Portfolio
Nashville outdoor lighting, designed in Franklin for Williamson County homes.
Every project is custom-designed for the specific home, landscape, and family it serves.
Featured Project
Services
Hardscape lighting · String lights · Patio ambient
Location
Private residence
Anyone gathering landscape lighting ideas is welcome to borrow from these; each one was drawn for the garden it sits in, which is why none of them repeat.
New Tennessee portfolio in production — photographed at dusk.
The next set is being photographed the way the work is meant to be seen: on the property, after dark.
Designed for the Specific Home, Not the Postcode
Every system in this portfolio was custom-designed for the property it serves. No templates, no package tiers — the design walk, the plan, and the installation are built around the architecture, the landscape, and the family living there.
Phil Gemmell is the landscape lighting designer on every project here, and the same person who walks the property at dusk before a plan exists. That matters more than it sounds: a scheme drawn from a site plan is a guess about where the light lands, and the only way to know how a canopy throws shadow across a lawn is to stand under it after dark.
How a plan gets drawn before installation is on our landscape lighting design page. Examples of layered designs, discussed in more depth, are also covered there.
Common Questions
Questions, Answered
Who designs the lighting in these projects?
Phil Gemmell designs every system himself, on site, after dark. There is no design department to hand off to and no template set to choose from, which is why no two projects here repeat the same arrangement even where the houses are a similar size.
Can I see a project near me before I book?
Often, yes. Ask on the design walk and we will tell you what is installed nearby and whether that homeowner is happy to have it pointed out. Lighting is easier to judge standing in front of it than in a photograph, where the exposure decides how bright anything looks.
Do you work as an outdoor lighting designer on new builds as well as established gardens?
Both, and they are different problems. On a new build the planting is young, so the scheme has to suit what the garden becomes in five years rather than how it looks on handover day. An established garden is the reverse: mature canopy is already there, and the design works with shadow that exists.