Your Landscape, After Dark.
Davidson, After Dusk.
Hunter's Lawn & Landscaping designs historically appropriate landscape lighting for Davidson — path and architectural lighting scaled to the town's walkable, tree-lined historic character.
Lighting in Davidson
Davidson is the smallest and most affluent of the Lake Norman towns, shaped by nearly two centuries of Davidson College and a tree-lined, walkable downtown the town has deliberately kept intact. Lighting here has to work at a pedestrian scale and around a mature tree canopy that defines the town's character — not compete with either.
Hunter's designs Davidson lighting with that restraint in mind — soft path lighting scaled to smaller historic lots, tree uplighting installed with root-protective methods around Davidson's mature canopy, and architectural lighting that complements a period home rather than modernizing its look.
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What We Build
Hunter's Lawn & Landscaping offers full-service landscape and outdoor lighting in Davidson NC — every system personally designed and installed by Hunter, using professional-grade low-voltage LED fixtures built to last in Mecklenburg County's climate.
Hunter's installs path and area lighting throughout Davidson NC — the foundation of most landscape lighting designs. Done right, path lighting makes walkways, steps, and driveways safe to navigate at night while quietly defining the shape of the landscape, never glaring or runway-striping.
Path lights are spaced and aimed to wash the ground in soft, overlapping pools of light — guiding the eye and the foot without harsh hotspots. We use professional fixtures, not big-box stakes that fade in a season.
Step & area lighting brings safety and ambiance to stairs, seating areas, and gathering spaces — integrated discreetly into hardscape where possible.
The most dramatic landscape lighting in Davidson NC is the light you aim at the house and the trees. Hunter's designs architectural uplighting and tree lighting that turns a home into a nighttime focal point — highlighting stone, columns, gables, and specimen trees with carefully aimed, glare-controlled fixtures.
Facade & architectural uplighting grazes walls and washes columns to bring out texture and depth, making the home look intentional and high-end after dark.
Tree uplighting & moonlighting lights specimen trees from below, or places fixtures high in the canopy to cast a soft, natural "moonlight" pattern across the yard.
Lighting is what keeps an outdoor living space usable after sunset. Hunter's lights patios, decks, kitchens, and structures across Davidson NC — integrating fixtures into hardscape, steps, and pergolas so the space stays warm and inviting once the sun goes down, without a single glaring bulb in your eyes.
Hardscape & deck lighting tucks low-profile fixtures into seat walls, step risers, and railing caps — light you feel more than see, defining the space safely.
Pergola & structure lighting brings a soft overhead glow to covered patios and outdoor kitchens, making them genuinely usable for evening entertaining.
Behind every great lighting effect is a properly designed low-voltage system. Hunter's engineers the whole system for Davidson NC properties — transformer sizing, wire runs, and fixture placement — so the lights are bright where they should be, dim where they shouldn't, and reliable for years with minimal upkeep.
Lighting design starts with a nighttime plan: what to highlight, what to leave dark, and how the eye should move across the property. The design is what separates professional lighting from a box of stakes.
Low-voltage LED systems are energy-efficient, safe, and long-lasting. We install professional transformers, direct-burial wire, and smart timers or app control so the system runs itself.
Lighting Techniques
Great landscape lighting in Davidson NC comes from combining the right techniques, not just adding more fixtures. Hunter's draws on a full toolkit of lighting effects and uses professional-grade fixtures suited to Mecklenburg County's climate.
Fixtures aimed upward to graze walls, columns, and tree trunks — adding drama, depth, and height to the nighttime landscape.
Fixtures placed high in trees casting a soft, dappled light downward — mimicking natural moonlight across paths and patios.
Soft, overlapping pools of light along walkways and steps — safe and elegant, never harsh or evenly-spaced like a runway.
Light skimmed across stone or stucco to reveal texture, or washed evenly for a soft glow — a hallmark of high-end facade lighting.
Brass and copper low-voltage fixtures built to last outdoors for years — not the plastic big-box stakes that fade and fail in a season.
Transformers, timers, photocells, and app-based control so the system turns on at dusk, off on schedule, and runs itself reliably year-round.
Investment
Hunter's Lawn & Landscaping believes in transparent pricing. The ranges below reflect typical installed landscape lighting costs in the Davidson NC and Mecklenburg County market as of 2026.
Most lighting projects are priced by the number of fixtures plus the transformer and wiring. Larger, fuller designs cost less per fixture. We provide a detailed, itemized estimate after a free nighttime consultation.
Request a Free EstimateRanges reflect installed costs in the Davidson NC market as of 2026. Fixture count, fixture quality, and design complexity drive final pricing. Call (704) 707-5421 for a free nighttime lighting consultation.
How We Work
Every lighting project in Davidson NC follows the same deliberate process — because great lighting is designed at night, fixture by fixture, not guessed at in daylight. Hunter's takes the time to aim every light.
Hunter evaluates your property with an eye for what should be lit and what should stay dark — architecture, trees, paths, and gathering spaces — and listens to how you want the property to feel after dark.
Hunter develops a lighting plan — fixture types, placement, and effects — and sizes the transformer and wire runs so the whole system performs and lasts. You see the plan before any wire goes in the ground.
Hunter installs professional fixtures, direct-burial wiring, and the transformer cleanly and out of sight — buried runs, hidden sources, and tidy connections built to hold up outdoors for years.
The most important step: Hunter returns after dark to aim every fixture and fine-tune the effect in person. We walk the lit property together and don't leave until it looks exactly right.
Our Work
About Hunter's Lighting
Hunter's Lawn & Landscaping is a luxury landscape lighting company based in Concord, NC — founded and personally led by Hunter with over 20 years of experience across Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties. Every lighting design is led by Hunter on-site, from the nighttime consultation through final aiming.
In over two decades of landscaping in Concord NC, Hunter has learned that lighting is where craftsmanship shows most — the difference between a property that glows and one that glares comes down to fixture choice and the patience to aim each one after dark. Hunter's installs professional low-voltage systems and returns at night to fine-tune every light until it's right.
Local Insights
Davidson homeowners near the historic downtown and college green prioritize a contractor's experience with historic-home lighting over general installation volume.
The most common question in Davidson is whether tree uplighting can be installed without damaging the root systems of mature trees the town is known for.
Davidson clients choose Hunter's Lawn & Landscaping for lighting design that treats a historic property and its mature trees with restraint, rather than an oversized, overly bright install.
Questions
Answered directly by a landscaper with over 20 years lighting properties across Mecklenburg County.
Landscape Lighting Near You
Hunter's Lawn & Landscaping provides landscape and outdoor lighting design and installation throughout Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, and surrounding areas of North Carolina.
Don't see your town listed? Call us anyway — we serve the extended region beyond these areas too.
Hunter's Lawn & Landscaping is based in Concord, NC and serves the greater Charlotte region — from Lake Norman communities to the Cabarrus County core. Every lighting design is personally led by Hunter on-site.
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We respond personally to every inquiry — no call centers, no automated systems. When you reach out to Hunter's Lawn & Landscaping about your landscape lighting project in Davidson NC, you hear back from us directly within 1 business day.