Landscape Lighting
Stuart Row Landscapes designs and installs landscape lighting systems for residential and commercial properties in Knoxville and East Tennessee. Good landscape lighting extends your outdoor living hours, highlights the best features of your landscape, and makes your property safer and more secure after dark.
What We Light
- Path and walkway lighting — safe navigation through the landscape with fixtures that complement the design
- Uplighting — dramatic illumination of specimen trees, architectural features, and garden focal points
- Downlighting (moonlighting) — fixtures placed in trees to cast natural, dappled light on the ground below
- Water feature lighting — submersible and perimeter lights that bring water features to life at night
- Hardscape lighting — integrated step lights, wall wash, and cap lights for patios, walls, and seating areas
- Architectural accent — highlighting your home’s facade, entries, and outdoor structures
- Security lighting — strategic illumination of entries, driveways, and property edges
Designing With Light
Landscape lighting design is about restraint as much as illumination. A well-lit landscape has contrast — bright focal points, soft ambient areas, and shadow. Flooding everything with light defeats the purpose.
Our lighting design process:
- Nighttime site visit — we assess your property after dark to understand existing light, shadow, and sight lines
- Focal point identification — what deserves to be highlighted? Specimen trees, stone walls, water features, the house itself
- Layered design — combining path lighting, accent lighting, and ambient lighting at different heights and intensities
- Fixture selection — matching fixture style to landscape aesthetic, with attention to how visible the fixtures are during daylight
- Control system — timers, photocells, and zone controls so you can adjust scenes for entertaining vs. everyday use
Technical Details
- Low-voltage LED — 12V systems with commercial-grade transformers
- Warm white (2700K-3000K) — mimics natural light, flattering to landscapes and skin tones
- Brass and copper fixtures — weather-resistant, develop a natural patina over time
- Direct burial wiring — all connections waterproof and accessible for future maintenance
- Transformer sizing — calculated for the total fixture load with capacity for future expansion
Why It Matters
Your landscape doesn’t stop existing at sunset. Lighting reveals a completely different character in your outdoor space — textures in stone, canopy structure in trees, the movement of water. A landscape designed by Stuart Row deserves to be seen after dark.
How much does landscape lighting cost?
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Landscape lighting costs depend on the number of fixtures, the area covered, and the complexity of the design. A focused lighting plan for a front entry and walkway is the starting point. A full-property lighting design covering pathways, trees, garden beds, water features, and architecture is a bigger investment. All our systems are low-voltage LED, which keeps long-term energy costs minimal.
What type of landscape lighting do you use?
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We exclusively install low-voltage LED landscape lighting. LED fixtures use a fraction of the energy of older halogen systems, produce less heat, last significantly longer, and offer better color control. We use warm-white LEDs (2700K-3000K) for a natural, inviting glow — not the cold blue light that makes a landscape look industrial.
Can landscape lighting be added to an existing landscape?
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Yes, and it's one of the highest-impact upgrades you can make. Low-voltage wiring is buried just a few inches deep, so installation causes minimal disruption to established plantings. We design lighting plans that work with your existing landscape and architecture.
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