Lighting a Casita, Guest House or Detached Garage

Lighting a Casita, Guest House or Detached Garage

A lot of houses in the Valley have something out back. Could be a casita that got built for the in-laws, or a guest house that turned into a home office a few years ago and never really turned back. And almost every time I’m out doing a design, the main house...
The Lighting That Comes From Up in the Tree

The Lighting That Comes From Up in the Tree

Most of what people picture when they think of landscape lighting comes up from the ground, a fixture sitting in the gravel pointed at a tree or a wall. That’s uplighting and we do a ton of it. But the effect customers end up loving the most, when I can talk...
Why I Only Put Brass and Copper Fixtures in Arizona Yards

Why I Only Put Brass and Copper Fixtures in Arizona Yards

Every so often somebody sends me a link to a landscape light on Amazon that costs about twelve dollars and asks if we can just use those. I get why. If you’re lighting twenty spots in the yard and the fixture I’m quoting costs several times that, the math...
What Actually Happens on Install Day

What Actually Happens on Install Day

People ask me a lot of good questions before they sign off on a lighting project. What fixtures, what it costs, how long the LEDs last. But the question I get least often is the one I’d probably ask first if I were the customer, which is: what is this actually...