Permanent Roofline & Christmas Lights in Tower Lakes, IL
Custom Christmas lighting and permanent roofline lighting for Tower Lakes, a village of 440 homes built around two private lakes, where most houses are seen from the water.
Christmas lights from $799 · Permanent roofline from about $3,000
The Unique Charm of Tower Lakes
Tower Lakes began as a summer resort, not a suburb. Myron Detrick and William Brooks platted it in 1924 on 70 acres of the Brooks and Paddock farm, dammed Mud Creek to make the lake, and built a 68 foot steel observation tower on the west shore, which is where the name comes from. The lake had been created the year before by damming a tributary of the Fox River, and it was enlarged in 1927 and again in the 1940s to reach its present size. The cottages became houses and the village incorporated on 12 September 1966. Today it holds about 1,226 people in 440 housing units across 1.04 square miles, of which roughly an eighth is water: two private lakes covering more than 85 acres, in the southwest corner of Lake County.
Our Services in Tower Lakes
From magical Christmas displays to permanent architectural lighting, we have professional solutions for every property and every season.
Residential Holiday Lighting
In a village that is one eighth water, the front of your house is often not the side people see. Lake facing elevations are viewed across open water from other people's docks and windows, at distances where C9 bulbs hold a line and mini lights disappear. We design the lake elevation as its own composition rather than an afterthought. Every residential package is all inclusive: custom design, install, mid season maintenance, takedown and storage.
Commercial Holiday Lighting
Tower Lakes is almost entirely residential by design, with the commercial life of the area sitting in Barrington next door. We light businesses throughout the Barrington area and hold the same standards there that we hold on the lakes.
Permanent roofline lighting in Tower Lakes
On a lake facing home, permanent lighting lights the elevation people see across the water every night of the year, not only in December. The track mounts under the eave on the lake side, designed as its own composition, and from your phone it runs warm white most evenings and color for holidays. 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.
Everything doubles on the water
A lake reflects the whole elevation back, so a house on the shore is lit twice and judged twice. A bulb out, a gap in a run, a line that dips between clips: each appears once on the house and once on the water, and on a still December night the reflection is the larger of the two images. On lake facing properties we tighten clip intervals, keep the run heights consistent so the reflection reads as a straight line, and check the finished install from across the water rather than only from the driveway. It is the only way to see what the neighbors will see.
What a Tower Lakes install costs
Seasonal lighting for an average house starts at $799 and up, depending on the complexity, height and access of the job. Tower Lakes often runs above it for a reason particular to the village: many houses need two designed elevations rather than one, the road side and the lake side, and the lake side is the one people look at longest. Lots vary widely because the original 1920s cottage plats were never uniform. We quote the whole job after we walk the roofline, never off a rate card or a square footage table.
See the full Chicagoland cost guideWhat Our Clients Say
5.0 average from 35 reviews on Google, Yelp and Facebook
- Grace Wang-BishopGoogle★★★★★
We had a great experience with our permanant holiday light installation! Vitalli did an excellent job with amazing attention to detail — everything looks beautiful and perfectly aligned. Communication was clear and professional from start to finish. Highly recommend!
- Yulian HrynchyshynGoogle★★★★★
They installed Christmas lights for my parents, and the team was very professional. I really appreciate their focus on keeping homeowners safe from any potential injuries.
- Henry RafidiaGoogle★★★★★
Pleasure to work with. Did a fantastic job!
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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.