There are now two very different ways to have a beautifully lit home in London: classic seasonal Christmas light installation, and permanent app-controlled lighting that stays up all year. We install both — which makes us one of the few local companies with no reason to steer you toward either one. Here's the honest comparison.
The seasonal route: the classic December look
With seasonal installation, a crew designs a display for your home, installs commercial-grade lights custom-cut to your roofline (which you own), keeps every bulb burning through the season, then takes everything down in the new year and stores it. You get the full, traditional Christmas look — warm bulbs on the roofline, wrapped trees, wreaths, garland — with zero ladders and zero storage bins in your garage.
Seasonal suits you if you love the classic December look, want the option of a different design each year, and prefer paying per season rather than making a bigger one-time investment.
The permanent route: one install, every season
Permanent lighting is one slim track, custom-fit and colour-matched to your roofline, with low-profile LED bulbs tucked inside. By day, you'd barely know it's there. By night, it's whatever you want: millions of colours, warm white for everyday elegance, festive scenes for Christmas, orange for Halloween, red and white for Canada Day, your team's colours on game night — all controlled from your phone, on schedules that run themselves. It's engineered for Canadian winters and backed by a 10-year warranty on parts and labour, and installation for most homes is completed in a single day.
Permanent suits you if you're done with the yearly install-and-takedown cycle, want lighting 365 nights a year, and like the idea of changing the whole look of your house from the couch.
The honest side-by-side
Look: seasonal gives the fullest traditional display (trees, wreaths, garland); permanent gives a clean roofline glow with unlimited colour flexibility.
Effort: seasonal involves scheduling install and takedown each year; permanent is installed once and controlled from an app.
Seasons covered: seasonal shines for the holidays; permanent works every night of the year — security lighting, celebrations, everyday curb appeal.
Daytime appearance: seasonal lights come down after the holidays; permanent track is designed to be nearly invisible in daylight year-round.
Investment: seasonal is a per-season service; permanent is a larger one-time installation that then runs for years. (Request a free quote for exact numbers on your home — every roofline is different.)
Which one is right for you?
If you want the classic look, one season at a time — go seasonal. If you want lighting every night with no ladders ever again — go permanent. And if you're genuinely torn, here's what we see: many of our customers start with seasonal installation, love the effect, and upgrade to permanent a season or two later. There's no wrong door to come in through.
See our Christmas light installation in London for the seasonal route, or our permanent outdoor lighting in London for the year-round one. Free quotes on both: 226-271-6952.
