Fixture Install
$250 each
Includes the fixture, lamp, wire, and labor. A minimum of 5 fixtures applies to new installation projects.
Core drilling is an additional $45 charge per fixture.
Charleston Low-Voltage Outdoor Lighting
Charleston Landscape Lighting for Lowcountry Homes
Transform your home after dark with warm path lights, tree uplighting, and architectural accents designed to make your property feel safer, more welcoming, and beautifully finished at night.
✓ Path lights, uplights & accents
✓ Professionally installed systems
✓ Charleston-area service
Residential Lighting
Lighting plans for Charleston homes, yards, paths, docks, porches, and outdoor living spaces.
Low-Voltage Systems
Warm LED path lights, uplights, step lights, dock lights, and accent fixtures.
Charleston Area
Built around the way Lowcountry properties look and feel after sunset.
Demo-First Planning
Start with the highest-impact areas and expand the system in smart phases.
Built for the Lowcountry
Outdoor lighting that feels like Charleston, not a parking lot.
The best landscape lighting is not about making everything bright. It is about using warm, intentional light to guide movement, reveal texture, and make the best parts of your property visible after sunset.
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting designs and installs low-voltage landscape lighting for Charleston-area homes, and helps homeowners repair existing systems or upgrade them as their property and outdoor spaces change.
Warm & Subtle
Designed to complement brick, wood, stucco, palms, live oaks, porches, and garden beds.
Useful at Night
Light the paths, steps, docks, entries, and outdoor spaces people actually use.
Before & After
A small lighting plan can completely change the front of a home.
A few well-placed path lights make the entry feel safer and more welcoming, while uplighting adds depth to trees, palms, and planting beds that disappear after dark.
For smaller projects, the goal is not to flood the yard with light. It is to guide people to the front door, reveal the best landscape features, and give the home a finished nighttime look without over-lighting the property.
Services
Charleston landscape lighting services
Low-voltage outdoor lighting services for Charleston-area homes, from paths and live oaks to docks, patios, porches, pool areas, and backyard spaces.
Signature Service
Landscape Lighting Installation
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting designs and installs warm, low-voltage landscape lighting for Charleston-area homes, including paths, live oaks, palms, docks, patios, pool areas, steps, and outdoor living spaces.
Low-Voltage Outdoor Lighting
Outdoor Lighting
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting designs and installs residential low-voltage outdoor lighting for Charleston homes, including entries, driveways, paths, porches, patios, trees, docks, pool areas, and backyard spaces.
Outdoor Lighting Systems
Low-Voltage Outdoor Lighting
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting designs, installs, repairs, and upgrades low-voltage outdoor lighting systems for Charleston homes, including LED fixtures, transformers, timers, wire runs, path lights, uplights, and step lights.
Low-Voltage System Planning
Outdoor Lighting Systems
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting helps Charleston-area homeowners plan coordinated low-voltage outdoor lighting systems with practical zones, transformer capacity, wire routes, controls, maintenance access, and room for future expansion.
Walkways & Garden Paths
Pathway Lighting
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting designs and installs warm low-voltage pathway and walkway lighting for brick walkways, front entries, side yards, garden paths, driveways, patios, pool areas, dock approaches, and marsh walkways throughout the Charleston area.
Live Oaks, Palms & Specimen Trees
Tree Uplighting
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting designs and installs warm, low-voltage tree uplighting for Charleston-area homes, including live oaks, palms, crepe myrtles, magnolias, and focal-point landscaping.
Signature Lowcountry Tree Lighting
Live Oak Uplighting
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting designs and installs warm, low-voltage live oak uplighting for Charleston-area homes, highlighting mature trunks, branching structure, Spanish moss, entries, driveways, patios, and backyard spaces.
Marsh & Waterfront Lighting
Dock Lighting
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting installs low-voltage dock lighting for Charleston-area waterfront homes, including docks, marsh walkways, piers, railings, steps, and outdoor living spaces.
Patios & Outdoor Living
Backyard Lighting
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting designs and installs warm, low-voltage backyard lighting for Charleston patios, fire pits, seating areas, paths, trees, fences, walls, and outdoor entertaining spaces.
Pools & Outdoor Entertaining
Pool Area Lighting
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting installs warm, low-voltage lighting around Charleston pool areas, including pool decks, patios, paths, palms, trees, steps, and outdoor living spaces.
Repair, Maintenance & Upgrades
Landscape Lighting Repair
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting repairs, maintains, and upgrades existing low-voltage landscape lighting systems in Charleston, including fixtures, wiring, transformers, timers, dim lights, and layout issues.
Permanent Lighting
Permanent Outdoor Lighting
Ace Basin installs permanent outdoor lighting for Charleston-area homes, including low-profile roofline lighting, trim lighting, architectural accents, app-controlled color scenes, and year-round holiday lighting.
Seasonal Holiday Lighting
Christmas light installation
Ace Basin provides tasteful Christmas light installation for Charleston-area homes, including the lights, professional installation, and takedown after the holiday season.
Maintenance & Tune-Ups
Outdoor Lighting Maintenance
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting maintains low-voltage outdoor lighting systems for Charleston-area homes, including fixture adjustments, cleaning, bulb or LED replacement, timer checks, transformer review, and system tune-ups.
LED Retrofits & System Improvements
Lighting System Upgrades
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting upgrades older low-voltage outdoor lighting systems for Charleston-area homes, including LED retrofits, transformer improvements, control updates, fixture replacement, layout changes, and expansion planning.
Pricing
Charleston and Lowcountry landscape lighting pricing that is easy to understand
Most landscaping and outdoor lighting companies keep pricing vague, but homeowners in Charleston, Mount Pleasant, James Island, West Ashley, Daniel Island, Folly Beach, Kiawah, and Beaufort deserve a clear idea of what a new install or repair will cost before the project starts.
Professionally installed landscape lighting systems start around $2,250.
That starting point includes a transformer and 8 new lights fully installed. Most of our front-yard lighting projects fall between $2,500-$5,000 depending on the size of the property and design.
We do not charge more just because of what part of town you live in. Every job, whether it is a small repair or a full landscape lighting installation, benefits from more than 10 combined years of professional experience. We believe homeowners should be able to plan, budget, and compare options without surprises.
Transformer
$250
Typical 300w transformer pricing for new low-voltage lighting installations and system upgrades. We usually install 300w in effort to give the homeowner future options and flexibility in event they choose to add more lighting in the future.
Permanent Lighting
$38/ft
Straightforward permanent lighting installation pricing for homeowners planning a full install.
Service & Repair
$225 for 90 minutes
For the first 90 minutes, we will work to restore your system by testing the overall health of your transformer, wiring connections, fixtures, and lamps. We will reconnect poor wire connections based on how accessible they are to rewire if they are pulled apart, poor, or failing connections causing power outages in your system.
Other typical activities during your 90-minute on-site repair visit include re-aiming light fixtures for optimal beam spread, fixing fixtures that have fallen over or need the gimbal reset, cleaning lenses, and providing a follow-up report with diagnostics of the current system, findings, and recommendations based on what you should do next to restore or improve your existing system.
If additional work or parts are needed after that initial 90 minutes and the customer decides to move forward with the repair or new install, that service fee is waived.
Warranty & Maintenance
Lifetime warranty
For every new install, we include a lifetime warranty on our fixtures, bulbs, and transformers as long as the homeowner maintains their yearly service package at $18 per fixture.
The White Glove Experience
The ultimate landscape lighting package
$15,000
A fully curated lighting experience for homeowners who want the highest level of access, speed, personalization, and after-install support.
Includes
- Expedited installation in 10 business days or less
- Up to 30 fixtures
- 1:1 access to the owner for private curated, real-time lighting suggestions specific to your property
- Professional Landscape Lighting Design with mockups included
- Extended 3-year warranty with free replacement parts
- Nighttime demonstration of 10 fixtures of your choice, live in your yard
- Dinner and drinks for up to 4 people during demo night or reveal night
Choose from prime-cut steaks, a Lowcountry boil, or a local barbecue restaurant of your choice.
Christmas Lighting
25 spots for Christmas light installation in 2026
We are taking 25 customers for Christmas light installation in 2026. Once those spots fill up, we do not offer any more Christmas light installations that year. Installations begin around October 2026, so homeowners can get their spots reserved early, place a deposit, and plan the holiday season with confidence.
If you are comparing outdoor lighting costs in Charleston, landscape lighting repair pricing in Mount Pleasant, or permanent lighting installation options in Beaufort, this section is designed to give local homeowners a straightforward starting point for planning and budgeting.
Recent Work
Real lighting examples from Lowcountry homes
A look at warm tree uplighting, entry lighting, pool-area accents, fence-line lighting, and stair lighting from recent project photos.
Google Reviews
19 five-star Google reviews from Charleston-area homeowners.
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting has a 5.0 star rating from 19 five-star Google reviews as of July 29, 2026. Real homeowner feedback is one of the clearest signals that our lighting plans, communication, and finished installs are doing what they should after dark.
Google Business Profile rating noted on July 29, 2026.
Google Rating
5.0
19 five-star Google reviews
Griffin Arkilic
Google review | June 2026
"Josh is fantastic to work with and I would recommend him for any job I have in the near future. Exceptional individual."View on Google
Jacob Monzon
Google review | June 2026
"Josh did previous work on my patio and did an awesome job! Very professional and friendly, highly recommend!"View on Google
Erin Corcoran
Google review | June 2026
"Josh and his team helped my parents on their yard and did a fantastic job. Great with communication and fair pricing! Highly recommend!"View on Google
Service Areas
Serving Charleston and select Lowcountry communities
Charleston remains the core service area for Ace Basin Landscape Lighting, with select Lowcountry projects available in nearby coastal and island communities.
Ace Basin Landscape Lighting is a local small business serving the Lowcountry, not an out-of-town lighting franchise or large regional contractor. We live and work here, so our lighting plans are built around Charleston homes, coastal conditions, live oaks, marsh edges, brick paths, porches, and the way Lowcountry properties are used after dark.
We also serve select Beaufort-area projects for homeowners looking for landscape lighting in Beaufort, SC, especially practical scopes such as new low-voltage lighting installation, existing-system repairs, maintenance, fixture replacement, LED upgrades, live oak uplighting, path lighting, and outdoor living area lighting.
Each area has its own outdoor lighting priorities, from live oak uplighting and brick pathway lighting to dock lighting, porch lighting, driveway lighting, patio lighting, and low-voltage system upgrades.
For homeowners comparing broader residential outdoor lighting options, the outdoor lighting service page covers patios, porches, entries, driveways, docks, pool areas, and backyard spaces across Charleston.
Charleston, SCJames Island, SCJohns Island, SCMount Pleasant, SCWest Ashley, SCDaniel Island, SCSullivan's Island, SCIsle of Palms, SCFolly Beach, SCSummerville, SCNorth Charleston, SCKiawah Island, SCBeaufort, SCDataw Island, SCFripp Island, SCLady's Island, SCBrays Island, SCCallawassie Island, SCHarbor Island, SC
Process
A simple path from idea to nighttime curb appeal.
Step 1
Walk the property
Identify the entry, paths, trees, steps, dock, porch, patio, or backyard spaces that matter most.
Step 2
Plan the first phase
Start with the highest-impact lighting zones instead of trying to overbuild everything at once.
Step 3
Install low-voltage fixtures
Use path lights, uplights, step lights, and accent fixtures with clean placement and warm light.
Step 4
Adjust after dark
Aim, tune, and adjust the layout so the finished system looks natural at night.
FAQ
Questions homeowners ask before installing outdoor lighting
A few practical answers before you start planning a lighting project for your home.
What does Ace Basin Landscape Lighting install?
We focus on low-voltage outdoor lighting for Charleston-area homes, including path lighting, tree uplighting, dock lighting, step lighting, architectural accents, backyard lighting, and lighting repair or upgrades.
What areas do you serve?
The core service area includes Charleston, SC, James Island, SC, Johns Island, SC, Mount Pleasant, SC, West Ashley, SC, Daniel Island, SC, Sullivan's Island, SC, Isle of Palms, SC, Folly Beach, SC, Summerville, SC, North Charleston, SC, Kiawah Island, SC, Beaufort, SC, Dataw Island, SC, Fripp Island, SC, Lady's Island, SC, Brays Island, SC, Callawassie Island, SC, Harbor Island, SC.
Can I start with a smaller lighting package?
Yes. A smart first phase can focus on the highest-impact areas: the front path, entry, a few key trees, steps, or the backyard space used most often.
What makes a good Charleston landscape lighting plan?
Warm light, restraint, good fixture placement, and a layered plan that highlights the property’s natural strengths: live oaks, palms, paths, porches, docks, courtyards, and outdoor living areas.
Quote Request
Tell us what you want to light.
Share a few details about your property, the areas you want to use after dark, and any paths, trees, docks, patios, or outdoor spaces you want included.
Request a Landscape Lighting Quote
Tell us what you want to light and where the project is located. We'll follow up with next steps.
Quote Request
Ready to see what your home could look like after dark?
Send a few details about your property and the areas you want to light. We will help you think through a smart first phase.