Outdoor architectural lighting makes your outdoors so much more inviting and livable. Whether it’s a front walkway, backyard patio, or uplights on your house and trees, architectural lighting transforms your outdoors.
Old Engineer provides professional patio and landscape lighting installation throughout the Raleigh-Durham area at a price that makes sense. A well-lit walkway welcomes guests, uplighting gives your home real curb appeal after dark, and string lights turn a plain patio into the place everyone wants to be on a summer evening. We’ll plan the layout with you, install everything cleanly, and set it to come on and off automatically.
Our patio and landscape lighting service covers the whole job:
We work with quality fixtures from brands like Kichler, VOLT, Hampton Bay, and smart options like Philips Hue Outdoor and Govee. Already bought your lights? Great, we’ll install those. Starting from scratch? We’ll help you plan what to buy.
Old Engineer isn’t a big franchise with big franchise prices. We’re experienced, detail-oriented professionals who believe great outdoor lighting shouldn’t come with a landscape designer’s invoice. You get careful workmanship, straightforward pricing, and a yard that looks like it cost more than it did.
Please note: we install low-voltage and plug-in outdoor lighting using your existing outdoor outlets and circuits. If your project requires new 120V wiring, new exterior outlets, or trenched electrical circuits, that work needs a licensed electrician, and we’ll tell you upfront.
We provide patio and landscape lighting installation in Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Apex, Morrisville, Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, Garner, Holly Springs, and surrounding Triangle communities.
It depends on the number of fixtures and the layout, but low-voltage systems are far more affordable than most people expect, and much less than a full landscape lighting company. Tell us about your space and we’ll give you a quick quote.
Low-voltage systems run on 12 volts through a transformer plugged into a standard outdoor outlet. They’re safe, energy-efficient, easy to expand later, and don’t require an electrician’s permit, which keeps your cost down.
Yes, the transformer or string lights plug into a standard exterior outlet. Most homes have at least one. If yours doesn’t, adding one requires a licensed electrician, and we’ll flag that up front.
Yes. We set up timers, dusk-to-dawn sensors, or smart controls you run from your phone, so the lights handle themselves year round.
Not when they’re hung right. We install a stainless guide wire and proper anchors so the lights stay taut through wind, rain, and the occasional squirrel.
Quality LED fixtures typically run 10 years of nightly use, and they sip electricity compared to old halogen systems.
