Permanent Roofline & Christmas Lights in Lake Forest, IL
Estate Christmas lighting and permanent roofline lighting in Lake Forest, for the ravine lots and long drives of the east side and the open properties out west toward Everett.
Christmas lights from $799 · Permanent roofline from about $3,000
The Unique Charm of Lake Forest
Lake Forest is really two towns with two different Metra lines. East Lake Forest, secluded and close to the lake, sits on the Union Pacific North line and holds Market Square, the 1916 Howard Van Doren Shaw commercial center, along with Charles Sumner Frost's 1898 City Hall, the Gorton Center and Shaw's own Ragdale. West Lake Forest, originally the farm community of Everett, is on the Milwaukee District North line. Shaw, David Adler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ives Cobb and George Fred Keck all built here, and Olmsted and Jens Jensen shaped the grounds. Six nature preserves and twelve miles of trails mean many properties back onto protected land, which matters when we plan power and access.
Our Services in Lake Forest
From magical Christmas displays to permanent architectural lighting, we have professional solutions for every property and every season.
Residential Holiday Lighting
Estate work is a different discipline: long approach drives, gatehouses, coach houses, ravines and specimen trees, often with the main roofline barely visible from the road. We plan these as a sequence from the gate to the front door. Design, install, mid season maintenance, takedown and storage are included.
Commercial Holiday Lighting
Market Square has been the model for planned retail centers for over a century, and its evening character is part of the asset. Lighting here should sit inside that architecture, warm and even, never a retrofit look bolted onto a Shaw facade.
Permanent roofline lighting in Lake Forest
On an estate lot the permanent track goes where the house is actually seen: the main roofline facing the approach, and the gatehouse or coach house if it faces the drive. It stays up through the year, so the long approach from the gate to the front door is lit for dinners and arrivals in every season, not only in December. Colors and schedules are set from your phone. Permanent systems start around $3,000 for a typical roofline. If you would rather keep it seasonal, color changing RGBW C9 lights start around $1,400 and cover Halloween through Christmas from one October install.
East and west are two different jobs
On the east side we are usually working with ravines, mature hardwood and houses set well back behind gates, so the questions are sight lines, ladder footing on ground that drops away, and getting power to points a long way from the house. West of the tollway the lots open up and the constraints change to frontage length and wind exposure. We quote the two halves of town differently, because pretending a Green Bay Road estate and a home off Everett Road are the same install is how people end up with a display that does not fit the property.
Estate pricing in Lake Forest
Seasonal lighting starts at $799 and up, depending on the complexity, height and access of the job, and Lake Forest estates sit well above that floor. The drivers are total run, upper story access on steep pitches, tree lighting, and the distance between the street and the house, which often means lighting a drive as well as a roofline. We measure everything on site and give you a scheme in phases if you would rather build the display over a few seasons than do all of it at once.
How we price larger propertiesWhat Our Clients Say
5.0 average from 35 reviews on Google, Yelp and Facebook
- M MierGoogle★★★★★
Hanging Lights Club did an absolutely great job installing our new permanent lights. We had previously used them for our Christmas lights.After such a great experience, we decided to switch with permanent lighting. They are honest, professional and thorough with their work. It’s rare these days to find a company that you could trust and they exceeded our expectations. I highly recommend them!
- Agnes ReneeGoogle★★★★★
Hanging Lights Club did a great job with our Christmas lights for a reasonable price. The photos show the work they did on to trim the front and side rooflines. I would strongly recommend them.
- KristinaGoogle★★★★★
We had such a great experience with Hanging Lights Club. They were quick, professional, and made the whole process so easy. Everything turned out beautiful and better than expected. Highly recommend
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Tell us about your property and we will quote seasonal, color changing or permanent lighting, with an honest take on which one fits.