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Do Permanent Christmas Lights Damage Your Sacramento Roof, Stucco or Siding?
Worried permanent lights will harm your roof, stucco or warranty? A Sacramento installer explains what causes damage and what to ask first.
Bistro String Lights Over a Backyard Bocce Court in Fair Oaks
A Fair Oaks homeowner wanted her bocce court lit for evening games. Here is how we anchored, spaced and layered the string lights, and what to ask any installer before you book.
Permanent Lighting for a Patio Cover and Pool Home in Orangevale
A real Orangevale project: permanent lighting on a stucco home and a long backyard patio cover beside the pool, with sealed power equipment and a color test before the crew left.
Permanent Lighting on a Large Brick and Stucco Home in Sacramento
A real Sacramento project: permanent lighting on a formal two-story home with a columned entry, a flat tile roof and a covered patio, installed by a four-person crew.
Christmas Lights on a Tile Roof Home in North Natomas: A Two-Story Install
A real North Natomas project: a two-story stucco home with a tile roof and stone veneer, lit with a layered seasonal package by a two-person crew.
Lighting a Craftsman Home in East Sacramento: Gables, Hidden Wiring, and a Boom Lift
The part of a permanent system that decides how it looks is everything you don't see. Here's how an East Sacramento craftsman home was planned, wired and lit.
Permanent Lighting on a Folsom Tudor: Matching Track to Dark Half Timbering
Dark half timbering and a roofline full of gables make a Tudor beautiful and tricky to light. Here's how a Folsom permanent install made the track disappear.
A Roofline With More Turns Than Most: Lighting Robin's Home in Loomis
Some properties are straightforward from the driveway. Others take a full walkthrough before you can plan where the first light goes. This was the second kind.
Lighting a Complex Rocklin Roofline: Tile, Solar Panels, and Three Roof Pitches
Three roof sections, one active solar array, and a roofline that needed a real plan before a single light went up. Here's how the Cassia Way job actually came together.