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Two-story brick home in the Birmingham area at dusk with red and green permanent lighting along the gables and porch roof for Christmas

Christmas & Permanent Light Installation in Mountain Brook, AL

Seasonal displays and year-round architectural lighting for Mountain Brook homes and the villages.

Lighting built for Mountain Brook rooflines

Mountain Brook is some of the most demanding roofline work in the metro, and that is a compliment to the houses. The oldest sections, around the villages, were laid out in the late 1920s as Mountain Brook Estates, a planned suburb of estate lots on winding roads, and there you get brick and stone with steep pitches, slate and tile, dormers, and eaves detailed in ways that leave very little straight fascia. Most of the city sits under a lot of tree cover, which means the display is read in fragments through hardwoods rather than as one clean outline.

The practical answer here is usually a permanent track where the fascia will take one, because re-hanging a house like this from a ladder every November is the job people most want to stop doing. Where the trim will not carry a channel discreetly, we build a seasonal display designed around the detail instead. Crestline Village, English Village and Mountain Brook Village bring commercial frontage on the same streets.

What a Mountain Brook install actually takes

Access decides the day. Winding roads, mature hardwoods over the drive, and sloping lots mean the lift position is often the hardest decision on site, not the design. Clips are then chosen for the actual edge: slate, tile, copper gutter and decorative fascia all want different hardware, and nothing goes through roofing material. We measure the whole run before quoting.

The villages are a separate piece of work. Crestline, English and Mountain Brook Village are compact retail and restaurant frontages where an unlit facade next to a lit one is immediately obvious, and where a lift cannot sit in the road on a December Saturday. Those runs get sectioned and scheduled around business hours.

Multicolor JellyFish permanent lighting on a brick home in the Birmingham area

What we install

Christmas & Seasonal

A holiday display from us includes design, commercial-grade lights, installation, service in season, takedown and storage.

JellyFish Permanent

Permanent lighting that sits on a track under the roofline. Millions of colors are in the app, for a holiday or for everyday.

Commercial & HOA

Entrances, offices, storefronts and common areas. Every install is scheduled around your business hours.

Christmas and seasonal light installation in Mountain Brook

A seasonal display from us comes as a full service. A box of lights from a shelf is not part of it. We begin with a design that follows your roofline. We then install commercial-grade product that has been cut to fit your house. All through the season we service it if anything goes dark. After the holidays we remove it and store it until next year. It does not sit in your garage, and it does not get crushed between seasons.

We keep the calendar simple: booking order decides it. Jobs go in as they were booked, and the earliest dates are held by whoever called first. If you would like lights on before the first weekend of December, join the list well before the season starts.

White ranch home in the Birmingham area at night with warm white lights along the roofline and porch gable
Home in Shoal Creek, AL at night with purple, blue and green permanent LED lighting along the gables and porch, with Halloween decorations in the yard

Permanent outdoor lighting in Mountain Brook

A permanent system is a slim track that is fixed under the roofline and stays there all year. From the street it reads as trim. You run it from the app, which means nobody climbs anything. Warm white suits an ordinary evening. Color suits December. Crimson and white or orange and blue suits a fall Saturday, and off suits any night you choose.

We install JellyFish permanent lighting and are an authorized JellyFish dealer. At your free design consult, we inspect the roofline, fascia and gutters, explain the installation plan, and provide a quote for your property.

Commercial and HOA lighting in Mountain Brook

We light homes, and with them entrances, offices, storefronts and common areas. For commercial work the schedule is built around your business hours, so you do not give up a business day. Larger properties can be phased across several visits.

If a historic district, a landlord or an HOA has rules on brightness, on fixture color or on where a track may sit, the consult is the time to bring them. We design to them from the start. That is better than asking for an exception later.

Bark Club storefront at night with multicolor lights along the roofline

How it works

01

Free design consult

We walk the property, we measure the roofline, and we show you how the finished run will look. There is no charge. There is no obligation.

02

Custom install

Our crew installs the plan you approved. Commercial-grade product is cut and fitted on site for your house, never supplied as a one-size kit.

03

Service & takedown

If something goes dark, we come back. On seasonal work we remove the lights after the holidays and keep them in storage until next year.

Mountain Brook questions we get asked

There's a hardwood limb sitting right over the front run. Do you trim it?
No. That's a tree company's job and it usually has to be done before we start. We don't take limbs off, so a tree company comes first, and in Mountain Brook that company needs a city business license and is expected to haul the debris. Book it early. A branch that clears the roof in November is a different branch by the following August, which is worth knowing if you're putting a permanent run under a canopy that's still growing.
We have a storefront in Crestline Village. How late can we decide on this for December?
Earlier than the install calendar suggests, because the city may sit in the middle of it. Exterior changes in Crestline, English and Mountain Brook Village go through the Village Design Review Committee, which generally meets once a month and wants an application fourteen business days before a meeting. We check with the city on every village frontage before quoting. If yours is reviewable, that committee's calendar is your deadline and it lands well before ours does. More on commercial and HOA lighting.
Do we need a building permit for a light track?
Probably not. The city's own position is that routine maintenance doesn't need one and anything beyond it might, so we check with the building office before assuming either way.
Our address says Birmingham but we're a block off the Mountain Brook line near Redmont. Whose rules apply?
Birmingham's do, which is a bigger difference than it sounds. Forest Park, Highland Park and Redmont (the city lists that one as Red Mountain Suburbs) are City of Birmingham local historic districts, and work that needs a certificate of appropriateness there goes to a neighborhood committee first and then to the city's Design Review Committee. That's a different process from the one on the Mountain Brook side of the line. Whether a light track triggers it is a question we put to the city for your specific street before anything gets designed, because guessing at it is how people end up applying after the fact. Homewood has a third set of rules of its own.
Can it stay off most of the year? We don't want a lit house in April.
Yes. A lot of Mountain Brook installs run exactly that way. The channel is color-matched to the trim and does nothing in daylight, so the fixture sits there dark from January to Thanksgiving and nobody notices it. What you're buying at that point is the end of the annual ladder work. The display is the bonus.

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Brick fire department headquarters at night with permanent lighting along the rooflines

Birmingham

421 2nd Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35204

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