It’s Time to Upgrade to Professionally Installed Christmas Lights
Installing Christmas lights is such a weird thing to expect regular, untrained people to do. I can’t think of a single other house job that involves climbing multiple stories up on a ladder, handling electrical equipment, and ensuring aesthetic precision all at the same time with no instructions or certifications required. Christmas lighting is its own beast. Now if your goal for your Christmas lights is to spend five minutes throwing some grocery store light strands up on your lowest eaves and calling that good, then you don’t need to consider professional Christmas lighting installation. But if you are frustrated with the process of hanging your own lights, or disappointed in the way your lights look each year, or if you are concerned about yourself or your spouse scrambling about on the roof this season, then here is all the information you need to make a decision about changing your lighting game plan this year!
What are the benefits of having your Christmas lights professionally installed?
Ladder Safety: The last thing you want to deal with this holiday season is an unplanned trip to the ER. Ladders are dangerous, and walking around on your roof is nothing to take lightly. Calling in the professionals is the best way to ensure that you and your loved ones are safe on the ground (ideally inside drinking some coffee by the fire, or off on a beautiful walk in the park).
Storage: How long did you spend untangling your Christmas lights last year? How much space is being taken up in your shed or garage by boxes of half-mangled lights with missing and broken bulbs? When you have your lights professionally installed by Beautiful Day, we purchase and store professional grade LED lights for you so that you don’t have to keep track of them or worry about finding a place for them.
Precision: For Christmas lights to look really good the strands have to be hung with just the right amount of tension, and the bulbs need to be placed precisely to highlight the shapes on your house. It takes a surprising amount of forethought, planning, and attention to detail to get each bulb to sit exactly where it needs to as the strands follow the lines and curves of your home. No more sloppy, drooping lights marring your merry.
Outage Protection: Have you ever spent a weekend hanging your lights and then by Tuesday a whole strand goes out? With Beautiful Day, we’ve got your back on outages. If a bulb burns out or a big storm knocks a strand down, we will take care of it right away to keep your halls fully decked all season long.
Customization: With our professional LED lights, Beautiful Day custom cuts each strand to the exact contours of your house so that each eave, window frame, porch railing, or archway has just the right length of lighting. We also have options for you to choose the colors of your bulbs, whether you want all white lights, sprinkles of color, or a full spectrum.
Damage-Free Fasteners: Put that staple gun down. There’s no need to drive nails or hooks into the frame of your house in order to hang your lights. Beautiful Day uses non-invasive fasteners that hold each bulb secure at just the right angle without poking holes in your eaves or mangling your shingles.
What other considerations are there with professionally installed Christmas lights?
Get on the Schedule: The lighting installation calendar fills up quickly around here! Make sure you reach out for your custom lighting quote early in the season so that you can secure an installation date in your ideal range. Some people prefer to have their lights up and on for months to get the most enjoyment out of them. Others like to wait on their lights until after Thanksgiving to keep the season special. Whatever your preference, keep in mind that you need to act early in order to reserve your preferred date for installation.
Think About Your Options: Do you want lights just along the roofline? Do you want to frame your windows and porch railings? Would you like ground lighting, or wraps for your trees? Consider what your ideal Christmas lights would look like! If you have questions, give us a call and our Illustrious Scheduling Queen, Carrie, will help you pick out just the right sparkle for your season.
Pick a Trusted Company: We know we aren’t the only ones who hang professional Christmas lights in Tacoma. If you aren’t sure who to trust with your exterior decorating this year, we recommend looking at what your neighbors have said! Check out reviews that mention holiday lights for each company, and look at any pictures of past work from the different crews. To help you with your decision, I’ve included Beautiful Day’s lighting portfolio below!
