Outdoor Lighting · Franklin, TN
Light TN is a landscape lighting designer based in Burns, serving Franklin and Williamson County — every system designed on-site and rendered before we dig.
Outdoor Lighting in Franklin, TN
Outdoor lighting in Franklin is rarely a few path lights. On these properties it is a full system — the trees and gardens, the facade and rooflines, the drive and the outdoor rooms — designed to work together after dark. Light TN designs outdoor lighting in Franklin around the property itself, not a fixture catalog.
Franklin runs from the Victorian and Federal homes of its fifteen-block historic district to newer estates in Westhaven, Laurelbrooke, and out toward Cool Springs. Each asks for a different hand — we light an old brick facade with restraint and warmth, and a new estate from its architecture and its young landscape both, so the system fits the house it belongs to.
We run every Franklin project the same way. Daryl Bentfield walks the property, you approve a photorealistic rendering before we dig, installation meets licensed contractor CE-D: 76580 standards, and we return after dark to aim every fixture — the work behind more than 500 Middle Tennessee projects since 2020.
Outdoor Lighting Services in Franklin
Franklin's mature canopy — sugar maples, red and Shumard oaks — is the heart of most designs here. We moonlight and uplight specimen trees, graze established beds and stone, and light the long approaches of Williamson County estates.
View Landscape Lighting in FranklinFrom the brick of a historic-district home to the stone and gables of a new Westhaven estate, we light the facade from the architecture itself — warm, shielded, glare-controlled — so the house reads at night the way it was built to.
View Architectural Lighting in FranklinA complete lighting plan, independent of installation — renderings, fixture specs, and zone layouts for owners, designers, and custom-home builders. The design fee is credited when Light TN installs the system.
View Outdoor Lighting Design in FranklinCommercial-grade LED set into the soffit or fascia for warm white year-round and full color when you want it. One installation replaces seasons of temporary lighting — designed to the rooflines, never a strip of holiday lights.
View Permanent Roofline LightingEven, high-fidelity sound across the pools, covered porches, and outdoor kitchens Franklin homes are built around — so music carries the patio without pushing past the property line, wired to the same standard as the lighting.
View Outdoor Audio in FranklinApp-based zone control, scene programming, and astronomical scheduling, with Control4, Lutron, Crestron, and Savant integration on Franklin's larger estates. The lighting comes up warm at dusk on its own.
View Smart Lighting SystemsInstallation to licensed contractor CE-D: 76580 standards, by the studio that designed the plan. Across an established Franklin lawn we bury wire with the L2 Line Layer and aim every fixture after dark.
View Outdoor Lighting InstallationFacade, landscape, and approach lighting for Franklin's offices, retail, and hospitality — the same restraint as our residential work, for a composed nighttime presence and safe, even coverage.
View Commercial Outdoor LightingWe run low-voltage cable beneath an established Franklin lawn without trenching, using the L2 Line Layer — the only machine of its kind in the Nashville market — to wire a property on Williamson County's heavy clay without scarring the grounds.
View Trenchless Wire BurialWhy Franklin Is Different
The fifteen-block historic district carries Victorian and Federal homes the Heritage Foundation has protected for decades. Lighting there has to stay warm, low, and shielded so period brick and clapboard read the way they were built to — never washed out.
Westhaven, Laurelbrooke, and the larger Williamson County lots come with mature trees, long drives, pools, and outdoor kitchens. These reward a single coordinated system — landscape, architectural, audio, and control designed together — over a scatter of fixtures.
Franklin keeps building — Classic Southern estates, farmhouses, and European-stone customs. We light a new home from its architecture and its young landscape both, designing for how the trees will fill in so the system still fits at maturity.
Historic & Luxury Franklin Homes
A historic home near Main Street wants subtle placement and warm light against brick and mature plantings. A new estate in Westhaven wants its architecture, its pool, and its young landscape lit as one system. The right plan starts with the house in front of us.
Larger lots change the engineering as much as the look — long wire runs, zone separation, transformer placement, and the canopy of a mature tree all shape where light belongs. Where a trench would scar an established lawn, we bury cable with the L2 Line Layer and leave the landscape intact.
Franklin properties are built to be lived in outside year-round — covered porches, outdoor kitchens, pools with stone and water features. We light those spaces to be used after dark and design the audio and smart control alongside them, so the whole rear of the property works as one composed environment.
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Light TN holds a 4.9-star rating across more than 100 verified reviews, with clients pointing to the same things: Daryl is personally involved, the crew communicates, and the system still performs season after season.
FAQ
Light TN is based in Burns, about thirty minutes west, and designs and installs throughout Franklin and Williamson County. Daryl Bentfield comes to your property for the on-site assessment, so the plan is drawn on the land — whether it is in the historic district or out in Westhaven.
Landscape, architectural, and roofline lighting, outdoor audio, smart control, full installation, commercial lighting, and trenchless wire burial — usually as one coordinated system for a property rather than separate add-ons.
Yes — with the restraint preservation calls for. Warm, low-output, shielded fixtures that complement Victorian and Federal brick rather than overpower it, with the hardware kept out of sight.
No. On Williamson County's heavy clay, we bury low-voltage wire with the L2 Line Layer, a trenchless machine and the only one in the Nashville market, so cable goes in without trenching and mature turf and beds stay intact.
Every Franklin project starts with a photorealistic rendering of your property at night, which you approve before any fixture goes in the ground. Changes are made on screen, not in the yard.
We light the whole rear of a Franklin property — pools, covered porches, outdoor kitchens, and water features — and design the audio and smart control alongside it, so the spaces you use after dark work as one environment.
Daryl works directly with the custom-home builders, architects, and landscape designers across Williamson County, delivering a complete lighting design — renderings, fixture specifications, and zone layouts — that can stand alone or be installed by Light TN.
Each Franklin system is designed to the property, so cost follows its size and scope rather than a set package. Daryl provides a firm number with the design, after walking the property; the on-site design consultation is complimentary.
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