Christmas Light Installation in Highland, Illinois

A square worth lighting properly

Highland was founded by Swiss settlers and it kept the habits — a genuine town square, brick commercial buildings around it, and residential streets of well-built older housing spreading out from there. The square is the centre of the town’s December in a way that is increasingly rare.

Square-front buildings light beautifully when the work respects them: warm white along the cornice line and around the openings, nothing fastened into original masonry, all of it on timers. The houses off the square take the same restraint — porches and rooflines traced, and left at that.

What works here

• Clips only, never a fastener — original fascia, trim and slate stay untouched
• A single warm colour temperature — cool white turns old brick grey
• Porches, columns and bay windows outlined — trace what the builder drew
• Dormers and steep peaks cut on site — no stock length stretched across a gable
• Careful January takedown — removed the same way it went up

Commercial work is scheduled around trading hours and taken down promptly in January. Highland sits on our eastern run with Troy and Trenton.