Christmas & Permanent Light Installation in Homewood, AL

Seasonal displays and year-round architectural lighting for Homewood homes and 18th Street businesses.

Lighting built for Homewood rooflines

Homewood is close-in, older and tightly built, and that shapes the work. Edgewood and Hollywood are full of 1920s to 1940s brick and stone bungalows and Tudors on modest lots with big street trees, so runs are shorter than in the outer suburbs but rarely simpler — deep eaves, tile and slate, and porch detail that a standard clip cannot grip. Being at the foot of Red Mountain, the streets also climb, which affects how a display reads from below.

Most Homewood houses are within genuine reach, which makes a well-built seasonal display good value here in a way it is not on a three-storey Hoover elevation. Permanent lighting still does well on the later infill and the renovated houses where the fascia has been squared up. The 18th Street district adds compact commercial frontage a few minutes from our office.

What a Homewood install actually takes

Tight lots and street trees are the practical constraint. There is often nowhere obvious to put a lift, and the working room between houses is narrow, so access gets settled on the site visit. Fixings are matched to the actual edge, and on the tile and slate roofs common in Edgewood the run stays on the fascia line entirely.

The 18th Street and Broadway frontages are real commercial work — restaurants and shops where the lighting has to read as architecture and where an evening cannot be lost to an install. Those runs are sectioned and scheduled around trading hours.

Red, white and blue permanent roofline lighting on a two-story home

What we install

Christmas & Seasonal

Full-service holiday displays: design, commercial-grade lights, installation, in-season service, then takedown and storage.

JellyFish Permanent

Track-mounted permanent lighting tucked under the roofline. Millions of colors, app controlled, holiday or everyday.

Bosso Smart Lighting

A permanent lighting alternative with its own fixture and control system. We fit it to homes JellyFish does not suit.

Commercial & HOA

Storefronts, offices, common areas and entrances, scheduled installs that work around your business hours.

Christmas and seasonal light installation in Homewood

Seasonal lighting is a full service, not a box of lights from a shelf. We design the display around your roofline, install commercial-grade product cut to fit your house, and service it through the season if anything goes dark. After the holidays we take it down and store it until next year, so nothing lives in your garage and nothing gets crushed between seasons.

Booking order decides the calendar. Installs run in the order they are booked, so the earliest dates go to whoever called first. If you want the lights on before the first weekend of December, get on the list well before the season starts.

Christmas light installation on a home in Homewood
Permanent outdoor lighting on a roofline in Homewood

Permanent outdoor lighting in Homewood

Permanent lighting is a slim track fixed under the roofline that stays up all year and reads as trim from the street. Run warm white on an ordinary evening, color through December, orange and white for a Saturday in autumn, or switch it off entirely. It is all controlled from an app, so nobody climbs anything.

We install two systems. JellyFish is the one most people have heard of and we are an authorized dealer. Bosso is an alternative with its own fixture and control system that suits some rooflines better. We bring both to the consult and tell you which fits your house, including when that is the cheaper option.

Commercial and HOA lighting in Homewood

We light storefronts, offices, entrances and common areas as well as homes. Commercial work is scheduled around your trading hours so the install never costs you a business day, and a larger property can be phased across several visits.

If an HOA, a landlord or a historic district has rules about fixture color, brightness or where a track may sit, bring them to the consult and we design to them from the start rather than asking for an exception later.

Commercial roofline lighting on a business in Homewood

How it works

01

Free design consult

We walk the property, measure the roofline and show you what the finished run will look like. No charge, no obligation.

02

Custom install

Our crew installs to your approved plan with commercial-grade product, cut and fitted on site, not a one-size kit.

03

Service & takedown

Something goes dark. We come back. For seasonal work we handle removal and store your lights until next year.

Homewood questions we get asked

We're on Hollywood Boulevard, the roof is tile and there's no gutter on the front. Where does anything go?
Onto the rafter tails and the porch line, most likely. The Hollywood district went up from 1926 in Spanish Colonial and Mission Revival, and the houses there carry barrel tile, wide overhangs and sometimes a parapet where you'd expect a fascia board. There's often no continuous edge to clip to at all, so the run gets designed around what the house actually offers and some elevations stay dark by choice. It's the most house-by-house block in Homewood. Tile roofs in Mountain Brook raise the same fixing problem on a steeper pitch.
Christmas lights start at $500 and permanent starts at $3,000. When does permanent pay for itself?
Six seasons, at those numbers. The part of that calculation worth questioning in Homewood is the roofline itself. This is a landlocked city where people renovate instead of moving, so six unchanged Decembers is an assumption rather than a given, and squaring up the trim or adding on means the run gets re-cut and the payback clock restarts. Ask for warranty terms in writing at the consult, because the math only holds if the system outlasts it. On a small one-story with a roof a ladder reaches, keep paying the $500. Christmas light installation covers what's in the seasonal price.
Our neighbor's house was rebuilt and ours wasn't. Why is their quote lower?
Because the rebuild squared up the trim line. Homewood is landlocked, with no annexation possible in any direction, so growth here happens by teardown and rebuild on existing lots. That leaves streets where a 1930s bungalow with interrupted fascia sits next to a 2019 house carrying sixty feet of continuous edge. The second one takes a track in a morning. Yours takes longer and costs more, and that's the honest version.
You're downtown and we're over the mountain. How far is that really?
Closer than most people over the mountain assume. The expressway drops us into Homewood in minutes, so the crossing costs time, not a scheduling problem.
We have a restaurant on 18th Street with the patio right on the sidewalk. Where does a lift go?
The lift position is the first thing we work out on a job like that. Usually it isn't the patio. The 18th Street frontages sit tight to the pavement with seating in front of them, so the lift needs a legal position that isn't your covers or the sidewalk on a Friday night. We section the run and work early mornings across a few short visits. The Birmingham FAQ covers in-season service.

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Birmingham, AL 35204

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