Serving Tigard, OR
Landscape Lighting in Tigard
Path and step lighting for Bull Mountain slopes and layered gardens in Summerfield and Metzger.
- Licensed, bonded & insured — OR CCB #219290
- Free on-site design consultation
- Solid brass & copper fixtures built for Oregon rain
- In-house crews — design, install & service
Landscape Lighting · Tigard
Landscape Lighting in Tigard, OR
Tigard landscape lighting depends a lot on which part of Tigard you're in. Established neighborhoods like Summerfield and Metzger have the mature plantings that make layered garden lighting worthwhile — trees with real form, beds that have filled in, structure to pick out. The newer construction around Bull Mountain tends to have younger landscaping and more dramatic terrain.
Bull Mountain deserves its own mention. The terrain there means sloped lots with long driveways and stepped entries, and those properties genuinely need path and step lighting — not just for looks, but because an unlit slope on a wet Oregon night is how people fall. We treat every grade change as a safety priority first and a design opportunity second.
Local Know-How
What Matters in Tigard
Safety on Bull Mountain grades
Long sloped driveways and stepped entries need even, glare-free light on every change in level. Step lights and low path fixtures do that without lighting up the hillside.
Layering in established gardens
In Summerfield and Metzger the trees and beds are mature enough to build depth — a lit tree in the back, picked-out plantings in the middle, a soft path in front.
Visibility from below
On elevated lots your lighting is seen from the street below. Restraint and shielding keep a hillside home looking lit, not floodlit.
Reviews
What Homeowners Say
“Other quotes were a fixture count on paper. These guys walked the yard, explained what each light was doing and why, and the plan matched what we got.”
Landscape & Garden Lighting
Mark R.
Lake Oswego
“Our 1912 Craftsman vanished after dark. They lit the columns and the gable and left everything between them dark. The contrast is the whole thing.”
Architectural & Facade Lighting
Jennifer L.
Irvington, Portland
“Steep lot, and the walk down was dangerous in the wet. Staggered path lights plus lights in the step risers — fewer fixtures than we were quoted elsewhere, better result.”
Path & Walkway Lighting
David S.
West Linn
“Half our system had been dark for two years. They found it in twenty minutes — corroded connectors — and told me the transformer was fine. Could have sold me a new one.”
Lighting Repair & Maintenance
Amanda K.
Beaverton
The Work
Landscape & Garden Lighting
How It Works
From Consultation to Installed
Free Design Consultation
We walk your property with you, talk through what you want the space to feel like after dark, and note the trees, architecture, and pathways worth lighting — no pressure, no obligation.
Your Lighting Plan
We put the design on paper fixture by fixture — what gets lit, from where, with which beam spread — and price it as a fixed proposal. Nothing is ordered and no deposit is taken until you've approved it.
Clean, Low-Voltage Install
Our crews hand-dig and tuck 12-volt cable below grade, set transformers discreetly, and mount solid brass and copper fixtures — with your lawn and beds left the way we found them.
Night Aiming & Ongoing Care
We return after dark to aim every fixture by eye, set your timer or app schedule, and walk the finished system with you — then keep it dialed in with optional annual maintenance.
Questions
Landscape Lighting in Tigard: FAQ
Do sloped lots on Bull Mountain need special lighting?
They need lighting placed with the slope in mind. Every step and grade change should be clearly defined after dark, and fixtures need shielding so they don't glare at people walking up — or at the neighbors below. It's as much a safety design as a visual one.
How much does landscape lighting cost in Portland?
Pricing follows the design — fixture count, transformer size, cable runs, and material. A focused front-yard design with a handful of tree uplights and path fixtures starts in the low thousands; a full wraparound system with multiple zones costs more. Your written proposal breaks out per-fixture pricing so you can scale zones up or down and see exactly what changes.
Why low-voltage instead of standard 120-volt lighting?
Low-voltage 12V systems are safer to work around, far easier to adjust or expand later, and don't require the conduit and permitting that line-voltage work does. The transformer steps household current down at one point, and everything beyond that is low-risk cable you can garden around. It's the standard for residential landscape lighting for good reason.
Will digging the cable damage my lawn and beds?
No. We hand-cut a narrow slit in the turf, tuck the cable below grade, and close it behind us — within a week or two you can't tell where we worked. We route around root zones rather than trenching through them, which matters a lot on Portland lots with mature trees.
What color temperature do you use?
2700K warm white on essentially everything. It flatters bark, stone, and foliage, and it reads as inviting rather than clinical. Cooler temperatures around 4000K make plants look grey and green foliage look sickly. We also keep the temperature consistent across the whole system — mismatched fixtures are the fastest way to make a yard look pieced together.
Light Up Your Tigard Landscape
Free design consultation and a fixed-price proposal before anything is ordered.