Landscape Lighting Design & Installation in Cashiers, NC
Thoughtfully designed outdoor lighting for mountain homes, mature landscapes, stone architecture, driveways and outdoor living throughout Cashiers, Highlands and Western North Carolina.
Western North Carolina
Cashiers • Highlands • Lake Toxaway • Sapphire • Glenville
Upstate South Carolina
Greenville • Travelers Rest • Greer
Outdoor Lighting Designed Around the Property
A mountain property changes after sunset. Trees, stonework, entrances, driveways, pathways, and outdoor living areas that define the home during the day can disappear into darkness—or become some of its most beautiful features when light is placed with purpose.
Since 2017, Integrated ArchiTech has designed and installed outdoor lighting for homeowners throughout Cashiers, Highlands, Sapphire, Lake Toxaway, Glenville, and surrounding Western North Carolina communities. We also work alongside builders, architects, landscape professionals, and interior designers to coordinate lighting with the home, property, and surrounding architecture.
Our team works with professional-grade solutions from Coastal Source, FX Luminaire, CAST Lighting, Lutron, and other leading manufacturers. Exterior fixtures can also become part of a larger Lutron lighting system, coordinating landscape and architectural light with Ketra lighting, interior fixtures, shades, and programmed scenes throughout the residence.
From illuminating a stone entrance or mature tree to creating safer steps, extending an outdoor living area, or bringing an entire property together after sunset, the objective remains the same:
The goal isn't to see the fixtures. It's to see what they reveal.
Landscape Lighting Service, Repair & Upgrades
An aging outdoor lighting system doesn't always need to be replaced. Existing wiring, transformers, controls, and quality fixtures may still have years of useful life, while failed components or outdated technology can often be repaired or upgraded individually.
Common Service Requests
✓ Troubleshoot lights that no longer work
✓ Replace damaged, corroded or failing fixtures
✓ Repair buried wiring and connections
✓ Reposition lights as trees and landscaping mature
✓ Convert older systems to LED technology
Mountain properties change over time. Trees grow, plantings mature, weather affects connections, and additions to the home or landscape can leave an older system poorly balanced. Integrated ArchiTech can evaluate existing outdoor lighting, determine what is worth keeping, identify failures, and redesign portions of the system where needed.
It's also an opportunity to improve more than reliability. Fixtures can be repositioned, brightness and color temperature corrected, controls modernized, and new areas incorporated without unnecessarily replacing an entire installation.
Call (864) 580-3636 To Schedule an Outdoor Lighting Service Consultation
Why Homeowners Invest in Landscape Lighting
The right lighting changes how a property feels after sunset. It can make arriving home more welcoming, extend the hours you spend outside, make steps and pathways easier to navigate, and reveal parts of the landscape that disappear into darkness.
A Beautiful Arrival
Your driveway, entrance, trees, and architecture become part of the experience of coming home. Carefully placed light creates warmth and depth without making the property feel overlit.
More Time Outdoors
Dinner doesn't have to end when daylight does. Patios, decks, fire pits, gardens, and outdoor living areas remain comfortable and inviting for entertaining or a quiet evening outside.
Safer After Sunset
Steps, pathways, entrances, and transitions between outdoor spaces can be easier to see without flooding the property with harsh light or turning every walkway into a runway.
See the Property Differently
Mature trees, stone walls, textured architecture, and layered landscaping take on an entirely different character at night. Light reveals details, shadows, and depth that daylight cannot.
Designed With Light, Not Fixtures
Beautiful landscape lighting isn't created by placing the same fixture every few feet. It comes from deciding what deserves attention, where the light should come from, and what should remain dark. Different techniques reveal architecture, trees, stone, pathways, and texture without making the property feel overlit.
Light placed low and aimed upward reveals the height and structure of mature trees, stonework, columns, and architectural details while creating dramatic focal points after sunset.
Fixtures concealed high in mature trees cast soft light downward through branches and leaves, creating natural patterns across lawns, gardens, pathways, and outdoor gathering areas.
Light positioned close to stone, timber, masonry, or other surfaces emphasizes their natural irregularities through highlights and shadows and not of just making the surface brighter.
A distinctive tree, planting, or architectural feature becomes a dark shape against a softly illuminated surface behind it, creating contrast without directly lighting the feature itself.
Carefully placed light brings ponds, waterfalls, fountains, and streams to life after sunset. Reflections, movement, and illuminated stone add another layer of depth.
Walkways, elevation changes, and transitions receive subtle illumination where visibility matters, helping people move comfortably without outlining every edge of the property.
Everything Behind a Great Movie
A private theater feels effortless when every part of the room has been designed to work together. Picture, sound, comfort, lighting, control, and the technology behind the scenes all contribute to what happens when the lights dim and the movie begins.
Lighting a Mountain Property Is Different
Mountain homes present lighting challenges you don't encounter on a typical suburban property. Mature tree canopies, steep grades, long driveways, stone walls, timber architecture, winding paths, and expansive outdoor areas create opportunities for beautiful light but they also make restraint more important. The goal isn't to illuminate everything, it's to establish layers across the property so the architecture, landscape, and natural darkness work together.
Mature Trees & Canopy
Large trees provide opportunities for uplighting and moonlighting, but fixture placement must account for viewing angles, changing foliage, growth, and how light moves through the canopy.
Stone & Timber Architecture
Natural materials respond beautifully to carefully positioned light. Grazing, accent lighting, and concealed sources can reveal texture and craftsmanship without washing an entire façade in brightness.
Elevation & Long Approaches
Mountain driveways, stone stairs, retaining walls, and changes in grade require thoughtful illumination so guests can navigate the property while preserving its natural nighttime character.
Outdoor Living & Views
Decks, patios, fire features, and gathering areas need enough light to be comfortable without creating glare against windows or overpowering the distant mountain views homeowners came here to enjoy.
Professional Lighting, Thoughtfully Controlled
The best outdoor lighting system combines thoughtful design with equipment built to perform outside year after year. Integrated ArchiTech works with professional lighting and control solutions selected for the property, architecture, and experience we're creating.
Engineered for demanding outdoor environments, Coastal Source offers premium fixtures designed for durability, precise illumination, and long-term performance.
Flexible architectural and landscape lighting provides extensive options for trees, pathways, gardens, stonework, outdoor living areas, and layered lighting throughout the property.
Professional-grade landscape lighting built around durable materials and purposeful illumination, with solutions for paths, architecture, mature landscapes, and larger properties.
Part of the Whole Home
Outdoor lighting doesn't have to operate independently. With Lutron smart lighting control, exterior illumination can coordinate with interior lighting, Ketra, motorized shades, and programmed scenes throughout the residence.
An Arrival scene can welcome you home from the driveway through the front door. Entertain can coordinate the landscape, patio, and interior living spaces. Later in the evening, lighting can transition to lower levels while essential pathways and entrances remain illuminated.
Why Homeowners Choose Integrated ArchiTech
Outdoor lighting becomes part of the architecture and landscape for years. Homeowners choose Integrated ArchiTech for thoughtful design, professional installation, coordination with other trades, and continued support as the property and technology evolve.
9+ Years of Experience
Since 2017, Integrated ArchiTech has designed and installed technology for distinctive homes throughout Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina.
Properly Designed
Every home, landscape, and view is different. Fixture placement, brightness, color temperature, and control are planned around the architecture and natural character of the property.
Work With Your Team
We collaborate with homeowners, builders, architects, and landscapers to coordinate lighting with construction, hardscaping, planting, power, and outdoor living.
Service After Install
Landscapes grow and properties change. We remain available to reposition fixtures, troubleshoot, expand the system, and update controls as needs evolve.
From the First Conversation to the First Night Outside
Every landscape lighting project begins with the property and how you experience it after sunset. We consider the architecture, landscape, views, pathways, and outdoor living areas so each decision contributes to the finished result
1. Plan
We walk the property to understand how you arrive, where you gather, what you see from inside the home, and which trees, stonework, architectural details, and landscape features deserve attention.
2. Design
Fixture placement, lighting techniques, brightness, color temperature, wiring, transformers, and control are planned together. When needed, we coordinate with your builder, architect, or landscape professional.
3. Install
Our technicians install fixtures, wiring, transformers, and controls with careful attention to landscaping, stonework, finished surfaces, and the work of other trades.
4. Adjust
After sunset, we aim, dim, and balance the lighting from the places you actually experience it. Glare is corrected, focal points are refined, and controls are programmed before we consider the project complete.
Serving Upstate South Carolina & Western North Carolina
From Cashiers to Greenville and beyond, Integrated ArchiTech designs landscape lighting around the architecture, natural surroundings, and way each property is experienced after sunset.
Cashiers Plateau & Western North Carolina
Cashiers · Highlands · Lake Toxaway · Sapphire · Glenville · Cullowhee · Brevard · Hendersonville · Asheville
Upstate South Carolina
Greenville · Travelers Rest · Greer · Simpsonville · Spartanburg · Clemson · Easley · Seneca · Walhalla
Beyond the Carolinas
Many of our clients own multiple residences. We also accept select projects throughout the Southeast and beyond by referral, allowing us to continue supporting homeowners wherever life takes them.
What Our Clients Say
John and the team are very professional and caring about our needs. They did our lighting, TVs and surround sound systems. Great job.
Susan C.
~Casheirs, NC
Truly an amazing job, from answering the phone in a reasonable time, always on top of everything, and they even did the job faster than expected! I will forever use integrated architech. Thank you for the great work
Eric J.
~Greenville, SC
These guys are great! We used them in our home upstate and down by the water. John & nicole have truly been amazing. They have my business for life
Ted M.
~Lake Toxaway, NC
Great company highly recommend integrated architech for all audio video systems
Kevin H.
~Lake Keowee, SC