Lighting for Chatham's center-hall colonials and family streets — built around the practical fact that half the year you get home after dark.
Chatham is a commuter town, and that shapes what lighting is actually for here. From October through March, a Midtown Direct schedule means you leave in the dark and come home in the dark. The walk from the driveway to the front door is the part of your house you use most and see least.
So the first job on most Chatham properties is not drama — it's the path, the steps, the driveway edge and the entry. Get those right and the house stops being a black shape you navigate from memory five nights a week.
The dominant house here is the center-hall colonial, and it's one of the most satisfying facades to light precisely because it's symmetrical. Paired uplights flanking the entry, matched fixtures at the outside corners, and an even wash across the front reads as deliberate and calm. Asymmetry on a symmetrical house reads as a mistake, so restraint and matching beam angles matter more here than on rambling older properties.
The second Chatham constant is that these are family houses with real traffic — kids, bikes, a basketball hoop, guests parking along the drive. Path lighting has to be spaced for actual walking rather than decorative effect, steps need light on the tread rather than in your eyes, and fixtures near the drive need to sit where they won't be clipped by a car door or a snow shovel.
Even, glare-free light on the walk from the driveway to the door — the part you use every winter night.
Learn MoreBalanced, symmetrical uplighting matched to the proportions of Chatham's center-hall colonials.
Learn MoreLow-level definition along drives and turnarounds, placed to survive real use and snow clearing.
Learn MoreFixed price, in writing, after a free on-site consultation. No hourly billing and no trip charges.
$1,800–$2,400
6–8 fixtures · front elevation
$3,000–$4,500
10–15 fixtures · facade, beds & walkway
$5,000–$7,500
16–25 fixtures · whole property
From $249/yr
Keeps it looking like night one
Chatham Borough and Chatham Township (ZIP 07928), plus Green Village, Madison, Summit and the surrounding communities.
Yes — in both Chatham Borough and Chatham Township, plus Green Village and the surrounding Morris County communities.
The walk from where you park to the front door, then the entry itself. In a commuter town that's the lighting you'll use every single winter evening. Facade and tree lighting can come later and expand the same system.
They will if they're placed for it. We set fixtures back from the plow line and off the shovel path, and use solid-brass fixtures rather than the plastic ones big-box kits ship with — those crack in the first hard freeze.
Yes, and it's the sensible way to do it here. We size the transformer with headroom on the first install so a second phase is a straightforward addition rather than replacing the heart of the system.
Free on-site design consultation. We walk the property, tell you what's worth lighting, and hand you a fixed price in writing.