Plano TX Landscape Lighting: A Designer's Guide to Uplighting and Path Lighting
Plano homes have some of the best mature trees in DFW — live oaks, post oaks, and red oaks that have been there for 30+ years. That's the canvas a great landscape lighting design starts with.
West Plano (Willow Bend, Russell Creek, Carriage Hill): we typically design 4–7 brass well-lights per mature tree, two transformer stations, and 60–120 feet of low-voltage path lighting. Investment runs $4,500–$8,500.
East Plano newer builds: cleaner landscape design, more emphasis on architectural accents (column wash, soffit downlight) and front-walk path lights. Investment $3,500–$6,500.
Every system uses solid brass fixtures (not aluminum, not composite) at 4000K — the color temperature that reads as moonlight, not floodlight. Brass develops a living patina; aluminum corrodes in DFW's hard water and clay soil.
Most Plano landscape lighting clients also bundle a permanent roofline system. Designing both at once saves trenching cost and lets the two layers complement each other instead of competing.
