Lighting designed for Madison's Tudors, Victorians and close-set lots — where the detail is exceptional and the neighbours are twenty feet away.
Madison's housing stock is unusually good. Tudor half-timbering, Queen Anne turrets and brackets, deep Colonial Revival porches, brick and stucco and stone — there is more carved, textured and patterned facade per block here than in most of North Jersey. All of it is designed to be read in raking light, and all of it goes flat at dusk.
What Madison does not have is space. Lots are close together, houses sit near the sidewalk, and most front yards are measured in feet rather than acres. That's the real design constraint here, and it's a more interesting one than it sounds.
On a tight lot, every fixture you aim at your own house is also aimed toward somebody's living room window. So Madison work is mostly about control rather than output: tighter beam spreads, glare shields and hex louvres as standard rather than upgrades, and fixtures set close to the wall so the light climbs the facade instead of spilling past it.
Short setbacks also mean you're lighting at close range, which is a gift for detailed architecture. A fixture eight inches from a Tudor's stucco panel rakes across the timbering and throws real shadow; the same fixture twenty feet back would just flatten it. Smaller systems go a long way here — a well-designed eight-fixture package on a Madison facade often outperforms twenty fixtures scattered across a bigger lot.
Close-range grazing that brings out Tudor timbering, brickwork, stucco and Victorian trim.
Learn MoreWarm, glare-free light on the deep front porches and entries that define Madison streets.
Learn MoreCareful uplighting on mature front-yard trees without throwing light into a neighbour's windows.
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
Madison (ZIP 07940), including the neighbourhoods around Drew University and the Florham campus, the downtown blocks off Main Street, and the surrounding Morris County communities.
Yes — throughout Madison and across Morris County, including the neighbourhoods around Drew University and the Florham campus and the streets off the downtown.
Often more worth it than on a large lot. Houses here carry a lot of architectural detail at close range, which is exactly what grazing light is for. Eight well-placed fixtures on a detailed facade can do more than twenty spread across acreage.
Not if it's designed properly. On close-set lots here we use tighter beam spreads, glare shields and louvres as standard, and set fixtures close to the wall so light climbs the facade rather than spilling past it.
Most projects here run $1,800–$4,500, since front-elevation and entry packages suit the lot sizes here. Whole-property designs run higher. Every project is fixed-price after a free on-site consultation.
Free on-site design consultation. We walk the property, tell you what's worth lighting, and hand you a fixed price in writing.