Exterior Low-Voltage Lighting for Homes & Businesses in Northern Indiana
Soffit and fascia lighting, porch and entryway accents, deck and pergola lighting, driveway illumination, and smart outdoor controls — all at 12V/24V. Plymouth, Elkhart, South Bend, and surrounding areas.
Your Home or Business After Dark Starts at the Building
Soffit lights that wash down across a brick facade. Recessed step lights that make a front porch safe and inviting. String lights strung above a restaurant patio that make guests want to stay another hour. Deck post cap lights that define an outdoor living space after sunset. These are all low-voltage exterior lighting applications — 12V or 24V systems that are safe, easily controllable, and designed to enhance the building itself.
NexGen Digital Solutions installs low-voltage exterior lighting for homes and commercial properties across Northern Indiana. We focus on building-attached and structure-adjacent lighting — soffit, porch, deck, pergola, garage, driveway, fence, and post lighting. For grounds and plantings, see our dedicated Landscape Lighting service.
As both a lighting and surveillance contractor, we also coordinate exterior lighting placement with your camera system — ensuring cameras get the even, consistent illumination they need without glare or blind zones.
Exterior Low-Voltage Lighting Applications
Soffit & Fascia Lighting
Recessed LED puck lights installed in soffit panels to wash light down across a building's facade. Creates a dramatic after-dark presence, highlights architectural details, and provides ambient perimeter illumination.
Porch & Entryway Lighting
Low-voltage LED accent fixtures, step and riser lighting, and wall-mounted accents for covered porches, front entries, and side entrances. Makes arrivals safe, welcoming, and visually polished.
Deck & Pergola Lighting
Surface-mount deck step lights, post cap LED fixtures, pergola string and festoon lighting, and rail accent strips — creating an outdoor living environment that's fully usable and inviting after dark.
Garage & Driveway Accent
Soffit puck lights above garage doors, recessed driveway edge markers, and accent lighting at driveway entry pillars. Defines the approach to your property and improves camera visibility at night.
Fence & Post Cap Lighting
LED post cap lights that sit atop fence posts, in-fence LED inserts, and perimeter accent lighting. Defines property boundaries with light, extends the feel of a landscape lighting system, and adds nighttime curb appeal.
Smart Outdoor Controls
Dusk-to-dawn photocell sensors, schedule-based timers, app-controlled smart transformers, and motion-triggered zones. Coordinates with landscape lighting for unified evening, late-night, and dawn scenes.
Lighting That Extends Your Usable Hours Outdoors
Deck and patio lighting is one of the highest-return exterior upgrades — it makes outdoor spaces functional after dark and significantly extends the perceived size of a home or commercial venue.
String & Festoon Lights
Commercial-grade outdoor café lights for decks, pergolas, gazebos, and patio spaces. Smart dimming and scheduling from your phone.
Step & Riser Lighting
Surface-mount or recessed LED step lights for deck stairs, porch steps, and walkway transitions. Safety + design in one fixture.
Post Cap Lights
Warm LED post cap fixtures for deck railing posts and fence tops. Defines the perimeter of an outdoor space without harsh overhead lighting.
Under-Rail Strips
Low-voltage LED strips mounted below deck railings for a soft ambient glow at foot level — invisible by day, atmospheric by night.
Exterior Lighting FAQ
Exterior lighting focuses on the building itself and its attached structures — soffit lighting, porch and entryway accents, deck and pergola lighting, garage and driveway illumination. Landscape lighting focuses on the grounds — trees, plantings, pathways, and garden features. Both operate at low voltage (12V/24V) and can often share transformers. NexGen installs both, and many projects combine them into a unified system with a single app controller.
Yes. Exterior building-mounted accent lights (soffit pucks, deck step lights, post cap lights) run on the same 12V low-voltage transformer system as landscape fixtures. We size the transformer for total wattage load across all zones and run separate circuits for building-mounted and ground-level fixtures. This allows independent scheduling — for example, keeping landscape lighting on longer than soffit accents.
Soffit recessed puck light installations typically run $800–$2,500 for a standard residential home (8–16 fixtures), depending on soffit material, linear footage, and transformer/control requirements. Commercial and larger residential projects are quoted individually. We provide free on-site estimates.
Yes. We use fixtures rated IP65 or higher for all exterior low-voltage applications — meaning they are fully protected against water ingress from any direction. Soffit fixtures are typically IP65 (wet location rated), deck step lights IP67+, and in-ground fixtures IP68. We only specify commercial-grade fixtures with appropriate ratings for Northern Indiana's freeze-thaw climate.
Yes — and this is a significant advantage of working with NexGen. As both a lighting and surveillance contractor, we position exterior accent and security lighting to complement camera placement, eliminating dark zones without creating glare on camera lenses. Motion-triggered lighting zones can be coordinated with camera motion detection for a unified perimeter response.
Yes. We install commercial-grade outdoor festoon and café string lights for residential decks, patios, pergolas, gazebos, and commercial outdoor dining areas. Our string light installations use weatherproof sockets and commercial-grade LED bulbs — significantly more durable than consumer string lights. Smart transformer control allows dimming and scheduling from your phone.
Complete Your Outdoor Lighting
Landscape Lighting
Low-voltage lighting for grounds, trees, plantings, pathways, and garden features — the natural complement to exterior building lighting.
Architectural Lighting
Facade uplighting and accent features that make your building a landmark after dark.
Surveillance Systems
Commercial and residential camera systems designed around your exterior lighting for clear, consistent footage.
Let's Light Up Your Exterior
Free on-site exterior lighting assessment for homes and businesses across Northern Indiana. We'll design a system that enhances your property after dark and integrates with your smart home.