Landscape lighting for the GTA. Come home to somewhere else.

Most complete residential systems in the GTA fall between $3,000 and $28,000. A focused front-of-house design with 10 to 20 brass fixtures runs $3,000 to $5,500. A fully designed property — front, approach and primary rear space, 20 to 35 fixtures — runs $5,500 to $11,000, and that is where most homes land. Pool decks, hardscape and app-controlled zoning put a project in the $11,000 to $21,000 range. Multi-acre grounds with custom controls start around $28,000. Every range includes fixtures, wire, transformers, trenching, commissioning and warranty. Per fixture that is $250 installed at the front-of-house end and nearer $400 on estate grounds, where wire and transformers scale faster than fixture count does; a custom finish or optic adds about $150. The minimum project is $3,000.

Because a drawing can't tell you how a property reads. Beam spread, mounting height and how a facade answers a grazing angle depend on the actual stone, the actual canopy and the actual sight line from the road — two houses with identical plans get different lighting. So we arrive with a portable kit of the same brass fixtures we install, mark every position on the property, and show you the effects on your own architecture. Every effect in the final design is one you already approved standing in your own driveway.

Yes, and we install both — it's a second service line, not an add-on. True Audio buried subwoofers and distributed satellite speakers on Sonos amplification, zoned with the lighting and run from the same app. The two systems want the same trench, so installing them together costs meaningfully less than retrofitting audio into a finished lighting install and means the zones line up: one patio scene brings up the patio lights and the patio speakers together. A single-zone patio system runs $4,500 to $9,000 installed.

Yes. A $195 flat inspection documents every fixture, zone, transformer and connection in writing, regardless of who installed it or what brand is in the ground, and tells you honestly what's worth keeping. Solid brass fixtures with failed lamps are usually salvageable — roughly half the systems we inspect keep at least their transformer and trunk wire. Pitted aluminum housings, twist-cap connections in soil, or a transformer loaded past 90% of rating are reasons to phase in a replacement. From there you can go on a maintenance plan, repair, or do nothing.

About a third, and the restraint is the whole craft. Light everything and you get a flat, over-exposed yard where nothing stands out because everything competes — the look most people are thinking of when they say they don't want landscape lighting. We choose the elements worth seeing: the facade, two or three specimen trees, the entry, a stone feature, the grade changes you walk on. Everything else stays dark on purpose. The unlit space between two lit trees is what makes either of them read, and it's why a well-designed system uses fewer fixtures than people expect.

Not if it's aimed properly, and that's most of what commissioning is for. The principle is simple: your light belongs on your property, not in someone's window and not in the sky. We use shields, glare guards and hex louvres on anything aimed up, full-cutoff fixtures wherever a downlight will do, and 3000K at low output rather than brightness turned up to compensate for bad aiming. That is the dark-sky principle and we build to it by default: light aimed down, sources shielded, nothing spilling past your property line. A correctly designed system is visible as lit stone and lit canopy — you should never be able to look directly at a source from a neighbouring property or from the road.