Landscape lighting in Gainesville, FL
Outdoor lighting for the oaks, the walk, the porch and the roofline. Warm, low and placed where it flatters the house, from Haile Plantation to Ocala.
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Same house, same night
Drag the line, or flip the switch. The left is the house as it stands after sunset. The right is the same house with uplights on the oaks, path lights, a facade wash and permanent roofline lights.
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Build your look
Turn on one kind of light at a time and see what each does to the house. Whatever you leave on goes into your quote request.
What we light
Everything outside the walls, from a single path to a lake lot with a dock.
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Landscape lighting
Uplights in the oaks, soft pools on the walk, warm light on the brick.
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Permanent roofline lighting
LED points tucked under the eaves that stay up all year.
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Holiday light installation
Rooflines, trees, porch columns and wreaths, hung for you and taken down after the season.
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Dock and lake lighting
Light the walk down to the water, the edges of the dock and the shoreline trees, so evenings on the lake are safer and the view from the house carries all the way to the water..
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Pool cage and lanai lighting
A screened pool or lanai is the room Florida families use most on warm nights.
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Landscape lighting repair
Dead fixtures, a whole side of the yard out, lights that come on at the wrong time.
What a lighting quote is built from
There is no honest flat price for landscape lighting. Five things set the number for your yard. A good quote lists each one, so you can compare quotes like for like.
Read the full cost guide- Number of fixtures
- The biggest factor. A walkway might need six, a big oak two or three on its own.
- Fixture quality
- Solid brass and copper last outdoors in Florida. Hardware-store aluminum often does not.
- Transformer and wire runs
- How far the lights sit from power, and how many runs it takes to reach them.
- Controls
- A simple timer, a photocell, or app control with scenes.
- Terrain
- Roots, pavers and beds take more care than open lawn.
Gainesville first, Ocala too
Gainesville and Alachua County
Big oaks, brick walks and deep porches. Most of the work is here.
Questions people ask
How much does landscape lighting cost in Gainesville? It depends mostly on how many fixtures your yard needs. A free quote gives you a real number for your house.
Price comes from the fixture count, the fixture material, the transformer and wire runs, and the controls. A front walk is a small job; oaks, the facade and the back yard together are a bigger one. Ask for a quote with a fixture count and the brand, so you can compare like for like.
Do permanent roofline lights look bad during the day? Done right, they are hard to see. The track sits under the eave and matches the trim.
Permanent systems mount in a slim channel tucked under the eave or fascia, painted or chosen to match. From the street in daylight they read as part of the trim, and at night they do warm white, team colors, or holiday scenes from an app.
Will uplights hurt my live oak? No. Fixtures sit on stakes in the ground near the trunk, nothing is nailed or screwed into the tree.
Uplights are staked in the soil a short way off the trunk and aimed up. Wire is buried shallow and routed around big roots. LED fixtures run cool, so there is no heat on the bark.
My landscape lights stopped working. Can you fix a system someone else installed? Yes. Ask for a repair visit and describe what is out.
Common causes: a tripped GFCI outlet, a timer reset after a power outage, a failed transformer, a cut wire from edging or irrigation work, or corroded connections. A repair visit tracks down which one it is.
Do you cover Ocala and The Villages? Ocala and Marion County, yes. Ask about The Villages when you request a quote.
Most work is in Gainesville and Alachua County, with Ocala and Marion County covered too. Put your address in the quote form and you will hear back about your area.
See your house like this tonight
Send the address and what you want lit. The quote is free.