Holiday Lightsin Covington

Holiday lights, in our own words

Holiday Lights: We keep it simple to the roofline and gutters. We do not do trees or bushes

Make your holidays a little brighter with custom built lighting with colors of your choice. Have a clean and simple display or show off your personality. We can make it happen!

Holiday lights are a fun way to celebrate whatever holiday you choose. We offer a variety of color options. We only use high quality, professional grade lights.

Why we stay on the roofline

Keeping to the roofline and the gutters is a deliberate choice, not a limitation we are making excuses for. A roofline is the single strongest line on a house. Light it evenly and the whole home reads as intentional from the street, at night, from a long way off.

Spread the same display across trees, shrubs, railings and a lamp post and something different happens. The eye stops finding a shape. The effort goes into a lot of places and the result looks busier without looking better. Trees and bushes also grow, shift in wind and snow, and take a very different kind of installation.

So the answer here is simple: we do the roofline and the gutters, and we do it properly.

Custom built means measured, not pulled off a shelf

A strand of store bought lights comes in a fixed length with fixed spacing. Your roof does not. The gap between what the box contains and what your house measures is why most consumer displays end up with a doubled section at one corner and a dark run at the other.

Building the lighting for your house means measuring the runs first and cutting and assembling to those measurements. The line ends where the roof ends. Bulb spacing stays consistent from the first peak to the last corner. There is no leftover to hide and no shortfall to improvise around.

It also means the spacing can be chosen rather than inherited. A tighter run reads as a continuous ribbon of light. A wider run reads as distinct points. Both look deliberate when they are even, and neither looks right when the spacing changes halfway across the front of the house.

Colors, and picking a look

We offer a variety of color options, and the choice matters more than people expect.

A single color all the way around is the cleanest option and the hardest to get wrong. Warm white sits well on almost any siding. Cool white reads crisper and sharper against dark trim. A single saturated color, run evenly along the whole line, makes a bolder statement than a mix does.

Mixed colors work, they just need a pattern rather than randomness. A repeating sequence that holds all the way around the house looks designed. The same colors in no particular order looks like whatever was in the box.

Whatever you choose, the thing that makes a display look professional is consistency: even spacing, a straight line and bulbs that all face the same way. That is what the roofline gives you and a bush does not.

Clips belong on the gutter line

There is one right way to attach a light run to a house, and it is a clip.

A clip hangs from the gutter lip or hooks over the edge of a shingle. It carries almost no weight, it holds the bulb at a consistent angle, and it comes off at the end of the season leaving nothing behind. A nail or a staple, on the other hand, puts a hole in a roofing surface whose entire job is keeping water out. That hole is still there long after the lights come down, and it is still there in the wet season. We go into the detail in why holiday light clips belong on the gutter line, not the shingles.

The gutter line is also the reason we mention the state of your gutters. Clips seat against the lip of the gutter, and that lip is easier to work along when the trough is not packed with wet needles. It is worth having the gutters cleaned beforehand for the same reason you would clear a surface before putting anything on it. Our post on fir needles and what really clogs your gutters explains why a South Sound gutter fills faster than most people assume.

What a display looks like when it is done right

Stand across the street and look at the house. The line should follow the architecture: level where the fascia is level, steady up and down a gable, turning the corners cleanly.

There should be no sag between the fixed points, no bright gap where two runs meet, and no bulb rotated to face the ground while the rest face the street. Those are the details you do not consciously notice on a good install and cannot stop noticing on a bad one.

Holiday lighting across the South Sound

We install holiday lighting for homes in Covington and across South King County, Pierce County and Thurston County, including Kent, Renton, Maple Valley, Auburn, Federal Way, Puyallup, Sammamish, Issaquah and Olympia. The full list is on our service areas page. We work on homes only.

If you are pulling the outside of the house together before the season, the windows and the roof are the other two jobs worth handling while the weather still allows it.

Book online or get in touch and tell us about your roofline and the look you have in mind.