Christmas Light Installation in Overland, Missouri

Compact houses, short runs

Overland sits between Page Avenue and St. Charles Rock Road, built out mostly in the two decades after the war on a tight street grid with small lots. The housing is capes, ranches and small two-stories — brick fronts, simple gable roofs, short frontages and low eaves. There is not a lot of linear feet on the front of an Overland house, and that is genuinely good news.

A short run is a run that can be made perfect. Every clip is reachable, the line can be set at a consistent depth from the edge all the way across, and there is no lift cost buried in the number. Displays here fail from carelessness, not from difficulty.

Making a small front look good

The trick on a compact house is proportion. A traced roofline plus a lit entry is usually the whole answer; adding a third and fourth element crowds a narrow facade and makes it read smaller. Where there is a good shrub line or a tree at the curb, netting or wrapping it gives the property depth without piling more onto the house.

Serving Overland, Maryland Heights, Ferguson and the North and Northwest County blocks. Install through October and November, maintained all season, taken down and stored in January.

Free quote from the address, and a straight answer about what the house actually needs rather than what fills out an invoice.