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Permanent Christmas Lights in South Hill, Spokane WA
The South Hill has Spokane’s most prominent housing — large homes, steep lots, elaborate rooflines and a lot of them visible from a long way off. It is the part of town where permanent lighting is most often chosen for how it looks the rest of the year, not just at Christmas.
Complicated rooflines, done once
South Hill houses tend to be the hardest seasonal installs in the city: multiple gables, turrets, dormers, steep pitches, and second and third storeys that need real access equipment. Every one of those features is a reason to do the work once rather than annually.
A fitted channel follows that complexity accurately. Each gable return and dormer is cut to fit, so the finished line traces the actual geometry of the roof. That is close to impossible to achieve with clipped bulbs and nearly impossible to achieve twice the same way.
Steep lots and visibility from below
A lot of South Hill properties sit above the road, which changes the design. Seen from below, the underside of the eave and the lower roofline carry the display, and an upper run that would be the focus on a flat lot can disappear entirely over the ridge.
We look at the house from the viewpoints that matter — the kerb, the approach, and where the property is seen from across the valley — and put the channel where it reads from there.
Cost on the South Hill
Larger homes and difficult access put most South Hill properties above the entry figure. The first 100 feet of roofline is still around $2,800 to $3,800, but houses here commonly run several hundred feet and land in the $5,000 to $10,000 range or beyond for the largest.
The quote is free and is built from a measured layout, not an estimate off a photograph.
Common questions
Yes, with the right access equipment, and that is costed into the quote. Height is one of the main reasons people stop doing seasonal lighting on these houses and switch to a permanent system.
That is largely a matter of how you drive it. On warm white, picking out the roofline and the gable detail, it looks like considered architectural lighting. Full colour is there when you want it.
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Not sure permanent is the right choice? Read how the systems work or compare it against our seasonal installation in South Hill.
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