Landscape Lighting — Lynnwood, WA
Low-voltage landscape lighting for Lynnwood homes — path and step lights, uplighting, deck and patio fixtures, smart controls and repairs to systems that have stopped working. From October to March here it is dark by five, which is most of the evening you actually use the yard.
Good lighting is mostly restraint. A few fixtures placed where the eye needs them, aimed so you see the path and the tree rather than the bulb. A garden lit evenly all over reads like a car park.
What This Covers
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Deciding what actually needs lighting before a single fixture is chosen: the route from the car to the door, every change in level, and the one or two trees worth looking at. Fewer fixtures placed well beats more fixtures spread evenly.
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Low fixtures that wash across the surface rather than shine back into your eyes. Every change in level gets light on the tread, because the step nobody can see is the one that actually hurts someone.
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Fixtures set at the base and aimed up the trunk into the canopy, which is what gives a garden depth after dark. Shielded and angled so the light lands on the tree and not in a neighbour's bedroom window.
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A transformer sized with headroom for the run and for whatever gets added later, cable buried at a sensible depth, and connections made to survive being wet. Most systems that fail out here failed at a connector.
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Fixtures recessed into deck boards, stair risers and railing posts, plus downlights under rails and eaves. Warm, low output, aimed down — enough to read the edge of a step without anyone sitting in glare.
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Grazing light across stone, cedar and siding to bring out texture, and soft wash on entries and garage bays. This is the lighting that makes a house look finished from the street at night.
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Astronomic timers that follow sunset through the year instead of a fixed clock, plus app and zone control where you want it. Set once, and the system tracks the season on its own.
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Swapping failed halogen fixtures for LED, tracing shorts and voltage drop in existing runs, replacing corroded connectors and re-aiming what is already there. Most tired systems need a transformer and three fixtures, not a full rebuild.
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The common mistake is treating lighting as coverage. What makes a garden look good after dark is contrast — a lit path against a dark lawn, one tree standing out, and the fixtures themselves out of sight. Flooding everything removes the contrast, and the effect goes with it.
Low-voltage cable is easiest and tidiest to run during a build, alongside the irrigation, before the paving and the planting go in. Dropping a sleeve under a walkway takes minutes while it is being laid, and means not taking it up later.
None of which is a reason to wait. If the landscape is already in, cable goes through existing beds with very little disturbance, and the planting closes back over it within a season.
CONTACT US
If you would like to request service or a consultation, please contact us by phone, email or use the form below.
Common Questions
Cost tracks fixture count, run lengths and whether a new outdoor circuit is needed for the transformer. A handful of path and uplights on an existing circuit is a small job; lighting a whole property with zones and controls is a much larger one.
Low-voltage lighting runs under 30 volts and generally avoids the permitting that line-voltage work triggers. But installing a new outdoor circuit or transformer feed is electrical work, and rules differ by jurisdiction. Washington requires 811 utility locates before any cable trenching.
Quality LED fixtures typically run 15 to 20 years, far longer than the halogen fixtures they replaced. The parts that fail first are usually connectors and the transformer, not the lamps, which is why most tired systems need repair rather than replacement.
That is voltage drop. On a 12-volt system, long runs and too many fixtures on one line leave the far end short of voltage. The fix is resizing the cable, splitting the run, or using a transformer tap with more headroom.
Yes. Retrofitting through established beds and lawn is routine work, and cable can be trenched shallow and tucked along bed edges. It is tidier and cheaper to sleeve during a build, but a finished garden is no obstacle.
An astronomic timer tracks sunset as it shifts through the seasons, so the lights follow the actual evening rather than a fixed clock. Here that matters, because sunset moves from roughly four in the afternoon in December to after nine in June.
Where We Work
From our base in Lynnwood we work across thirty cities in both counties. Low-voltage lighting sits under 30 volts, so it avoids most of the permitting that line-voltage work triggers — but any new outdoor circuit or transformer feed is electrical work, and the rules change between jurisdictions. Washington also requires 811 utility locates before cable trenching, wherever the job is.
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How It Works
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Send the form or call (425) 648-9443 and tell us what you want to use the space for after dark. Photos in daylight, plus a couple taken at night, show us more than a description can.
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We walk the property, agree what is worth lighting and what the paving actually has to do, check the power and the access for materials, and confirm anything that needs a permit before quoting.
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Our own crew does the base work, the paving and the wiring — and we come back after dark once the planting is in to aim and adjust the fixtures, which is the part that decides how it all looks.
Free consultation across Kirkland, Lynnwood and Redmond, WA.
