LANDSCAPE LIGHTING
Illuminate Your Landscape With Beauty, Safety, and Elegance
The right landscape lighting transforms your property after dark—extending the hours you can enjoy outdoor spaces, highlighting your landscape’s most beautiful features, illuminating pathways and entries for safety, and adding security through strategic illumination. A well-designed lighting system turns your landscape into a dramatic nightscape that’s as stunning as it is functional.
At Creative Concepts Landscape Management, we design and install landscape lighting systems that enhance your property’s beauty while improving safety and security. From subtle pathway lighting to dramatic uplighting of specimen trees, from welcoming entry illumination to ambient patio and deck lighting, we create custom solutions tailored to your landscape and lifestyle.
Why Invest in Landscape Lighting?
Elegance and Ambiance – Professionally designed landscape lighting creates depth, drama, and visual interest after sunset. Illuminate pathways that guide guests through your landscape, highlight the textures of tree bark and stone retaining walls, showcase colorful plantings and water features, cast gentle light across patios and decks for evening entertaining, and create a welcoming glow that makes your home stand out beautifully.
Safety and Functionality – Landscape lighting makes outdoor spaces usable and safe after dark. Well-lit pathways, steps, and entries prevent trips and falls, illuminate outdoor kitchens and grilling areas for evening use, extend the functionality of patios and decks into nighttime hours, and make navigating your property safe and comfortable for family and guests.
Security – Strategic lighting deters intruders and increases property security. Illuminated entries, dark corners near fences, motion-activated systems, and consistent nighttime visibility make your property less attractive to would-be trespassers while providing peace of mind.
Our Landscape Lighting Services:
Personalized Consultations and Design – We evaluate your property after dark to understand how light currently functions (or doesn’t), identify features worth highlighting—specimen trees, architectural elements, water features, hardscaping—and design a custom lighting plan that balances beauty, safety, and your budget.
Complete Installation – From running low-voltage lines to positioning fixtures, we handle every detail. Our installations coordinate with existing irrigation systems, drainage, plantings, and hardscapes. As a licensed landscape contractor, we ensure all work meets code and performs reliably.
System Upgrades and Retrofits – Converting outdated systems to energy-efficient LED technology, adding zones to existing systems, upgrading to smart controls with remote access, and expanding lighting to newly installed patios, decks, or landscape areas.
Maintenance and Repairs – Replacing burned-out bulbs, adjusting fixtures that have shifted, cleaning lenses, checking connections and transformers, trimming plants that have grown to block lights, and ensuring your system continues performing beautifully. Many of our landscape maintenance clients include lighting checks in their service programs.
Energy-Efficient, Environmentally Responsible Solutions:
Low-Voltage LED Systems – Most of our installations use low-voltage LED technology—dramatically lower energy consumption than traditional lighting, longer bulb life (often 25,000+ hours), reduced heat output that’s safer for plants, and lower operating costs that provide ongoing savings.
Solar Options – Solar-powered fixtures for select applications, eliminating wiring needs and operating costs entirely.
Dark Sky Compliance – We design systems that minimize light pollution through shielded fixtures that direct light downward rather than skyward, appropriate fixture placement and intensity, and designs that illuminate your property without disturbing neighbors or wildlife.
Smart Controls – Programmable timers and systems, remote control via smartphone apps for on-demand adjustments, integration with home automation systems, and seasonal scheduling that adapts to changing sunset times.
Custom Lighting Techniques:
Uplighting – Fixtures positioned at ground level illuminate trees, architectural features, or walls from below, creating dramatic shadows and highlighting texture. Perfect for specimen trees, interesting trunks and branches, and vertical elements like walls and fences.
Downlighting – Fixtures mounted in trees or on structures cast light downward, mimicking natural moonlight. Ideal for patios, decks, pathways, and creating gentle ambient lighting for outdoor living spaces.
Path Lighting – Low fixtures along walkways, driveways, and garden paths provide safe navigation while defining circulation through your landscape.
Accent Lighting – Focused illumination on specific features—sculptures, water features, container plantings, outdoor kitchens, or particularly beautiful plants.
Silhouetting – Backlighting plants or objects against walls creates dramatic silhouettes and emphasizes form.
Grazing – Placing fixtures close to textured surfaces like stone retaining walls or tree bark to emphasize texture and create visual interest.
Complete Integration:
Landscape lighting works beautifully with all our services. We coordinate lighting with new landscape installations, incorporate fixtures during hardscape projects like patios, decks, retaining walls, and outdoor kitchens, design lighting that works with irrigation and drainage systems without interference, add lighting during landscape cleanups when overgrown plants are removed and features revealed, and include lighting checks in landscape maintenance programs to keep everything functioning perfectly.
As a licensed landscape contractor serving residential and commercial properties throughout Los Angeles County, we ensure your landscape lighting is cost-effective, environmentally responsible, and beautifully integrated with your complete outdoor environment.
Ready to see your landscape in a whole new light? Contact us today for a complimentary consultation. We’ll assess your property, discuss your vision, and design a lighting system that transforms your nights.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How much does landscape lighting cost?
Costs depend on system size, number of fixtures, fixture quality, installation complexity, and whether you want basic manual timers or smart controls with remote access. A simple path lighting system might cost a few thousand dollars, while comprehensive lighting for a large property with uplighting, accent lighting, and smart controls costs more. We provide detailed quotes during complimentary consultations.
What’s the difference between low-voltage and line-voltage lighting?
Low-voltage systems (typically 12V) are safer, more energy-efficient, easier to install, and better for most landscape applications. Line-voltage (120V) systems are sometimes used for very large properties or specific commercial applications. We primarily install low-voltage LED systems for residential landscapes.
How long do LED landscape lights last?
Quality LED fixtures typically last 25,000-50,000+ hours—potentially 10-20 years of nightly use. They’re far more durable than traditional bulbs, use significantly less energy, produce less heat, and require minimal maintenance.
Can you add lighting to my existing landscape?
Absolutely. We frequently add landscape lighting to established landscapes, working carefully around existing plantings, irrigation systems, hardscapes like patios and decks, and other features. Installation typically involves minimal landscape disruption.
Will landscape lighting damage my plants?
Not when properly installed. Low-voltage LED systems produce minimal heat, fixtures are positioned to avoid direct contact with foliage, and we coordinate with plant healthcare practices. In fact, thoughtful lighting can enhance plant displays and help you enjoy your landscape’s beauty after dark.
Can I control landscape lighting from my phone?
Yes. We install smart controllers that connect to your Wi-Fi, allowing remote control via smartphone apps. Adjust schedules, turn lights on/off remotely, create custom scenes for different occasions, and monitor energy usage—all from anywhere.
What is Dark Sky compliant lighting?
Dark Sky compliant fixtures minimize light pollution by directing light downward rather than up into the sky. This reduces glare, respects neighboring properties, preserves night sky visibility, and is more environmentally responsible. Most of our residential installations use Dark Sky friendly designs.
Do you maintain landscape lighting systems?
Yes. Maintenance includes replacing bulbs as needed (though LEDs rarely need replacement), adjusting fixtures that have shifted or been affected by plant growth, cleaning lenses, checking connections and transformers, and ensuring optimal performance. Many landscape maintenance clients include lighting checks in their regular service.
Can you integrate lighting with patios, decks, and outdoor kitchens?
Definitely. Landscape lighting dramatically enhances outdoor living spaces—illuminating decks and patios for evening use, lighting outdoor kitchens for safe food preparation, highlighting retaining walls and architectural features, and creating ambiance for entertaining. We often install lighting concurrently with hardscape projects.
Will new landscape lighting work with my irrigation system?
Yes. We coordinate installations to avoid irrigation lines, plan fixture placement around sprinkler coverage, and ensure transformers and connections stay dry. Proper coordination prevents conflicts and ensures both systems function perfectly.
What happens if I add new plantings or hardscaping later?
We can easily expand or modify your lighting system. Add fixtures to illuminate new plantings, extend lighting to new patios or pathways, adjust existing fixtures if landscapes change, and integrate new zones into your existing control system.
Can you repair lighting installed by someone else?
Usually yes. We diagnose problems, replace failed transformers or fixtures, repair damaged wiring, upgrade outdated systems, and bring older installations up to current performance standards.
Looking for complete landscape services? Beyond landscape lighting, we offer landscape installation, landscape cleanups, landscape maintenance, plant healthcare, irrigation and drainage systems, and hardscaping including patios, decks, retaining walls, fences, and outdoor kitchens.
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