Lighting in Mendham Township, NJ

Mendham Township is horse country. Rolling hills, the old hamlet of Brookside, farmhouses and estates on big lots.

Inside, you often get beams, stone fireplaces and wide-plank floors. A grid of ceiling cans makes those rooms feel like an office. We’d rather light the materials: a fixture that suits the house over the table, some light on the stone, lamps and sconces where people actually sit.

Outside, people here want the dark. So we light the drive, the entry and the walk to the barn, maybe a specimen tree or a stone wall, and leave the fields alone. Every fixture is shielded.