Custom Outdoor Lighting Design & Installation
Outdoor Lighting Company in Metairie, LA
Custom Lighting Design and Installation for Metairie Homes
Request a callback
Custom Outdoor Lighting Design for Metairie Homes
Choosing an outdoor lighting company in Metairie affects both how a property looks after sunset and how long the system holds up. LIT Outdoor Lighting designs custom lighting for homes across Jefferson Parish, working design first and installing commercial-grade fixtures with water-tight connections. Every project starts with a free consultation, where we walk the property, learn how you want to use it after dark, and put together a lighting plan built around it.
Placement is what carries a system. Our team positions each fixture to highlight architectural detail, improve visibility along walkways and drives, and hold a consistent look from the street to the back of the property. Once the installation is finished, we return after dark to aim and fine-tune every fixture.
What a Designed System Does Differently
A lighting plan starts with your house and your yard, not with a box of fixtures. We walk the property, work out what's worth lighting and what's better left dark, and then decide where each fixture goes and where it points. Uplighting a live oak from thirty feet away is a different decision than uplighting a young crape myrtle at ten, and getting that wrong is what makes a yard look lit up rather than lit well.
Plenty of companies will install outdoor lighting. Most of the time that means a few up lights and a run of path lights. A full design brings in second-story lights, downlighting from above, lights set into concrete, and dock lighting where there's water. That's the part that takes skill, and it's the part you notice every night for years afterward.
Serving Metairie and the Surrounding Area
Metairie is part of our regular service area, and the right approach changes from one part of town to another. In Old Metairie and Metairie Club Gardens, the lots are older and the live oaks are mature, so much of the light belongs up in the canopy pointed down rather than staked in the flower beds below. Around Bonnabel Place and Airline Park, houses sit lower and wider on flat lots, which favors soft washes across the front elevation over tall uplights that overshoot a low roofline. Closer to the lakefront near Bucktown, wind and salt air off Lake Pontchartrain shorten the life of anything not built for it, so fixture material matters as much as fixture placement.
We also design lighting for HOAs and for locally owned businesses and offices around Metairie. That work puts most of the priority on entrances, signage, and the walkways and parking areas people use after closing.
Built for South Louisiana Weather
Heat, humidity, heavy rain, poor drainage, and salt air near the lake are all hard on outdoor lighting. Off-the-shelf fixtures and standard wire nuts tend to fail early in these conditions, which leads to dark zones, corroded housings, and replacements every couple of seasons.
LIT installs commercial-grade equipment only, and we use sealed, water-tight connections rather than wire nuts, so moisture cannot work its way into a splice. Wire runs are buried at proper depth, and transformers are mounted where water will not collect around them. Careful installation is what keeps a system performing in year five the way it did the week it went in.
Why Homeowners Hire a Lighting Designer
Outdoor lighting is design work before it is installation work. Four things separate a designed system from a collection of fixtures in a yard.
Design Comes First
We plan the system before anything goes in the ground, fixture by fixture, based on the house, the yard, and how the property is used. Everything that follows is built on that plan.
A Nighttime Adjustment Visit
Every installation ends with a return visit after dark, where each fixture is aimed and adjusted. Daylight gives almost no indication of how a property will look once it is lit.
Commercial-Grade Equipment
Fixtures, wire, and connections are specified for long-term outdoor use in this climate, so a system holds its appearance and its output as the seasons pass.
A Family-Owned Company
LIT is family owned and operated out of Covington, and Jon and Melissa Kujawski are personally involved in every project the company takes on.
How the Process Works
From the first phone call to the final adjustment, a project runs in four stages.
Initial Call
Reach out by phone or through the website, and we will schedule a time to meet at the property.
On-Site Design Consultation
We walk the property with you, talk through what is worth lighting, and put together a lighting plan and an estimate.
Installation
Most systems are installed in one to two days once the equipment has arrived. Larger properties take longer, and we will tell you what to expect before we start.
Nighttime Adjustment
We come back after dark to aim and adjust every fixture. That visit is where the design comes together.
Lighting We Design and Install
Most Metairie projects combine several of these.
1
Downlighting from up in the canopy and uplighting at the trunk, planned around the size and shape of each tree.
2
Low fixtures set beside walks, steps, and drives, positioned so the light falls on the path rather than in your eyes.
3
Downlighting from up in the canopy and uplighting at the trunk, planned around the size and shape of each tree.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most residential systems are installed within one to two days once the equipment has arrived. Larger properties, or plans that include lighting set into concrete or run up into tall trees, take longer. We give you a realistic window once we have seen the property and know what the plan involves.
Yes, and many homeowners do. Front-of-house lighting covers what you and everyone passing by see every night, and it is a natural first phase. We plan it so the rest of the property can be added later without redoing the original work.
Large oaks are usually lit from above rather than from below. Fixtures mounted up in the canopy cast light down through the branches, which lights the yard and the walkways underneath while showing the shape of the tree. Uplighting is still used, though it is placed well back from the trunk so the canopy is not washed out.
Yes. Systems are set to turn on and off on their own, and we show you how to adjust the schedule. Separate zones can run on separate schedules if that suits how the property is used.
See Our Work
Photographs of finished projects show what a lighting plan looks like on a real property, after dark, from the angles people actually see it from.
Start Planning Your Metairie Lighting
Give your property the attention it deserves after dark with professionally designed outdoor lighting. LIT Outdoor Lighting designs and installs custom systems for homes and businesses in Metairie, LA, built to improve visibility while showing the house and landscaping at their best. Contact us today to schedule a consultation and start planning a lighting system built around your property.
Areas We Serve Across Louisiana
-
Amite
-
Eden Isle and Bush
-
Folsom
-
Hammond
-
Natalbany
-
Pearl River
-
Ponchatoula
-
Independence
-
Kentwood
-
Lacombe
-
Loranger
-
Roseland
-
Sun
-
Tickfaw
Let Us Know About Your Project
Contact Details