Low voltage path, tree, facade and outdoor living lighting, designed with restraint and built for coastal conditions.
Good exterior lighting picks a small number of things worth seeing, lights those, and leaves everything else alone. The contrast is what does the work, not the wattage. A yard lit evenly, like a parking lot, is a yard nobody sits in.
It also stops the glass acting like a black mirror after sunset, which changes how the whole interior feels.
Salt air, irrigation and sprinkler overspray decide which fixtures survive five years and which do not. We use full brass fixtures throughout. Brass weathers to a patina instead of corroding through, which is what cheaper housings do within a few seasons this close to the ocean.
Cool white outdoors reads institutional and makes planting look grey. Warm sources flatter stone, wood and foliage.
You should see the lit object, not the source. Shielding, aiming and placement matter more than wattage.
Fewer fixtures, better placed, almost always looks more expensive than more fixtures spread evenly.
Transformers, connections and fixtures need to be reachable without dismantling the planting.
Sleeving and conduit go in before the hardscape does. After the paving is down, every run gets harder.
