Landscape Lighting Learning Center

Discover simple DIY landscape lighting ideas and tips to illuminate your outdoor spaces with ease. Perfect for first time home owners, create a beautiful, well-lit yard on any budget.

Transform your yard with VOLT® Essentials. Durable, easy-to-install landscape lighting designed for DIY homeowners. Enjoy a modern, cohesive look, long-lasting performance, and professional results without overspending.

The old days of selecting light bulbs by wattage are over. Use our lumens to watts conversion chart to choose the right LED bulb every time.

Discover how underwater lighting enhances beauty, the effects it creates, and tips for preserving its brilliance.

Read more about solar lights to discover why outdoor solar lights are practical, eco-friendly, and perfect for DIYers.

OHM is designed to ensure performance consistency while producing immersive sound. Read more to discover its stand out benefits.

Learn how to seamlessly install the VOLT® OHM outdoor audio system. It's engineered for DIY simplicity with plug-and-play connections.

Learn how to install the Pro Nano-Junction Direct Burial Connector, which replaces bulky, inefficient connectors for 12V landscape lighting.

In this instructional video, the landscape lighting experts at VOLT® discuss common beam spreads and typical use cases for each.

Learn how to set up VOLT®'s color-changing LED bulbs. Easily change colors, color temperature, brightness and create multiple lighting zones.

Featuring a durable powder coat, VOLT® black brass landscape lighting fixtures add a modern touch to any outdoor area.

Installing a basic landscape lighting system is an easy DIY project that, if done correctly, poses very little risk of lawn damage.

Two of the most common bulbs for LED landscape lighting our now available with our patented adjustable beam spread technology.

Avoid hazards, deter wildlife, and enhance home safety with landscape lighting. It's easy to install and offers immediate results.

Whether you’re lighting for security, safety, or beauty, installing landscape lighting is the solution. With VOLT®, you can create functional, beautiful outdoor living spaces.

Learn how to add the perfect finishing touch to your backyard pool area with these ambiance-enhancing outdoor lighting ideas.

With the right fixtures and design techniques, you can use outdoor lighting to create an nighttime oasis in an open landscape.

The proper landscape lighting fixtures can bring your patio, deck or lanai to life at night, delivering a combination of safety and style.

Get landscape lighting ideas, and learn about fixture types and placements to transform your yard and outdoor living spaces.

Want your home to be the envy of your neighborhood? Follow these steps to install a VOLT® low voltage landscape lighting kit from Costco®.

In this tutorial, learn how to use a digital voltmeter to detect voltage drops in a low voltage landscape lighting system.

Learn how to install a VOLT® landscape lighting kit. Our complete kits have everything you need to install an outdoor lighting system.

Any landscape lighting system needs secure, waterproof wire connections. We'll demonstrate how to make wire connections using wire nuts.

Tampa-based VOLT®, the industry leader in factory direct landscape lighting, raised its minimum wage to $20 an hour, effective Jan. 1, 2022.

Learn how to hang bistro lights and LED string lights. Step-by-step installation walkthrough and design examples for lighting your patio!

Setting up holiday lights comes with plenty of challenges. Learn how you can weatherproof your outdoor Christmas lights.

Get landscape lighting ideas, and learn about fixture types and placements to transform your yard and outdoor living spaces.

Low voltage landscape lighting is a great DIY project. Before you get started, learn the basics of outdoor lighting and common fixture types.

Easy step-by-step instructions for how to install well lights. These recessed uplighting fixtures are great for illuminating architecture.

Decorate your home for the holidays with color-coordinated, low-voltage landscape lighting. Colored lenses are affordable and reusable.

Learn about VOLT® Clamp-Connect low voltage transformers. Flip open to insert wires and clamp tight for a solid connection. No tools needed.

Learn how to install a VOLT® Pro Micro-Junction Direct Burial Connector, which replaces bulky hub connectors for landscape lighting.

Learn how to install a low voltage landscape lighting system that will enhance the beauty, safety and security of your home, yard or garden.

There are two ways to make outdoor lighting beautiful: use light to reveal beauty already present, or create new beauty with light and shadow.

Almost everyone in the U.S. and Europe lives under light-polluted skies. Follow these dark-sky lighting principles to reduce light pollution.

Ingress Protection (IP) ratings are used to determine how effectively a fixture is sealed to prevent intrusion by foreign objects or moisture.

Turtle-friendly lighting helps improve the survival rate of sea turtle hatchlings. Learn about turtle safe fixtures and how to install them.

When a landscape lighting project involves a professional contractor, learn how to stay involved before, during and after its completion.

Americans buy millions of mercury-containing bulbs each year. Most are improperly discarded, putting our health and the environment at risk.

A properly lit patio offers an oasis for relaxation. Light and color can create the right atmosphere and also provide safety.

Learn about the Top Dog Spotlight. This solid brass uplight features a convex lens, toothed knuckle and adjustable glare guard.

A well-lit property has fewer hiding spots for burglars. Learn how to us landscape lighting as a form of home security.

VOLT® landscape lighting experts demonstrate how to install a step light on a deck. This easy DIY project requires just a few basic tools.

Sidewalks or patios will often be in your way when installing wiring for landscape lighting. Learn simple ways to get under these obstacles.

If landscape lighting is painting with light, then spotlights are the brushes. Spotlights are commonly used for emphasis when up-lighting.

A home burglary occurs every 13 seconds in the United States. Outdoor security lighting can make your home less attractive to criminals.

Hard water stains and patination are common cosmetic issues on the surfaces of landscape lighting fixtures. Learn how to clean your fixtures.

Learn about these five landscape lighting techniques that add beauty and allure to your home's exterior at night.

Deck lights are compact, versatile fixtures. Learn how to use them to extend your home's living spaces at night.

Follow these easy steps to ensure your property and landscape lighting fixtures are ready for the winter months.

Unique control features allow homeowners who to decide how and when their landscape lighting systems function.

Learn how to pick the ideal path or area landscape lighting fixtures from our wide selection of sizes and styles in brass or copper.

Safety and security are often the main purposes of path lighting - but homeowners should also select aesthetically pleasing fixtures.

Do you consider how your beautiful new outdoor lights may affect your neighbors? Be a good neighbor and learn how to prevent light trespass.

Learn about the benefits LEDs provide and why they are rapidly replacing incandescent, halogen, fluorescent and other light sources.

As the quality of LED bulbs has improved and the cost has dropped, LED lighting makes more sense than ever.

Learn all about UL listed lighting; these marks are seen on VOLT® products but are absent from many other landscape lights on the market.

By following these simple photography tips, landscape lighting designers can capture outstanding images of their projects.

Follow along step by step as we install a low voltage transformer for a landscape lighting system, plus get tips and troubleshooting advice.

Learn how to make a plan for a low voltage landscape lighting system, along with tips to ensure a successful installation.

Learn the difference between line voltage vs low voltage and how they are each used in landscape lighting projects.

Learn how to light a flag pole, including fixtures to use, where to place them and how bright the light should be for this patriotic project.

Learn how to choose the LED bulb with the right color temperature to create the desired effect in your landscape lighting.

Learn how to install a VOLT® deck light on a post. We'll run the wire down through the post and out the back, then mount the fixture cleanly.

Learn how to install a hardscape light in a segmental block column, guided by the landscape lighting experts at VOLT®.

Learn how to install a hardscape light into a retaining wall with dirt behind it or into a free-standing wall that’s open on both sides.

Thermal management in LED lighting is a challenge. Learn how heat sinks are used to eliminate excess heat, which can reduce fixture life.

Learn how to properly install a hub for low voltage landscape lighting. The hub method is the best way to connect fixtures to a power source.

Whether you're a DIYer or a landscape lighting professional, avoiding these mistakes will help keep your project on time and under budget.

Tired of unraveling extension cords and dreading your electric bill at the end of December? Switch to VOLT®'s solar-powered holiday lights.

Learn about bulb types. LED vs. halogens, brightness, wattage-to-lumen equivalents, beam angle, color temperature and more.

From hub connectors to wire nut connectors to crimp and barrel styles, learn about the types of wire connectors used in landscape lighting.

VOLT® Undercover Hardscape Lights are ideal for illuminating areas where a typical path light would not be possible. Learn how to install them in retaining walls.

Learn how to choose the best spotlights to call attention to architectural or landscape features around your house.

Flood lights come in many shapes and sizes; the common factor is a very wide beam angle. Learn how to choose the best ones for your landscape.

With skillful placement and aiming, downlights create landscape lighting that seems natural, like moonlight.

Learn how to perform a professional landscape lighting installation with five straightforward tips you can use at your home.

Falling leaves and bare branches can pose big challenges to landscape lighting. Learn how to make your autumn landscape even more spectacular.

Dichroic filters alter the color of a light source. Learn how to select, care for & use filters to bring your landscape lighting to life.

Use bollards to beautify your landscape. These fixtures feature intricately cut panels that project patterns upon surrounding surfaces.

Learn how to choose the right landscape lighting design techniques and strategies for your specific home and outdoor area.

Outdoor lighting is becoming a home improvement must-have. Let’s review the benefits of installing a landscape lighting system.

Replace the halogen bulbs in your landscape lighting system with LED to save tremendous amounts of energy and money.

Brass, copper or aluminum? Learn how to choose high quality landscape lighting fixtures that are a good fit for your environment.

Just as lenses are important for sunglasses, they are equally important in designing a beautiful low voltage landscape lighting system.

With easy-to-install VOLT® landscape lighting kits, DIYers can easily increase their home's safety, security and beauty.

Use our guide to landscape lighting fixture types to navigate the different options and choose the best ones for your application.

In this article, we discuss some of the most common misconceptions surrounding landscape lighting installation.