Atlantic Dreamscapes designs and installs low-voltage LED landscape lighting for homes in Melbourne, FL and across Brevard County. We handle the whole job: the lighting design, the wiring runs, the transformer, and the Tru-Scapes fixtures themselves, aimed and adjusted after dark so the system looks right from your patio, not just on paper.
Here’s what separates us from a dedicated lighting firm. We’re hardscapers first. We build the paver patios, pool decks, and pergolas that most landscape lighting installation projects revolve around, which means we can wire the lighting into a hardscape while it’s being built instead of working around it afterward.
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Every dedicated outdoor lighting company in Brevard County shares the same limitation: they show up after the hardscape is finished. The patio is set, the pool deck is sealed, and now someone has to trench wire through an established lawn and mount fixtures onto surfaces that were never planned for them.
We work the other way around. Atlantic Dreamscapes builds paver patios, pool decks, walkways, and pergolas, and when a project includes lighting, the wiring goes in during construction. Conduit runs are placed during base prep, before a single paver is set. Fixture locations get planned on the same drawing as the borders and the seating wall. By the time we sweep in the polymeric sand, the lighting is part of the structure, not an attachment to it.
That’s a practical difference you can see. No cut lawn. No exposed wire tucked against a step. No junction box mounted where you’ll stare at it from the dining table.
And if your hardscape is already built? We retrofit too, whether we installed the original surface or someone else did. Lighting-only projects are welcome here: you don’t need to be planning a patio or pool deck to hire us for a lighting system. Low-voltage wiring is shallow and forgiving, so a finished patio in Viera or a landscape that just needs light done right is still a good candidate. Take a look at our full hardscaping services to see everything we build, or browse recent projects across Brevard County to see how lighting fits into finished work. If you’ve been searching for a landscape lighting company that understands the surface as well as the fixtures, that’s us.
Each yard calls for its own mix of fixtures. These are the five types of outdoor lighting installation we handle most, and nearly every one maps to a hardscape we build ourselves.
Path lights do two jobs at once: they keep footing safe after dark and they define the shape of the yard at night. We space low, shielded fixtures along walkways so you get pools of warm light on the pavers instead of glare in your eyes. On a new walkway installation, we run the wire in the same trench line as the base work, so there’s nothing to dig up later. Spacing matters more than fixture count here. A Rockledge front walk with six well-placed lights beats one with twelve bright ones every time.
This is the work we’re best positioned to do in Brevard County. Recessed paver lights sit flush with the surface, set during installation and wired before the polymeric sand goes down, so the finished patio has light coming from inside the hardscape itself. Steps, seating walls, columns, and borders all take hardscape lighting the same way. We build with Belgard pavers on most projects, and Tru-Scapes makes hardscape fixtures sized to integrate with paver coursing. Planning a new surface? Our paver installation crew and the lighting plan work from one drawing, whether the project is in Palm Bay or on the beachside.
Around a pool, lighting is a safety feature before it’s a design feature. Deck edges, steps, and elevation changes need to be visible after dark, especially with kids moving between the water and the house. We set low-glare fixtures around the deck perimeter and wash light across the surrounding planting beds, so the whole area reads clearly at night without lighting up the neighbor’s windows. On a new pool deck paver installation, the conduit goes in with the deck base. A deck system planned during construction always finishes cleaner than one added later. That goes for Merritt Island, Melbourne Beach, and everywhere between.
A pergola without lighting is a daytime structure. Down-lights mounted in the rafters give you usable evening light for dinner, and a bistro-style string run adds the warmer layer most homeowners actually want out there. We plan lighting circuits during pergola builds so the wire travels inside the posts instead of stapled along them. That thinking carries over to outdoor kitchens: task lighting over the grill and counter, softer light everywhere else. One rule guides all of it: light the work surfaces first, then the people, then the structure.
Up-lighting is the most photographed lighting move in Florida, and for good reason. A well-aimed fixture at the base of a sabal palm throws the canopy into relief and gives the whole yard height at night. The technique works on the house itself, too: grazing light up a textured wall or marking the corners of the facade. Restraint is the skill here. We pick two or three features worth lighting and leave the rest dark, because a yard where everything glows has no focal point. Done right, up-lighting is what makes an Indialantic house look finished from the street.
Nearly every residential landscape lighting system we install runs on low voltage. Here’s why.
A transformer steps your household 120-volt supply down to 12 volts. At that level, the wiring is safe around pools, irrigation lines, pets, and kids. A shovel through a low-voltage line is an inconvenience, not an emergency. The wire buries shallow, so a low voltage landscape lighting installation doesn’t need the deep trenching or conduit work that line-voltage systems demand.
The LED side of the equation is about running cost and lifespan. LED fixtures draw a small fraction of the wattage halogen systems used, so a full yard of lighting adds surprisingly little to a power bill. They also run cool and last for years, which matters in a climate where fixtures live outside in heat and summer rain twelve months a year.
Low voltage plus LED is the standard for a reason: safe, efficient, and flexible enough to expand later. If you add a pergola or extend the patio down the road, the system grows with it.
We install Tru-Scapes lighting on our projects, and the choice was deliberate.
Tru-Scapes is an LED landscape lighting brand founded by landscape contractors, and the product line shows it. The catalog is organized the way installers work: landscape lighting for beds and trees, deck lighting for structures, and a dedicated hardscape lighting family built to integrate with paver and wall construction. Those hardscape fixtures are the reason the brand fits us so well. Flush paver lights and hardscape wall fixtures are designed for the exact surfaces we build every week.
Fixture quality is the other half of it. Housings, finishes, and connections need to survive Florida sun, salt air, and daily afternoon storms, and we won’t put a product in a client’s hardscape that we’d be back replacing in two years.
If you’ve seen Tru-Scapes fixtures in a photo and want them in your own outdoor living space, that’s exactly the kind of project we take on.
Every landscape lighting installation follows the same five steps, whether it’s a standalone system or part of a larger hardscape build.
Ready to see a plan for your own yard? Get started online or call 321-704-3943 and we’ll schedule your site visit.
We handle landscape lighting installation throughout Brevard County, anchored in Melbourne and Palm Bay. That coverage runs up through Viera, Rockledge, and Cocoa, and across the causeways to Merritt Island, Satellite Beach, and Indialantic. If you’re on the Space Coast and searching for “landscape lighting installers near me,” there’s a good chance we’ve already built or lit a project in your neighborhood. Not sure whether you’re in our service area? Call and ask. It’s a thirty-second conversation.
It depends on three things: how many fixtures the design calls for, how long the wire runs are, and whether the lighting goes in during a new hardscape build or as a retrofit. A front walk with a handful of path lights is a very different project from a full pool deck and pergola system. We price each design specifically rather than quoting a generic per-fixture number, so the accurate answer comes from a site visit. Request a quote and we’ll put real numbers to your actual yard.
Yes. Retrofitting is a regular part of our work, including hardscapes other companies built. For recessed paver lights, we lift individual pavers, run the wire in the bedding layer, set the fixtures flush, and re-set the surrounding pavers so the surface finishes clean. The same approach works on patio pavers and driveway pavers alike. Because we install these surfaces ourselves, we know how to open and close them without leaving evidence we were there.
Yes, and that’s the main reason it’s the residential standard. The transformer steps household power down to 12 volts, a level that’s safe around wet pool decks, irrigation, pets, and barefoot kids. The connections we use are weatherproof and rated for outdoor burial. The Electrical Safety Foundation International also publishes a homeowner outdoor electrical safety booklet if you want guidance beyond lighting. Around pools specifically, low-voltage deck and perimeter lighting improves safety by making steps and edges visible at night.
Tru-Scapes is an LED landscape lighting brand founded by landscape contractors, with product families covering landscape, deck, and hardscape lighting. The hardscape line is the standout: flush-mount paver lights and wall fixtures designed to integrate with paver and masonry construction. We install Tru-Scapes fixtures on our lighting projects because the product line matches the hardscape work we do.
Barely. LED fixtures draw a small fraction of the power of the halogen systems older yards used, and a low-voltage system running a typical evening schedule uses less electricity than most single household appliances. Put the system on a timer or photocell, which we include in the design, and it only runs during the hours you want it on.
It depends on scope. A short path-lighting run and a full property system with paver lights, pergola circuits, and up-lighting are very different jobs, and retrofits move differently than lighting built into new construction. We confirm the timeline for your specific project at the site visit, before any work starts, so you know what to expect.
The best hour on a pool deck is the one after sunset, and lighting is what makes that hour usable. Evenings outside, dinner under the pergola, a walkway that welcomes you home instead of disappearing at dusk. That’s what a well-designed system adds to your outdoor living space.
Request your lighting quote or call 321-704-3943. We’ll walk your property, design the system, and build it the way we build everything else: into the hardscape, not onto it.