Permanent lighting in Southlake
Architectural lighting, not a holiday display
The most common hesitation we hear in Southlake is that permanent lighting will make the house look like it is permanently decorated for Christmas. That is a fair worry, and it is entirely a function of how it is installed.
Outlining every window and door, running light down the vertical corners, lighting the garage separately — that is what makes a house read as a seasonal display. We do not do any of it. One clean line along the roofline, fixtures facing outward, warm white. In that configuration it reads the way uplighting on a commercial building reads: deliberate.
The colour is there when you want it. Carroll green on a Friday night in the fall, red and green in December, back to warm white on the 2nd of January. That takes about five seconds and nobody goes near the roof.
