Outdoor Lighting Installations: How to Get Started? Aiming to shed light on the question of how to get started, the team at Southern Landscape Lighting Systems recommends taking a walk around your yard and identifying for yourself what areas you would like to highlight. Determine if there are any obvious safety or security concerns and try to imagine how you would like your garden to look. From there, an outdoor lighting specialist would come in and, through detailed questions and a series of suggestions, develop a customized outdoor lighting design.