Your Outdoor Lighting Contractor in Westchester & the Hudson Valley
Blue Hour Lighting designs and installs landscape lighting and outdoor sound for homes across Westchester, Dutchess, and Rockland Counties, as well as Greenwich, Connecticut. We create a lighting plan overlaid on a detailed high-quality diagram of your home, along with a written estimate. Good outdoor lighting keeps you sure-footed after dark and brings the trees, stonework, and other landscaping accents back into view, so your property doesn’t vanish when the sun goes down.
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Certified, Licensed & Focused
Led by a certified
designer
Owner Jarod Halstead holds the Certified Outdoor Lighting Designer credential (AOLP-COLD) from the Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals.
Licensed and insured everywhere we work
We hold the county and state licenses required in Putnam, Westchester, and Rockland counties and Connecticut. Dutchess County doesn't require a license.
One year of workmanship coverage
Included with every landscape lighting installation, with a maintenance plan available after the first year.
In-house crew, no subcontractors
The same trained team that draws the plan breaks ground and installs every fixture.
Landscape Lighting & Outdoor Sound, Designed Together
Lighting and audio already share ground space and a transformer, so at Blue Hour, they share a design, too. We offer seven services, all built around that idea:
Landscape Lighting Design and Installation
We install facade uplighting, path lighting, moonlighting through tree canopies, and soft garden lighting on beds and specimen trees. Every fixture is low-voltage LED, aimed and tuned so it softly and naturally highlights the features of your home you want to highlight.
Hardscape Lighting
Steps, seat walls, pillars, patios, and pavers get their light from inside the stonework itself. With 20 years in masonry, we know exactly where a fixture hides in a wall. Recessed into the joint, it's built to last and is protected from the weather and unnecessary wear.
Outdoor Sound System Design and Installation
We install Sonance garden speakers low in the planting beds, with subwoofers hidden under the lawn. Sound fills the yard evenly at conversation volume, so you never notice where it's coming from.
Smart Controls and Lighting Automation
Your automation system ties into Alexa, Apple Home, Google Home, Savant, Lutron, Control4, or Crestron. The lights ease on at dusk and dim to a quieter glow for late nights, without anyone touching a switch.
Commercial Outdoor Lighting
HOAs, apartment properties, office parks, and town grounds get energy-efficient exterior lighting, plus the paid lighting-level assessments needed for liability insurance.
Note: Our security work is lighting-based, focused on illumination, deterrence, and clear sight lines. We do not install, supply, or service security cameras or surveillance equipment.
Lighting Maintenance Plans
We visit most homes twice a year, once in spring and once in fall. We adjust the accent lights and spotlights that plantings have grown over, replace failed lamps, repair nicked wiring, and reset the timers. Commercial contracts run up to four visits.
Holiday Lighting
We put your lights up beginning in late November and take them down in mid-January; you can use your own lights or ours. Storage is also available for your convenience. We recommend booking by October 1, since slots fill fast.
Why Homeowners Choose Blue Hour Lighting
Lighting and Audio Are Our Whole Business
We are lighting and audio specialists. Every credential, every trade show, and every hour of training goes into those two trades, and your project gets the same people from start to finish.
One Team for Lighting and Audio
Low-voltage wiring and audio are both in-house. If something needs adjusting after installation, there's no finger-pointing between separate contractors. We build it, and we stand behind it.
Detailed Design Plans
Before installation begins, you get a personalized, detailed lighting design. Once you approve it, we get to work. Our clients find that seeing the layout in advance helps them move forward with confidence.
The Electrical Side Is Handled Properly
Low-voltage lighting runs at 12 volts, so the fixtures and wiring in your beds aren't line-voltage work. The transformer still needs a proper exterior GFCI circuit, and most houses already have the outlet. If yours doesn't, our in-house electrician handles what's needed to get your new lighting system up and running.
Light and Sound in One Project
As a Sonance authorized dealer and installer, we design the landscape lighting and the outdoor audio together. One trenching pass, one low-voltage layout, and one control system without additional disruptions that would come from a second installation process.
The Brands Behind Our Landscape Lighting Installation
Blue Hour Lighting is a Gold Level Kichler LightPro contractor, a CAST Lighting certified installer, and a Unique Lighting Systems installer. See every brand we install.
Recent Exterior Lighting Projects
Scarsdale, NY
Residential landscape lighting and hardscape lighting are built as one project, with the paver, wall, and facade lighting all drawn on a single plan.
Chappaqua, NY
Estate lighting across the full property, with a Sonance outdoor audio system designed into the same trenching pass.
Greenwich, CT
LED landscape lighting design, with architectural uplighting on the house and on the specimen trees around it.
Westchester County HOA
Commercial perimeter and common-area lighting for a residential community, with safer walkways at night and a better-looking entrance from the road.
The Blue Hour Lighting Process
Consultation
Jarod walks the property with you to learn how you use the yard after sundown and to see how much lighting the house can handle. He also looks at what the existing landscape gives us to work with.
Design & Estimate
After brainstorming, we create a detailed lighting plan for your property, along with a written estimate.
Contract & Deposit
Once everything looks good, you sign, place the deposit, and we place your fixture order.
Installation
Our crew handles the trenching, the wire runs, the transformer, the light fixtures, and any audio, start to finish.
Final tuning
Once everything is installed, we fine-tune each fixture's aim and beam angle to get the look exactly right.
Where We Work
Blue Hour Lighting is based in Fishkill and covers four New York counties plus much of Connecticut. We don’t take projects in New Jersey, the Bronx, or New York City.
A Perfect 5.0 on Google
5.0 ★ average across 9 Google reviews every one of them five stars.
Ready to see your home in a new light?
Free consultations, honest estimates, and a design plan you can see before you commit.
Holiday Lighting Book by November 1
Install slots are limited every season, so book early. Setup runs late November into early December, takedown happens mid-January, and storage is included.
Request a Free Consultation
Your questions are welcome, and the FAQ covers the ones we get most.
Call or Text
845-202-3369
info@bluehourlighting.com
Hours
Mon – Fri · 8:30am – 4:30pm
Based In
Fishkill, NY
- Licensed & insured in NY and CT. Every install is backed by our 1-year workmanship warranty and many fixtures carry lifetime manufacturer warranties.
Holiday Lighting: Book by October 1
Install slots are limited every season, so book early. Setup runs late November into early December, takedown happens mid-January, and storage is available if you need it.
Request a Free Consultation
Call 845-202-3369 or email info@bluehourlighting.com. We’re in the office Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30. Your questions are welcome, and the FAQ covers the ones we get most.
Call or Text
845-202-3369
info@bluehourlighting.com
Hours
Mon – Fri · 8:30am – 4:30pm
Based In
Fishkill, NY
- Licensed & insured in NY and CT. Every install is backed by our 1-year workmanship warranty and many fixtures carry lifetime manufacturer warranties.
What kind of property is this?
Choose a path so we can tailor your consultation.