Landscape Lighting · Hendersonville, TN
Light TN designs landscape lighting for the waterfront homes of Hendersonville and the Old Hickory Lake shoreline, from its studio in Burns.
Landscape Lighting in Hendersonville, TN
Hendersonville has more Old Hickory Lake shoreline than any city on it — twenty-six miles across two peninsulas — and its most prized lots run down to the water. That changes the whole problem. A lakefront landscape gets read three ways: from the house looking out, from the yard at the water's edge, and from a boat looking back. Light TN is a landscape lighting designer based in Burns, and on these lots we design for all three views at once.
These are sloped lots — the ground falls from the house toward the water, often in terraces and steps. We light that descent for footing and for depth: step lights on the stairs down, low grazing on the retaining walls that hold the bank, and zoning that follows the grade so the walk to the dock is both safe and composed.
What a Lakefront Lot Asks For
The mature trees along the bank are what frame the lake from the house. We moonlight and uplight them so the canopy holds the view rather than blocking it, and because a shoreline keeps growing in, we plan for a tree line that will be fuller and taller in five years.
Most of these properties end at a dock, and the path to it is the spine. We light it low and warm — step lights where the grade drops, shielded fixtures along the way — so the walk down is sure-footed and the dock reads as the end of a composed landscape.
Water punishes a careless aim. A fixture tilted a few degrees too high lays a glare line straight across the surface, so we light the shoreline from above and behind and keep every beam off the lake. The reflection in the water should be the moon, not your up-lights.
Why Hendersonville, TN Trusts Light TN
Daryl Bentfield designs every Hendersonville project himself and is on site with the crew — the designer who walks your property is the one who aims the lights after dark, at the water's edge. 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%.
Hendersonville Areas We Light
FAQ
No — the studio is in Burns, and Light TN comes to Hendersonville and the Old Hickory shoreline for the work. Daryl Bentfield meets you on the property, at the water's edge, so the design accounts for your slope, your tree line, and the view across the lake.
No — keeping light off the water is the discipline of a Hendersonville design. Light TN aims and shields every fixture so the shoreline and the path to the dock are lit while the lake stays dark, and the only reflection on the water is the sky.
Yes. Light TN lights a lakefront descent with step lights on the stairs and low grazing on the retaining walls, zoned to follow the grade, so the walk from the house to the dock is sure-footed after dark and reads as one continuous landscape.
No. Light TN keeps fixtures shielded and aimed off the water and buries 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 the bank or the lawn above it.
This page is landscape lighting — the shoreline trees, beds, paths, and dock approach. The full Hendersonville outdoor lighting page brings that together with architectural, roofline, audio, and smart-control lighting for the whole property.
Those are two different jobs. Night anglers on Old Hickory Lake often run bright, direct underwater or dock lights to draw fish to the surface. Light TN designs dock-adjacent landscape lighting to do the opposite: warm, shielded fixtures that highlight the walkway, steps, and shoreline plantings without throwing a floodlit glare across the water.
Moonlighting mounts a fixture high in a tree canopy and aims it down, so it casts a soft, natural glow across the lawn and beds below, similar to real moonlight. On lakefront lots with mature trees between the house and the water, it lights the yard without adding fixtures that compete with the lake view.
Likely, and it's a routine adjustment. Daryl places fixtures with room to re-aim, so as shrubs and trees fill in on your Hendersonville property, resetting a beam or moving a fixture a few feet keeps the design working as the landscape changes.
It's a minor repair. The system runs on 12-volt low-voltage wire, so a cut section near the lawn or the path to the dock is spliced and reburied with the L2 Line Layer, not a full re-install.
Either order usually works. Daryl coordinates the install around your project, running wire before mulch and sod when timing allows, or working around finished beds and shoreline plantings when the lighting comes later. Share your timeline at the design consultation.
Fixtures carry manufacturer lifetime warranties, and Light TN backs the installation with a one-year workmanship warranty. Solid brass and copper fixtures and an annual failure rate under 1% mean a lakefront system holds up with minimal upkeep.
Yes. Light TN's landscape lighting runs on 12-volt low-voltage current, which is inherently safer near water than standard line-voltage lighting. It's designed and installed to hold up in a lakefront environment without the shock risk of higher-voltage systems.
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