in Charlottesville, VA
Central Virginia gives you a real four-season winter, and the holiday lighting stretch runs cold here, late fall straight into the heart of the season around Charlottesville. That same weather is hard on a display. A cold snap or a passing storm can tug a light line loose or knock a string out, exactly when you want the house at its brightest for family and guests. Getting that steady, all-season glow takes lights built for the cold and someone keeping an eye on them once they are up.
That is exactly why our work does not end on install day. We design the display, hang it with professional-grade lights, and stay with it through the whole season. It is a complete, done-for-you holiday lighting experience for Charlottesville homes: an in-person custom design, professional installation, in-season monitoring, end-of-season takedown, and climate-controlled storage, with our own professional-grade lights on every job. You get the finished look and the peace of mind, without touching a ladder yourself. Exterior & Holiday Lighting of Central Virginia was built around that full-service idea.
Ready to picture your home lit for the holidays? Give us a call at (434) 268-1159, and we will walk you through it.
We bring our own professional-grade lights to every home and match the right light to the right spot, with warm white the most popular color by far and cool white, red, green, blue, purple, orange, and multicolor all on the table. Each light below does a specific job around the house.
C9s are our primary bulb for the big architectural lines of a home: rooflines, gutter lines, fascia board peaks, and larger trees. They give you that classic, bold Christmas-light look, the crisp outline people picture when they think of a lit home. Because they are professional-grade and sourced through Christmas Decor, they hold their color and spacing evenly along a long run, so a gutter line reads clean rather than patchy. C9 lines running the rooflines and peaks are the display most Charlottesville homes are after.
Mini lights go on bushes, railings, and the smaller trees and features around the home. They add depth and fill so the rooflines are not doing all the work, and the whole property reads finished rather than top-heavy. Wrapped along a porch rail or tucked into the front-yard trees, they carry the glow down from the roof to eye level where you actually walk past it.
Net lights are made for bushes and shrubs. Instead of hand-wrapping every branch, they lay an even, blanketed glow over the greenery for a clean, uniform look, and they go up quickly and sit evenly across the whole shrub.
Beyond the lights themselves, here is what sets the experience apart for the homeowners we work with.
We handle everything, start to finish: an in-person design consultation, professional installation, in-season monitoring, end-of-season takedown, and climate-controlled storage of your lights until next year. It is a true white-glove, full-package holiday lighting experience for Charlottesville homes.
We supply our own professional-grade lights, sourced through Christmas Decor, and they are noticeably higher quality than anything you would buy in a store. You can see the difference the moment they are lit.
Our team is trained and certified by Christmas Decor, with dozens of professional lighting projects behind us. That training shows in every clean, safe, beautifully finished install.
At the end of the season we take everything down and store your lights in a climate-controlled room, so they are protected from heat and cold and come back at full strength next year, instead of getting ruined in a garage or attic.
We are fully licensed and insured, so your home and your holidays are in careful, protected hands from the first ladder to the last light.
We go out of our way to make sure you do not just get lights, you get the Christmas joy that comes with them. Our goal is for every client to feel great about the whole process, from design to the moment we turn the lights on.
We are locally owned and based right here in Central Virginia, so you are working with a team that lives in the same community it serves and knows these neighborhoods firsthand. When you call, you reach people who are invested in getting your Charlottesville home right.
Holiday Lighting Today.
Call or contact us and we will talk through how everything works and set up an in-person estimate. We aim to respond to a new inquiry within about an hour, so you are not left waiting to get started.
We come to your home, get your input, and design a custom lighting plan for your rooflines, gutter lines, peaks, trees, and bushes. It is a real game plan for your property, not a one-size template dropped on every house. For safety reasons, some rooflines are not suitable for direct installation, and where that comes up we build the plan around secure mounting points instead.
We send you an estimate that includes pictures showing the lights on your actual home, not a stock photo or a generic mockup, so you can see the display before you approve anything. If you want to move a run, change a color, or add a tree, we tweak the design until it is right.
Once you approve the design, we book your installation. Booking early, in September or October, reserves your spot on the calendar and earns you the early-bird discount, so planning ahead pays off in both timing and cost.
Our trained crew installs your professional-grade C9, mini, and net lights safely, working with safety harnesses, ladders, and climbing equipment. When the display is up, we walk the property with you and turn the lights on together so you see the finished result firsthand.
We keep an eye on your display through the holidays. If a string fails or a storm knocks a line loose, we come back out and take care of it, so the house stays looking the way it did on day one.
When the season wraps, we take everything down and store your lights in climate-controlled storage, so they stay in good shape and are ready to go again next year.
Pricing comes down to the scope of your display. We measure it in linear footage of C9 line, then factor in trees and bushes, and we set the final number at your in-person design consultation so you know what you are getting before anything goes up.
Our promises are simple, and they are part of the package rather than an add-on.
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If a light or string goes out during the holiday season, we’ll come back and fix or replace it, that’s part of our full-package, white-glove service. It covers failed strings and storm-dislodged lines for the whole season, across every Christmas light installation we do.
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If you’re not completely happy, we’ll come back, usually the next day, and make it right until you’re 100% satisfied. That applies to every service we provide, and it usually means a quick return visit for touch-ups or fixes.
No. We supply our own professional-grade lights, sourced through Christmas Decor, rather than installing customer-supplied ones. These lights are noticeably higher quality than store-bought, and supplying them ourselves is how we can stand behind the look, the safety, and the in-season support on every job.
For safety reasons, some rooflines aren’t suitable for direct installation. In those cases we focus on gutter lines and other secure mounting points to get you a beautiful, safe result. We flag any spot like that during the design consultation, so there are no surprises and the plan still delivers a full, finished display.
Warm white is the most popular choice and what most homes go with. Cool white, red, green, blue, purple, orange, and multicolor are all available too, across our C9, mini, and net lights, so you can match a classic look or go bold however you like.
Christmas Light Estimate
Your design consultation and estimate are free, in-person, and come with pictures of the lights on your own home, with no obligation to book. It is the easiest way to see what your Charlottesville home could look like for the holidays. Reach out early in the season and we will help you plan a display you love and reserve a spot that works for you. Call us at (434) 268-1159 to get started.
