Landscape Lighting
Landscape Lighting Contractor for Chicago Homes
Transform Your Landscape Into a Nighttime Masterpiece
Your garden didn’t stop being beautiful when the sun went down. You just stopped seeing it.
At Accents Lighting, we believe a truly exceptional landscape deserves to be experienced around the clock. Our landscape and garden lighting designs don’t simply illuminate — they sculpt the darkness, revealing depth, texture, and drama you never knew your property possessed. Serving Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, we create custom outdoor lighting systems that turn ordinary yards into extraordinary nighttime environments.
Garden Lighting That Reveals, Never Overpowers
A well-lit garden isn’t the one you notice first. It’s the one where the lighting feels inseparable from the plants themselves. We layer illumination at varying heights and intensities:
- Ground-level path lights guide movement without drawing attention to themselves
- Mid-level wash lights graze across perennials, ornamental grasses, and low shrubs
- Canopy uplights throw mature tree canopies into silhouette against the night sky
- Focal-point spots isolate specimen plants — a Japanese maple, a sculptural evergreen, a flowering magnolia
Hardscape & Stonework Illumination
Chicago landscapes aren’t just plants. Retaining walls, bluestone patios, flagstone paths, boulder outcroppings — these hardscape elements define your outdoor architecture. We integrate lighting directly into stonework:
- Under-cap lights on seating walls
- Recessed step lights flush with risers
- Grazing techniques across textured stone facades
- Subtle well lights tucked into paver joints
We Design First, Install Second
Many outdoor lighting companies sell you a package of twelve path lights and call it a day. We don’t work that way.
Every Accents Lighting project begins with a design consultation — at your home, in our Elk Grove Village showroom, or both. We walk your property with you at dusk. We ask questions. We sketch. We test. Only when the vision is clear do we begin installation.
Our Landscape Lighting Process
| Step | What Happens |
|---|---|
| 1. Consultation | We meet you on-site or in our showroom to understand your vision, budget, and property |
| 2. Night Demonstration | We set up temporary lights so you can see the effect in real time before committing |
| 3. Custom Design | We create a detailed lighting plan — fixture types, placements, beam spreads, and zones |
| 4. Professional Installation | Our in-house team installs every fixture, buries every wire, and tests every connection |
| 5. Night Walkthrough | We return after dark to adjust angles, fine-tune brightness, and ensure perfection |
| 6. Ongoing Care | Optional maintenance plans keep your system performing year after year |
Most Accents Lighting landscape projects range from $4,000 to $9,000+, depending on property size, fixture count, and design complexity. We provide detailed, transparent quotes during the design phase — never surprises.
We serve the entire Chicagoland area, including Naperville, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, Winnetka, Lake Forest, Glencoe, Evanston, Oak Park, River Forest, Barrington, and downtown Chicago neighborhoods.
Yes. LED systems perform reliably in extreme cold, use less energy, and require virtually no bulb replacements — critical when fixtures are buried in snow half the year.
Typical landscape lighting installations take 1–3 days. Larger estate projects may require a week or more. We always protect your plantings and leave the site immaculate.
Absolutely. Our tune-up services include fixture cleaning, bulb replacement, plant growth adjustments, timer updates, and full system diagnostics.
Why Choose Accents Lighting
Our approach eliminates guesswork, carefully mapping out every beam, angle, and effect before work starts on site.
We believe transparency and careful planning make for the best results. By walking you through each phase of your project before installation begins, we ensure your outdoor lighting plan fits your style, budget, and property layout. Explore our step-by-step approach below:
We meet at your property to walk the space, discuss your goals, and identify key architectural and landscape features to highlight.
Our team designs a precise lighting plan, selecting fixture locations, angles, and beam spreads to achieve your ideal evening ambiance.
We perform a clean, non-disruptive installation, then return after dark to adjust every light for optimal balance and visual impact.
