Brass because it survives the Houston climate and takes on a patina rather than depending on a coating; low-voltage because it is safe around planting, irrigation and people; LED because warm-white output around 2700K now looks right and costs a fraction of halogen to run.
How it runs
Consultation, design, installation, night-time review
Every project follows the same shape: we walk the property and talk about what you want from it after dark; we design around what is actually there; we install; and then we come back after dark to see what it really looks like and adjust.
That last step is the one most companies skip. Lighting cannot be judged in daylight, and a few degrees of aim changes more than most people expect.
Related services
The rest of the picture
Our Design Process
How a project actually runs, from the first walk of the property to the night-time review.
Service Areas
Houston and the surrounding communities, with eight priority areas.
Projects
Finished work: residential, commercial and before-and-after.
Reviews
What customers say about the design, the installation and what happened afterwards.
About Houston Lightscapes
Family-owned, thirty years on one subject, with the owner still on the property.
Frequently Asked Questions
Eighty questions about fixtures, wiring, cost, maintenance and everything between.
FAQ
Service questions
What outdoor lighting services do you offer?
Landscape lighting design and installation, architectural and accent lighting, tree lighting and moonlighting, patio, pool, pathway and entry lighting, smart and colour-changing systems, commercial lighting, repair, maintenance and LED upgrades.
Do you work on both homes and commercial property?
Is outdoor lighting your only service?
Yes — it is not one line on a list of unrelated work. It is what the company has done for more than 30 years.
What kind of system do you install?
Professional low-voltage LED with solid brass fixtures, sized transformers and controls that follow sunset.
Do you service systems installed by somebody else?
Yes, including builder-installed lighting. Maintenance & Repair
How much does outdoor lighting cost?
It depends on the property: the number and type of fixtures, the techniques, the wiring and the controls. The design decides the number of fixtures, not a package.
Which areas do you serve?
Houston and the surrounding communities. All Service Areas
Where do we start?
A free consultation on the property. You do not need to know any lighting terminology to have it.
Free consultation
Start with the property
Tell us what you would like to see after dark. The technique, the fixtures and the number of them are our problem, not yours.