From a studio in Burns, Light TN designs for the secluded estate neighborhoods of west Nashville.
CertifiedA few minutes from downtown, Forest Hills and Oak Hill go quiet and green — acre-plus lots, no commercial frontage, custom homes set back among trees that were here long before them. Landscape lighting on these estates is less about brightness than seclusion kept intact: lighting the canopy, the grade, and the path to the door so the property holds its privacy and its depth after dark. Light TN is a landscape lighting designer based in Burns.
These are hillside properties. Forest Hills lives up to its name, and a fixture set for the lawn can sit below a window it would glare straight into — so we light to the grade, with step lights for footing, low grazing on a retaining wall, and aiming checked from the house above. Along the Radnor Lake edge, we keep the light warm and low, so the protected woodland stays dark where it should.
An Oak Hill or Forest Hills lot is bought for the trees and the space between them. We light the specimen oaks from the crown as much as the base, moonlighting down through the branches, and we plan for a canopy that fills in — what reads open this year will be denser in five.
Forest Hills is built on slope, and grade changes everything. A light placed for the lawn can glare into a window above it, so we set fixtures low and aimed, add step lights where the ground falls away, and graze retaining walls so the descent reads as one continuous landscape rather than a row of points.
Several of these estates back up to Radnor Lake’s protected land. There we light with extra restraint — warm color, shielded fixtures, nothing thrown toward the preserve — so your grounds read composed at night while the woodland just beyond them stays as dark as it was meant to be.
Forest Hills · Oak Hill · Tyne Boulevard · Lynnwood Boulevard · Otter Creek · Granny White Pike · Radnor Lake area · Oak Hill Estates
A: No — the studio is in Burns, west of the city, and Light TN comes to Nashville for the work. Daryl Bentfield walks the property himself for the on-site assessment, so a Forest Hills or Oak Hill design is drawn on the lot, among the actual trees and grade.
A: These acre-plus estates are exactly the kind of property Light TN designs for. We moonlight the mature canopy, uplight specimen trunks, and light the grade so a large, secluded lot reads as one composed landscape after dark rather than a scatter of bright points.
A: Yes — it is the first thing we check on Forest Hills’ grade. Light TN sets fixtures below sightlines and aims each one so a light placed downhill never glares back into a window above it, with step lighting added where the ground falls away.
A: No. Light TN buries low-voltage wire with the L2 Line Layer, a trenchless machine and the only one in the Nashville market, so cable goes in without trenching and a mature lawn or root zone stays intact.
A: Landscape lighting is the grounds — the trees, beds, paths, and grade. The full Nashville outdoor lighting page brings that together with architectural, roofline, audio, and smart-control lighting for the whole property.
Light TN designs and installs custom outdoor lighting systems for homes and properties across Middle Tennessee. Every project starts with a consultation, a custom plan, and a commitment to doing the work cleanly — with results that hold up over time.
