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 the most demanding roofline work in the metro, and that is a compliment to the houses. Most of the city was laid out from the 1920s onward as a garden suburb, so you get brick and stone with steep pitches, slate and tile, dormers, and eaves detailed in ways that leave very little straight fascia. Over all of it sits one of the heaviest mature tree canopies of any suburb in the South, 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. Narrow lanes, mature hardwoods over the drive, and lots that fall away behind the house mean the lift position is often the hardest decision on site, not the design. Fixings 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 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 Mountain Brook

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 Mountain Brook
Permanent outdoor lighting on a roofline in Mountain Brook

Permanent outdoor lighting in Mountain Brook

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 Mountain Brook

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 Mountain Brook

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.

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 needs doing 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 doesn't sit weekly 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. Redmont, Forest Park and Highland Park 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 slower path than a Mountain Brook address two streets away. 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 sits under a third set of rules again.
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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421 2nd Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35204

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