The part of December nobody looks forward to
A week or so after Thanksgiving, the tub of holiday lights comes out of the garage. The strands are tangled, a whole run stays dark, and the ladder is waiting by the garage door. You do it because you want the house to look good, though the setup is nobody's favorite part. Then in January you take it all down again.
Permanent Christmas lights, explained plainly
Permanent Christmas lights take the yearly setup off your calendar. A low profile LED track is installed once along your eaves and roofline, and it stays there. Because the track is matched to your trim, it reads as part of the roofline in daylight. Turning it on is a phone tap. Pick red and green in December, then a warm white glow for ordinary evenings.
What that changes for you
The climbing stops, which matters more the older the house and the steeper the roof. What surprises people is how much they use it outside December. Warm white along the eaves does real work at night. The same track handles a party, team colors, and a normal night.
Fair questions to ask
The first question is always what it looks like when the lights are off. The worry is reasonable: a permanent fixture that reads as holiday decor twelve months a year. The color matched track is the answer to that. It is sized to sit tight against the trim line and painted to match, so from the street in daylight it reads as part of the
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Which one fits you
Traditional lights are not obsolete. If you look forward to it, or you only want lights every few years, traditional lighting is the right call. Permanent lighting makes sense when you know you will do this every year, especially when you want light on the house outside the holidays. Either way, an installer worth hiring will tell you which one fits your house.
Weighing the spend
Nobody can quote a system without seeing the house, and a number given over the phone is a guess. The useful way to think about it is across the years you plan to stay in the house. Add up the strands, the replacements and the weekends. Then ask what it is worth to have the roofline lit on ordinary nights too, since that value gets left out of most comparisons.The other half of the answer is who is doing the work. A lower number from somebody who has never seen the house is often not cheaper.
How to find out what it would cost
Every house is different, so the honest answer comes after somebody looks at it. EverCrest Lighting installs permanent LED lighting for homes and businesses across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, working out of Greenville. Consultations are free, the design is drawn for your house, and the install is done by their own crew. Call (864) 252-1732 or email
[email protected] to start the conversation.