Landscape Lighting · Green Hills, TN
Light TN, a Burns studio, designs landscape lighting for the established, in-town lots of Green Hills and the surrounding Nashville neighborhoods.
Landscape Lighting in Green Hills, TN
Green Hills is rebuilding itself one lot at a time. The mid-century ranches that filled the neighborhood after the war are coming down, replaced by larger Georgian and Tudor homes — but the trees stay, and the lots are generous enough to hold them. Landscape lighting here works with the constant, not the construction: the mature canopy and the established lawn that outlast whichever house is on the lot. Light TN is a landscape lighting designer based in Burns.
The trees are the reason. A Green Hills lot often carries an oak or maple older than anyone on the street, and it sets the whole composition. We light it from the crown and the base, and shield the source below eye level, so from the sidewalk you read the lit tree and never the fixture tucked in the bed beneath it.
What an In-Town Green Hills Lot Asks For
Green Hills lots are larger than most of in-town Nashville, with room a tight lot never has. That space lets the design breathe — a tree uplit, a bed grazed, a path lit — and because a replanting fills in over time, we aim for the canopy the lot will hold in five years, not just today.
The homes replacing Green Hills' ranches are Georgian, Colonial, and Tudor — brick and stone, symmetry, a centered entrance. We graze that masonry with warm, even light and balance the landscape to it, in matched runs rather than scattered points, so the new house and its grounds read as one composition.
An in-town lot has neighbors close on both sides, so spill is the discipline. We shield and aim each fixture to the property line, keeping the light on your trees and beds and off the house next door — the kind of restraint a close-set Green Hills street rewards and a careless install ignores.
Why Green Hills Trusts Light TN
Daryl Bentfield designs every Green Hills project himself and is on site with the crew — the designer who walks your lot is the one who aims the lights after dark. Light TN holds a 4.9-star rating across more than 100 verified reviews, installs to licensed contractor CE-D: 76580 standards, and backs the work with manufacturer lifetime fixture warranties, a one-year workmanship warranty, and an annual fixture failure rate under 1%.
Green Hills Areas We Light
FAQ
No — the studio is in Burns, and Light TN comes into Green Hills for the work. Daryl Bentfield walks the lot for the on-site assessment, so the design fits the mature trees, the new or original house, and the neighbors close on either side.
No — on a Green Hills lot, controlling spill is the whole discipline. Light TN shields and aims each fixture to your property line, so the light lands on your trees and beds and stops there, with nothing washing onto the house next door.
Light TN can design the landscape lighting to a new Green Hills build, coordinating wire runs before the lawn goes in and matching the lighting to a Georgian or Tudor facade, so the grounds are lit to the architecture from the first night rather than added on later.
Yes. Light TN lights mature Green Hills canopy from the crown and trunk, and buries the wire to it with the L2 Line Layer, a trenchless machine and the only one in the Nashville market, so an established lawn or root zone stays intact.
This page is landscape lighting — the trees, beds, and paths of the grounds. The full Green Hills outdoor lighting page brings that together with architectural, roofline, audio, and smart-control lighting for the whole property.
It depends on the street. Many Green Hills properties do not sit inside a subdivision with a formal architectural review process, so lighting changes often move ahead without a separate approval step. A few streets do have an association, so Light TN can check with you before installation if you're unsure.
Moonlighting is uplighting mounted high in a tree, aimed back down through the branches to cast a soft, natural-looking glow on the ground. Green Hills' rolling terrain and dense canopy are well suited to it. Light TN uses moonlighting to light a sloped yard evenly without a row of ground-level spotlights.
Yes. Daryl Bentfield designs every system with room to re-aim fixtures as trees and shrubs fill in, which matters in Green Hills where mature canopy keeps growing. A well-placed fixture today should still be well-placed in five years, with only minor adjustment.
No, not in any meaningful way. Standard low-voltage landscape lighting does not function as a deer deterrent or attractant. If deer move through your Green Hills yard, that's driven by the plantings and cover nearby, not the lighting.
Either order works for Light TN. We install before new landscaping goes in when possible, since the L2 Line Layer can bury wire while beds are open, but we also light established yards all the time. We coordinate the schedule around any open trenches or concrete work.
It's rare, and Light TN backs it either way. Our solid brass and copper fixtures run under a 1% annual failure rate, carry a manufacturer lifetime warranty, and our installation work carries a 1-year workmanship warranty, so a failed fixture in a Green Hills yard gets diagnosed and replaced without a fight over who's responsible.
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