Christmas & Permanent Light Installation in Trussville, AL

Seasonal displays and year-round architectural lighting for Trussville homes and Cahaba Project streets.

Lighting built for Trussville rooflines

Trussville is two things at once, and they want different work. The Cahaba Project is a New Deal-era planned neighbourhood of modest, carefully detailed houses on tree-lined streets, where the daytime appearance of a fixture matters as much as the lit result. Out from there, the growth east and north along 11 and 59 is modern subdivision housing — straight fascia, seamless gutter, two-storey fronts — that suits a permanent track without argument.

On the newer side permanent lighting is the obvious recommendation. In the Cahaba Project we are more careful: shallower fascia, older gutter profiles and a coherent streetscape mean a seasonal display designed around the trim is often the better answer, and where a track does go in it needs to be genuinely invisible in daylight.

What a Trussville install actually takes

Two different sets of fixings on the same job list. The newer houses hang quickly but sit tall, and a walkout rear puts the top run further off the ground than the frontage suggests. The older Cahaba Project houses are reachable but far less uniform — fascia, drip edge and gutter vary house to house, sometimes along one street, so the clip is chosen per edge on site.

There is commercial frontage along the main corridors and around the civic centre, mostly retail and office, plus church and school work. Those get scheduled around trading and service hours and are usually permanent rather than seasonal.

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 Trussville

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 Trussville
Permanent outdoor lighting on a roofline in Trussville

Permanent outdoor lighting in Trussville

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 Trussville

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 Trussville

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.

Trussville questions we get asked

Our Cahaba Project house has a metal shingle roof. Can you even clip to that?
Yes. A metal shingle edge behaves differently under a clip than asphalt does, and plenty of Cahaba Project roofs still carry it. The district guidelines call for street-visible roofs to be metal shingle or to look like it, faithful to the original 1930s houses, so it's what we plan for until the walkaround says otherwise. We work off the fascia and drip edge and nothing gets fastened through the roof covering. It's a slower walkaround than a new build, and the fixing gets chosen edge by edge.
Does the Design Review Board have to approve a light track?
We'd ask the board before assuming either way. Here's why. The Cahaba Project construction guidelines say solar panels, skylights, satellite dishes and other external utility systems should sit where they aren't visible from the street. A permanent track is arguably in that family. That's a question the Design Review Board should answer for your block rather than one contractor should guess at, so give us the address and we'll take it to them before anything is ordered.
The pitch on these houses is steep. Is that a ladder job?
Not on the front. Most Cahaba Project roofs run about 10:12, which is steep enough that the run gets set from a lift or from the ground.
There are 287 of these houses built to a handful of plans. Will ours look like everyone else's?
The outline will be close to identical. On those streets that's part of the appeal. What varies is ninety years of individual work: replaced gutters, added porches, enclosed carports. Two houses off the same 1930s plan can present completely different edges by now, which is why the quote comes after the walkaround. Christmas light installation is the more common choice on those blocks.
We're out on the newer side near 11, nothing like the Project. Anything different for us?
Honestly, not much. Continuous fascia and seamless gutter take a track without argument, so the day goes into height and access. Same story in Chelsea, where the whole city is that build.

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