Outdoor & Landscape Lighting
Outdoor and Landscape Lighting in Monroe, LA — Year-Round and Holiday
Path, accent, and security lighting that keeps your landscape working after dark — plus professional holiday light installation and takedown every season. Designed at your home, quoted custom, with a free on-site assessment.
You invested in the beds, the trees, and the curb appeal — and then the sun goes down and all of it disappears. Outdoor lighting is how a landscape earns its keep after dark: path lights that walk guests safely from driveway to door, uplights that turn a crepe myrtle or a brick facade into the best-looking thing on the street, and steady illumination over the dark corners, entries, and driveway approaches where you actually want visibility at night. College Bros designs and installs landscape and outdoor lighting across Monroe and Northeast Louisiana, and because we are already the crew maintaining many of these yards, the lighting plan gets built around the landscape instead of fighting it.
Designed at Your Home, Quoted Custom
No two lighting projects price the same, because no two houses need the same thing — fixture counts, wire runs, transformer sizing, controls, and how much of the yard you want lit all move the number. So we skip the teaser rates. Every project starts with a free on-site assessment: we walk the property with you, talk through what you want the lighting to do — beauty, safety, security, or all three — and follow up with a written custom quote for your exact home. Most landscape systems are low-voltage, which keeps installation clean and the trenching shallow; if a design ever calls for new household circuits or panel work, that portion belongs to a licensed electrician and we tell you so up front rather than improvising around it.
Holiday Lighting, Handled Start to Finish
Every November, the same crew trades garden fixtures for rooflines. Holiday lighting is a real, season-tested College Bros service — the photos below are our actual installs around Monroe — and it covers the full display: crisp roofline runs in commercial-style C9 or C7 LED bulbs clipped cleanly to gutters or shingles, eaves and gables outlined to match, trees wrapped trunk and branch, shrubs netted in light, walkways lined, and your inflatables and decorations anchored where they belong. Strings are tested before they go up, the whole system is tested before we leave, and a timer gets set so the display runs dusk-to-dawn or on whatever schedule you want. When the season winds down, we come back and take it all down — no ladder time on your calendar in January. The install window is short and concentrated, roughly mid-November through early January, so the smart move is booking in the fall before the calendar fills.
Behind all of it is the same insured, Monroe-headquartered company with more than 5,000 completed jobs and a 4.8 rating from 48 Google reviews — and the same promise: not happy? We make it right. We serve Monroe, West Monroe, Sterlington, Calhoun, Swartz, and Lakeshore, roughly 25 miles around our shop. Lighting also pairs naturally with landscaping and hardscaping projects — the best time to plan fixtures is while the beds or patio are being designed. Book your free assessment online, or call or text (318) 600-9123.
Lighting We Design and Install
Path and Walkway Lighting
Low fixtures spaced along walks, steps, and bed edges so the route from driveway to door is obvious and safe at night — without the runway-strip look that comes from lining lights up like fence posts.
Accent and Uplighting
Fixtures aimed at the features worth seeing after dark: specimen trees, brick and stone facades, planting beds, and architectural lines. A few well-aimed lights change how the whole house reads from the street.
Security and Safety Lighting
Steady, deliberate light over entries, driveways, side yards, and the dark corners where you want visibility — set on dusk-to-dawn or scheduled control so it works every night without anyone flipping a switch.
Holiday Roofline Displays
C9 and C7 LED bulbs in your choice of colors, clipped to gutters and shingles in straight, professional lines — no sagging spans, no stapled cords. Eaves and gables outlined to complete the look.
Holiday Trees, Shrubs, and Walkways
Trunk and branch wraps on feature trees, mini lights for the bigger canopies, net lighting across hedges, and lit walkways that tie the display together from the curb.
Timers and Controls
Every install ends with the controls set the way you want them — dusk-to-dawn or a custom schedule — plus weatherproofed, GFCI-protected connections so the system shrugs off Louisiana rain.
Real Holiday Lighting Installs Around Monroe
How a Lighting Project Works
Book the Free Assessment
Reserve a visit online in about a minute, or call or text (318) 600-9123. For holiday displays, booking in the fall locks your spot in the install window.
Walk the Property With Us
We look at the house, the landscape, the power sources, and what you want the lighting to accomplish — then talk through fixtures, layout, and options honestly.
Written Custom Quote
A real number for your exact home and scope, in writing, with no obligation. Larger projects can often be split into phases, and Wisetack financing can turn a bigger design into monthly payments (subject to credit approval; terms vary) — ask when you get your quote.
Install, Test, and Set the Timer
Strings and fixtures are tested before they go up, the full system is tested before we leave, and your timer is set to the schedule you want.
Seasonal Takedown
For holiday displays, we return after the season and remove everything — carefully, on our ladders instead of yours. The College Bros guarantee covers it all: not happy? We make it right.
Make It Monthly — Financing Through Wisetack
Bigger projects don't have to wait on a lump sum. We offer consumer financing through Wisetack, so you can split a project into monthly payments — checking your options takes about a minute and won't impact your credit score. Just ask when you get your free quote.
All financing is subject to credit approval. Terms vary and not all customers will qualify. Financing is provided by Wisetack's bank partners.
Outdoor Lighting Questions, Answered Straight
How much does outdoor lighting cost in Monroe, LA?
There is no honest flat rate, so we will not pretend otherwise. Landscape lighting pricing depends on how many fixtures the design calls for, how far the wire runs go, transformer and control choices, and how the install interacts with existing beds and hardscape. Holiday displays price on scope too — roofline footage, how many trees and shrubs get wrapped, and whether walkways and decorations are part of the package. What you get from College Bros is a free on-site assessment and a written custom quote for your exact home, with zero obligation attached. Monthly payment options are available through Wisetack financing — subject to credit approval; terms vary. Call or text (318) 600-9123 or book the assessment online to get your real number.
Do you do landscape lighting year-round, or just holiday lights?
Both, and they are different services. Landscape lighting — path, accent, uplighting, and security fixtures — is permanent, low-voltage work we design and install any month of the year. Holiday lighting is seasonal: a display we install as the season ramps up, maintain through the holidays, and take down afterward. Plenty of customers start with one and add the other, and if you are planning both, designing them together at the same assessment makes the wiring, the controls, and the budget all work harder.
When should I book holiday light installation?
Earlier than feels necessary. The realistic install window in Northeast Louisiana is short — roughly mid-November through early January, with most homeowners wanting lights burning by Thanksgiving — so the schedule concentrates into a few crowded weeks. Booking in the fall gets you a choice of install dates instead of whatever is left, and it gives us time for the pre-install walk where we confirm the design, locate outlets, and plan timer placement. If the season has already started, reach out anyway: call or text (318) 600-9123 and we will tell you honestly what the calendar allows.
Do you take the lights down after the holidays?
Yes — takedown is part of the service, not an extra favor. We return in January or February, remove the display with the same ladder discipline we used putting it up, and wrap strings carefully so they survive to light another season. That last part matters more than people expect: most holiday-light damage happens in a hurried, freezing-cold teardown, and a string yanked down and stuffed in a bin rarely works the next year. You skip the ladder, the cold, and the tangle entirely.
Can you install holiday lights I already own?
Often, yes. If you have lights you love, we inspect and test every string before it goes up and replace bad bulbs where we can — and if your strings are too worn or underpowered to be worth the install labor, we say so plainly instead of hanging a display that disappoints you. Commercial-grade LED is what we recommend when you are buying new or upgrading: it draws far less power than old incandescent strings, runs cooler, and holds up better outdoors. We will walk through the options and the tradeoffs when we quote your display.
Does outdoor lighting actually help with home security?
It removes the main thing intruders rely on: darkness to work in. Lighting entries, driveways, and the blind side yards eliminates the unlit approaches to your home, makes activity visible to you and your neighbors, and dramatically improves what security cameras can capture at night. The key is consistency — a dusk-to-dawn or scheduled system lights the property every night automatically, with no switch to forget. We will be straight with you: no light fixture makes a home burglar-proof, but a well-lit property is a meaningfully harder target than a dark one, and the same fixtures make the place safer to walk and better-looking too.
Light It Up — Book Your Free Lighting Assessment
Book online in about a minute, or call or text (318) 600-9123. Year-round landscape lighting or a full holiday display — designed at your home, quoted custom, installed and backed by the College Bros guarantee.