Sep 28, 2026
I get a certain phone call every spring and fall and it goes about the same way every time. Somebody had their yard redone, the new landscaping looks great, and half the lights don’t work anymore. Sometimes none of them work, or the landscaper pulled every...
Sep 19, 2026
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...
Sep 11, 2026
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...
Sep 4, 2026
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...
Aug 31, 2026
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...
Aug 23, 2026
When I’m demoing permanent trim for somebody, the app is usually where I lose them for a second. I’ll pull out my phone and start swiping through colors on their own roofline, and there’s this little pause while they work out that the thing does...
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