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The Basics · Landscape Lighting

The yard,
after dark.

Landscape lighting on the AMP iQ smart system — cast brass fixtures, warm white to full color, every light on your phone. Designed, trenched, installed, and tuned by Scapes.

The Premise

Half of a property's life happens at night.

You come home after dark. You sit outside after dark. Guests arrive after dark. Most yards disappear the moment the sun goes down — the planting, the stone, the oaks that took forty years to grow.

Scapes lights the landscape the way we design it: the tree gets the light, the path gets the glow, the fixture disappears. You see the yard, not the lamp.

We build on AMP iQ — the smart landscape system with color and warm white in every fixture, controlled from one app.

The Fixtures

Cast brass. Built to outlast the yard.

Every AMP iQ fixture carries warm white from 2200K to 4000K and millions of colors, dimmable from zero to full.

Spotlights

The trees and the house.

Aimed up the trunk of an oak, across the face of the architecture, into the canopy. Solid cast brass with a modular build, so a fixture can be serviced instead of replaced.

Path Lights

The walk home.

Cone-shaped shades set along the walk, the drive, and the beds — a soft pool of light every few steps, never a runway. The light falls on the ground, not in your eyes.

Hardscape

Walls, steps, and stone.

Low-profile lights tucked under wall caps and step treads in 3, 6, and 12-inch sizes. The stone glows. The fixture stays out of sight.

Well Lights

Set into the ground.

Buried flush in the bed or the lawn, pointed up. Interchangeable optics — a narrow beam for a tall trunk or column, a wide one for a broad focal point.

The System

The brains, hidden.

Smart transformers, a gateway, and mesh repeaters that let every fixture talk to the next. Direct-burial cable trenched below the surface. Nothing to trip on, nothing to see.

The App

Every light, in your hand.

Group the fixtures into zones — the front, the pool, the oaks. Save scenes: a quiet warm white for a Tuesday, full brightness for a party, a low glow at midnight for security.

Schedules run on their own. Adjust from anywhere. Alexa and Google voice control. Nobody walks out to the transformer again.

We set up the app on your phone and walk you through it before we leave.

One System, Every Season

The same lights, whatever the night calls for.

Because every fixture carries color, the landscape changes with the calendar. No ladders, no new wiring.

Every night

Warm white.

Candle-warm on the trunks and the stone. The classic, and what the yard wears most nights of the year.

December

Red & green.

The oaks turn Christmas with one tap. Pair it with our holiday lighting on the roofline and the whole property reads as one design.

October

Orange & purple.

Halloween in the canopy, back to warm white on November first.

Game day · Parties

Your colors.

The team, the birthday, the Fourth of July. Save it as a scene and bring it back every year.

How We Install

Designed at night. Built to disappear.

  1. 01 · Walk

    We see it after dark.

    A walk of the property at night — what should glow, what should stay in shadow.

  2. 02 · Design

    A plan for every fixture.

    Each light placed, each run measured, the load sized to the transformer.

  3. 03 · Trench

    Wire under the ground.

    Direct-burial cable in trenches about eight inches down. The lawn goes back the way it was.

  4. 04 · Set & Aim

    Every fixture, by hand.

    Set, leveled, and aimed after dark, when you can see what the light is doing.

  5. 05 · Tune

    Scenes and schedules.

    Zones grouped, scenes built, schedules set. The yard comes on at dusk by itself.

  6. 06 · Hand-off

    The app on your phone.

    We set it up, show you how it works, and stay a call away.

Questions

What people ask first.

Is it safe around kids, pets, and water?

Yes. It is a low-voltage system — the transformer steps the power down before it ever reaches the yard.

Do I need Wi-Fi?

The lights talk to each other on their own network. The gateway connects that network to the internet, which is what lets you run schedules and control the lights when you are away from home.

How long do the fixtures last?

They are solid cast brass, built for the weather, and AMP backs its iQ fixtures with a lifetime warranty. The modular build means a part can be serviced instead of the whole light replaced.

Can the same lights do Christmas?

Yes. Every fixture does color. Red and green in December, orange in October, warm white the rest of the year — all from the app.

Will you tear up my lawn?

We trench narrow and about eight inches down, lay direct-burial cable, and put the ground back. Within a few weeks you will not find the line.

I have Rachio for irrigation. Does this work with it?

Yes. AMP iQ is our lead for landscape lighting — the color, the scenes, the cast brass. If one app for water and light matters more to you, Rachio runs both, and we install either. Down the road, Aquarius sits over all of it: one place to ask the whole property what it needs.

The Night Set

One crew. One design. The whole property after dark.

Holiday lighting, landscape lighting, and outdoor audio are planned on the same walk and built in the same trenches.

Begin

Light the yard.

Every design starts with a walk after dark. Tell us about the property.