Lighting that doubles the time you spend outside.
Path lights, uplit oaks, downlights from pergola beams, step-tread strips, and warm-glow string runs. Designed scene by scene, dimmed in zones, on a single transformer that won’t strand you in five years.
Typical projects $3K – $24K · 1–3 week installs
Owner-operated by Armando, Jose & Cris — 5-year fixture warranties standard, transformer-grade installs.
What lands in your Monarch proposal.
Most lighting bids spec the cheapest fixture and the smallest transformer. Ours spec brass or copper bodies, commercial-grade wire, and a transformer sized for 20% headroom so you can add zones later without starting over.
- Fixtures: brass, copper, or stainless bodies — no aluminum or composite in Houston's humidity
- LED engines: 2700K warm white, dimmable, 50,000-hour rated; 3000K available on request
- Wire: 12-gauge direct-bury rated, buried 6"–8" minimum, through conduit at paved crossings
- Transformer: multi-tap, oversized by 20% for future zones; photocell + timer standard
- Zones: each scene on its own zone — path, beds, trees, structure, and façade separated
- Dimming: 0–10V or PWM dimmable on every zone; scene programming at commissioning
- GFCI: transformer on GFCI-protected circuit; pool and water features on dedicated GFCI
- Warranty: 5-year fixture body, 3-year LED engine, 5-year transformer
Light the yard the way the architect would .
Brass path lights at 14”–22” height, mushroom or hooded shade. 4W LED, 2700K, dimmable.
8–12 feet on center, staggered side to side. Never lining the path like a runway.
Photocell + timer auto-on at dusk. Keeps you on path, off the lawn.
When the priority is moving safely and beautifully from front door to back patio at night.
In-ground or stake-mount well lights. 7–10W LED, narrow beam for canopy, wide beam for trunk texture.
Two fixtures per mature tree minimum — one canopy wash, one trunk grazing. Single-fixture trees look flat.
2700K warm. Cool white kills the warmth of bark and reads as security lighting.
When you have mature oaks, magnolias, or specimen trees — uplighting is the single highest-impact lighting move.
Recessed in-beam downlights or surface-mount minis. 3–5W LED, dimmable, 2700K.
Mounted on rafters or beams to wash the patio surface. Supplemented with string lights for ambient.
Functional task lighting at the kitchen, ambient at the dining table, accent on the seating area — three scenes on one zone.
When there’s a covered patio or pergola — lighting from above is what makes the space useable past dusk.
Color-changing or warm-white pool lights, controlled separately from low-volt landscape system.
Wall washes graze the texture of stone or brick. Shows architecture at night that disappears in daylight.
Submerged uplights in fountains or fire-and-water features. Wet-rated, on dedicated GFCI.
When the property has architectural features that deserve to be visible at night — a stone façade, a fountain, a pool.
Most lighting projects we install land between $5K and $14K. The drivers are total fixture count, the size and complexity of the transformer plan, and how many separately controlled zones you want.
Path lights, 4–6 fixtures, single zone, 300W transformer, photocell timer.
Path + bed + tree uplighting + structure downlight, 3–4 zones, dimmable, 600W.
Front + back + façade + pool, 5–6 zones, smart-controlled, multiple transformers.
Lighting projects from this season.
How a Monarch lighting plan actually gets installed.
Discovery
We walk the property with you, understand how you actually use the yard, and listen for the real ask behind the lighting. No tape measures yet — just questions.
Design + Material Selection
You see plans drawn to your lot, fixture options laid out side by side, and a fixed-price proposal you can read in five minutes. We refine until it fits both the space and the budget.
Prep & Permit
We pull the permits, file with your HOA, and stage the site. Lawn edges and existing landscaping get protected before a single tool comes out.
Install
Owner-led crews on site daily. The same Curiel or Alvarez who quoted the project is the one you text when something comes up. We commission the scenes before we leave.
We Come Back
Thirty days and a year later — we re-aim anything that’s drifted, re-tighten connections, and add zones if the yard told you it needed them.
Lighting installs across Houston's western and northern suburbs.
Heights · Memorial · Meyerland
Cinco Ranch · Firethorne — HOA-savvy approvals
Bridgeland · Towne Lake — large lot specialists
First Colony · Riverstone · Sweetwater
Creekside · Sterling Ridge — tree-canopy builds
Gleannloch Farms · Spring Trails
Willow Creek · Lakewood — large-span structures
Cross Creek Ranch · Polo Ranch — pre-approval service
Outdoor lighting — the questions homeowners actually ask.
For landscape, every time. Low-voltage is safer to bury, easier to service, dimmable cleanly, and the fixture lineup is dramatically deeper. Line-voltage belongs on dedicated façade and security applications, not on path and bed lighting.
In Houston humidity it’s the difference between a lifetime fixture and a 24-month fixture. Brass and copper develop a patina; aluminum and composite delaminate. Always brass or copper on the bodies.
Surprisingly few — 80–150 lumens at the path light is plenty. Over-lit paths kill the night ambiance you came outside for. We design to leave shadow as part of the scene.
Yes, every zone. Path, beds, trees, structure, façade — all on dimmable LED with 0–10V or PWM control. Three-scene programming on one keypad is standard.
Lutron Caseta, Control4, and stand-alone phone control are all options. We program the scenes during commissioning and leave you with an intuitive interface, not a manual.
Five-year fixture body, three-year LED engine, five-year transformer. We come back at 30 and 365 days to re-aim and re-tighten anything that’s drifted.
Ready to plan a lighting design that earns the time you spend outside?
We’ll walk the yard at dusk, plot the scenes, and get you a photometric design + fixed-price proposal in ten days.