CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE AWARDS
LANDSCAPE LIGHTING CATEGORY WINNER:
RN Lighting
Expectations were high for a homeowner in Dunwoody, Georgia, who was looking for a way to illuminate their pool house and the architecture surrounding it. It wouldn’t be an easy installation. Pillars had to be con-
sidered, to keep them both from being washed out or shad- ing other elements. Te reflective surface of the pool need- ed to be incorporated as well, to enhance the light but not create glare. But the biggest challenge was literally blocking the way: installing ground well lights on very expensive pa- tio pavers and flooring using core drilling. But Santiago Montoya, CEO of RN Lighting LLC
in Auburn, Georgia, was confident that his small team of four was up to the task. Montoya, the winner of this year’s Landscape Lighting category sponsored by Brilliance LED, has been working in landscape lighting for about eight years, and with RN Lighting for about four years of that time. When a local builder working on the property suggest- ed that Montoya take a look at the lighting, he included
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that several other lighting professionals had talked with the homeowner. Te client was asking for challenging, precise work, and others had balked. “But once we got out there, we went over the property
to find out exactly what the homeowner wanted,” Montoya says. “I gave him several options.” Te main focal point coming from the back of the main building needed to center on the poolhouse. “With this beautiful property, they wanted to do really subtle lighting,” Montoya says. “Tey didn’t want to take too much away from the surrounding landscape and the pool.” Some fixtures were already downlighting the center col-
umns from the pergola, and Montoya suggested replacing those with more hidden fixtures with a darker finish to help hide the light source itself. “But that would only work for those center columns and not the outer columns,” he says. “Te other option for the design was to do in-ground well lights.”
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
Te problem is that running those lights meant using both wet and dry core drilling to bore precisely into 20-inch by 20-inch marble and concrete tile and pavers to install both lights, he says. One wrong move and the expensive floor-
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