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our Landscape Deserves Better Than Generic
Garden & Pathway Lighting for Historic Homes
Your gardens don't disappear at sunset—or at least they shouldn't. These low-voltage landscape lights extend your outdoor living space into evening hours, illuminating pathways for safety while showcasing the plantings, water features, and garden rooms you've cultivated so carefully. Unlike generic big-box options that you'd prefer to hide, these handcrafted brass fixtures become part of your landscape design rather than detracting from it.
Classic Garden Lights
Classic, solid roof lights represent time-tested landscape lighting in three forms: domed, flared, or pyramidal. These workhorses create predictable six-foot diameter light circles, making it easy to plan gap-free pathway illumination or strategic accent lighting. The solid roofs prevent light pollution upward, keeping illumination focused where you need it. Customize with decorative finials for subtle personalization.
Artistic Garden Lights
Artistic garden lights feature decorative filigree in their pyramidal tops—hummingbirds, butterflies, dragonflies, or geometric patterns. These fixtures are designed to be visible and attractive during daylight, becoming focal points themselves rather than hiding. They cast roughly six-foot diameter light circles directly downward while the illuminated artwork in the roof creates secondary ambient glow. Perfect for highlighting specimen plantings or creating focal points in garden beds
Garden Lanterns
Garden lanterns offer full-bodied traditional forms available in two mounting styles: bottom-mounted posts or top-mounted shepherd's crook arms. Post-mounted versions spread light evenly in all directions, ideal for pathway intersections or gathering areas. Curved-arm versions focus light downward and away from the fixture, perfect for illuminating specific areas without light spill. The widest range of decorative options—floral patterns, nature vignettes, architectural geometry—lets you coordinate with your planting themes or your home's architectural style.
Angled Pathway Lights
Angled pathway lights provide discrete illumination with slim profiles that recede into landscapes. The fixtures angle light at 45 degrees, allowing you to highlight specific features—planters, water features, architectural elements—while the fixtures themselves stay background players. Available solid or with wildlife designs (frogs, rabbits, birds) visible only when illuminated. Perfect for cottage gardens or anywhere you want light without visual clutter.
Execute Your Landscaping Ideas
Your landscape has different lighting requirements in different areas. Pathways need reliable illumination for safety. Focal point plantings deserve highlighting. Dining areas benefit from ambient glow. Water features become magical when properly lit. Understanding which fixture type serves which purpose helps you create layered, effective landscape lighting.
Why Customers Love These
Lifetime Warranty
Our garden lights are handcrafted from durable brass. The material and craftsmanship are covered by a lifetime guarantee so that you don't have to worry about the longevity of your investment.
Old Penny Finish
Our Old Penny finish is especially popular outdoors. It arrives with bright, shiny raw copper that gradually matures and patinas based on the conditions of your home's natural environment.
Low Maintenace
We manufacture lighting using reliably robust, lasting materials designed to withstand normal wear and tear. Our finishing processes also make the fixtures easy to maintain with an occasional quick wipe down.
Why We Don't Offer Solar Options
You've probably noticed we don't offer solar garden lights. That's deliberate. Current solar technology requires cheaper materials to stay affordable—they often become brittle and discolored within 2-3 years. Solar panels lose efficiency over time, batteries need replacement every 1-2 years, and cloudy weeks mean dim or dead lights when you need them most.
More importantly, solar fixtures don't match your historic home's aesthetic. The visible solar panels, bulky battery compartments, and cheaper construction create a distinctly modern, utilitarian appearance that clashes with period architecture. Your historic home deserves garden lighting that honors its era, not fixtures that scream ‘21st century compromise.’
We build garden lighting from solid brass with a lifetime warranty because it lasts generations. Your low-voltage system requires wiring once, then provides reliable illumination for decades. That's the investment your landscape and your architecture deserve.
Planning Your Garden Lighting
- Map Your Priority Areas: Walk your property at dusk and note where you need light most. Pathways you use regularly get priority. Garden features you want to showcase come next. Ambient lighting for outdoor dining or entertaining rounds out the list. Create zones rather than trying to light everything uniformly.
- Measure Pathway Spacing: Each fixture illuminates roughly a six-foot diameter circle. For continuous pathway lighting without dark gaps, space fixtures 10-12 feet apart. For accent lighting that creates individual pools of glow, space them 15-20 feet apart. Measure your pathways and feature locations to determine fixture quantities.
- Consider Daytime Appearance: Unlike fixtures that hide during daylight, many of our garden lights are designed to be visible and attractive when not illuminated. Artistic roof lights with filigree become garden art. Traditional lanterns add Old World charm. Choose fixtures whose daytime appearance enhances your landscape design rather than compromising it.
- Check Your Low-Voltage System Capacity: These fixtures work with standard 12-volt landscape lighting transformers. Determine your existing system's capacity or plan for new transformer installation. Most residential systems handle 15-25 fixtures depending on wattage and transformer size. We can help you calculate your specific needs.
- Choose Finishes for Your Climate: Coastal gardens? Old Penny copper patinas beautifully in salt air. Arid climates? Verde finish maintains its character in intense sun. Want fixtures to recede? Textured black or bronze powder coats blend into landscaping. Match your finish choice to both your aesthetic preferences and your environmental conditions.
- Enjoy Your Extended Outdoor Season: Once installed, your garden lighting transforms how you use outdoor spaces. Evening walks become events. Outdoor dining extends into fall. Your carefully curated plantings get appreciated after working hours. The investment pays dividends in expanded usability and enhanced enjoyment of your property.
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