A stone and brick home at dusk with warm white lighting along every roofline and gable, wrapped porch columns, and lit wreaths on the front windows

by NeedLites

Residential Christmas lighting, start to finish

Cincinnati and the surrounding suburbs, since 2005. You choose the look. We handle everything from the first measurement to the last strand back in the box.

A professional install does not look like a retail kit, because it is not one. Every strand is cut and clipped to your specific roofline, gables, columns and windows, so the lines are straight and the spacing is even and there are no gaps where a run came up short.

The price is one price and it covers the whole cycle: design, installation, every bulb and clip and timer, service calls during the season, takedown in January, and storage of your display until next year. You are not buying lights and paying someone to hang them. You are buying a lit house for the season.

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What is included

What you actually get

A design for your house

We look at the architecture and tell you what will actually read from the street, rather than selling you the same package as the house next door.

Commercial-grade materials

LED strands, clips and timers rated for an Ohio winter, not seasonal stock that fails in the first ice storm.

Installation by insured crews

Trained installers on the ladders and the roof. Thousands of people end up in an emergency room every December doing this themselves.

Service through the season

If something goes dark, we come out and fix it. That is part of the price and not a separate call-out charge.

Takedown and storage

We remove everything in January and store your display through the year, labeled, so next season is a phone call.

Residential Christmas Lighting

What it looks like

A stone and brick two-story home at night, warm white lighting following each roofline and gable and wrapped around the porch columns — Warm white along every roofline and gable, with the porch columns wrapped to match.

A yellow Victorian house photographed at blue hour with warm roofline lighting and lit shrubs along the front — Blue hour is the twenty minutes when the sky still has color and the lights have already come on.

A colonial house at dusk with roofline lighting above and individually lit shrubs across the front beds — Roofline lighting plus lit shrubs. The planting is what stops the front of a house looking like a floating outline.

A large stone manor house at night with lit wreaths on the upper windows, garland framing the entry, and uplit trees behind — Lit wreaths on the upper windows, garland on the entry, and the trees uplit behind.

A small cottage with a lit wreath over the door and warm roofline lighting, snow covering the ground — Snow on the ground does half the work: everything warm reads twice as warm.

A wide single-story ranch home at night with warm roofline lighting and lit garland above each front window — A low ranch roofline with garland picked out over each window.

Browse the range

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Christmas Decor

Holiday Décor & Lighting

The main seasonal catalog and the one most conversations start from: roofline lighting, tree and shrub wraps, garland, wreaths, bows and commercial decor.

Open catalog (282 pages)

Christmas Decor

Designer Collection

Upscale finished greenery in a set of classic and modern themes. The book to look at if you care how the front entry reads from three feet away.

Open catalog (28 pages)

Questions

Common questions about this

When should I book Christmas lighting installation?

Earlier than feels necessary. Design and booking start in late summer and the popular November and December dates go first. By the time most people start thinking about it, the choice is not which date you want but which dates are left. Booking early also means more room to customize the design, because there is time to order anything that is not already in the warehouse.

How early do you actually install?

Installation runs from October through December. Installing in October does not mean the lights are on in October. Everything goes in and is left on a timer that you tell us when to start. Getting the physical work done in mild weather is better for the crew and better for the install.

Do you take the lights down and store them?

Yes, and both are included in the price rather than charged separately. We remove everything in January and store your display through the year, labeled, so the following season starts with a phone call instead of a fresh design.

What happens if something stops working mid-season?

Call and we come out and fix it. In-season service is part of what you have paid for, not a call-out charge. This is most of the practical difference between a professional install and doing it yourself: in December a dark section is our problem.

Do I keep the lights at the end, or are they yours?

For holiday lighting the display stays ours and is stored between seasons, which is why the price covers the whole cycle and why the materials are commercial grade rather than something priced to be thrown away. Permanent lighting and landscape lighting are the opposite: those are installed systems that belong to the property.

All frequently asked questions

by NeedLites

NeedLites has held the Cincinnati Christmas Decor franchise since 2005. Christmas Decor is a national network of more than 350 franchises across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, which is where the product, the training and the warranty come from. The crew on your roof is local.

Also relevant

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A lit storefront at night with garland and red bows along the railings and window boxes, and warm white lighting outlining the facade

Where we do this

Cincinnati Mason West Chester Loveland Blue Ash Indian Hill Montgomery Madeira Sharonville Lebanon Fairfield Hamilton Springboro Anderson Township Wyoming Milford

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