Residential Lighting
Residential Lighting — Interior, Exterior, Controls
Ambient, task, accent — installed cleanly and controlled the way you want. Recessed cans that align, under-cabinet strips that hide their wire, landscape paths that survive the mower, and the switches to run all of it the way you actually live.
Interior lighting
Inside the house — layered by purpose.
A well-lit room is almost never one light. It is ambient plus task plus accent, on their own controls, layered to the way the room is used at 7 am, at 7 pm, and at midnight.
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Recessed lighting.
Aligned to the room, spaced to the ceiling height, and set to the correct beam angle for what is underneath — a kitchen island, a hallway runner, a reading chair. Cans matched to insulation contact where the ceiling calls for it.
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Under-cabinet lighting.
Direct-wired strips or pucks with the driver hidden in the cabinet, dimmable, on a switch above the counter. Task lighting for kitchens, workshops, and vanities that eliminates the shadow the overhead fixture always throws.
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Decorative light fixtures.
Pendants, chandeliers, sconces, vanities — hung level, wired to the correct box rating, and dimmed to a source that matches the bulb. Fixture selection is yours; hanging it right is ours.
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LED lighting upgrades.
Full conversion from incandescent, halogen, or older CFL to LED. Colour temperature matched across the room so a kitchen does not read cool in the ceiling and warm at the counter.
Exterior lighting
Outside the house — safe, weather-resistant, controlled at dusk.
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Landscape and pathway lighting.
Low-voltage or line-voltage runs, transformer sized to the fixture count, buried where the code and the mower both require it. Photocell or astronomical timer at the transformer so the path lights come on when they should.
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Security and motion-activated lighting.
Motion floodlights around entrances and garage bays, wired to a dedicated switch inside so the homeowner can leave them on manually. Dusk-to-dawn photocells where continuous coverage matters more than motion.
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Patio and entertainment-area lighting.
String lights on a covered porch, wall sconces on an outdoor kitchen wall, recessed soffit lights over a grill. All on weather-rated fixtures, on a switch inside, dimmable where the fixture allows.
Lighting controls
Dimmers, timers and scenes — the switch behind the room.
Every LED fixture on a dimmer needs a dimmer rated for it. Every timer needs to know the schedule you want it to run. Every scene needs a controller a family can actually use — big buttons, labelled clearly, and repeatable at 2 am. We install and label the controls to match how a room is actually used.
Smart-lighting controls — scenes, voice commands, motion-triggered rules — bridge naturally into the wider smart-home lane. When a lighting job also touches switches, sensors and hubs, the whole thing lives on the Smart Home Solutions page.
A note on LED honesty.
Not every LED upgrade is a big saver. The real gains come from replacing incandescent, halogen, or older CFL fixtures on circuits that run long hours — kitchens, exteriors, common areas, and any lighting that gets left on because nobody wants to walk back to the switch. Swapping already-LED fixtures for slightly newer LED fixtures is a preference decision, not a payback decision, and we say so up front.
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Smart Home Solutions
Lighting controls are the entry point to most smart-home installs. Scenes, sensors, voice.
Start the whole-home lighting read
Two minutes to map ambient, task and accent across every room worth lighting to standard.
Panels & Service
Whole-home lighting on new dedicated circuits starts at the panel. If the panel is full, that decision comes first.
Planning a lighting refresh — or a full whole-home rethink?
The 2-minute qualification gathers the answers we need to sequence the work by priority.