Low-voltage landscape lighting

Outdoor lighting goes wrong in one of two ways: too much of it, or all of it pointed at the wrong things. The aim is to light what is worth seeing and leave the rest dark.

Here the fixtures wash the front elevation and pick out the planting in the foundation beds, with a separate light on the specimen tree in the lawn. All of it is low-voltage, and the fixtures sit low and back so you are not looking into them from the driveway or the porch.

The same approach works on hardscaping, where lights set into a wall face light the steps without a fixture in sight.