Christmas Light Installation in Arlington, VA

Lighting a house in Arlington.

Arlington houses are close to the sidewalk and close to each other, and the people looking at them are usually on foot. A display here is seen from ten or twenty feet away by someone walking a dog past Lyon Park or heading down to Clarendon. At that range nobody notices how bright a roofline is. They notice whether the bulbs are evenly spaced, whether the line sags between clips and whether a cord is hanging across the front steps. Clean work is the whole job on these streets.

Most of the houses are brick: center-hall colonials, Cape Cods and the older bungalows with deep front porches. Brick changes how lights get hung. Nothing gets drilled or nailed into the masonry, so the line rides on clips at the gutter, the trim and the porch rail instead. The roofs are short and steep, which gives you less length to work with than a suburban colonial, so the porch, the posts and the front walk carry more of the design. On townhouse rows we light to your property line and leave a clean end where your neighbor's begins.

We work throughout Arlington and the area around it, including Clarendon, Ballston, Lyon Park, Lyon Village, Cherrydale, Westover, Bluemont and the residential streets off Wilson Boulevard and Lee Highway.