Outdoor Lighting

If you’re looking for landscape lighting in Alexandria, VA or anywhere else in the D.C. metro area, consult the experts at Creative Irrigation & Lighting. We’ll help you dramatically transform your outdoor space with landscape lighting solutions.

Custom lighting solutions guided by both function and style make a visual impact on your home and landscape. The result is stunning, increases safety and security and is cost-saving.

Outdoor path lighting, patio lighting, garden lighting, and other types of exterior lighting can transform an outdoor space and create the perfect ambiance for living and entertaining. A successful system should be a methodical balance of light and shadows. It will underscore the architectural features of your home while the surrounding foliage is feathered in a warm glow.

Increasing visibility in transition areas, elevation changes, pathways, and dark corners with a gentle touch will increase your safety with security lighting. You will be impressed at the visual impact complete architectural-grade LED upgrades can have on your home and landscape that are both practical and beautiful.

LED landscape lighting guarantees years of hassle-free illumination at a lower cost than halogen systems. Control your illumination with dependable astrological timers or smartphone-based apps.

Security.

Increasing visibility doesn't have to come at the expense of subtlety! Transition areas, elevation changes, pathways, and dark corners are lit with a gentle touch, providing just the right amount of brightness in just the right places. Safety and style go hand-in-hand with our unique designs.

Artistry.

Having designed lighting systems for 20 years, we’re a lighting company that understands how brightness plays on different surfaces and in different spaces. We excel not only at getting lights installed, but creating individual designs that are both practical and beautiful. If you have an irrigation system with us, we can make your new lighting system play perfectly off of your lawn and plant life as well.

Smooth Transition From Day to Night.

Your enjoyment in your outdoor living space, landscape, and hardscape doesn't have to end at sunset! Entertain, relax, and enjoy your unique creation in a whole new light.

Cost savings.

Our architectural-grade LED landscape path light fixtures and lamps guarantee years of hassle-free illumination, and at a fraction of the cost of halogen. We also offer solar powered options.

Control.

High quality lighting options abound. From dependable and straightforward astrological timers to smartphone-based apps, dusk to dawn outdoor lighting controls have never been more customized. We design each system’s control based on the particular needs of every client.

Professional Design and Installation.

Our landscape lighting designs are subtle, original, and creative. Our installations are clean, efficient, and professional. See the “difference by design” when you work with us.

TThe Finest Names In the Industry.

Lighting is design -- and it demands flexibility. We select fixtures from a variety of industry-leading manufacturers, allowing us to stay as close to your vision as possible. We never sacrifice style or suitability.

Outdoor Wall Lighting

A stone house with walls accented by outdoor wall uplighting

Accentuate the positive with outdoor wall uplighting, which gently emphasizes the architectural structure of your home while keeping a good balance to the eye. Whether it’s beautiful stone, brick, columns or other details, a great lighting plan showcases the very best of your home’s design and layout.

The exterior of a brick doorway accented by outdoor wall lighting

Drawing focus to columns or other unique portico pieces with gentle facade lighting creates additional visual appeal and interest.

An off-white brick house lit up by outdoor wall uplighting

It’s important to create balance in your design, both horizontally and vertically. When working with stone or brick patterns, it’s best to create interest with shadows. It would be a shame to front wash this beautiful stonework!

Path Lights

A floor lamp lighting an outdoor patio stone staircase

Properly designed floor lamps artfully guide family and friends to a welcoming front door, gazebo or patio. Path lights can also serve as a guide for your outdoor spaces if you’re utilizing them at night. Get more use out of our outdoor living room/dining room by setting your automated lighting system to turn on at night.

Outdoor path lights providing a nighttime viewing experience to a home’s garden

In addition to elegantly brightening transition areas, path lights create small scenes that combine different textures and colors to create a memorable space.

Path lights hidden among the bushes lighting up a rock path at night

Where possible, it’s better to offset fixture placement for a more pleasing look. Hide the path lamps among your beautiful foliage to create a mysterious yet delightful nighttime experience.

Spotlights

Down lighting adds an air of magic to your patio.

A row of ferns backlit against a wall by spotlights

Throwing shadows on a wall or fence can create a beautiful scene.

The exterior wall of a house covered by two silhouettes of trees produced by spotlights

Creating a silhouette against a wall or fence can add more interest than typical uplighting.

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