Who lights a Toronto house

The best residential lighting in this issue starts with a simple hierarchy. In Outdoor Lighting Perspectives’ own photograph of a GTA house, the masonry takes a warm wash, the tree is lifted from the ground, and the doorway is the one bright stop. The lawn stays in dusk.

The landscape crew

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives says it has worked in landscape lighting since 1995 and serves the GTA and the 905, from Oakville and Mississauga to Newmarket, King City and Caledon¹. Its systems are low-voltage LED, and the list of places it lights reads like a map of a suburban lot: gardens, patios, pathways, decks, pools, driveways and courtyards¹.

The roofline crew

Home Highlight works across Ontario on two kinds of job: permanent roofline lighting controlled from a phone, and seasonal installations with free takedown and storage each year². Its colour-matched track, the company says, disappears into the roofline, columns, deck or pergola during the day².

Discreet by day. Spectacular by night.

Home Highlight, on its roofline track

The design-build crew

Moonstruck Lighting describes itself as a Toronto-area landscape lighting and electrical firm that designs, builds and maintains its systems, and it names its effects plainly: path lighting, down lighting, feature accent lighting, surface-mount and tread lighting³. That list works as a checklist for any house. Most need two or three of those, not all of them.

What the three have in common is the pictures they choose to show. The door is lit, a tree is lit, the walk is lit. The lawn and most of the wall are not.

From the project

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives also publishes a number worth reading carefully: it says it has done more than 250,000 installations across North America, including for more than 2,000 clients in the GTA¹. Those are the company’s own figures, and we have not checked them.

Home Highlight says its installations come with a five-year warranty and free maintenance². Moonstruck lists annual maintenance and service calls among its services³. For a homeowner, the maintenance line is worth asking about before the design: a lit garden is a system that has to be looked after.