Christmas Light Installation in Kirkwood, Missouri

A town that decorates like it means it

Kirkwood doesn’t need convincing about Christmas. The old train station glows, the shops along Kirkwood Road dress their windows, the Farmers’ Market stalls fill up with wreaths and trees, and by the first weekend of December the porch blocks between downtown and Kirkwood Park look like a postcard nobody had to retouch. If your house is the one dark stretch on a street like that, it’s an easy thing to fix — and you don’t have to give up a Saturday on a ladder to fix it.

We install, maintain, take down, and store Christmas lighting for homes all over Kirkwood — from the four-squares and craftsman bungalows near downtown to the mid-century streets out toward Ballwin and the newer builds tucked in between.

Built for porches — and we hang for porches

So much of Kirkwood’s housing stock was built when the porch was the family room. Columns, railings, deep eaves, dormers over the front door — that architecture rewards a patient install, and it punishes a sloppy one. Here’s what tends to look right on these homes:

• Warm white C9s on the roofline and gables — the classic that flatters brick and clapboard alike
• Wrapped porch columns and lit railings — the piece most homeowners can’t safely reach or keep straight
• Garland and a wreath at the door — lit, so the entry reads warm from the sidewalk
• Window wreaths and frames on the street-facing face of the house
• A wrapped trunk or two where an old oak anchors the yard

Everything is custom-cut on site and attached with clips sized to your gutters and shingles — no staples in hundred-year-old fascia, no holes, nothing left behind in January but the memory of it.