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Permanent Holiday Lighting

Installed once, used every season. App-controlled LED lights tucked into a patented channel that disappears by day.

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What is Permanent Holiday Lighting?

Permanent holiday lighting is professional-grade LED lights installed once into a patented aluminum channel that hides under your trim line. By day the system is virtually invisible. At night you can run holiday colors, warm-white ambiance year-round, or accent colors for any occasion — all from an app on your phone.

Color Options

Multiple whites + every color under the sun

Warm white, cool white, and a variety of whites in between, plus full RGB for holidays, all from the same install.

Warm White

Soft amber glow. A popular year-round look. Pairs with traditional and craftsman architecture.

Cool White

Crisp daylight tone. Best on modern, white-trim, or contemporary homes, and the strongest security-mode wash.

Full RGB

16M colors + 180 preset patterns. Christmas red/green, July 4th red-white-blue, Halloween orange, all picked from the app.

Recent Installs

A few of our recent projects

Why Trimlight

Built for salt air and storm season

Everything on the outside of a Lowcountry house has to live with salt air, summer humidity and six months of hurricane season. Clip-on strands do not do well with any of that. The channel is aluminum, so it does not rust, the run is sealed, and it is fastened to the fascia rather than hung from a gutter.

The bigger change is that nobody goes back up a ladder. When a storm is in the forecast there is nothing to take down and nothing to put back up afterward. You change what the roofline does from the app: warm white through the fall, color for the holidays, off entirely when you want the house dark.

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Frequently asked questions

What does it cost in Charleston? +

Our minimum install is $2,000. The front of a typical home runs $2,500 to $4,000. Landscape and architectural work starts at $2,000 and usually lands between $2,000 and $4,000. Event lighting starts at $2,500.

Every number depends on the house. Roof height, footage, pitch and access all move it, and a raised coastal home with a tall foundation takes more ladder work than a one-story ranch. Most quotes we do virtually, and we come out in person when you want us to. Financing through Wisetack is available with same-as-cash options.

Can I set my lights to my team's colors? +

Yes, and it is one of the first things people ask. Enter the exact RGB values in the app and save them, whether that is Clemson orange, Gamecock garnet and black, Citadel light blue, College of Charleston maroon, or your high school's colors.

Save it as a pattern and put it on a Saturday timer. It goes on for the game and back to whatever you normally run afterwards, without you touching anything.

Will my HOA or the historic district approve it? +

Nearly always, and we help with the paperwork. The channel is color-matched to your trim or gutter and reads as a shadow line from the street, which is what most architectural review committees want to see.

If your home is in a historic district with a Board of Architectural Review, or your community has its own review process, tell us early. It is the part of the timeline most likely to slip, and it is much easier to submit before your install date is booked than after.

How far ahead do I need to book for Christmas? +

Earlier than most people think. Our October through December calendar fills through late summer, and HOA approval and weather both take time out of the schedule.

Booking in late spring or early summer gets you the best availability and our off-season pricing. If you are calling in November, still call, but ask us what is actually left.

What about hurricanes and salt air? +

The system is built for the coast. The channel is aluminum, so salt air does not rust it, the run is sealed against water, and it is fastened to the fascia rather than clipped to a gutter. A named storm can damage anything on the outside of a house, and we will not tell you otherwise. What permanent lighting changes is the prep: there is nothing to take down before a storm and nothing to put back up afterward.

If wind or a falling limb ever does damage a section, that is what the warranty and our service visits are for. We are local, and we come out.

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