Pool and Water Feature Lighting in Franklin Lakes, NJ

What is pool and water feature lighting in Franklin Lakes, NJ?

Pool and Water Feature Lighting is part of the landscape lighting we install on Franklin Lakes properties. Pool and water feature lighting treats the water and its surround as one composition, lighting the deck, the coping and the planting around it rather than only the pool shell.

Why does it matter on a Franklin Lakes property?

Franklin Lakes sits in Bergen County, and this is a town of wooded rear lots where the tree line is the boundary, so rear lighting has to stop somewhere deliberate.

The same property usually brings a second constraint with it: long driveway approaches through tree cover, where the drive itself is the first thing that has to read from the road.

These are Bergen County estate roads where houses sit deep on wooded lots, so passing traffic reads a wash against a dark tree line rather than a row of doors.

On a Franklin Lakes property this reads as wooded rear lots where the tree line is the boundary, so rear lighting has to stop somewhere deliberate against long driveway approaches through tree cover, where the drive itself is the first thing that has to read from the road.

How do we install pool and water feature lighting in Franklin Lakes?

Water features such as bubblers and sheer descents are lit from below the falling water, since a source above the flow washes out into the sheet.

Warm, low output around seating areas, because the eye adjusts to the darkest thing in view and a bright fixture undoes the whole surround.

Fixtures around the coping are aimed away from the water line, because light bounced off a moving surface throws glare straight back at seated guests.

Anything near water is held to the clearances and bonding the electrical code requires, which is checked on site rather than assumed from a plan.

Surrounding planting and hardscape are lit so the water reflects something worth reflecting, since a dark surround gives the surface nothing to hold.

What does a bad install look like?

Color-change LEDs cycling through blue and green around a spa. The moving hue makes the water look chemically off, and guests in the tub read every skin tone wrong.