What services does your company offer?

Astoria Lighting Co. offers a permanent LED outdoor lighting system with color-changing lights designed for homes and businesses. This versatile system provides everything from subtle accent lighting that resembles recessed can or pot lights to vibrant, customizable colors and patterns for every night of the holiday season. It’s perfect for celebrating all occasions, including Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, patriotic holidays, Halloween, birthday parties, and more!

What types of lighting do you install?

We specialize in installing custom, high-quality exterior lighting systems. Our offerings typically include: - **Permanent Outdoor Lighting**: Energy-efficient LED systems designed for year-round use, perfect for accentuating home or building exteriors. These systems are commonly programmable to create custom lighting effects for holidays, events, or everyday use. - **Permanent Holiday Lighting**: Festive lighting solutions for Christmas, Halloween, and every holiday in between, installed with a clean, professional look. - **Landscape Lighting**: Pathway lights, uplighting, and spotlights to enhance outdoor spaces, increase curb appeal, and improve nighttime safety. - **Smart Lighting Systems**: Lights controlled via smartphone apps, allowing users to customize colors, brightness, and schedules remotely. - **Architectural Accent Lighting**: Lighting designed to highlight unique architectural features like rooflines, columns, or windows. We focus on combining aesthetics, functionality, and technology to deliver long-lasting, elegant lighting solutions.

Do you provide both residential and commercial installations?

Yes, we provide both residential and commercial outdoor lighting installations. Our offerings include permanent holiday lighting, landscape lighting, architectural accent lighting, bistro and café lighting, soffit lighting, and more. We cater to a variety of needs, from enhancing homes to illuminating businesses for aesthetic or functional purposes. Our installations are customizable and controlled via a proprietary smartphone app for convenience.

Are consultations free, and how can I schedule one?

All consultations and quotes are provided free of charge so you can make an informed decision. To schedule an appointment, simply fill out our online 'Request a Free Quote' form or give us a call at 844-715-4644.

Tree and Garden Lighting Installation

Astoria Lighting Co designs and installs professional tree and garden lighting that transforms your landscape into a stunning nighttime showcase protecting your investment and extending your enjoyment after dark.

Tree & Garden Lighting

Showcase Your Landscape After Dark

Your trees, gardens, and landscape represent significant investment and years of growth — but after sunset they vanish into darkness. Tree and garden lighting changes that completely.

A dramatically lit tree becomes a focal point visible from inside and out. Illuminated garden beds extend their visual impact into the evening hours.

Dramatic Focal Points

Transform trees and specimen plants into stunning nighttime focal points visible from every window and the street.

Evening Garden Impact

Extend the visual impact of your garden beds and plantings well into the evening hours for year-round enjoyment.

Expanded Property Feel

Lit landscape elements extend your visual environment beyond the home, making your property feel larger and more impressive.

Tree and garden lighting doesn’t just add beauty — it protects your landscape investment by letting you enjoy it around the clock and impressing anyone passing by.

Showcase Your Landscape

Technique Guide

Tree Lighting Techniques

Trees can be lit using several techniques depending on their size, structure, and the desired effect.

Uplighting

Fixtures at the tree base aimed upward, revealing trunk texture and branch structure while creating a glowing canopy of foliage.

✓ Most common technique
✓ Most dramatic effect
✓ Reveals trunk & canopy

Moonlighting

Fixtures mounted high in the tree aimed downward, creating dappled light patterns on the ground that mimic natural moonlight.

✓ Natural moonlight effect
✓ Beautiful ground patterns
✓ Hidden fixtures

Silhouette Lighting

Fixtures behind the tree illuminate a wall or fence, leaving the tree as a dramatic dark shape — striking and artistic.

✓ Dramatic dark shape
✓ Artistic effect
✓ Best near walls/fences

Trunk Grazing

Lights placed close to the trunk to emphasize bark texture on specimen trees — reveals every detail and contour.

✓ Bark texture emphasis
✓ Specimen tree focus
✓ Close-proximity lighting

Choose Your Technique

Fixture Planning

How Many Lights for Trees?

The number of lights needed depends on tree size and structure. Here’s a quick guide.

Small Trees

Up to 15 ft

1 Light

One well-placed uplight is often all that’s needed for ornamental trees.

Most Common

Medium Trees

15 – 25 ft

2 – 3 Lights

Multiple fixtures light the canopy evenly without dark spots.

Large Trees

25+ ft

4+ Lights

Positioned around the trunk to fully illuminate the crown of mature trees.

Good to Know

Wide spreading trees need more fixtures than narrow columnar varieties. Multiple-trunk trees may need a light for each significant trunk.

Get a Tree Assessment

Garden Lighting

Garden Accent Lighting

Gardens benefit from subtle lighting that reveals plantings without overwhelming them. The key is restraint — selective highlighting over flooding.

Specimen Uplights

Highlight specimen plants, ornamental grasses, or sculptural elements within beds with focused, directional light.

Garden Edge Path Lights

Along garden edges, illuminating both the walkway and adjacent plantings with dual-purpose light.

Spread Lights

Cast a wide, low pattern ideal for groundcovers and low plantings that need broad, even coverage.

Well Lights

Install flush with the ground for completely hidden illumination of specific plants — invisible by day.

We identify the most interesting plants and features in each bed and light only those, allowing the rest to provide subtle backdrop. Gardens look best with selective highlighting.

Light Your Gardens

Year-Round Beauty

Seasonal Considerations

Tree and garden lighting provides interest throughout the year, though the effects change beautifully with the seasons.

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Summer

Full canopies create lush, glowing masses of foliage overhead — the most dramatic and immersive effect.

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Fall

Autumn color looks spectacular when lit, extending your enjoyment of changing leaves well into the evening.

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Winter

Reveals branch structure previously hidden by foliage — dramatic silhouettes especially beautiful against snow.

Year-Round

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Evergreens

Provide consistent presence in every season — the anchors of your nighttime landscape design.

We design systems with seasonal change in mind, ensuring your landscape looks great throughout the year. Deciduous gardens may need fixture adjustment as plants grow, go dormant, and regrow.

Plan Year-Round Lighting

Investment

Tree and Garden Lighting Installation and Cost

Installation involves positioning fixtures, running low-voltage cable through landscape beds, and connecting to a transformer. Most projects complete in one day.

What’s Involved

Position & Aim

Place and aim each fixture for optimal effect — adjusted at night for perfect results

Run Cable

Low-voltage cable routed through landscape beds, hidden from view

Connect & Test

Link to transformer with timer controls and fine-tune at night

Cost Guide

Individual Tree

$150 – $300

Per tree uplight, installed

✓ Professional-grade fixture

✓ Expert positioning & aiming

✓ Wiring included

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WHY USE ASTORIA LIGHTING CO

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a modern house at dusk, illuminated with multicolored permanent outdoor LED lighting installed along the roofline. The lights are spaced evenly and display a pattern of red, green, and blue colors.

a modern house at dusk featuring outdoor LED soffit lighting. Soffit lighting is installed on the underside of the roof's overhang, casting light downwards to highlight the home's exterior and landscaping.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Are the lights replaceable?

Yes. Each light is an individual unit and attaches to the other lights via weatherproof, threaded caps, so they are easily unscrewed, pulled out, and replaced.

Can the lights provide true warm white?

Yes, as low as 2700K. It is true that other products on the market in the Permanent Christmas Lighting space do not offer a true warm white. The LED must be RGB-WW and have a yellow “diode” to allow for true warm white–which ours do!

How do payments work?

We collect 25% down and then order your materials. The balance is due at installation by check, cash, card, or through our 3rd party financing partner. We make it as easy as possible for your budget!

How much electricity does it use?

The lights on full bright white use less than one watt of power. It’s little enough that you won’t notice a difference in your electricity usage.

Is it designed for extreme temperatures?

Yes! Each light and connection has an IP 68 Waterproof rating and can operate at -40° F to 130°+F. All connections and wires are UV rated and will be able to last if ever exposed to long periods of sunlight (which they will not be as they are installed under the roofline). The track is made out of aluminum which is durable and won’t rust or degrade–the same material your gutters are made from.

What is the warranty?

Astoria Lighting Co provides a Lifetime Warranty on all permanent holiday light bulbs included in your system. Additionally, we offer a 10-year “bumper-to-bumper” warranty on all installed parts, plus a 3-year service warranty on labor.

What is the cost per foot?

At Astoria Lighting Co, we install industry-leading permanent lighting systems designed for long-lasting performance and outstanding value. We offer brighter LED lights, true warm-white capabilities, a closed track system, individually addressable lights, and many other important features that our competitors do not offer. It is priced according to how much linear feet you want installed on your home, plus a Wi-Fi controller and power supply system, rather than on the square footage of the home, and the length of rooflines can vary dramatically for houses of similar size. Because of this, we have to measure your roofline in order to give you an accurate quote.

However, as a guide, we typically run in the $20 to $28 dollar per linear foot range—plus $250-450 for controllers and power supplies–depending on the time of the year, as we frequently offer pricing promotions during the Spring and Summer months to encourage our customers to get their systems installed outside of the busy fall holiday season. Most of our jobs fall into the $2500 to $5500 range—sold, installed, and warrantied, with all taxes and fees included—to put lighting where customers would typically hang their Christmas lights. We offer great payment options that allow you to spread out the cost over time, resulting in significant savings versus hanging traditional Christmas lights, installing pot or can lighting, or otherwise improving the look of your home.

Where are the lights installed?

The lights are installed to the outer part of the soffit behind the fascia or trim, facing downward.

Can I make my own accent lighting?

Yes! Each light is individually addressable, meaning you can choose which lights you want on and what color you want them to be (anything from bright white to warm white or any color in the spectrum). For example, you can turn on lights at the top of each peak and over corners and columns, while the rest of the lights stay off, to provide nightly accents for your home. Our competitors do not offer this customizability.

Can I save timers?

Yes, you can save multiple nightly & weekly timers as well as calendar events for holidays and other special occasions. You can have them set by hour, or use the Sunrise and Sunset features.

Where can the lights be controlled from?

With the app, you can control your lights anywhere using our cloud technology. This means as long as your handheld device has an internet connection, you can be at work or anywhere in the world and turn on and off or change patterns remotely!

Are the lights UL listed & CSA/ETL approved?

Yes! The lights are ETL certified in the USA and Canada. Most low-voltage lighting companies are under the impression that they do not need proper CSA approvals for lighting if it is low voltage. This is incorrect and as a consumer, you should make sure that the product you are purchasing is indeed approved. You will see our ETL stamp of approval on our products.

How long does the installation take?

Average-sized installations are done in one day. You only need to be there for the beginning and the end of the installation. We will coordinate with you when we schedule your installation.

Can I make my own patterns?

Yes! The lights are individually addressable which allows you to choose which lights you want on and what color you want them to be, and join them together in different patterns and animations. There are millions of different colors that you can make! We also have hundreds of preset patterns and animations.

Can you see the lights from the street?

We install the lights in a color-matched aluminum track, made out of the same material that your gutters are made from. We depth-match the track to the way your soffit is built, so that the lights slightly protrude from the track below the fascia. They are unnoticeable from the street unless you are looking for them.

Are the lights dimmable?

Yes they are! Through the app, you can control and dim all the lights or just a section of the lights to get your desired effect.

How long does the system last?

Our LEDs are rated for 50,000 hours. It is a robust, outdoor rated LED lighting system that you can expect to last for years and years! We expect 10-20 years depending on usage–one installation, one investment, and many, many years with all of your lighting needs met!

How does the track hang?

Using the depth of the fascia on your home, we will hang it based on that specific depth. This allows us to create a low profile look that blends nicely into your home.