Landscape Lighting for Montreaux’s Wooded Custom Homes
Montreaux is a community of about 60 custom homes in the Bayleaf area of far North Raleigh, off Norwood Road near Creedmoor, just west of The Registry at Bailey Farm. The lots are wooded, typically around an acre and in some cases larger, and the houses are generous, about 4,200 to 5,700 square feet, in Georgian, Colonial, Contemporary and Mediterranean styles.
What those styles share, after dark, is the land around them. Wooded lots give a home a natural frame: trunks, canopy and the quiet between the trees. Lighting that frame well is what makes a custom house feel finished in the evening. Lighting it too evenly, or too brightly, flattens the woods and the architecture together. The work is composition, not installation: warm 2700K light, purposeful shadows and an ambient atmosphere that lets the house and the trees take turns.
A Stage Designer’s Eye for a Wooded Lot
Joe Yanulevich spent more than 35 years working in the concert and stage lighting industry before he brought that craft to residential landscapes. On a stage, the dark spaces are what give the lit ones their drama. On a Montreaux lot, that might mean a specimen tree at the curve of the drive, a gentle wash on the facade so the architecture reads without hot spots, and moonlight from high in the canopy falling across the lawn, with the rest of the woods left alone.
Because the trees will keep growing, fixtures are placed so they can be re-aimed as the canopy fills in. Because neighbors are close enough to share the woods, every fixture is shielded and aimed into the landscape, not into the sky or across the property line. Joe explains the difference in You Can’t Un-See Bad Landscape Lighting.
Featured in Masters of Landscape Lighting
Joe’s work is featured in the book Masters of Landscape Lighting, alongside designers recognized for what the craft can be at its best.
A Daytime Design Consultation
Every Lite Visions project starts with a daytime design consultation. Joe walks the grounds with you in daylight to see how the house sits in the woods, what you see from the windows and the terrace, and how you use the property. He designs every job himself, and after installation he returns after dark to make the final adjustments to each fixture’s angle and brightness. Lite Visions is locally owned, it isn’t a franchise, and lighting is all we do.
See More of Our Work
Browse the landscape lighting portfolio, or read about our approach to landscape lighting around Falls Lake and North Raleigh. Also in the Bayleaf and Norwood Road area: Chatsworth, The Registry at Bailey Farm, Norwood Ridge and Bay Leaf Farm.
From the Lite Visions Portfolio
Lite Visions has not yet completed a project in Montreaux. The photos in this section come from other Lite Visions work around the Triangle, and they show the kind of approach we would bring here.
Start With a Daytime Design Consultation
If you’re curious what your Montreaux property could feel like after dark, Joe would enjoy walking it with you in daylight. The first conversation is about how you live outdoors, where you sit, and what you see from inside.
Schedule Your Daytime Design Consultation
Prefer to talk first? Call Joe at Nine one Nine-518-9950, or email litevisionsrdu@gmail.com.
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