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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 Our Historic Garden & Pathway Lighting
Lifetime Warranty on Brass Construction
Plastic landscape lights crack and fade within years. Cheap metal corrodes and dents. Our garden lights are handcrafted from solid brass—the same material that survives centuries on historic architecture. The substantial construction and quality materials are backed by lifetime warranty against defects. This is the last landscape lighting you'll ever buy, developing character alongside your gardens rather than becoming replacement projects.
Highly Customizable
Your garden isn't cookie-cutter, so your lighting shouldn't be either. Old Penny finish arrives as bright copper, developing unique patina based on your climate. New Verde offers instant aged appearance. Textured black or bronze powder coats provide weather-resistant color that coordinates with your home or recedes into landscaping. Beyond finishes, choose from dozens of filigree patterns—floral motifs, wildlife designs, or geometric patterns. Mix styles and heights to create compositions as unique as your landscape.
Low Maintenace
Your gardens demand enough attention without adding finicky lighting to the maintenance list. These fixtures require occasional wipedown—that's it. No complicated electronics, no fragile parts, no seasonal winterization. The robust brass construction and quality LED components provide reliable illumination season after season while you focus on the plants, not the fixtures lighting them.
I’ve been a fan of Old California Lighting for years. We bought a porch light and mailbox from them that we love, so when it came time to add landscape lighting, we knew where to start. I wasn’t sure which finish to choose, so I called to ask for advice—and I’m so glad I did. I didn’t realize that the Old Penny finish naturally patinas to a dark brown, similar to the New Verde. When the fixtures first arrived, they were a bright brass (just as described), which made me a little nervous. But the team had assured me they would weather beautifully within a few months. In fact, they developed a gorgeous patina in just a few weeks—even though we live inland. The lights are perfect, the quality is outstanding, and I couldn’t be happier with the result.
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 two or three years. Solar panels lose efficiency over time, batteries need replacement every couple years (or less), and cloudy weeks mean dim or dead lights when you need them most.
Equally important, 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.
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Keeping Your Garden Lighting Beautiful
Brass fixtures in landscapes require minimal maintenance while providing maximum durability. Wipe fixtures down monthly with a damp cloth to remove pollen, dust, and debris—this takes minutes. If you've chosen living finishes like Old Penny, embrace the patina development rather than fighting it. The changing appearance is part of the beauty, reflecting your garden's specific conditions and your fixture's unique aging process.
LED bulbs mean you'll rarely replace them—when you eventually do, access is simple. The solid brass construction handles weather extremes, from tropical humidity to desert heat to northern winters. These fixtures are designed for decades of service with minimal fuss, letting you focus on your plants rather than your lighting. The lifetime warranty means any material or workmanship issues get addressed—this is genuinely the last landscape lighting you'll need to buy.