Permanent Christmas Lighting
Permanent Christmas Lights for San Diego Homes, Run From Your Phone
Permanent Christmas lights hidden under your roofline and controlled from your phone, from $35 a foot. Holiday colors in December, accent white every other night of the year. One install, every holiday.
What Are Permanent Christmas Lights?
Permanent Christmas lights are a custom-installed LED system hidden under your roofline that stays in place year-round. From your phone, you switch between holiday colors in December, accent white on weekends, patriotic red-white-blue for the 4th of July, and off every other night.
One install. Every holiday. No ladders, no tangled strands, no garage storage.
What Permanent Christmas Lights Cost in San Diego
Permanent lighting starts at $35 per linear foot, and that is the number every quote is built from. The total depends on the linear feet the channel covers and the home's architecture: a two-story with several gables carries more feet than a single-story with one straight run, which is why we quote from a photo of your house rather than a square-footage table.
Compare that to a holiday install, which is priced every season. Year 1 covers the design and the custom cutting, and Year 2 and Year 3 each run 10% off your Year 1 price. Permanent lighting is paid for once, and most systems pay for themselves in 3 to 5 years of avoided annual holiday installs.
The price covers the color-matched channel, the controller, the wiring, app setup, and the walk-through on install day, and every install is backed by a workmanship warranty. Send one daylight photo of the front of your house and your Design Preview comes back with the exact number beside it.
How the System Works
Every bulb is individually addressable, meaning each one can be a different color, animation, or brightness. Control happens through a simple app:
- Choose from hundreds of pre-built holiday programs
- Build your own color schemes and scenes
- Schedule lighting by time of day or sunset
- Adjust brightness for everyday accent lighting
- Sync the lights across multiple zones of the home
Why Homeowners Love Permanent Lighting
Permanent lighting pays for itself in a few seasons compared to annual holiday-light installations, and it does a lot more than just Christmas:
- Every major holiday with one tap on the app
- Subtle everyday accent lighting for curb appeal
- Party scenes for birthdays, graduations, and game nights
- Security lighting that activates on a schedule
- No storage, no takedown, no annual install cost
Permanent Lights in Rancho Santa Fe, La Jolla, and Up the Coast
On estate streets, the Art Jury or the HOA has a say before anything goes on the house. In the Covenant, Fairbanks Ranch, The Bridges, Cielo, and Del Rayo Estates, we design for what the house looks like at noon as much as at night: the channel is cut to the fascia and color-matched to your trim, so by day it reads as part of the roofline, and we put the layout in writing for whichever board needs to see it.
In La Jolla, the long rooflines in the Muirlands and La Jolla Farms and the two-stories on a grade in Bird Rock are the homes where a yearly install adds up fastest, and the salt off La Jolla Shores and Windansea is why the wiring is sealed and the channel is aluminum.
The same system fits Olivenhain acreage in Encinitas, the view homes on Del Mar Heights, the historic rooflines in Coronado, and the tile gables in Carmel Valley. If your street has rules, send them with your photo and the design comes back inside them.
Installation Process
A typical Coastal Clarity permanent lighting install happens in a single day:
- A Design Preview from your photo to plan the run and the zones
- Custom-cut channel that hides the bulbs under the fascia
- Weather-sealed wiring routed to a discreet control box
- App setup and scene programming
- Walk-through so you leave knowing how to use it
Free Design Preview
See your home lit up before you pay anything
Text us one photo of your house and we’ll send back a real mock-up with the lights on, usually the same day, with the price beside it. No salesperson, and no house call unless you want one.
The System
Architectural lighting that disappears by day
A permanent, app-controlled system engineered to run for years.
Permanent LED Track
A slim aluminum channel tucked under your fascia and color-matched to your trim. It disappears in daylight.
Addressable RGB Bulbs
Every bulb can be any color or animation, individually controlled. One system, every scene.
Smart Wi-Fi Controller
Run scenes, schedules, and holiday programs from the app, from anywhere.
How It Works
Our process
Architectural lighting, controlled from your phone
Design
We build a Design Preview from your photo, talk through scenes and color preferences, and lay out exactly where the channel will run.
Install channel
Custom-cut aluminum channel hidden under your fascia. Color-matched to your trim so it disappears in daylight.
Wire & app setup
LED runs wired into a low-voltage controller, paired to the app, and tested through every preset scene with you.
Walk-through
Final review of every controllable zone, a quick tutorial on the app, and a warranty walk-through so you know exactly what's covered.
FAQ
Permanent Lighting, common questions
- Permanent lighting starts at $35 per linear foot. The total depends on the linear feet covered and the home's architecture, and most systems pay for themselves in 3 to 5 years of avoided annual holiday installs. Send one photo of your house and your Design Preview comes back with the exact number.
- Every association is different, so we never promise an approval. What we can say is that the channel is cut to your fascia and color-matched to your trim, so by day it disappears into the roofline, and we put the layout in writing for the Art Jury or your HOA before anything goes up. Send us the guidelines with your photo and we design inside them from the start.
- Barely. The bulbs sit inside a slim channel tucked under the fascia, and we match the channel to your trim color. From the street, most homeowners can't tell the lights are there when they're off.
- Most single-family homes are installed in a single day. Larger or multi-level homes sometimes take two.
- The LED bulbs are rated for 50,000+ hours. On a realistic usage schedule (a few hours a night) that's well over a decade before any bulb replacement is needed.
- Yes. The system connects to Wi-Fi, so you can turn it on, switch scenes, or schedule programs from anywhere through the app.
- Every install is backed by a workmanship warranty, and the LEDs themselves carry a manufacturer warranty. If something fails within the warranty period, we come back and make it right at no cost.
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Custom holiday lighting design, installation, takedown, and free storage. Make your home the one the neighborhood talks about, without ever climbing a ladder.
Every holiday, one tap away
Permanent Christmas lights that live on your home year-round. Start with a free Design Preview from one photo.