Christmas & Permanent Light Installation in Ooltewah, TN

Seasonal displays and year-round architectural lighting for Ooltewah homes and Cambridge Square businesses.

Lighting built for Ooltewah rooflines

Ooltewah has grown fast and the rooflines show it. Most of what we work on out here went up in the last twenty to thirty years — long straight fascia, sound seamless gutter, two-storey fronts, and lots on rolling ground that fall away at the back toward Wolftever Creek. It is also close work for us: our office is a few minutes up the Lee Highway corridor in McDonald. That matters most in December, when a dark section should be a visit rather than an appointment.

Permanent lighting suits it particularly well. On newer subdivision houses a track under the roofline reads as trim in daylight, and one install covers December, a Fourth of July weekend and everyday warm white. The seasonal side is busy here too, largely because those two-storey fronts are exactly the houses people stop trying to do themselves after one attempt.

What an Ooltewah install actually takes

The front elevations are tall and wide, and the ground behind the house often drops, so a rear roofline that looks like a second storey from the street is closer to a third from the garden. That is lift work, not a step-ladder afternoon. We measure the full run on site, settle the access before install day, and fix to fascia and gutter edge so the January freeze-thaw weeks do not undo it.

There is commercial work here as well. Cambridge Square gives Ooltewah a proper town-centre frontage of shops and restaurants, and a lit facade beside an unlit one is an easy comparison for a customer to make. Retail runs get sectioned and scheduled around trading hours.

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 Ooltewah

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 Ooltewah
Permanent outdoor lighting on a roofline in Ooltewah

Permanent outdoor lighting in Ooltewah

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 Ooltewah

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 Ooltewah

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.

Ooltewah questions we get asked

Our address says Ooltewah. Who do we actually deal with for permits?
Depends on your street, and it catches people out. Ooltewah is an unincorporated community and it sits as an enclave inside the city of Collegedale, so two houses with Ooltewah mailing addresses can answer to different offices. Unincorporated parcels go through Hamilton County Building Inspections on Cromwell Road. Parcels inside the city line go through Collegedale's own building department on Swinyar Drive, which has its own contractor licensing requirements. We check which one you're in before quoting, because the answer changes who we file with.
Do we need a permit for a light track?
Possibly not, but we don't guess. Hamilton County's own position is that a permit is required for any new work, alteration, addition or repair to a structure, which is broad enough that we ask rather than assume. We put the question to the relevant office for your specific address before anything is designed. Finding out afterward is how a job gets stopped mid-install.
There's a hardwood limb over the front run. Do you trim it?
No. That's a tree company's job and it needs doing before we start. Book it early. A branch that clears the roof in November is a different branch by the following August, which matters more than usual here because the lot behind these houses tends to fall away and the rear run sits higher off the ground than the front does.
We have a storefront near the old courthouse square. Anything different about that?
Yes. The James County Courthouse is on the National Register, and that whole square reads as historic even where the individual buildings aren't listed. National Register status by itself doesn't restrict what a private owner does to their own building, but a local overlay ordinance would, and those are two different things people routinely confuse. We confirm which applies to your frontage before designing anything. More on commercial and HOA lighting.
How late can we decide for December?
Earlier than the calendar suggests, because the jurisdiction question has to be settled first and that isn't instant. Installs then run in booking order. If your quote is waiting on a call to Collegedale or the county, that's days you've spent before you're even in the queue.

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10607 South Lee Highway
McDonald, TN 37353

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