Landscape Lighting

Landscape Lighting

Add a whole new dimension to your landscape with a low-voltage, landscape lighting system. Outdoor lighting offers numerous applications, both functional and aesthetic, designed to add lasting value to your home and property:

  • Highlight unique architectural features of your home
  • Accent trees, shrubs, flowerbeds and water features
  • Illuminate driveways, paths, entryways and steps
  • Add an elegant, candlelight mood to decks, patios, and pool areas
House Being Lit Up By Landscape Lighting Next To Tree And Trimmed Bushes — Virginia Beach, VA — Gentle Rain
Close Up Of Plants And Bushes Lit Up By Landscape Lighting — Virginia Beach, VA — Gentle Rain

LANDSCAPE LIGHTING

Add a whole new dimension to your landscape with a low-voltage, landscape lighting system. Outdoor lighting offers numerous applications, both functional and aesthetic, designed to add lasting value to your home and property:

  • Highlight unique architectural features of your home
  • Accent trees, shrubs, flowerbeds and water features
  • Illuminate driveways, paths, entryways and steps
  • Add an elegant, candlelight mood to decks, patios, and pool areas
House Being Lit Up By Landscape Lighting Next To Tree And Trimmed Bushes — Virginia Beach, VA — Gentle Rain
Close Up Of Plants And Bushes Lit Up By Landscape Lighting — Virginia Beach, VA — Gentle Rain

Our Services

Gentle Rain is fully equipped to service your lighting system. As the seasons come and go, we are your long-term partner to ensure that your landscape lights look as beautiful as the day they were first installed. To keep up with your desired lighting effects, we offer the following services:

  • Checking lighting fixtures and replacing expired bulbs
  • Clearing lenses of leaf litter, mulch and other debris
  • Adjusting and straightening fixtures if foliage has grown around them
  • Trimming and pruning around fixtures to clear branches from blocking the light
  • Inspecting transformer and electrical connections
  • Selectively relocating fixtures based on changes to your landscape

Advantages of A Professional Designed & Installed Lighting System

Increased Curb Appeal

Showcase the beautiful features of your home and gardens normally shrouded in darkness. Outdoor lighting can give your property a whole new ambiance, expanding its visual impact at night. Using specific lighting techniques, we can create dramatic focal points around your home and landscape without overwhelming your property with light.

Safety & Security

Landscape lighting offers more than beauty. A carefully designed lighting system illuminates walkways, paths and steps, providing easier and safer access for you, your family and guests. Outdoor lighting also offers valuable protection for homeowners by discouraging potential intruders.

Practical Elegance

Would you like to enjoy more hours outside entertaining friends and family? Landscape lighting expands the outdoors, making it more accessible, comfortable and inviting. Let us show you how to dramatically increase the utility of your property, allowing you to enjoy the outdoors well into the evening.

Energy Efficient

Low-voltage lighting is good for the environment and your wallet because it consumes less power. Our lighting systems operate on a 12 volt current and use about 1/3 the electricity of high-voltage systems, which operate at 120 volts. Moreover, we carefully select the appropriate transformer, wire size, and lamp wattage to maximize the energy efficiency of your system.

Worry Free

There is no possibility of electrical injury with low-voltage lighting, making it completely safe for use around children and pets. Low-voltage systems are also less expensive to install than high-voltage systems as they there is no need to disturb the landscape by digging deep trenches for installation.

Advantages of A Professional Designed & Installed Lighting System

Increased Curb Appeal

Showcase the beautiful features of your home and gardens normally shrouded in darkness. Outdoor lighting can give your property a whole new ambiance, expanding its visual impact at night. Using specific lighting techniques, we can create dramatic focal points around your home and landscape without overwhelming your property with light.

Safety & Security

Landscape lighting offers more than beauty. A carefully designed lighting system illuminates walkways, paths and steps, providing easier and safer access for you, your family and guests. Outdoor lighting also offers valuable protection for homeowners by discouraging potential intruders.

Practical Elegance

Would you like to enjoy more hours outside entertaining friends and family? Landscape lighting expands the outdoors, making it more accessible, comfortable and inviting. Let us show you how to dramatically increase the utility of your property, allowing you to enjoy the outdoors well into the evening.

Energy Efficient

Low-voltage lighting is good for the environment and your wallet because it consumes less power. Our lighting systems operate on a 12 volt current and use about 1/3 the electricity of high-voltage systems, which operate at 120 volts. Moreover, we carefully select the appropriate transformer, wire size, and lamp wattage to maximize the energy efficiency of your system.

Worry Free

There is no possibility of electrical injury with low-voltage lighting, making it completely safe for use around children and pets. Low-voltage systems are also less expensive to install than high-voltage systems as they there is no need to disturb the landscape by digging deep trenches for installation.

Lighting Techniques

Moon Lighting

Shining light down, usually from a tree, to cast shadows of branches and leaves on the ground to provide a moonlight effect. Excellent technique for gentle ambiance, as well as security without the harsh glare of traditional house flood lights.

Uplighting

This is the opposite of moonlighting and refers to shining light up, usually into a tree or other upright landscape feature, to softly accent its features. Excellent technique to bring the landscape alive at night, providing depth and beauty to an otherwise dark yard.

Path Lighting

Attractive and unique light fixtures, usually 1'-3' tall, placed next to driveways, walkways, garden paths or decks provide a low level light for beauty, safety and security.

Spot Lighting

Using a controlled intense beam to highlight the focal points in a garden such as statues, sculptures and specimen shrubs.

Cross Lighting

Lighting a tree or statue from two or more directions to reveal a three dimensional perspective.

Grazing

Shining light across the surface of a landscape feature to accent the feature's texture. Excellent technique to bring alive old stone work, brick chimneys, or walls at night, or to highlight planting contours in beds throughout the yard to emphasize the beauty of the bark on that special old tree.

Silhouetting

Placing a fixture directly behind the subject and pointing it at a vertical surface to display a dark outline of the subject to the foreground observer, creating a dramatic silhouette effect. This is a great technique to highlight trees and plants with interesting branch structure.

Shadowing

Lighting an object from the front and below to project intriguing shadows on a wall or other vertical surfaces. This is another way to highlight interesting shapes and branch structure.

Deck, Step Lights

Provide low-level, discrete lighting with these marvelous little fixtures. These fixtures are mounted under deck rails or recessed into the sides of steps to provide safety and accent lighting. Also available as hanging fixtures for structures like arbors and trellises.

Lighting Techniques

Moon Lighting

Shining light down, usually from a tree, to cast shadows of branches and leaves on the ground to provide a moonlight effect. Excellent technique for gentle ambiance, as well as security without the harsh glare of traditional house flood lights.

Uplighting

This is the opposite of moonlighting and refers to shining light up, usually into a tree or other upright landscape feature, to softly accent its features. Excellent technique to bring the landscape alive at night, providing depth and beauty to an otherwise dark yard.

Path Lighting

Attractive and unique light fixtures, usually 1'-3' tall, placed next to driveways, walkways, garden paths or decks provide a low level light for beauty, safety and security.

Spot Lighting

Using a controlled intense beam to highlight the focal points in a garden such as statues, sculptures and specimen shrubs.

Cross Lighting

Lighting a tree or statue from two or more directions to reveal a three dimensional perspective.

Grazing

Shining light across the surface of a landscape feature to accent the feature's texture. Excellent technique to bring alive old stone work, brick chimneys, or walls at night, or to highlight planting contours in beds throughout the yard to emphasize the beauty of the bark on that special old tree.

Silhouetting

Placing a fixture directly behind the subject and pointing it at a vertical surface to display a dark outline of the subject to the foreground observer, creating a dramatic silhouette effect. This is a great technique to highlight trees and plants with interesting branch structure.

Shadowing

Lighting an object from the front and below to project intriguing shadows on a wall or other vertical surfaces. This is another way to highlight interesting shapes and branch structure.

Deck, Step Lights

Provide low-level, discrete lighting with these marvelous little fixtures. These fixtures are mounted under deck rails or recessed into the sides of steps to provide safety and accent lighting. Also available as hanging fixtures for structures like arbors and trellises.

Product Information

We recognize that for the highest-quality outcome, Gentle Rain must select the very best materials for your project. Our knowledge and experience allows us to carefully select the products we use and the manufacturers we work with. Many of our manufacturers provide extensive warranties, giving you peace of mind that your investment will last for years to come.


Vista Professional Outdoor Lighting www.vistapro.com - manufacturer of professional grade residential and commercial lighting


Hadco www.hadco.com - manufacturer of professional grade residential and commercial lighting

Stone Manor Lighting www.stonemanorlighting.com - manufacturer of decorative bronze, copper and leaded stained glass fixtures


CopperMoon www.coppermoon.com - manufacturer of premium solid copper and brass fixtures


B-K Lighting www.bklighting.com - manufacturer of premium cast aluminum and solid brass fixtures


Lumière www.lumiere-lighting.com - manufacturer of high-end architectural fixtures

OUR SERVICES

Gentle Rain is fully equipped to service your lighting system. As the seasons come and go, we are your long-term partner to ensure that your landscape lights look as beautiful as the day they were first installed. To keep up with your desired lighting effects, we offer the following services:

  • Checking lighting fixtures and replacing expired bulbs
  • Clearing lenses of leaf litter, mulch and other debris
  • Adjusting and straightening fixtures if foliage has grown around them
  • Trimming and pruning around fixtures to clear branches from blocking the light
  • Inspecting transformer and electrical connections
  • Selectively relocating fixtures based on changes to your landscape

Advantages of A Professional Designed & Installed Lighting System

Lighting Techniques

Product Information

We recognize that for the highest-quality outcome, Gentle Rain must select the very best materials for your project. Our knowledge and experience allows us to carefully select the products we use and the manufacturers we work with. Many of our manufacturers provide extensive warranties, giving you peace of mind that your investment will last for years to come.


Vista Professional Outdoor Lighting www.vistapro.com - manufacturer of professional grade residential and commercial lighting


Hadco www.hadco.com - manufacturer of professional grade residential and commercial lighting


Stone Manor Lighting www.stonemanorlighting.com - manufacturer of decorative bronze, copper and leaded stained glass fixtures


CopperMoon www.coppermoon.com - manufacturer of premium solid copper and brass fixtures


B-K Lighting www.bklighting.com - manufacturer of premium cast aluminum and solid brass fixtures


Lumière www.lumiere-lighting.com - manufacturer of high-end architectural fixtures

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