Holiday Lighting in Del Mar
Christmas Light Installation in Del Mar
Cottages in Olde Del Mar, view homes up on the Heights, and everything down around the Beach Colony. We design it, hang it, service it, take it down in January, and store it.
Del Mar is about 15 minutes up the coast from our La Jolla shop, so it is one of our regular routes rather than a special trip.
- Olde Del Mar
- Del Mar Heights
- Beach Colony
- Del Mar Village
Cottages, View Homes, and Everything Between
Del Mar is two towns stacked on one hill. Down by the Beach Colony you get small historic cottages with short, fussy rooflines and old trim. Up on the Heights you get big view homes with 200 feet of fascia and a canyon behind them. Christmas light installation in Del Mar has to handle both without looking like the same job twice.
On a cottage, less wins. One clean warm-white line, a lit entry, a wreath, done. On a view home the display has to hold up from across the canyon, so we push the run further and add trees. Either way it is custom-cut to your house before we ever pull into the driveway.
- Roofline runs sized to short cottage eaves or long view-home fascia
- Entry, porch, and window garland
- Wrapped trunks on palms and street trees
- Deck and balcony lighting on the ocean side
- Smart timers, no switch to remember
The Beach Colony, Olde Del Mar, and the Heights
The Beach Colony is the flat blocks between the tracks and the sand, where the salt is heaviest and the rooflines are low enough that one clean warm-white line does the whole job. Olde Del Mar is the hill above the Village, original cottages with soft trim and old trees worth wrapping, and it is where clips-only matters most. Del Mar Heights is up on the mesa east of the 5, bigger two-stories with long fascia and canyon views, where the display has to carry across the canyon and the second story holds most of the feet.
The rates are the same on all three: roofline C9 at $8 a linear foot on the first story and $10 on the second, palms from $105, and an $800 minimum. What moves the number is how many feet of fascia the house has and how many trees you want lit, which is why a Beach Colony cottage and a Heights two-story land at opposite ends of the $1,200 to $2,400 range most Del Mar homes fall in.
Salt Air Off the Beach Colony
A block from the water, the air is doing real damage all winter. Sockets corrode, contacts pit, and cheap strands start dropping sections in early December. Every Del Mar homeowner who has hung their own lights knows the sinking feeling of one dead run on the front gable.
Our answer is the parts list, not a warranty page. Commercial-grade LEDs, weather-sealed sockets, UV-stable wire, and clips cut to your fascia. If a section does quit, text us and we come out. In-season repairs are part of the price, not an add-on.
Permanent Lighting and Party Nights
If you would rather stop doing this every November, permanent lighting hides a slim LED channel under the fascia and gives you the whole year from an app. Warm white for a dinner outside, red and green in December, patriotic in July, off the rest of the time.
We also do one-night work: bistro strings over a deck, uplighting on the front of the house, path lights down to the gate. Graduations, anniversaries, and the parties that run long through racing season.
Book Before the Village Fills
Del Mar is a small town with a short list of good install dates. Installs booked by October 31 are 10% off. Booking now locks in both your price and your install date, and November and December usually sell out. The days right after Thanksgiving go first every year.
Jobs start at $800, and Year 2 and Year 3 run 10% under Year 1 since the design is already built. Text a photo to (858) 315-1247 and see your house lit up, usually the same day.
Holiday Lighting
Book by October 31, Save 10%
The best install dates are going now. Book this month, take the discount, and lock in your spot for the season.
Returning customers already hold much of the calendar
What We Install
Lighting services in Del Mar
Holiday Lighting
Custom Christmas lights. We design, install, take down, and store.
Permanent Lighting
Permanent Christmas lights, run from your phone. Holiday colors in December, accent white the rest of the year.
Events & Occasions
Temporary event lighting and year-round low-voltage landscape lighting.
We also light up nearby
FAQ
Del Mar lighting, common questions
- Not the ones we hang. Commercial-grade LEDs with weather-sealed sockets and UV-stable wire hold up through a full coastal season. We own the lights and store them, so keeping them in good shape is on us, not you.
- Yes, and carefully. Original trim and soft fascia get clips only. No staples, no nails, no tape. If a section of trim is too fragile to clip, we route the run somewhere else and tell you why.
- Both, plus the Beach Colony. The Heights and the village get scheduled on the same trip, which is part of why we can hold Del Mar pricing where it is.
- Roofline C9 runs $8 a linear foot on the first story and $10 on the second, with an $800 minimum, and most Del Mar homes land in the $1,200 to $2,400 range all-in. A compact Olde Del Mar cottage sits near the bottom of that range and a Del Mar Heights two-story with trees sits near the top. One fixed price either way, with takedown and storage included.
- Earlier than you think. Fall in Del Mar is busy, and the best install dates are gone by mid-October most years. Installs booked by October 31 are 10% off. Booking now locks in both your price and your install date, and November and December usually sell out.
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Light up your Del Mar home this season
Free Design Preview from one photo. 10% off through October 31. November and December fill up fast.