Permanent Holiday in Sterling Heights, MI
Install once, use forever. Programmable LED lighting that works for Christmas, Halloween, Fourth of July, game days, and everyday accent lighting — all controlled from your phone. Serving Macomb and Oakland County, Michigan.
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What Permanent Holiday Lights Actually Are
Permanent holiday lights are professional-grade LED systems mounted into the soffit, eaves, or roofline of your home and left there year-round. Each individual LED is programmable — meaning you can change the color, pattern, brightness, and timing from an app on your phone. The hardware disappears into the architecture during the day and lights up however you want it at night. We design and install these systems for homes throughout Macomb and Oakland County. Once it's installed, you'll never hang another strand of Christmas lights again.
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Why Permanent Lights Pay For Themselves
Most homeowners spend somewhere between $400 and $1,500 per year on professional Christmas light installation. Add a few years of that and the math starts to flip. Permanent holiday lights are a one-time install with no annual fees, no takedown headaches, no storage problems, and no booking your install date in October before the calendar fills up. Beyond the cost — they're not just for Christmas. Halloween orange and purple. Red, white, and blue for the Fourth. Pink for breast cancer awareness month. Birthday colors when your kid turns six. Game-day red and silver when the Lions are playing. The system you install once gets used dozens of times a year. Most customers tell us the only thing they wish they'd done differently is install them sooner.
The Process
3 Step Process For Your Permanent Lighting Needs
Contact Us
Start by completing the 'Get a Free Quote' form on our website to share your permanent holiday lighting needs with us.
Schedule Your Estimate
Next, we'll arrange a property visit at a time that works for you to provide an in-person estimate for your permanent holiday lighting needs.
Get The Job Done
After you approve our estimate, we'll schedule a date to complete the job. Our team will work hard to exceed your expectations!
Types of Permanent Holiday Lights we deisgn
Permanent Holiday Lighting, Sterling Heights MI
LEDs mounted under your eaves and into the soffit channel — clean roofline outline at night, completely invisible by day.
LED runs following every peak, gable & dormer — adding real depth and dimension, especially on two-story and complex rooflines.
Porches, columns & pillars wired into the same programmable system as your roofline — year-round accent lighting, not just holidays.
Millions of colors and dozens of preset scenes — Christmas, Halloween, July 4th, Easter & more. Schedule and switch with one tap.
Full phone app control — on/off, colors, schedules, custom programs, or one-tap holiday presets. Set it once and forget it.
Works on both. New builds get channels planned into the soffit; existing homes get channels routed along the eaves with hidden wiring.
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Permanent lighting isn't for every property, and we're upfront about that during your free quote. Some homeowners prefer the traditional look of seasonal Christmas Light Installation — roofline C9s, tree wraps, and wreaths installed each November and taken down in January — and that's a completely reasonable choice if you only want lights up for the holidays. Others want their whole property covered, pairing a permanent system on the house with Landscape Lighting along the walkways and gardens for a coordinated look from the street, day and night. Commercial properties have largely the same decision to make, and our Commercial Christmas Lights page goes through the math on permanent versus seasonal install cycles for storefronts, HOAs, and office buildings. Plenty of our permanent lighting customers actually started with a seasonal install in places like Troy or Sterling Heights before deciding to make the switch once they saw what a few seasons of installs actually cost. Either way, every option comes with the same all-inclusive approach — custom design, professional installation, and a team that's still around if anything needs attention later.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I see the lights during the day?
No, that's the whole point. The LEDs are mounted into a low-profile channel that tucks into your soffit or under the eaves. From the curb during the day, you don't see the system at all — it just looks like your roofline. At night when they're on, the lights themselves are what you see, not the hardware.
Do they actually hold up through Michigan winters?
Yes. The systems we install use commercial-grade outdoor LEDs and weatherproof housing rated for full year-round exposure — sun, snow, ice, freeze-thaw cycles, all of it. They're designed specifically for permanent outdoor installation, not adapted from indoor strands.
Can I program them myself or do I need to call you every time?
You program them yourself. The app handles everything — colors, scenes, schedules, brightness, custom programs. We set it up and walk you through it during install, but day-to-day you control everything from your phone. We're around if you ever want help with a custom program or have a question.
What holidays do they work for?
Whatever you want. The pre-loaded scenes cover Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Easter, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, New Year's, and more. You can also build your own — birthday colors, team colors for game day, awareness month colors, or anything you can imagine. The system supports millions of color combinations.
How long do they last?
The LEDs themselves are rated for 50,000+ hours of use, which works out to decades of normal seasonal use. The system comes with a manufacturer warranty covering hardware failures and defects. Realistically, the system outlasts most homeowners' need for it.
Will permanent lights replace my Christmas light install?
For most customers, yes — that's exactly why they get them. Once permanent lights are installed, you don't need to book a separate Christmas light install every year. Some customers still hire us to add tree wraps, wreaths, or full-property displays on top of the permanent lights for a more elaborate Christmas setup, but the basic roofline coverage is handled.
Are you insured?
Yes — fully insured for both liability and worker's compensation. We can provide a certificate of insurance on request, especially for commercial properties and HOAs that require it.
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Christmas Light Guys • Locally Owned & Operated • 36782 Haverhill, Sterling Heights MI 48312 • (586) 960-5361
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