Landscape Lighting · Nashville & Middle TN
Light TN is a landscape lighting designer based in Burns, Tennessee — low-voltage systems built around the trees, beds, and grade of your property, not a fixture catalog.
What We Do
Landscape lighting is the craft of revealing the structure of a tree, the texture of a bed, the line of a path — without making the place feel lit up. Light TN designs low-voltage landscape lighting for homes across Middle Tennessee, and the work begins with the landscape itself: how the grade falls, where the canopy throws shadow, which trees deserve to be the focal point and which simply need enough light underfoot to walk safely.
We are a design studio, not a crew setting fixtures off a truck. Every plan is drawn around your property, rendered for your approval, and installed to licensed contractor (CE-D: 76580) standards by the studio that designed it.
The Craft
We light in layers — a low glow guides the path, a warmer accent grazes a stone wall, a soft wash lifts the canopy of a specimen tree. Three depths instead of one flat blast of brightness.
We shield each fixture below your sightline, so you see the effect on the tree and never the source in your eyes — and we choose a warm color temperature so brick, bark, and stone read the way they look in daylight. The goal is atmosphere and safe footing, not a property that looks floodlit.
What a System Includes
Tree uplighting & moonlighting — trunks lit from below, and soft light cast down through the branches to mimic the moon.
Path & step lighting — shielded, low-output fixtures that give footing without glare.
Bed & garden grazing — light raked across plantings and stone to bring out texture.
Accent & feature lighting — for water features, sculpture, and specimen plantings.
Low-voltage LED throughout — efficient, long-lived, and safe to run across a planted landscape.
Solid brass & copper fixtures — they patina rather than corrode, with manufacturer lifetime warranties.
Why It Matters
A landscape is alive, and it changes. A maple that reads perfectly this year will throw a wider canopy in five, shifting every downlight angle. A bed fills in. A young tree becomes the focal point of the whole yard. Designing for that is the difference between a system that still looks right in five years and one that was aimed for a single night.
It is also an engineering problem below ground. Middle Tennessee's heavy clay makes trenching across a finished lawn a scar that takes a season to heal. We bury low-voltage wire with the L2 Line Layer — the only trenchless machine of its kind in the Nashville market — so cable goes in and your established turf and beds stay whole.
Our Process
Daryl walks the property after sunset — reading tree species, grade, sightlines, and the paths that need light for footing.
We design the layered system — fixtures, beam angles, placement, wiring — and produce a photorealistic rendering of your property at night.
You approve the design on screen, looking at your own home, before any fixture goes in the ground.
Clean wire runs, concealed fixtures, and trenchless cable burial — installed to licensed contractor CE-D: 76580 standards.
We return after dark to aim, shape, and balance the system. This is where a landscape lighting design completes itself.
What Sets Light TN Apart
Daryl Bentfield designs every system himself and is on site with the crew. The designer who reads your landscape is the one who aims the lights at night.
Solid brass and copper fixtures, low-voltage LED, lifetime manufacturer warranties, and an annual fixture failure rate under 1%.
The L2 Line Layer runs cable beneath an established lawn without trenching — the only machine of its kind in the market.
FAQ
It runs on 12 volts through a transformer rather than household line voltage — safer to run across a planted landscape, gentler on the wiring, and the standard for quality residential outdoor lighting. Every Light TN system is low-voltage LED.
It's designed per property, so cost follows the size and complexity of the system rather than a fixed package. Most residential projects fall between a smaller accent system and a full estate design; Daryl gives you a firm number with the design, after walking the property. The on-site design consultation is complimentary.
We build systems to last and to be serviced, with solid brass and copper fixtures and a failure rate under 1% a year — where consumer-grade kits typically fail at 15–25%. The bigger difference is design: beam angles, shielding, and aiming separate a property that looks composed from one dotted with lights.
Daryl determines fixture count during the on-site evaluation, because it depends on what the property is for — guiding footing, lighting specimen trees, grazing a facade. We design to the result the property needs, not to a fixture quota, and you see the full plan rendered before installation.
No. On Middle Tennessee'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.
Specimen trees are often the heart of a Light TN design. We uplight trunks and moonlight down through the canopy so a mature tree becomes the structure of the nighttime landscape, alongside path, bed, and accent lighting across the property.
We use LED fixtures rated for tens of thousands of hours, in solid brass and copper housings that patina rather than corrode. Fixtures carry manufacturer lifetime warranties, the installation carries a one-year workmanship warranty, and the annual fixture failure rate is under 1%.
We design and install across Middle Tennessee — Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, Belle Meade, Green Hills, and surrounding communities. See your city's page for local detail, or book an on-site design consultation and Daryl will come to the property.
Get Started
Book a complimentary on-site design consultation with Daryl and the Light TN team.
