Bakersfield home with illuminated trees, garden beds, entry, and curved front walkway at dusk

Bakersfield landscape lighting · 20 years of local experience

Make every night at home feel finished.

Thoughtful low-voltage lighting for Bakersfield and Kern County, designed around the way you approach, see, and use your home after sunset.

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Finished after dark

Good lighting is a plan, not a pile of fixtures.

Builder-grade fixtures aimed at nothing, one bright floodlight washing out the front of the house, path lights spaced like runway markers, or a system installed years ago that has slowly failed one fixture at a time.

A landscape lighting plan fixes that by deciding what should be bright, what should stay dark, and how the eye moves across the property from the street to the front door and around into the backyard.

Why homeowners choose us

Designed on the property. Installed clean. Aimed after dark.

We design it before we install it.

Fixture type, spacing, beam angle, and wire runs are planned on a walk of the property.

Clean, professional installation.

Wire is buried, transformers are mounted properly, and fixtures sit level and hidden.

Aimed at night, not at noon.

We come back after dark to aim and dim so nothing glares into a window or a walkway.

Serviceable years later.

Accessible connections, labeled runs, and fixtures we can still get parts for.

20 years of local experience.

Two decades of lighting work around Bakersfield heat, dust, irrigation, hardpan soil, and mature trees.

Plan the project

Better answers before the estimate.

Compare the parts of a lighting plan, understand how the process runs, review what affects cost, and see where we work before starting a project.

Planning

Our Process

See how a project moves from the first walk of the property to the night-time aiming pass.

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Budget

Pricing Guide

Learn what drives the cost of a landscape lighting system, from fixture count to trenching and access.

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Local

Service Areas

Review Bakersfield-area coverage for landscape lighting design, installation, and service.

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Guides

Outdoor Lighting Guide

What to light, how bright, how warm, and the mistakes that show up on most unplanned installations.

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Answers

FAQs

Practical answers about low-voltage systems, wiring, timers, and what installation involves.

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Company

About Landscape Light Guys

Meet the local team bringing 20 years of Bakersfield lighting experience to every property.

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Service

Lighting Repair & LED Upgrades

Diagnose dark fixtures, damaged wire, transformer trouble, timer issues, and aging halogen systems.

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Homeowners

Customer Reviews

Read what local homeowners say about the design, installation, and finished result.

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Library

Landscape Lighting Resources

Browse practical planning guides before choosing fixtures, controls, or project scope.

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Front walkway with shielded path lights and illuminated planting

Complete-property design

A Lighting Plan Should Change How the Whole Home Feels.

The strongest systems balance beauty, safe movement, and the way you use the yard after sunset. That takes carefully layered light — not a row of identical fixtures.

Create depth

Uplighting, soft downlighting, and architectural accents reveal trees, stone, and the shape of the home.

Guide movement

Entries, steps, and walkways receive controlled light exactly where people need to see.

Keep it natural

Shielded fixtures and restrained brightness let the effect lead while the hardware fades into the landscape.

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Trees and gardens

Uplighting Is What Gives a Yard Depth.

Lighting the ground is useful. Lighting what stands above it is what makes a property look designed. Trees, palms, hedges, stone walls, and planting beds give the eye something to land on beyond the house itself.

Beam spread, distance, and aim all change the result. A narrow beam far from the trunk reads as elegant; the same fixture too close reads as a spotlight.

Olive trees uplit against a modern stucco courtyard wall at night
Pool surround and backyard landscape lighting

Pools and patios

The Backyard Is Where the System Earns Its Keep

Pool surrounds, seating areas, outdoor kitchens, and planting borders all need light that is warm enough to be comfortable and low enough to stay out of your eyes while you are sitting down.

We light the edges and the plants, keep glare off the water, and leave the middle of the space calm.

Transformers, timers & controls

The Part Nobody Sees Is the Part That Fails First

Undersized transformers, buried wire nuts, and voltage drop at the end of a long run are the reasons older systems dim, flicker, and die one zone at a time. We size the transformer for the load, split the property into zones, and use connections that can be opened and serviced later.

Technician landing a lighting zone on a wall-mounted low-voltage transformer

Homeowners love the difference

Real properties. Real yards. Real reactions.