Landscape Architect Partnership
Your Landscape,
Revealed After Dark.
Nashville landscape architects partner with Light Up Nashville to give their designs a second life after sunset through uplighting, shadow play, and precise placement that honors every detail of the plan.
★★★★★ 4.9 • 100+ Five-Star Google Reviews • AOLP Member — Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals
• Locally Owned in Nashville, TN since 2012
Why Landscape Architects Partner With Us
Your design deserves to be seen, even after the sun goes down.
You’ve spent months creating a landscape that works in every dimension: the plant palette, the hardscape flow, the way the eye moves from a specimen tree to a water feature to a garden bed.
After dark, most of that disappears. Light Up Nashville is the partner who brings it back. We work directly from your landscape plans, positioning every fixture to highlight the design you’ve already created. The result is a project that earns the same attention at 9 PM that it does at noon.
Design Integration
The plan is the guide; we just follow it.
We don’t arrive after the fact and start placing fixtures wherever they’ll fit. We work from your landscape plans, studying the layout, plant selections, and spatial relationships, so that every lighting decision serves the design intent you’ve already established. Your plan is the guide; we just follow it.
A True Collaboration
You know the plants. We know the light.
You know the plants. We know how light interacts with them. When those two disciplines come together early in a project, the results are something neither of us could achieve alone. We co-design with your team, confirm placement before installation, and make final on-site adjustments at dusk, when the real picture becomes visible.
Portfolio-Worthy Results
A different kind of portfolio piece.
A landscape photographed at night tells a story that daylight simply cannot. When uplighting catches a specimen tree at the right angle, light moves across a water feature or traces the contours of a sculpture, and soft illumination follows a garden path from entry to destination, the full depth of the design finally reveals itself.
The details that make a landscape extraordinary are often the ones that only show after dark, and a well-placed statue or piece of garden art deserves its own moment in that light.
Our Simple Three-Step Process
Designed around your landscape.
Refined at dusk.
Every step is built around your plans, not overlaid on top of them after the fact.
| 01 | Design Review | You share the landscape plan. We study it all and align on a lighting strategy before we ever touch the property. Nothing is assumed because each part is intentional. |
| 02 | Lighting Design | We develop a custom lighting plan that is layered directly into your landscape design. Fixture selections, placement, and beam angles are confirmed with your team before installation begins. You know exactly what’s going in and why before a single cable is run. |
| 03 | Install & Refine | Our team installs with your landscape as the guide. At dusk, we walk the property, making final adjustments based on how light actually behaves in the space. The result is a system that performs the way the design deserves. |
Our Work
What if your landscape designs looked like this after sunset?
The Light Up Nashville Difference
All We Do Is Lighting. Your Landscape Deserves That Focus.
Landscape architects trust Light Up Nashville because we approach outdoor lighting the same way they approach landscape design: with intention and a commitment to getting the details right. As members of the Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals, outdoor lighting is the only discipline we practice, and that focus shows in every project we touch.
— Pelham McMurry, Founder, Light Up Nashville
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Hear it from a homeowner
This is what your clients will say about the landscape at night.
A lot of people spend a lot of money on landscaping their yard. To spend a little bit more making it just as beautiful, if not more beautiful, at night as it is in the daytime, I think that's money really well spent.
What Our Clients Say
Our 5-star reviews speak for themselves.
★★★★★
“I hired Light Up Nashville to add lights to the front of my house as well as the deck area in the backyard. They were very easy to work with and kept me informed through the whole process. My house looks beautiful!”
Nancy B.
Nashville, TN
★★★★★
“Light Up Nashville is a GREAT business to work with. They call when they say they will, they show up when they say they will, and they communicate every step of the way.”
Suzanne C.
Brentwood, TN
★★★★★
“The owner, Pelham, is deeply engaged in the business despite its success, which clearly shows. My wife and I are thrilled with how our house turned out. If you’re looking for ‘the best,’ this is definitely it!”
G. Bucciarelli
Brentwood, TN
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Let’s Design Something That Lasts Through the Night
Your landscape deserves to look as intentional at 9 PM as it does at 9 AM. If you’re ready to bring a dedicated outdoor lighting partner into your project workflow, we are ready for that conversation.