Jeff Wolstenholme

Benefits Of Landscape Lighting

July 1, 2026
Low Voltage Pathway Lighting
Introduction
Outdoor landscape lighting is an affordable way to beautify your home and create additional living space without costly renovations. Add a low-voltage lighting system to enhance outdoor gatherings, make your home safer by illuminating walkways, highlight architectural details, or create curb appeal.

Advantages Of Landscape Lighting

While some landscape lights can be done with high voltage lighting, the vast majority of exterior lighting is done by low voltage LED lighting now a days. By going with LED fixtures manufacturers can get more lights per transformer, giving us the ability to deliver a better experience. Another benefit of LED bulbs is that they do not get as hot as incandescent bulbs thus helping extend their run time, which means less maintenance.  Some fixture models have an integrated circuit board and LED bulbs giving us the ability to change the color of the light.

Retaining wall with low voltage landscape lights.
Retaining wall with uplights accenting the trees and the fence. Ledge lights help define the space.

Have you ever been to an all inclusive resort and wonder why it feels so perfect? So Magical? It's not by accident, one of the reasons is because they carefully designed the landscape lighting to give the perfect amount of light. By accenting trees, plants and vegetation the resort creates the perfect ambient lighting.

Resort style low voltage landscape lighting allow a path.
Resort style lighting including pathway lights and uplights.

When clients add landscape lighting, they also help enhance their home security. Well lit homes, including the exterior eliminate dark areas near entry points and helps deters potential trespassers and intruderers.  

Brick house with landscape lighting
Well lit homes creates a warm and friendly ambiance and reduces dark area around the property.

When using RGBW fixtures that change color, we can create special themes throughout the year. These lights turn pink for Valentine's Day, during Christmas they can alternate between red and green. They also turn red to mark Remembrance Day each year. EVS creates dozens of special themes which automatically turn on throughout the year creating special memories for our clients.

6 foot tall fence with low voltage landscape lights installed.
During Valentine's Day these lights turn pink for the special occasion.

"EVS created a truly magical backyard experience for us. The exterior lighting is beyond our expectations."
Mari G.
EVS Client

Expand The Living Areas Of Your Home

When creating beautiful properties, don't forget about the outdoors. Extend the living space into the exterior of the home, this gives the feeling the property is larger, more spacious. This is great for parties and those family get togethers and allows everyone to spend warm summer nights enjoying the patios, pools, and sunken garden in the perfect light.

Backyard with low voltage landscape lighting around the retaining walls.
Backyard with retaining walls and Ledge Lights to help accent the property.
Pro Tips: EVS has over 18+ years of expertise in home automation, automated lighting and more. We can help design and build the perfect landscape lighting project for you and your family.

EVS Is A Certified Lighting Professional

Installing a lighting system is a complex task. That's why it is best to hire a qualified professional. Lighting professionals are experts in layout and design, safety requirements, proper voltage requirements, and more. Their skills will help ensure a beautiful lighting system and years of trouble-free operation.

We sit down, listen and design the perfect backyard oasis based on your direct feedback!

"Jeff is very professional, detailed, thorough, and tidy in his work."
Adrionne C.
EVS Client

Landscape Lighting Tips

  1. Determine the areas you would like to accent including trees, pathways and architectural details.
  2. Select your desired fixtures including warm white or RGBW.
  3. Calculate the number of transformers and place them equally around the property.
  4. Connect each transformer together to allow them to 'talk' to each other, this allows for larger projects.
  5. Create beautiful lighting scenes that highlight the property.
Final Thoughts

EVS professionally designs and installs equipment that exceeds industry standards ensuring the highest level of install possible. We create simple, easy to use systems that the whole family can enjoy. Why bother with dozens of complicated DIY apps when there are better options, call EVS to find out what amazing system we can design for you!

Contact EVS today to see how we can help design and install a home automation system for you.

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