Christmas Light Installation in Shrewsbury

Small houses, high standards

Shrewsbury is a few tidy blocks of well-kept housing wedged between Webster Groves, Maplewood and the highway. The houses are modest and close to the street, the lots are small, and the street trees are mature enough to arch over the road in places.

At these distances a display is inspected rather than glimpsed. Spacing has to be even, the run has to be level, and the porch has to be traced properly because it is the first thing anyone sees. The street trees are the other half of the job — one wrapped trunk out front does more than any addition to the roof.

What works here

• Warm white C9s along the full roofline — one clean line is the whole job on a close-set street
• The porch traced — rail, posts and header, because the porch is the face of the house
• Wreaths at the front windows — seen from the sidewalk, which is where people actually are
• Garland at the door — the arrival moment, done properly
• A wrapped tree at the curb — mature street trees do more here than another roof run

Shrewsbury is close-in work for us and sits alongside Webster Groves and Maplewood on the same route, so install dates and repairs are both fast.