Sevier County's holiday lighting company

Everyone in this county has the same December story: half a strand out on the front peak, a ladder in the wet grass, and a Saturday gone. Meanwhile the houses that looked genuinely good all had one thing in common — somebody else hung them.

So we built the version we wished existed. We own the lights, we design the display, we hang it, we fix it when it breaks, and we take it down in January. You pay one price and think about it exactly once.

That model is why we lease instead of sell. If the lights are ours, a failure is our problem, and there is no argument about who pays for a replacement strand on December 20th.

Our crews live here. That matters in practice, not just as a marketing line — it is why a service call in Sevierville is measured in hours instead of weeks, and why we already know which ridge roads ice over first.

It also means we know the local calendar. Sevier County lights up for Winterfest well before most towns think about Thanksgiving, and our schedule is built around that instead of a generic national one.

We work Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Kodak, Seymour, Wears Valley, Pittman Center, Boyds Creek, New Center and the Douglas Lake area, plus Dandridge and Newport.

Every job starts with a real site visit and real measurements. Nobody quotes your roofline off a satellite photo, because guesses turn into change orders and we do not do change orders.

You get a photo mock-up, a written scope and a fixed price before we order a thing. What is in the picture is what gets installed.

Crews are trained on steep-pitch and lift work, harnessed where required, and we carry general liability and workers' comp with certificates available on request. On a mountain lot, that is not paperwork — it is the whole reason to hire someone.

We will not install onto rotted fascia or a roof edge that needs repair, and we will tell you before you spend money instead of after.

We will not put a crew on a frozen two-story roof to hit a takedown date. Nobody has ever needed lights down that badly.

And we will talk you out of a display you do not need. The best-looking houses on any street are usually the restrained ones — a clean roofline, two well-wrapped trees and a strong entry beats lighting every surface you own.

The leasing model is the single decision that shapes everything else about how we operate, so it is worth explaining properly. You do not buy bulbs, strands, clips, timers or storage bins. We own all of it, and what you buy is a lit property for a season.

The material we hang is commercial-grade LED cut to your specific rooflines, which is a different product from what is on a shelf in October. Retail strands come in fixed lengths, so a DIY roofline ends up with a sag in the middle of every run and a dark gap at every corner. Wire measured and cut for your house hangs tight and stays straight.

The other half of it is accountability. When a strand fails on the front peak on December 18th, there is no question about whether it was a manufacturing defect, whether you stored it wrong last January, or who is paying for the replacement. It is our material, so it is our drive and our cost. That removes the single most common argument in this industry.

Year two on the same house costs less than year one, because the design, the measurements and the cut material already exist. Most repeat customers change one thing and leave everything else alone.

People underestimate this, and we would rather be blunt about it than sell around it. The risk in Christmas lights is not electrical. It is height, pitch, and the fact that the work happens in October and November when roofs are wet in the morning and slick until noon.

A lot of Sevier County housing stock makes that worse. Steep metal roofs on cabins shed water and shed people. Hillside lots mean a two-story house has a thirty-foot drop on the downhill side. Gravel switchback driveways mean a lift cannot always be staged where the peak actually is, so somebody works from a harness instead.

That is what the insurance is for and why we carry both general liability and workers' comp with certificates available on request. If a company cannot produce those, the risk of the job has not gone anywhere — it has just moved onto your homeowner's policy.

A large share of the properties we light belong to people who are somewhere else. Short-term rental cabins around Gatlinburg, Wears Valley and Pittman Center are a big part of our season, and they come with their own rules.

Those jobs get scheduled around turnover rather than around us, timers get set so guests never have to find a switch, and service happens without anybody being on site. We do not need an owner to be in town, and we do not need a guest to let us in for exterior work.

We also photograph the finished install at dusk, because that photo goes in the winter listing and it is one of the highest-performing images a cold-weather rental can have. That started as a favor for one owner and turned into something we just do now.

Booking opens in July, which sounds absurd until you understand the local calendar. Winterfest means the commercial corridors and rental cabins have to be lit before Thanksgiving, and that work concentrates in October. Residential dates get squeezed into a narrower window than they would be in a town without a tourism season.

Installs start in late September and run through mid-December. Most residential displays are live before Thanksgiving. December is real installs, not just overflow, and if you are reading this in November it is still worth calling because cancellations happen.

Takedown starts after New Year's and runs through January, weather permitting. Then everything gets tested, repaired, labeled by property and put away in our building until the next fall.

Most first-season residential displays in this county land between $700 and $2,500. A single-story roofline with a clean entry sits at the bottom of that. A two-story with dormers, wrapped trees and a lift requirement sits at the top. Commercial work is quoted per property because there is no useful average.

What moves that number is rarely the bulbs. It is linear footage, height, pitch, whether the roof can be walked, whether a lift can reach the peaks, and how many times a crew has to reposition to do it safely. Two houses on the same street can be a thousand dollars apart on access alone.

We will also tell you when something is not worth buying. If you are asking about lighting the back of a house nobody can see from the road, we will say so. The goal is a display you are happy with, not the largest invoice we can defend.