Designed, Not Just Installed
Fixture placement, beam spread, and brightness worked out for your actual trees and grade — so the light does something, rather than just being present.
Landscape & Architectural Lighting · Reno, Nevada
Permanent Lighting for Reno & Sparks Homes
Architectural LED track set into your roofline, color-matched to your fascia and invisible by day. Warm white every night of the year, seasonal color when you want it, and never a ladder again. Soren also designs full low-voltage landscape lighting for the rest of the property.
Licensed & Fully Insured
Workmanship Warranty
Designed On Site, After Dark
Reno · Sparks · Carson City
Who We Are
Permanent lighting, designed for the architecture.
Soren Lighting designs and installs two things exceptionally well: permanent house lighting tucked into the roofline, and low-voltage landscape lighting through the yard. Most Reno and Sparks properties end up with both, because they solve different problems. The roofline defines the shape of the house after dark. The landscape system gives the property depth — mature pines and aspens uplit, garden beds washed, stonework grazed, walkways and steps made genuinely safe to use at night.
What separates a designed outdoor lighting system from an installed one is restraint. Fixtures are placed to light the subject rather than to be looked at, aimed away from windows and away from the street, and layered so the eye moves through the property instead of stopping at the first bright point. That takes an evening on site, not a catalog.
Every Soren project starts with a free walk of the property after dark, across Reno, Sparks, and the surrounding Truckee Meadows. We look at what is worth lighting and what is better left dark, then design to that — not to a fixture count pulled off a shelf.
Smart Control
Your whole roofline, from your phone.
Set a scene once and it runs itself. Warm white on a dusk-to-dawn schedule, team colors before kickoff, red and green through December — and the landscape zones alongside it, all from one app.
- Tunable warm-white levels, saved as scenes
- Automated sunset-to-sunrise scheduling
- Zone control — garden, paths, patio, and roofline separately
- Sealed, weather-rated components and connectors
- Low-voltage design on GFCI-protected circuits
What We Do
Permanent lighting first — and everything else outdoors.
Permanent House Lighting
Architectural LED track set into the eave line and color-matched to your fascia. Invisible by day, defining the roofline at night.
Landscape Lighting
Uplights, wash lights, and accent fixtures placed to shape the yard after dark — canopy, specimen trees, stonework, and planting beds.
Path, Step & Driveway
Overlapping pools of low light along walks, stairs, retaining walls, and grade changes. Safe footing without a landing strip.
Patio, Pergola & Deck
Warm, dimmable lighting for the spaces you actually live in — under-rail, post-cap, and overhead runs that extend the evening.
Security & Entry
Motion-aware fixtures and dusk-to-dawn scheduling on the same system, so entries and dark corners are covered without floodlights.
Commercial, HOA & Estate
Grounds lighting for offices, restaurants, common areas, and larger properties — zoned, scheduled, and maintained under one contact.
Why It’s Worth It
Installed once. Enjoyed for years.
Total Smart Control
Brightness, zones, and schedules from one app — adjust the garden through the seasons as planting fills in.
Made for This Climate
Sealed, corrosion-resistant fixtures chosen for high-desert swings — snow load, hard UV, and 40-degree daily temperature shifts.
Real Curb Appeal
Considered outdoor lighting reads as a finished landscape detail, not an add-on — the kind of upgrade buyers notice from the street.
Built For Here
Why permanent lighting in Reno & Sparks is different.
The Truckee Meadows is a high desert basin at roughly 4,500 feet, and it is genuinely hard on exterior lighting. Summer days push past 95°F and the same night drops into the 50s — a 40-degree swing that works connectors loose over a season if they were never sealed for it. UV at this elevation is punishing on lenses and cheap polymer housings. Winter brings snow load on eaves and freeze-thaw cycling through every joint in the system.
Then there is the soil. Much of Reno and Sparks sits on decomposed granite and hardpan, which changes how landscape lighting wire gets run and how fixtures get staked so they stay aimed through a windy spring. National franchise crews working from a standard spec do not account for any of this. It is the whole reason to hire locally.
Sealed for freeze-thaw
Every connector, fixture, and power supply is rated for permanent exterior use, not seasonal service.
Specified for high-elevation UV
Lenses and housings chosen for sun exposure at 4,500 feet, where consumer-grade plastics chalk and yellow.
Staked for wind and hardpan
Fixture mounting and wire routing worked out for decomposed granite, not for topsoil.
Dark-sky considerate
Shielded, aimed, and dimmed so light lands on your property — not in a neighbor’s window or the night sky.
How It Works
Four steps, start to finish.
01
Free Design Consultation
We walk the property with you at dusk, when you can actually see what the light will do — at no cost and with no obligation.
02
Custom Lighting Plan
A fixture-by-fixture plan for the yard and elevations, with a rendering of your own property lit, before anything is ordered.
03
Clean Installation
Most residential systems are finished in one to two days. Wire is buried, track is color-matched, and the beds are left exactly as we found them.
04
Aiming & Ongoing Support
We aim every fixture after dark, build your first scenes with you, and return to re-aim as planting grows in.
Daylight hides everything that matters. You cannot see where a neighbor’s window will catch glare, how far ambient street light already reaches, which tree has enough canopy to be worth uplighting, or where the ground genuinely gets dangerous. A daytime estimate is a fixture count. An evening walk is a design.
Service Area
Outdoor lighting across Reno, Sparks & Northern Nevada.
Reno, NV
Sparks, NV
Somersett
Caughlin Ranch
ArrowCreek
Montrêux
Damonte Ranch
South Meadows
Double Diamond
Galena
Old Southwest Reno
Northwest Reno
Spanish Springs
Wingfield Springs
Kiley Ranch
Sparks Marina
D'Andrea
Donner Springs
We install permanent house lighting and landscape lighting throughout Reno and Sparks, and travel for larger projects in Carson City, Incline Village, Washoe Valley, Sun Valley, Verdi, Cold Springs, Dayton, Minden & Gardnerville.
Good Questions
Permanent lighting questions, answered.
What does permanent lighting cost in Reno or Sparks?
It is quoted per project rather than off a price list, because the variables that drive labor are specific to your house: linear footage of roofline, roof height and story count, pitch, how many peaks and dormers there are since each is a cut and a joint, and whether the eave can be reached from a ladder or needs lift access. We measure all of it during the on-site design walk and give you a fixed written price before anything is ordered. Financing is available.
Will I see the track during the day?
Barely. The channel is slim, mounted tight under the eave, and supplied in several colors so we can match your fascia or gutter. From the street in daylight it reads as trim rather than as lighting — most homeowners cannot pick it out on their own house.
Will it damage my roof or fascia?
No. The track fastens to the fascia or under the eave, never through roofing material, so the roof envelope is not penetrated and your roofing warranty is unaffected.
Can it be installed on stucco, stone, or a metal roof?
Yes to all three. Mounting method changes with the substrate, which is one of the things we work out on site rather than assuming. Homes with unusual fascia detail, exposed rafter tails, or no eave at all can still be lit — the approach just differs.
How long do the LEDs actually last?
Commercial-grade diodes are rated for tens of thousands of hours — well over a decade at normal nightly use. Because the system is low-voltage and highly efficient, leaving it on from dusk to dawn costs very little.
What about snow, rain, and high-elevation UV?
Every fixture, connector, and power supply we install is sealed and weather-rated for permanent exterior use. The system is specified for Northern Nevada conditions: freeze-thaw cycling through every joint, snow load sitting on an eave, and the hard UV that chalks and yellows cheaper housings at 4,500 feet.
Does it handle the holidays?
Yes, and without a ladder. The same track that sits in warm white all year runs seasonal color on a schedule — red and green in December, orange and violet in October, your team colors on game night. Holiday capability comes along with the architectural system rather than being the reason for it.
What happens if one section stops working?
The runs are sectional, so a fault is isolated and replaced rather than requiring the whole elevation to come down. That is one of the practical differences between commercial-grade track and a consumer product.
Reno, Nevada
Let’s light it right.
Book a free evening walk of the property. You will see a fixture-by-fixture plan and a rendering of your own home lit before you commit to anything.