Warm white most nights, colour when you want it, planned around the shape of the house.
Permanent outdoor lighting is a row of app-controlled LEDs fixed along your roofline and used every night of the year: soft warm white most nights, colour when you want it. On a house with gables, dormers or a two-storey entry it's planned as a design, not a single line across the front.
Which system, and what it costs per foot, are on the comparison and cost pages. This page is about how it looks on your house.
Warm white along the roofline, dimmed. That's the everyday setting, and it's why the system stops feeling seasonal. A consistently lit outside is also a deterrent, and it costs very little to run.
Lighting every edge of a complex roof looks busy, not finished. The planning is mostly deciding what to leave dark.
A zone is a section you control on its own. The front can sit in warm white while the gable peaks run dimmer, and a holiday scene can run on the front only. The controller has to be sized for the number of zones at install, so think about the whole house even if you're only lighting part of it now.
More planes means more fasteners into the roof edge, which makes the water detail matter more, not less. The soffit and roofline page covers exactly how it should be mounted.
Permanent roofline lighting is four parts: a slim channel mounted along the roof edge, a run of LEDs inside it that can each be set to their own colour, a low-voltage power supply, and a controller you run from an app. It stays up year-round, and the connectors, seals and electronics usually limit its life more than the LEDs do.
Permanent lights should fasten into sound fascia or solid soffit below the metal drip edge at the roof's edge, never through your shingles or roof deck, and stay clear of the soffit vents your attic breathes through. On a Calgary roof edge, where water drains and ice builds every winter, every fastener also has to be sealed.
Only if you run it that way. Most people run warm white at low brightness, which reads as part of the house rather than festive. The colour scenes are there when you want them, not by default.
Yes, and it's common. Tell us at design time, because it changes the controller we spec. Adding zones later to an undersized controller means replacing it.
We look at the house, at night if we can. What reads well lit is not always what you'd guess from a daytime photo. The plan comes before any hardware.
Usually, because it's more feet across more planes and more zones. It's the same per-foot rate, so the difference is scope rather than price per foot.
No. Trees, paths, beds and driveways are landscape lighting, a different system installed at ground level.
Yes. The app works from anywhere, and schedules run the lights whether you're home or not.
Priced per linear foot of roofline. Add your address and tell us how much of the house you want lit.
