Permanent LED Roofline Lighting, Installed From $3,000
A permanent lighting system puts a discreet aluminium track along your roofline with individually controlled LEDs inside it, wired in and left in place. No ladders in November, no strands to store, no crew coming back every season. You change the colour from your phone — warm white on an ordinary Tuesday, red and green through December, orange for Halloween, your school’s colours on game day. Lights Around designs, installs and services these systems across central and northern Virginia, and unlike most companies in this category we publish what it costs: packages start at $3,000 installed. If you’d rather spread the cost, our managed year-round programme starts at $900 up front.
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Product Information:
Transform your home or business with Permanent Year-Round Lighting from Lights Around, designed to offer stunning, customizable displays for every occasion. This lighting solution not only provides beautiful illumination during the holiday season but also enhances your space all year long.
Key Features:
- Discreet Track Installation: The lighting system includes a sleek, permanently affixed track that blends seamlessly with your structure’s architecture. The lights can be adjusted to point out or down to meet your visibility preferences and comply with HOA restrictions.
- Color-Changing & Moving Lights: Enjoy endless customization with millions of color combinations for Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, game day celebrations, and more. The lights can be programmed via a user-friendly app for different holidays and special events.
- LED Technology: Our energy-efficient LED lights provide bright, vibrant illumination while being gentle on energy consumption.
Pricing & Service Options:
- Permanent Lighting: Offers a long-term solution with packages starting at $3,000. This one-time purchase provides the flexibility to enjoy beautifully illuminated displays all year.
- Year-Round Lighting: For a more budget-friendly option, packages start at $900, with a monthly service fee of $99 that includes quarterly updates, maintenance, and service to ensure your lights are always in perfect condition.
This permanent lighting system is perfect for those who want a worry-free, year-round solution to enhance the beauty of their home or business. Customize your lighting for any occasion and enjoy hassle-free service and support!
Let us help you design the perfect lighting for your space today. Contact us for a custom mock-up design and estimate tailored to your needs!
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What "Permanent" Actually Means Here
The difference between this and every seasonal install is the track. Clip-on lights hang from your gutter edge and come down in January. A permanent system is a slim powder-coated aluminium channel fastened along the fascia, with the LED modules seated inside it and the wiring concealed within the run. From the ground the track reads as a trim line rather than as lighting equipment. Because the LEDs sit inside a fixed housing rather than dangling from clips, the spacing stays perfectly even for the life of the system and nothing sags, twists or blows loose in a storm. It is the same principle behind the national brands — Trimlight, Jellyfish, Gemstone — installed and serviced locally by a Virginia crew rather than shipped and subcontracted.
Aimed Outward or Downward — Built for HOA Rules
This is the detail most homeowners don’t know to ask about until their HOA raises it. Our modules can be angled to throw light outward, washing the face of the house for maximum visibility from the street, or downward, which keeps the source out of a neighbour’s sightline and satisfies the dark-sky and nuisance-lighting clauses that show up in a lot of Virginia HOA covenants. We set the aim during installation based on your street position and your covenant, and we can supply documentation of the fixture specification if your board asks for it before approving. If you’re in a governed community in Loudoun County, Fairfax or Prince William, raise it at the site visit and we’ll plan the run around it.
What a Permanent System Costs and Why We Publish It
Most companies in this category won’t give you a number until they’ve been to your house. We’ll give you a range now. Our permanent packages start at $3,000 installed, and the final figure depends on three things: the linear footage of the roofline being lit, how many storeys and how accessible the run is, and whether you’re adding features beyond the main roofline. For context, professionally installed permanent lighting generally runs somewhere between roughly $18 and $35 per linear foot nationally, with most whole-home projects landing in the low-to-mid thousands so our entry point sits at the sensible end of a normal market, not below it. What you won’t get from us is a low headline number that grows once the crew arrives. We measure, we quote, and the quote is the price.
Own the System, or Let Us Manage It
Buy it outright and the system is yours from day one — one payment, no ongoing fee, and you handle the app yourself. This is the right call if you plan to stay in the house and you enjoy setting your own scenes.
Or spread it. Our year-round lighting programme starts at $900 with a monthly service fee, and we handle the quarterly programme updates, the maintenance and any service calls. Nothing for you to think about — the roofline just changes for each holiday because we changed it. This suits people who want the result without the admin, and businesses that need the lighting to look deliberate without assigning someone to manage it.
Not ready for either? Rent the seasonal version first. Our colour-changing C9 roofline package gives you app-controlled colour for one season with nothing fixed to the house, and plenty of clients use it as a trial run before committing to a permanent install.
Designed Around Your Home, Not Stretched Across It
We start with a measurement, not a catalogue. Rooflines in this part of Virginia vary enormously — colonial front elevations, dormers, wraparound porches, steep gables on the older Fredericksburg and Charlottesville housing stock — and a system that just follows the longest available line looks wrong on most of them. At the site visit we work out which features are worth lighting and which are better left dark, where the controller and power should sit, and how the run will read from the street at night and from the driveway in daylight. You can see how finished installs sit on real houses in our photo gallery.
Beyond the Roofline
Most systems start at the roof and grow from there. We install permanent patio lighting for outdoor living areas that get used long after the holidays, light bars for architectural washing and accent work, and RGB cubes and RGB globes and spheres as landscape and feature pieces. All of it runs from the same app, so the house reads as one designed scheme rather than as several separate purchases. Adding to the system later is straightforward — see the full range on our permanent lighting collection.
Permanent Lighting for Businesses, HOAs and Churches
Commercial buildings get more out of a permanent system than houses do, because the lighting works every week rather than once a year: brand colours year-round, seasonal changes without a contractor visit, and awareness campaigns handled from a phone. We install for retail frontages, restaurants, offices, churches, wineries and community associations across Virginia, and we hold full liability coverage — details on our insurance page. For larger installations and display-scale work, see our commercial lighting range.
After Installation: Warranty, Service and Programming
If a module fails or a section stops responding, you call the office and we come out; we do not hand you a manufacturer’s phone number and wish you luck. Because we’re based in Locust Grove and our crews are already working across the region, service calls don’t wait on a regional dispatcher. We can also handle your seasonal programming on request even if you bought the system outright, which is worth knowing if you love the lights and hate the app. Everything else — terms, scheduling, what happens in bad weather — is on our FAQs page.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I add to the system later?
Yes. Patio runs, columns, landscape features and accent pieces can be added to an existing controller, which is why plenty of clients start with the roofline and build out over a couple of seasons.
Do you install in winter?
We install year-round, weather permitting. Booking outside the autumn rush usually means faster scheduling — the run-up to the holidays is by far our busiest window.
How much does Christmas light installation cost in Virginia?
Pricing is driven by linear footage, roof height and pitch, number of stories, and how many trees and features you want lit. Most single-family roofline packages fall in a predictable band that includes design, installation, in-season service, removal and storage — request a quote and we will price your actual home.
Are permanent Christmas lights worth it compared with installing every year?
If you plan to light your home most years, usually yes. A permanent LED system is a one-time install with no annual labour cost, and it works for every holiday and every ordinary evening — not just December. We will run the break-even comparison for your home during a free site visit.
Can I choose custom colours and designs?
Yes. Permanent systems are app-controlled with full RGB colour and scheduled scenes. Seasonal displays are designed to your colour scheme, and wedding uplighting is matched to your palette and can change between ceremony, dinner and dancing.
How is this different from renting Christmas lights?
A rental goes up in November and comes down in January, and you pay again next year. A permanent system is installed once, works all year for any occasion, and has no recurring cost if you buy outright. If you’re weighing the two, our Christmas light packages show what the seasonal route costs.
How far in advance should I book?
Christmas installations: August through early October. Weddings and events: three to twelve months ahead. Commercial and HOA displays: June through September. Permanent lighting: spring and summer for the widest choice of install dates.
Do you work with businesses, HOAs and municipalities?
Yes — commercial lighting is a core part of what we do, including tower trees, giant displays, tunnel structures and light-pole fixtures, with multi-year agreements available.
Book a Free Roofline Measurement
We’ll measure your roofline, talk through where the light should and shouldn’t go, check your HOA position if you have one, and give you a firm installed price. The measurement is free and there’s nothing to sign. Start with a quote request, or pick up the phone if you’d rather talk it through — and if you want to know who’d be on your roof first, that’s on our about page.
