Outdoor Lighting Services · Middle Tennessee
A family-owned landscape lighting design studio in Burns, Tennessee — landscape, architectural, roofline, audio, smart, installation, commercial, and trenchless services, each designed to the property and aimed after dark.
Light TN is a family-owned landscape lighting designer based in Burns, Tennessee, offering outdoor lighting services across Middle Tennessee — landscape, architectural, roofline, audio, smart control, installation, commercial, and trenchless wire burial. Every system is designed to the property, rendered before we dig, and aimed after dark. Licensed contractor CE-D: 76580. Rated 4.9 stars across 100+ verified reviews.
Installed vs. Designed
Great lighting changes how your home feels at the end of the driveway, how it photographs, and how it lives after dark. Light TN is a design studio, not a fixture company — the work begins with the architecture and the landscape in front of us, never with a parts list.
We design and install nine outdoor lighting services across Middle Tennessee, and most properties use several of them as one coordinated system rather than a stack of separate jobs. What ties them together is restraint over brightness, warmth and shielding over wattage, and a finished nighttime environment that looks like it was always meant to be there.
The Difference
A contractor sells fixtures and labor. A design studio sells judgment — where the light goes, how it's shielded, what color temperature the stone wants, and what the eye should never see. On a Franklin limestone facade, a 2700K source brings the mineral tones forward while 3000K flattens them; that decision gets made on site, not in a catalog.
We specify fixtures for beam control and finish, shield the source below your sightline, and return after dark to aim every fixture on the grade. That final step — night aiming — is where the design completes itself.
What We Do
We moonlight specimen trees from the canopy, graze garden walls, and light the path without glare — designed for how a tree’s crown and a planting bed will change across five years, not just install week.
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Architectural lighting reveals the lines and materials of a home at night — the stone, the columns, the rooflines — rather than washing it in brightness. Warm, shielded, and read from the architecture itself.
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A complete lighting plan independent of installation: photorealistic renderings, fixture specifications, and zone layouts. The design fee is credited when Light TN installs the system.
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Commercial-grade LED set into the soffit or fascia for warm white year-round and programmable color when you want it. A BlueHopper / Inception certified install — an architectural system, not a holiday light show.
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Audio treated the same way as light — an ambient layer, not a pool-party PA. As an Origin Acoustics dealer, we place and tune speakers so music carries evenly and holds a conversation, without crossing the lot line.
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Tunable CCT, full color-changing capability, and AI-driven scene setting let your lighting adapt to every mood and moment — warm amber for a quiet evening, vivid color for a celebration, and a schedule that learns your lifestyle and adjusts on its own.
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Installation to licensed contractor CE-D: 76580 standards, by the studio that drew the plan. Clean wire runs, concealed fixtures, and precise aiming after dark — the details that separate designed from simply put in the ground.
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Facade, landscape, and approach lighting for offices, retail, and hospitality — the same restraint as our residential work, applied to a composed nighttime presence and safe, even coverage across entries and walkways.
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We run low-voltage cable beneath an established lawn without trenching, using the L2 Line Layer — the only machine of its kind in the Nashville market — reaching the far corners of a large, sloped lot without scarring turf.
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Daryl Bentfield walks the property with you, listens first, and reads the architecture, grade, and trees before proposing anything.
You see your property lit at night and approve the design before any fixture goes in the ground. Nothing is a surprise.
Fixtures are chosen for beam control, color temperature, and finish — not for what's on the truck — and the zones are mapped.
Built to licensed contractor CE-D: 76580 standards, with clean wire runs and cable buried trenchless on established lawns.
We return after dark to aim, shape, and balance the whole system. This is the step most installations skip.
The studio that designed the system is the one that maintains it, season after season.
Why Homeowners Choose Light TN
The person who walks your property is the person who aims the lights at night. We do not hand projects off.
You approve a rendering of the finished result first, so the system is decided on screen, not discovered in the yard.
Concealed fixtures, shielded sources, and disciplined wire runs mean you see the effect and never the equipment.
Lifetime fixture warranties, a one-year workmanship warranty, and a failure rate under 1% a year. Unhappy with the outcome? You don't pay.
Serving Middle Tennessee
From a studio in Burns, Light TN works across Davidson and Williamson Counties and the wider region. Don't see your town? Call (615) 808-8882 — we likely cover it.
FAQ
Light TN offers nine outdoor lighting services across Middle Tennessee: landscape lighting, architectural lighting, outdoor lighting design, permanent roofline lighting, outdoor audio, smart lighting systems, outdoor lighting installation, commercial outdoor lighting, and trenchless wire burial. Most properties combine several into one coordinated system.
Light TN is a family-owned landscape lighting design studio, not a fixture-and-labor contractor. The studio sells design judgment — where light goes, how it's shielded, how the property reads at night — and is also a licensed contractor (CE-D: 76580) that installs what it designs.
Light TN both designs and installs. The same studio that draws your plan installs it to licensed contractor CE-D: 76580 standards and returns after dark to aim every fixture. Design-only plans are available and credited toward installation if Light TN does the work.
Projects vary with the size of the property, the number of zones, and which services are combined. Projects over $10,000 carry a 15% deposit; smaller projects require no deposit, with payment in full on completion. The on-site design consultation is free, and you approve a rendering before any work begins.
Light TN serves Middle Tennessee from its studio in Burns, centered on Davidson and Williamson Counties — including Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, Belle Meade, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville, and Mount Juliet.
Light TN buries low-voltage cable with the L2 Line Layer, a trenchless machine and the only one of its kind in the Nashville market, so wire reaches the far corners of a mature lawn without trenching. The turf stays intact rather than being cut open and reseeded.
Light TN designs lighting, outdoor audio, and smart control as one system rather than separate add-ons. Audio is placed and tuned as an ambient layer, and Lutron, Control4, Crestron, or Savant control brings the lighting up at dusk and holds one consistent design.
Light TN is led by Daryl Bentfield, Principal Lighting Designer, who personally walks each property for the on-site assessment. He brings 25+ years of design background and 10+ years specializing in outdoor lighting, with more than 500 completed projects across Middle Tennessee since 2020.
What To Expect
We look at the property together, talk through how you use it after dark, and give you a rendering to react to before any commitment. The consultation is free.
