Night Owl Portfolio

A one-of-a-kind property, nestled between towering bluffs in the heart of the Madison city area, that needed its nighttime presentation to be as dazzling as its daytime. This stunning site was being replanted with native plant material and landscaped with large stone elements and a water feature to tie the entire project back into its native surroundings and make it look as if it had always been there.

To bring to light a beautiful home and property with a variety of lighting needs in the yard all around the home. The goal was to light the front of the home, front walkway, custom engraved address stone down by the road, back deck, stairs, patio, and a large sprawling oak just inside the edge of the woods on the property. The client desired a smart control system and a creative solution for replacing old deck lighting.

Homeowners who had inherited an outdated and inefficient halogen system were looking to update to state-of-the-art LED products as well as move to a more contemporary fixture style to properly compliment the property. It was also important to find a unique way to bring light to the back deck and highlight some of the garden art they had brought with them from their previous residence. The long, winding driveway had existing lighting as well that needed to be updated.

A beautiful Brookfield property with stately landscape features in need of improvement in some areas, and new designs in others. It was important that the landscape lighting be flexible to accommodate future expansion and changes. The client visited Japan several times and has an affinity for Asian-style gardening, sculptures, and architecture. It is evident that this style was incorporated into the daytime landscape, but the client wanted it brought to life at night.

Milwaukee County’s Boerner Botanical Gardens is a destination of choice for park-goers and garden enthusiasts. When it comes to durability in landscape lighting equipment, it doesn’t get tougher than cast bronze fixtures. Materials such as cast bronze, copper, and cor-ten steel for the construction of the fixtures because they ensure lighting system longevity.

An award-winning landscape design in Franklin was in need of an updated outdoor lighting system to bring the garden back to the forefront of the evening. The entire original lighting system was removed and redesigned. All light sources would now be LED. Two 1000 watt transformers were replaced with one 600 watt transformer. Attention was paid to the beautiful garden shed in the back yard as well as the perennial garden that runs along the property border.

Landscape plant and outdoor lighting in Pewaukee with many mature maples, oaks, and honey locust trees. Landscape path lighting was installed throughout the perennial beds surrounding the house with up lighting used sparingly on a Japanese Tree Lilac and a Clematis on a trellis, the latter of which cast an artistic shadow on an otherwise featureless side of the house.

A stately Mequon home with a unique front entry consisting of four white pillars extending up to two floors. New landscaping in front and two well-formed crabapples rounded out a potentially stunning nighttime scene. The client desired landscape lighting to highlight their home’s characteristic white pillars, new landscape, and specimen plants, and add residential security.