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Holiday lighting without the annual setup These get installed one time and stay. That single sentence is most of the appeal. The hardware is a low profile LED channel run along the roofline and eaves, matched to the color of your trim so it does not stand out during the day. More than one holiday Most people call about Christmas. What they use it for after that is broader. Orange for Halloween. Red and blue for the Fourth. School colors on a Friday night. A color for someb

The idea behind permanent holiday lights These get installed one time and stay put. That single sentence is most of the appeal. What is up there is a slim LED track color matched to the house, which is why the house does not look decorated in July. More than one holiday Most people call about Christmas. What they use it for after that is broader. Halloween orange, July's red, white and blue, a team's colors on a Saturday, a birthday: it is one system, different settings. A

The forgotten half Holiday lighting conversations are almost entirely about putting them up. That is the fun half. But the season ends, and then there is a second job nobody scheduled. The people who asked the question up front have a much better January than the people who did not.Which is a shame, because it is the half that separates one company from another. Anybody can hang lights in November. The question is whether anyone comes back. That question is worth asking bef

Every quote uses the word custom Custom appears on almost every outdoor lighting quote in existence. It costs nothing to say and it is not a claim anybody checks. What is worth checking is whether there is an actual design behind it, because a design is a document and a package is a price.Keep that straight through the whole process. A package starts with a number and works backward. A design starts from the property. Both are legitimate ways to sell. Only one of them is de

The December routine most people tolerate A week or so after Thanksgiving, the box of holiday lights comes down from the attic. The strands are knotted together, a few bulbs are dead, and the ladder is already leaning on the gutter. Most people do it anyway, because a lit house feels like the holidays, though the setup is nobody's favorite part. Then, once the season ends, you climb up and undo it. A simple explanation of permanent Christmas lights Permanent Christmas ligh

Before anything goes on the house Nothing gets installed until somebody has looked at your house. That visit covers the roofline, the gables, the porch and anything else worth lighting. There is no charge for it, and you are not signing anything to have it. The design is drawn for your house Your house is not the same shape as the one down the street, so the plan gets drawn around it. The design should read the house, picking up the roofline and the peaks and the porch edg

Your building is doing something at night A commercial building is visible to more people at night than most owners assume. Unlit, the building disappears, and neither is the business. A lit one reads as open, occupied and worth remembering.This is not a cosmetic line item for a commercial property. The building is the largest thing the business owns that faces the public, and light is what keeps it communicating. It is infrastructure, not decor. Where most of the return i

Every quote uses the word custom Custom is on every website in this trade. It costs nothing to say and it is not a claim anybody checks. What is worth checking is what the company hands you, since one of those produces paper and the other produces a number.Keep that straight while you are comparing companies. A package is a price with a description attached. A design starts from the property. Both are legitimate ways to sell. Only one of them answers to your building, and y