Permanent Christmas Lights: The Honest Rundown for Homeowners

Why December looks the same every year

Every December, someone in the house drags the same box off the top shelf. Half the strands are tangled, a few bulbs are dead, and the ladder is waiting by the garage door. Most people do it anyway, because a lit house feels like the holidays, though the setup is nobody's favorite part. Then in January you take it all down again.

What permanent Christmas lights are, plainly

Permanent holiday lighting is a different approach. Rather than putting strands up each year, a low profile LED track is installed once along the eaves and left in place. The track is color matched to your trim and gutters, so by day it just looks like part of the house. Control lives in an app on your phone. Set red and green for the holidays, then a warm white glow for ordinary evenings.

The part homeowners notice first

The obvious win is not owning the ladder job anymore. The less obvious win is that you are not buying a decoration you use for five weeks. Warm white along the eaves does real work at night. The same track handles a birthday, a game day, and a normal night.

What people ask before they commit

Everybody asks the same thing first. Nobody wants a house that looks like it is waiting on Christmas in June. The color matched track is the answer to that. It is mounted tight to the trim and matched to your trim color, so at noon from the sidewalk it looks like trim.After daylight, the next question is about the years after the install. Ask what support looks like two years after the install, because that answer says more than the brochure does.

Permanent versus traditional Christmas lights

There is a real case for classic strands. If you like doing it, or you only want lights every few years, strands make sense. Permanent lighting is the better answer for people who do this annually without fail, especially when you want light on the house outside the holidays. Either way, a good company will say plainly which one suits you.

How to think about the money

Nobody can quote permanent Christmas lights sight unseen, and a number given over the phone is a guess. The better question is what the next five Decembers cost you, in money and in Saturdays, not what one line costs today. Add up what the yearly routine costs you all in. 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 a real number takes a look at the house. EverCrest Lighting does permanent LED lighting for homes and businesses across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, working out of Greenville. The consultation is free, the design is drawn for your house, and https://evercrestlighting.com/permanent-lighting/ the install is done by their own crew. Call (864) 252-1732 or email [email protected] to get on the schedule.

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