Christmas & Permanent Light Installation in Collegedale, TN

Seasonal displays and year-round architectural lighting for Collegedale homes, campus and church frontages.

Lighting built for Collegedale rooflines

Collegedale is a small city built around Southern Adventist University, which gives it a mix the surrounding subdivisions do not have: campus and institutional buildings, older houses close in, and newer family housing spreading out toward Apison and Ooltewah. Our office is a short run north on the Lee Highway corridor, so this is near work for us. The variety is the point — one street can move from mid-century fascia to modern seamless gutter in a few hundred feet, so we measure rather than assume.

Institutional and commercial work is a real part of what we do here, alongside houses. Campus edges, church and school frontages and the small retail around Collegedale Commons all want lighting that reads as architecture rather than decoration, and they want it working without disrupting term time. On the residential side, permanent lighting does well because it removes the annual ladder job entirely.

What a Collegedale install actually takes

Mixed stock means mixed fixings. Newer houses take a permanent track cleanly along a straight fascia. The older ones have shallower or interrupted fascia, deeper eaves, and gutter that has often been replaced piecemeal, so the clip has to match the actual edge rather than a catalogue. We decide that on site, and we fix to structure rather than through shingles.

Timing is the other Collegedale-specific thing. Institutional and campus work runs on its own calendar and rarely lines up with the residential rush in late October and November. Booking early is how both get done properly instead of one squeezing the other.

Red, white and blue permanent roofline lighting on a two-story home

What we install

Christmas & Seasonal

Full-service holiday displays: design, commercial-grade lights, installation, in-season service, then takedown and storage.

JellyFish Permanent

Track-mounted permanent lighting tucked under the roofline. Millions of colors, app controlled, holiday or everyday.

Bosso Smart Lighting

A permanent lighting alternative with its own fixture and control system. We fit it to homes JellyFish does not suit.

Commercial & HOA

Storefronts, offices, common areas and entrances, scheduled installs that work around your business hours.

Christmas and seasonal light installation in Collegedale

Seasonal lighting is a full service, not a box of lights from a shelf. We design the display around your roofline, install commercial-grade product cut to fit your house, and service it through the season if anything goes dark. After the holidays we take it down and store it until next year, so nothing lives in your garage and nothing gets crushed between seasons.

Booking order decides the calendar. Installs run in the order they are booked, so the earliest dates go to whoever called first. If you want the lights on before the first weekend of December, get on the list well before the season starts.

Christmas light installation on a home in Collegedale
Permanent outdoor lighting on a roofline in Collegedale

Permanent outdoor lighting in Collegedale

Permanent lighting is a slim track fixed under the roofline that stays up all year and reads as trim from the street. Run warm white on an ordinary evening, color through December, orange and white for a Saturday in autumn, or switch it off entirely. It is all controlled from an app, so nobody climbs anything.

We install two systems. JellyFish is the one most people have heard of and we are an authorized dealer. Bosso is an alternative with its own fixture and control system that suits some rooflines better. We bring both to the consult and tell you which fits your house, including when that is the cheaper option.

Commercial and HOA lighting in Collegedale

We light storefronts, offices, entrances and common areas as well as homes. Commercial work is scheduled around your trading hours so the install never costs you a business day, and a larger property can be phased across several visits.

If an HOA, a landlord or a historic district has rules about fixture color, brightness or where a track may sit, bring them to the consult and we design to them from the start rather than asking for an exception later.

Commercial roofline lighting on a business in Collegedale

How it works

01

Free design consult

We walk the property, measure the roofline and show you what the finished run will look like. No charge, no obligation.

02

Custom install

Our crew installs to your approved plan with commercial-grade product, cut and fitted on site, not a one-size kit.

03

Service & takedown

Something goes dark. We come back. For seasonal work we handle removal and store your lights until next year.

Collegedale questions we get asked

Does Collegedale handle its own permits or does the county?
Collegedale handles its own. The city has a building and codes office on Swinyar Drive that reviews plans and issues permits for everything inside the city line. That matters for who you hire as much as for what you file. Collegedale requires a contractor to hold a current State of Tennessee license plus a Hamilton County or City of Chattanooga trade license, so an installer set up only for county work isn't automatically set up for yours.
We're a church with a frontage on campus. How far ahead do we need to start?
Further than a house. For commercial and institutional projects the city's plan review runs a couple of weeks once a complete set is submitted, and that clock doesn't include any state-level review. Add your own internal approvals on top. In practice that means a December frontage is a conversation you want to be having in summer, not in October. See commercial and HOA lighting.
We're on the edge of town near Apison. Are we in the city?
Worth checking before you assume. The line out that way isn't intuitive and Ooltewah sits as an unincorporated pocket right next to you, so mailing address and city limits don't reliably match. We confirm the parcel before quoting because it decides which office we file with.
Our house is older with gutter that's been replaced in sections. Does that slow the quote down?
It slows the quote, not the install. The clip gets chosen for the actual edge instead of pulled from a catalog, and one house here can need two or three different fixings along a single run. We'd rather spend the extra half hour on site than discover it in November.
Do you need us to be there for the site visit?
Ideally yes, briefly. Half the questions that come up are things only you know: which frontages matter to you, whether there's an event calendar to work around, whether anyone has ever had water in the soffit. Ten minutes at the start saves a phone call later.

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10607 South Lee Highway
McDonald, TN 37353

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