Christmas Light Installation in Oakton, VA

Lighting a house in Oakton.

Oakton is trees. The neighborhoods off Hunter Mill and Blake Lane were built into standing woods and a lot of it was left, which is why a roofline here can be half hidden behind branches by the time you are standing at the curb. A design that only follows the gutter can be close to invisible from the street on one of these lots. More roof lighting is not the answer. Putting light where there is actually a clear sightline is, and that usually means the trees, the front walk and the entry.

The shape of the streets matters too. Cul-de-sacs and long curves mean most of these houses are approached at an angle rather than head on, so the side of the house does as much work as the front does. We look at where cars actually come from before deciding which planes get lit. On the eighties and nineties colonials that make up much of Oakton, that often means carrying the run around the corner rather than stopping it at the front corner board the way a quick quote would.

We work throughout Oakton and the area around it, including Hunter Mill Road, Blake Lane, Waples Mill, Chain Bridge Road, Vale Road and the neighborhoods between Vienna and Fairfax.