Landscape Lighting Cost on Long Island (2026 Guide)

If you want the short answer: professional low-voltage landscape lighting on Long Island is priced by your property, not by a flat sticker price. The size of your home, how many fixtures you want, the layout of your beds and trees, and the quality of the components all move the number. At Yule Love Lights, we build a design around your specific property and give you a clear quote before any work begins, so you know exactly what you are paying for and what is included. This guide explains what goes into that cost, what a quality system actually includes, and the honest trade-offs between hiring a pro and doing it yourself.

What “landscape lighting” actually means

Landscape lighting is the low-voltage outdoor lighting that highlights your home and grounds: path lights along walkways, well lights and spotlights that wash up tree trunks and architecture, and accent fixtures that bring out the texture of stone, plantings, and entryways. It runs on low voltage, which is safer to work with and gentler on your landscaping than line-voltage systems.

Yule Love Lights is a family-owned Long Island lighting installer serving Nassau County, Suffolk County, and all of Long Island. Alongside Christmas lights and permanent app-controlled LED rooflines, landscape lighting is one of our core residential, commercial, and municipal services.

What drives the cost

There is no single Long Island price for landscape lighting because no two properties are the same. A few factors do most of the work in setting your number.

Number and type of fixtures

The biggest driver is how many fixtures you want and what kind. A handful of path lights along a front walk is a very different project from a full design that uplights mature trees, grazes the front facade, and lights a backyard patio. More fixtures and more specialized fixtures mean more material and more labor.

Property size and layout

The distance between fixtures, the length of wire runs, and obstacles like driveways, patios, and established planting beds all affect how long the install takes and how much wire and transformer capacity you need.

Component quality

Fixtures and transformers vary widely in build quality. Better components hold up to Long Island winters, coastal moisture, and years of seasonal change. We focus on durable, professionally specified equipment rather than the cheapest parts, because a system that fails in two seasons is not a savings.

Design and installation labor

A good lighting plan is design work, not just digging holes. Aiming, layering, and balancing the scene so it looks intentional after dark is what separates a professional install from a row of evenly spaced stakes. That design and the careful installation behind it are part of what you are paying for.

Why hire a professional installer

When you work with Yule Love Lights, you are getting more than fixtures in the ground. We are CLIPA-certified and fully insured, with certificates of insurance available on request. We are 5-star rated and have been featured in Newsday, on 1010 WINS, on iHeart Radio, and on News12 Long Island. That track record matters when someone is running wiring and transformers around your home.

You also get a real point of contact on Long Island. We are local, we stand behind our work, and we are reachable when you need us.

Landscape lighting vs. DIY strip lights and permanent roofline brands

Homeowners researching outdoor lighting often run into a few different categories, and it helps to keep them straight.

DIY adhesive strip lights like Govee are do-it-yourself products you stick up yourself. They can be fun for a quick effect, but they are a different product from a professionally installed, designed landscape lighting system built to last outdoors year after year.

Permanent roofline LED brands such as Jellyfish, Trimlight, and Gemstone are professionally installed permanent track LED systems sold through dealers. Those are roofline products, not landscape lighting, and they solve a different problem (year-round programmable lights along your eaves rather than fixtures placed in your yard and beds).

If a permanent app-controlled roofline is what you are after, Yule Love Lights installs those too. Our permanent LED systems typically run $2,500 to $9,000 for small-to-medium homes and use individually addressable LEDs on a 40-inch color-matched aluminum track mounted beneath the fascia flush with the soffit, so there are no holes in your gutters. They are UL- and ETL-certified, IP67 waterproof, low-voltage, and controlled through a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cloud app, with a limited lifetime product warranty. But that is roofline lighting. Landscape lighting is its own design conversation, which is why we quote it per property.

How the process works with Yule Love Lights

We start with your property and what you want to highlight, build a design around it, and give you a clear quote up front. Because we are local, scheduling and follow-up stay simple. We carry insurance and can provide COIs on request, and our reputation across Long Island is built on showing up, doing clean work, and standing behind it.

Get a real number for your home

The honest truth about landscape lighting cost on Long Island is that the right number comes from looking at your actual property, not from a generic price chart. Yule Love Lights will design a system around your home, explain exactly what is included, and give you a clear quote before any work starts. Call us at 631-517-0186 or visit yulelovelights.com to schedule your landscape lighting consultation.

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