Christmas Light Installation in West Michigan
The whole season, handled — design through storage.
Most people who call us have hung their own lights for years. They are not calling because they cannot. They are calling because it is twenty-six degrees, the ladder is on ice, and there is a strand out on the north gable that nobody can reach.
Hurry Curry designs the display, cuts the lines to your roofline, installs them, comes back when the wind moves something, takes it all down after the season, and stores it labeled so next year goes up faster. From Whitehall to Zeeland, one company for all five steps.
Quotes start at $800 for lighting install/teardown.
Five steps, and we do all five.
Most companies in this category sell you the install. The install is one fifth of the problem. A Christmas job here is the same five steps every time, in this order.
- 01
Design
We look at the house — in person or from your photos — and lay out what gets lit and what does not. Roofline first, then the pieces that are worth the money. You get a number before anything is ordered.
- 02
Installation
Commercial-grade LEDs, custom-cut to your measurements and clipped at the shingle edge. Runs get slack for freeze and thaw. Power and timer are sorted so you never touch a switch.
- 03
Season-long maintenance
Wind moves things and bulbs fail. That is the season on a Lakeshore roof, not a defect. Call us and we come back out.
- 04
Takedown
After the season the lights come off the house, and the clips come off with them. Nothing overwinters on your shingles.
- 05
Organized off-season storage
Every run is labeled by the section it came off and boxed, so next year starts from a set that already fits your house.
What is not included
- Electrical work beyond plugging into an existing exterior circuit. If the power is not there, that is an electrician's job, and we say so during design — not on install day.
- Roof, gutter or fascia repair. We will tell you what we see up there. We will not fix it.
- Any roof we judge unsafe to walk. If a section has nowhere safe to clip, it stays dark and we tell you why, rather than improvising a fastening.
What actually gets lit.
A quote is a list of surfaces. Here is the whole menu, and what each one does for the house.
- Roofline
- The one that matters. A continuous run cut to your eave is what makes a house read as lit from the street rather than decorated.
- Peaks, gables and dormers
- The part everyone sees and the part most do-it-yourself runs skip, because it is the hardest thing on the house to reach.
- Windows
- Outlined frames finish some elevations and make others look like a motel. We will tell you which one you have.
- Garage outlines and arches
- Usually the second-largest lit shape on the front of a house, and the one that balances a long ranch elevation.
- Columns, porches and rails
- Vertical light. It is what keeps a lit roofline from floating above a dark house.
- Walkways and driveway edges
- Ground-level light that does a safety job as well as a decorative one, on the nights the walk is under snow.
- Trees and shrubs
- Wrapped trunks and limbs. Size drives the price here more than anything else on this list — one mature maple is not one shrub.
- Wreaths and garland
- Doors, columns, porch rails and lamp posts. The close-up detail, seen by everyone who walks to your door.
Three directions cover most homes.
We will tell you which one your house is actually built for, and what each one gives up.
- 01
A single warm-white roofline
One continuous run along the eave and nothing else. On a clean elevation it is the most composed thing on this page, and the least expensive of the three.
Trade-off
On a busy, heavily gabled house it can read as unfinished — the roofline alone cannot carry that much architecture. - 02
Warm white, plus peaks, columns and a wrapped tree
The roofline carries the house and three or four secondary elements give it depth. This is where most homes land once they have seen both options drawn.
Trade-off
More line, more time, more money — and the point at which design judgment starts to matter more than product. - 03
Full color, on an app you control
Color-changing LEDs with scenes you set yourself, instead of one fixed look for six weeks.
Trade-off
It fights some architecture, and it is a genuinely different look from the warm-white C9 tradition people usually picture when they call.
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inches of snow in an average year, Muskegon — and most of it arrives sideways off the lakeThe weather makes the decisions.
- Runs get enough slack that a freeze-and-thaw cycle pulls on the clip instead of the wire.
- Lines are clipped at the shingle edge and to gutters with weather-tested clips. No nail, screw or staple goes into fascia or original trim — a hundred-year-old fascia board is not a fastening surface you get a second try at.
- Connections stay up off the roof surface and out of standing meltwater, because the water has to go somewhere when it finally moves.
- And we expect to come back mid-season. On a Lakeshore roof, something moves.
When this actually happens.
Nothing here is a countdown. This is the sequence the work runs in on the Lakeshore, published so you can plan against it.
- Aug – Oct
Design and quoting
The best window to decide anything. Nobody is on a ladder in the cold and there is time to change your mind twice.
- Oct – Nov
Installation
Lights go up warm and dry and stay dark until you want them lit. Installed in October is normal, not premature.
- Thanksgiving
Lit
The date most people are actually working backwards from, whether or not they say so on the phone.
- December
Service
The month things move. Wind, ice, a failed strand on the north gable. Call us.
- January
Takedown and storage
Off the house, clips and all, labeled by section and boxed for the summer.
Waiting does not cost you a spot. It costs you working conditions, design flexibility, and the time to fix something before the night you wanted to be lit.
The number, before you call.
Quotes start at $800 for lighting install/teardown.
That is the floor. Linear feet of roofline, a second story, roof pitch, the number of peaks and dormers, wrapped trees, columns and walkways all move it up from there. We would rather you see the number here than find it out after a site visit.
Thirteen Lakeshore communities.
Muskegon · Norton Shores · Grand Haven · Spring Lake · Holland · Roosevelt Park · Fruitport · Ferrysburg · Coopersville · Zeeland · West Olive · Whitehall · Montague
The linked cities have a page of their own. The rest are communities we serve without a page written for them yet — we would rather send you nowhere than to a page that says nothing. Not sure whether you are in range? Ask, and we will tell you straight either way.
Six questions worth answering first.
What does Christmas light installation cost?
Quotes start at $800 for lighting install/teardown. That is the floor. Linear feet of roofline, a second story, roof pitch, the number of peaks and dormers, wrapped trees, columns and walkways all move it up from there. We publish the floor so you can decide before a site visit instead of after one.
What do you fasten to?
The shingle edge and the gutter line, using weather-tested clips. Nothing gets nailed, screwed or stapled into fascia, siding or original trim. If a section of your house has nowhere safe to clip, we leave it dark and tell you, instead of inventing a fastening that fails in February.
What happens if something goes out mid-season?
Call us and we come back out. Season-long maintenance is one of the five things a Christmas job with us covers, because on a roof taking lake-effect wind, a bulb failure or a moved run is a normal December event rather than a complaint.
When should I book, and when do the lights come down?
Design and quoting run best from August through October, installs run October into November, and takedown starts in January. That is the sequence of the work, not a countdown — we are not going to tell you that spots are filling.
Do the lights get stored, or do they live in my garage?
They get labeled by section and stored off-season. Because every line was cut to your roof, the same set goes back up the following year faster than a set of pre-cut strands ever will.
Which towns do you install in?
The West Michigan Lakeshore — Muskegon, Norton Shores, Roosevelt Park, Fruitport, Spring Lake, Grand Haven, Ferrysburg, Coopersville, Holland, Zeeland, West Olive, Whitehall and Montague, and most of what is between them. If you are not sure you are in range, ask and we will tell you straight either way.
Tell us what you are picturing.
Send the address and a photo of the front of the house. We will come back with what we would light, what we would leave dark, and what it costs.
Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00 · Sat–Sat 09:00–16:00 · Sunday closed