Color-change LED pool lights, coping and deck accent lighting, landscape integration, and smart app control — built for how you actually use the backyard after sunset.
Old halogen pool lights burn 300 watts, die in three years, and turn the yard a dingy yellow. Modern LED pool lights burn 40 watts, last 20 years, and change color from your phone. The math on a retrofit isn’t close — and most Metro Atlanta pools built before 2015 are still running the halogens that came with them.
Primetime is factory-authorized on Pentair IntelliBrite and Jandy Color-Change for in-pool lighting, and we design the surrounding deck, coping, and landscape lighting to tie into the same app and the same automation controller.
A pool is a daytime object until the lights make it a nighttime feature of your home — a glowing piece of architecture that draws people out onto the deck after dinner and keeps them there until somebody finally calls it a night.
Most Metro Atlanta pools built before roughly 2015 came standard with 300-watt halogen main lights. Those bulbs were never going to last — the filaments burn out in 2 to 3 years, the fixtures corrode, the housings leak, and the color of the light itself is the yellow-green of a 1990s gas-station parking lot. By now, most of those halogens are either dead or so dim that the pool looks murky after sunset. A halogen-to-LED retrofit is the single highest-ROI upgrade you can make to an existing pool — ahead of resurfacing, ahead of tile, ahead of everything except a variable-speed pump.
But the in-pool light is only the start. The pools that look cinematic at 9 PM have coping-step safety lights, landscape accent lighting on the trees, spillway backlighting, path lights running from the deck to the house, and smart scene control that ties it all together. One app. One automation controller. “Party mode,” “dinner mode,” “morning laps” — each a single tap. Primetime designs and installs all of it, whether it’s a new build or a 15-year-old pool getting its second life.
“Halogen pool lights are 300-watt mistakes burning through your power bill. LEDs are the fix — and the upgrade pays for itself.”
Primetime Pools — Winder, GAThe main light is the foundation. Sized correctly, positioned correctly, and specified with the right color engine, it transforms the pool — the water glows, the plaster reads true, and the shell reflects light up onto the deck.
We install and retrofit Pentair IntelliBrite 5G and Jandy Color-Change as our two primary lines. Both are sealed, true color-change (not white with a tinted lens), dimmable on modern automation, and rated for 15–20 years of service life. Both retrofit directly into existing halogen niches on most pools — no re-plumbing, no shell work, no plaster patching.
Sizing matters more than most homeowners realize. One standard LED main per roughly 400 sq ft of pool surface is the minimum for even illumination — larger pools, long rectangular pools, and pools with shallow ends that extend far from the main light all benefit from a second or third fixture. We run the calculation as part of the design. A single underpowered light in the middle of a 20×40 pool is the reason most pools look dim even after a retrofit.
The light you don’t look at directly is the light that does the most work. Coping-edge glow, step risers, path runs along the deck, and perimeter accent lighting are what make the pool area feel intentional after dark — and what keep people from tripping on the way to the grill.
All of our deck and coping work runs on low-voltage 12V systems — safe, serviceable, and integrated with the pool automation controller so they turn on with the rest of the scene. We install under-coping LED strip that creates a continuous glow along the water’s edge, step-riser lights on raised decks and stair runs, and path lights on the walks between the house and the pool. None of it is an afterthought — it’s laid out with the deck at the design stage, or carefully retrofitted into existing hardscape if we’re coming in after the fact.
Step lights in particular are a safety-first installation. Pool decks get wet. People walk them barefoot, often at night, often after a drink. A well-lit step edge isn’t decorative — it’s what keeps a $50 fixture from turning into a $50,000 insurance claim. We install them on every raised deck we touch, whether the client asks for it or not.
The pool is the centerpiece, but the lighting around it is what builds depth. Uplights in the trees, accent wash on shrubs, backlighting on spillways and waterfalls — this is what turns a lit pool into a lit backyard.
Landscape lighting is where most pools stop — and where the best backyards start. We design tree uplighting on specimen trees around the pool perimeter, shrubbery wash to light the edges of beds, path runs that connect the pool to the house and other backyard zones, and water-feature integration that backlights spillways, sheer-descents, and grotto walls so the water itself glows.
Uplights on mature oaks and magnolias are the most visually powerful single dollar you can spend on lighting. A single well-aimed 4W LED uplight at the base of a 40-foot tree throws a massive column of light up into the canopy — turning the tree into a sculpture and the yard behind the pool into a room with walls. Most high-end pool installations you see in design magazines have this — and it’s usually the last thing pool contractors remember to include. We design it in from the start.
A dozen disconnected lighting systems each with their own app and their own timer is how most backyards are wired — and it’s why nobody ever actually uses them. Primetime ties everything to a single pool-automation platform.
Everything we install ties back to Pentair ScreenLogic or Jandy iAquaLink — the same platform that runs your pump, filter, heater, and water features. Pool lights, coping strip, step lights, landscape uplights, and water-feature backlighting all show up as zones in one app, and they all participate in scenes you can trigger with a single tap: “Party” turns everything on at full color, “Dinner” dims the pool to warm white and cools the landscape to a soft amber, “Morning Laps” runs the pump and the main light only.
We also program schedule automation — landscape lights on at sunset, off at midnight, pool lights on when the pump runs, coping strip on whenever the main pool lights are on. Everything works without anyone ever having to open the app. Voice control through Alexa or Google Home is configured as part of the install for clients who want it.
We retrofit halogen to LED without re-plumbing the pool. Modern Pentair IntelliBrite 5G and Jandy Color-Change fixtures drop directly into existing niches on most pools built in the last 25 years — the work is electrical and sealing, not structural. A typical retrofit is a one-day visit.
Every lighting zone we install is integrated with your pool automation, not run as a standalone app nobody opens. That’s the difference between a system you actually use and a system that sits in a junction box collecting spiders.
The same lighting plan works whether the pool is 20 years old or going in the ground next week. Retrofit and new-build use the same fixtures, the same control platform, the same design principles. If we designed it, we can upgrade it, add to it, and service it years later without having to re-engineer anything.
Halogen-to-LED retrofit, landscape integration, smart control. One visit to walk the yard, one design, one number.
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