About Blue Hour Lighting

Jarod Halstead started Blue Hour Lighting in Fishkill, New York, and still runs it today with his crew. That same team handles every project from start to finish. Most new clients find us through a landscape architect, a designer, or a neighbor whose house caught their eye at dusk. The blue hour is the stretch just after sunset when the sky still holds color and a well-lit house looks its best.

We Think About the Landscape First

Blue Hour Lighting was founded in 2019 as a dedicated lighting and outdoor audio specialist, and that’s been our only focus ever since. Before ever aiming a light, our team learned to read a landscape, understanding how a property changes and grows over time.

That perspective still shapes how we work today. Every fixture and speaker is thoughtfully placed to complement the landscape now and as it changes over time.

Meet Jarod

Jarod Halstead studied landscape design at Rutgers, holds an associate’s degree in electrical engineering, and spent 20 years laying stone before turning to lighting full-time. He’s a certified outdoor lighting designer through AOLP, with additional certifications from CAST Lighting and Infinity Lighting, attending trade shows and training each year to stay current.

This unique combination means every aspect of your project is handled expertly by the same person.

What Goes Into a Blue Hour Landscape Lighting Installation

Every project starts with a free on-site visit and a detailed plan you can review before any work begins. We create a diagrammed layout to show you exactly where each light goes, which way it aims, and what the work covers. Nothing gets ordered until you approve the plan, so you’re never paying for guesswork.

Our own crew handles every installation, including when the project involves audio. Lighting that runs through stonework or woodwork can easily mean juggling three separate vendors. Jarod’s twenty years in masonry is why we can tell your mason exactly what each fixture needs before the wall goes up. That means fewer delays, fewer scheduling headaches, and one team accountable for the lighting and audio.

Outdoor Lighting, Hardscape Lighting & Outdoor Audio

Blue Hour Lighting covers installs, additions, upgrades, and service for the following:

Landscape lighting

Facade, tree, garden, path, walkway, and safety lighting that transform the property after dark.

Hardscape lighting

Light built into patios, pool decks, driveways, walls, steps, and pillars is recessed so the fixture disappears and only the light shows.

Outdoor audio

Sonance systems have subwoofers buried in the lawn and zones you run from your phone, so sound reaches every corner without a single obvious speaker.

Smart controls

Zone-by-zone settings and Lutron systems, tied into Alexa, Apple Home, Google Home, Savant, Control4, or Crestron, so scenes and schedules run themselves.

Commercial and HOA lighting

Lighting-level checks, insurance compliance reviews, and return on investment estimates on energy-efficient LEDs, documented and ready to file.

Designing an Outdoor Space You Will Use After Dark

The goal is simple. We want you to feel drawn outside in the evening and sure of your footing on every step. Safety comes first, so grade changes, pool edges, and long driveways are always part of the plan from the start.

The way a landscape looks after dark comes down to its lighting design. Good lighting should reveal the character of a property and not compete with it. Too much light can flatten the landscape and wash out the color and texture of the planting. The difference between inviting and harsh often comes down to subtle decisions in placement, intensity, and direction, all considered with the finished space in mind.

Certified, Licensed & Insured

We are licensed and insured and hold county and state licenses everywhere they are required:

Westchester County, NY

WC-32147-H19

Rockland County, NY

CP-H-24100

Connecticut

HIC.0654518

Dutchess County, NY

no county license is required

Putnam County, NY

Blue Hour Lighting is a Gold Level Kichler LightPro contractor, a CAST Lighting certified installer, a Unique Lighting Systems installer, and a Sonance authorized dealer and installer. Every brand we carry is on the manufacturer’s page. We’re also members of the Dutchess County Chamber of Commerce.

Working With Your Landscape Architect or Designer

Much of our work arrives on projects somebody else already designed, and we like it that way.

We work according to the plan we’re given and position fixtures against the planting, so every fixture serves the design. Wire is routed around root plates, and when hardscape is part of the project, we sleeve it during construction so wire can run through cleanly later. When the hardscape’s already there, we core through it carefully.

We work on smaller residential jobs as well as large, multi-building commercial projects. Blue Hour Lighting also provides lighting for high-end outdoor weddings.

Where We Work

Blue Hour Lighting is based in Fishkill and serves Dutchess, Putnam, Westchester, and Rockland counties. We also serve Greenwich, Connecticut. We do not work in New Jersey, the Bronx, or New York City. Our projects run from single front-yard schemes to full estate systems. We work everywhere in these counties but have many satisfied customers in the specific towns listed below:

Town Pages:

Scarsdale

Chappaqua

Rye

Bronxville

Armonk

Harrison

Croton-on-Hudson

Request a free consultation, call 845-202-3369, or email info@bluehourlighting.com. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30.