Landscape Lighting Blog

If you’ve lived in the Valley long enough you’ve probably had this experience. You install outdoor lights, they look great for a while, and then stuff starts failing. A fixture…

Almost every home I work on in the East Valley has a pool. That’s just how it is out here. Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, Queen Creek, it feels like 80 percent of the houses were built…

I’m going to date myself here but when I first started doing landscape lighting the standard was halogen MR16 bulbs in every fixture. That’s just what everyone used. Brass…

I talk about backyards a lot. Probably too much. But the front yard is where initial impressions happen and truthfully most people in the Phoenix area are completely ignoring it…

This is the question. Like THE question. Every single consultation I do in the East Valley, somebody asks it. “Sam, if I put all these lights on my house am I basically ringing…

Here’s something I end up saying to almost every customer — your backyard is your biggest room. Seriously. In Phoenix we’re living outside like nine months out of the year. But…

Alright let’s just get into the money because I know that’s what’s stopping most people from picking up the phone. You see the price for a professional Gemstone Lights install…

re so caked with dust they’re barely putting out any light. This is the number one thing I see when I pull up to a house in Mesa or Gilbert for a consultation. Beautiful yard,…

OK so before you even say it — yes, I know. “Sam, my HOA won’t let me swap a mailbox without three forms and a blood oath.” I hear you. And honestly you’re probably right that…

If you live in the Phoenix Valley, you know that our “Golden Hour” is something special. But once that sun dips behind the White Tank Mountains, your beautifully curated desert…

Let’s be honest: most people in the Phoenix Valley don’t think twice about their outdoor lights until a monsoon rips a cheap plastic fixture out of the ground or the 115-degree…

or decades, the ritual of holiday decorating has remained the same: dragging heavy ladders out of the garage, untangling nests of green wires, and risking life and limb to clip…