Pathway & Walkway Lighting Company
Pathway Lighting In Westchester County, NY
NY Landscape Lighting designs and installs pathway lighting for homeowners across Westchester County, and outdoor lighting is the only thing we do. Since 2005 we have lit front walks, entry steps, garden paths, and driveways so people can see where they are putting their feet without being blinded on the way to the door. Call (914) 962-2095 or request a free on-site design consultation.
Pathway Lighting · Westchester County, NY
Walkway lighting designed on your own path, at night, before anything is installed.
We bring fixtures to the property after dark and set them on the actual walk. You stand at the street, then at the front door, and see the real light on your real stone before you approve a proposal. Paper plans hide glare. Standing on the walk does not.
Our crew works out of Mount Kisco, a short drive from most of the county.
About NY Landscape Lighting
Why Westchester County Homeowners Choose NY Landscape Lighting
Most companies quoting a walkway in Westchester are landscapers or electricians who add lighting as a side service. We are not. Lighting is the whole business, and has been since 2005.
A front walk is the most-used and most-judged lighting on a property. It is the first thing a guest sees and the last thing you use before bed. It also sits at eye level, which is why cheap path lights glare straight into your face while leaving the ground dark. Fixing that takes shielding, beam angle, and mounting height decisions a generalist rarely makes.
We stagger fixtures instead of lining them up, and we pull light down from trees and eaves wherever the property allows. The goal is a lit surface, not a row of visible lamps.
We also service what we install. Fixture aiming, connections, and transformers drift over time, and we stay with the system after the install is done through our landscape lighting maintenance program.
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Our Pathway Lighting Services
What We Light On The Way To Your Door
A pathway lighting plan covers everything between the road and the front door. These are the elements we light on a typical Westchester property.
The front walk. Staggered fixtures on alternating sides, following the curve rather than marching in a straight line. The surface reads clearly without a row of glowing lamps.
Entry steps and landings. The most common trip point on any property. Recessed step lights and low wall washes handle the change in level without hot spots.
Driveway edges, aprons, and turnarounds. Long Westchester driveways need light at the entrance, at the bends, and where the drive meets the walk. Not every twenty feet.
The path from the driveway to the door. Frequently skipped, and the section people actually cross in the dark carrying bags.
Garden and side paths. Lower output, wider spacing, enough to read the edge of the path and nothing more.
Retaining walls and grade changes along the walk. Wall washes and hardscape fixtures pick up the level change before someone finds it with a foot.
Entrance piers, gates, and mailbox posts. Marks the property line from the road so guests and drivers find the turn.
Trees over the walk. Downlighting from a mature canopy is the single best way to light a path, because the fixture is invisible and the light falls the way moonlight does. It also ties the walk into the broader landscape lighting in Westchester County plan for the property.
Built For Westchester Winters
Pathway Lighting That Survives A Plow
Path and driveway fixtures are the ones that get destroyed every winter, and it is almost always the same three causes. We design around all three.
Plows and snow throw. Most damage comes from the weight of pushed snow, not the blade itself. We set fixtures back from the plow line, use cast brass and copper bodies instead of plastic, and mark fixture positions so your snow crew can see them.
Salt and de-icer. Rock salt corrodes finishes and eats connections. Solid brass and copper age instead of failing, and we place fixtures and connections outside the direct spray zone.
Frost heave. Freeze and thaw cycles push stakes up and tilt fixtures off aim by spring. Correct stake depth and burial handle most of it, and a spring service visit re-aims whatever moved.
Winter is when a lit walk matters most. Dark falls before five, ice is invisible, and the front walk is the most likely place for someone on your property to fall.
Towns We Serve In Westchester County
We install pathway lighting throughout Westchester County, including Mount Kisco, Bedford, Chappaqua, Armonk, Scarsdale, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Bronxville, Katonah, Pound Ridge, North Salem, Somers, South Salem, Croton on Hudson, New Rochelle, Rye, White Plains, Purchase, Irvington, Ardsley, Briarcliff, and Yorktown Heights.
We also install pathway lighting throughout Fairfield County, CT, including Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, and Ridgefield.
Pathway Lighting Questions From Westchester Homeowners
How far apart do you space pathway lights?
We space path fixtures roughly 8 to 12 feet apart on most Westchester walks, and we stagger them side to side rather than lining them up in pairs. Spacing is set by the fixture output and the width of the walk, not by a rule, which is why we lay the run out on the actual path at night before we commit to positions.
Will my walkway end up looking like an airport runway?
No, and avoiding that is most of the design work. Evenly spaced fixtures on both sides of a walk is the most common mistake in residential lighting, and it is what makes a front walk look institutional. We alternate sides, follow the curve of the path, and pull as much light as possible down from trees and eaves so the fixtures themselves stay out of view.
My driveway lights get destroyed by the plow every winter. Can you fix that?
Yes, and it is a design problem more than a fixture problem. We set driveway lighting back from where snow gets pushed, specify cast brass and copper bodies that survive impact instead of plastic that shatters, and mark fixture locations so your snow crew can see them before the first storm. If your current fixtures sit in a stone border hugging the drive, that placement is the root cause.
Are solar path lights a cheaper option?
We do not install them, and we would not recommend them for a front walk. Solar fixtures put out so little light that homeowners buy far too many and space them far too close, which produces exactly the runway look everyone is trying to avoid. They are also plastic, they fail within a season or two in Westchester winters, and they get run over by snow blowers. We install low voltage systems with a transformer and buried cable.
How much does pathway lighting cost in Westchester County?
Cost is driven by the length of the run, the number of fixtures, the distance back to the transformer, and whether we are cutting across existing hardscape. We give you a fixed proposal after the night demo, so the number you see is the number you pay.
Can you add pathway lighting to a system I already have?
Usually yes. We check the existing transformer capacity and the wire runs first, because adding fixtures to a loaded transformer is what causes the far end of a run to go dim. If the existing system has headroom we extend it. If it does not, we tell you that before we quote. Call 914-962-2095 and we will take a look.