Light TN designs landscape lighting for the Georgian and Colonial estates of Belle Meade, from a design studio in Burns.
CertifiedBelle Meade is its own city, laid out a century ago as a garden community of grand homes on tree-lined streets. The estates are Georgian, Colonial, and Tudor Revival, set far back behind deep lawns and old hardwoods, with the boulevard running to the stone gates of Percy Warner Park. Landscape lighting here has to match that formality, and Light TN is a landscape lighting designer based in Burns that lights an estate the way it was composed — symmetrical, restrained, and warm.
Formality is the constraint. A Belle Meade facade is built on balance — matched windows, a centered door, boxwood held in line — and the lighting has to hold that line, not break it. We light in pairs and matched runs, graze the symmetry warmly, and keep every fixture out of sight in the planting, so what you see from the boulevard is the house, not the equipment that lights it.
Belle Meade’s deep-setback lots hold some of the oldest hardwoods in Nashville, many predating the houses. We light them from within the canopy and at the trunk, and even a mature tree changes — a canopy that drops a limb and grows another reads differently in five years, and the aim has to anticipate it.
The gardens here are formal — boxwood parterres, allées, beds laid out on an axis. We light them to hold that geometry, in matched pairs and even runs rather than scattered accents, so the symmetry the garden was designed around still reads after dark instead of dissolving into spots of light.
These homes sit far back from the street behind sweeping front lawns. We light the long approach and the facade from set-back, shielded positions, so the estate composes from the boulevard — the eye carried up the lawn to a warmly lit house, with no fixture showing along the way.
Belle Meade Boulevard · Jackson Boulevard · Lynnwood Boulevard · Chickering Road · Page Road · Tyne Boulevard · Percy Warner Park area
A: No — Belle Meade is its own city, and Light TN comes to it from the studio in Burns. Daryl Bentfield walks the estate for the on-site assessment, so the plan fits the setback, the symmetry of the facade, and the specimen trees in front of you.
A: Yes — holding the symmetry is the point. Light TN lights a Belle Meade facade in matched pairs and even runs, balanced to the architecture, so a Georgian or Colonial home reads as composed at night as it does by day, never lopsided or spotty.
A: Light TN specializes in specimen-tree lighting, and Belle Meade’s deep-setback lots carry some of the oldest hardwoods in Nashville. We moonlight from high in the canopy and uplight the trunks so the tree anchors the estate after dark without a fixture in sight.
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 runs beneath a manicured lawn or a boxwood parterre without trenching it open.
A: This page is landscape lighting — the trees, formal beds, and approach of the grounds. The full Belle Meade outdoor lighting page brings that together with architectural, roofline, audio, and smart-control lighting for the whole estate.
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.
