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Landscape & Outdoor Lighting Design for Missouri Homes

Transform your evenings with expertly designed outdoor lighting that enhances the elegance, safety, and ambiance of your property. Encore is the trusted provider for smart outdoor lighting solutions in Columbia, Lake of the Ozarks, and across the state of Missouri.

WHY CHOOSE OUTDOOR LIGHTING?

Thoughtfully designed outdoor lighting brings new life to your property after sunset, elevating curb appeal, improving safety, and creating a warm, inviting atmosphere for evening enjoyment. At Encore Audio Video Designs, we design and install premium outdoor lighting systems in Columbia, Lake of the Ozarks, and surrounding areas. Our designs span your entire property from garden features to large entertainment areas.

From subtle uplighting around landscaping features to strategically placed fixtures for entertaining and security, our systems offer a seamless blend of beauty, safety, and comfort. Every detail is tailored to your property’s unique layout and features.

Aesthetic Appeal

Aesthetic Appeal

Show off your luxury home with pride! Our cutting-edge landscape lighting systems and purposeful lighting design highlight your home’s finest features while creating an enjoyable atmosphere.

Highlighting Architectural Fixtures

Showcase your home’s facade and make your dormers, balconies, awnings, columns, and other architectural features shine.

Creating Ambiance in Outdoor Spaces

Brighten up your patio, pool, and backyard to craft enchanting outdoor living areas where you and your loved ones can spend unforgettable moments together under the stars.

Increased Curb Appeal

Boost your home’s value with a lighting design that highlights the beauty of your spaces.

Improved Functionality

Manage your outdoor lights with ease through personalized wall keypads, remotes, smartphone apps, or voice commands.

Safety & Security

Safety & Security

Don't let your home be targeted by intruders! Brightly illuminate all outdoor areas to enhance visibility and deter suspicious activity and potential burglars.
Intruder Deterrence

Intruders tend to hide among the shadows. By illuminating your backyard and driveway with precision-designed fixtures, you can deter unwelcome guests, whether humans or wildlife, from approaching your property.

Enhanced Surveillance

Did you know outdoor lighting can be integrated with your security system? Get clearer surveillance footage and keep your perimeter secure with lights that activate as soon as motion is detected.

Better Visibility

Whether you want to navigate the garden or porch steps, illuminate your surroundings and move freely and safely around.

Impression of Occupancy

Add an extra layer of security by simulating that your home is occupied even while you are away. Our smart lighting systems mimic human activity patterns, making it seem like a vibrant and busy household at all times.

Designing with Outdoor Lighting

At Encore, every lighting design begins with your home’s unique layout and lifestyle in mind. We tailor each solution to highlight the key outdoor features of your home, from lakefront docks to outdoor kitchens. With a refined balance of aesthetics and utility, we integrate layered lighting techniques that showcase architecture, soften landscapes, and enhance usability. Our designs ensure your outdoor environment feels inviting, secure, and effortlessly elegant.

Explore the lighting possibilities for your home.
Path Lighting
Walk freely around your outdoor spaces without worrying about tripping! Pathway, step, and bollard lighting offer both beauty and functionality, illuminating garden walkways and shoreline stairways.
Security Lights
Protect your home with expertly placed security lighting. Activate with motion sensors to deter intruders while enhancing visibility, our systems provide peace of mind for Columbia homes and remote lake properties alike.
Wall Lights
Add a refined glow to patios, decks, and exterior facades with architectural wall lighting. These elegant fixtures blend seamlessly with upscale home exteriors, providing subtle sophistication for outdoor entertaining or quiet evenings.
Landscape Accent Lights
Let the beauty of your lawn and garden shine! Highlight trees, flower beds, fountains, and sculptures with dramatic uplighting and shadow play.
Hanging Lights
Perfect for outdoor dining areas or lounge spaces, pendant lights provide focused, ambient lighting that enhances atmosphere and functionality. Ideal for covered porches in Columbia or lakeside verandas with a view.
Underwater Lights
Swim in elegance after dark with underwater lighting that enhances both safety and serenity. These durable, low-voltage fixtures bring your pool or water feature to life, especially ideal for lakeside homes and outdoor retreats.
home at dusk with lighting

Security Lights

Enhance safety with reliable illumination. Keep intruders at bay and ensure your perimeter is well-lit for ultimate peace of mind.

Walkway Lighting

Combine elegance and functionality to create a safe, welcoming path that helps you navigate your walkways without risks.

Pool Lighting

Illuminate your pool with enchanting lights. Choose your preferred color temperature and brightness through a lighting control system that creates the best ambiance for a nighttime swimming session.

Wall Lights and Sconces

Bring more charm to your home’s exterior with stylish wall lights and sconces that enhance aesthetics and create a more welcoming environment.

Pendant Lights

Bring elegance outdoors with pendant light fixtures designed for year-round use, perfect for illuminating your exterior spaces with a touch of elegance.

Landscape Lights

Accentuate natural elements across your lawn, casting a gentle glow to highlight the beauty of your landscape.

WHY SMART OUTDOOR LIGHTING?

Smart outdoor lighting brings a new level of luxury and control to your outdoor spaces. With seamless automation, intelligent scheduling, and integration into your whole-home control system, you can manage lighting across decks, docks, patios, and pathways with ease.

Our smart systems adapt to your routines, illuminating your property precisely when and where needed, while enhancing energy efficiency and security. Smart outdoor lighting allows you and your family to enjoy the entirety of your Columbia, MO, property to its fullest.
Energy Efficiency
Customization
Convenience

    Energy Efficiency

    Ensure your lights are on when you need them most, and save energy by automatically turning them off when not. Keep your home efficient and eco-friendly with a button press!

    Adaptive Brightness
    Experience the right levels of brightness, no matter the activity or the occasion. Smart systems adjust brightness based on natural light, providing perfect visibility day and night.
    Automated Energy Savings
    Use motion and sunlight sensors to automate lighting, reducing energy waste and ensuring power efficiency.
    Scheduling
    Set schedules for your lights to match your lifestyle! Come back to a home with illuminated pathways and landscapes at night, and wake up to a home where lights automatically turn off at dawn.

    Customization

    Set the right mood at the right time with smart lighting. To create the ideal ambiance, choose the perfect color temperature and intensity of your outdoor LEDs via a smartphone app and save your favorite settings in personalized scenes you can activate in a button press.
    Personalized Ambiance

    Craft the ideal ambiance for any occasion with LED colors you can tailor to fit any activity and mood through a user-friendly app. Pair customized lighting with outdoor entertainment systems to completely transform your outdoor spaces.

    Scene Setting
    Save lighting scenes to set a unique environment by pressing a single button. Your custom wall keypads can initiate scenes like “Dinner” or “Party,” instantly putting your home in the right mood.
    Voice Control and Geofencing
    Experience the power of hands-free convenience. Use voice commands to control your lights and enable geofencing for automatic adjustments as you arrive or leave your spaces.

    Convenience

    The best part about smart outdoor lighting control is the unparalleled convenience it offers. Manage your lights remotely and completely hassle-free, whether you’re in the backyard or traveling the world.
    Remote & Automated Control
    Control your lights from anywhere you are. Forget to turn off the garage lights? Use your phone to power them off remotely, whether you’re on your way to the office or preparing to board a plane.
    Integration with your system

    The easiest way to manage your outdoor lights is to integrate them into your smart home system. Create scenes that manage several devices at a time and activate lights, security systems, motorized shades, and much more, all with a single tap.

    Accessibility
    Control your lighting your way—via a smart home app, remote, wall keypad, or voice command. Integrated systems ensure you always have the easiest control options within reach.

    WHY SHOULD I HIRE A PROFESSIONAL IN COLUMBIA, MO?

    While DIY lighting may seem like a weekend project, creating a refined, high-performance outdoor lighting system takes more than store-bought fixtures. Encore’s professional lighting designers understand the terrain, climate, and permitting requirements unique to Columbia and lakeside environments like Osage Beach. Our team ensures your system is weatherproof, code-compliant, and beautifully integrated into your home's smart system. From strategic fixture placement to seamless control, we deliver a level of safety, durability, and design sophistication that DIY simply can’t match.

    Should issues arise, our team is available with in-person and remote support to help keep your system running smoothly. Want to expand an existing system? Our technology professionals are ready to help you elevate your property all over again.
    Expertise
    Expertise

    Trust our professionals for a hassle-free experience. Our team of lighting experts guarantees a high-quality installation backed by years of practice and commitment to superior results.

    Safety
    Safety
    Our technicians follow strict safety protocols to ensure proper wiring for low-voltage and line-voltage lights, minimizing risks of malfunction and safety hazards.
    Customization
    Customization
    We want every aspect of your smart home to be exactly as you want it, including your lights! Our solutions are tailored to your needs, providing high-quality fixtures and designs that exceed standard options and meet your expectations.
    Efficiency
    Efficiency
    Achieve the best results at the best value! From day one, our process ensures quick, cost-effective installation at an excellence-level quality.
    Compliance and Permitting
    Compliance and Permitting
    Encore Audio Video Designs ensures your home sticks to local regulations by handling all compliance and permitting requirements. With us, your project will always meet local guidelines.

    Illuminate Your Property with Beautifully Designed Outdoor Lighting Systems

    Let the lighting experts at Encore transform your outdoor spaces with luxury outdoor lighting solutions tailored to your home. Want to learn more about what the right lighting can do for your Missouri property? Schedule a personalized consultation today and discover how your home can shine like never before.
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