Permanent Lighting in Franklin, TN: Christmas Lights Installed Once
In Franklin, the Williamson County seat, Permanent Lighting Solutions sells permanent LED roofline lighting whose colors live on your phone, and our installers fit it.
Franklin's houses run from the historic streets around the square to newer farmhouse and craftsman subdivisions, and the channel comes in three profiles so it fits each kind of roof edge. The track goes under the eave, set by licensed, insured and certified installers, and from then on it is warm white most nights and something brighter when a holiday comes around.
- A low-profile track under the eave
- Any color, run from your phone
- Franklin, in our Middle Tennessee service area
Where can a Franklin home get permanent Christmas lights installed?
Through Permanent Lighting Solutions, where our installers fit permanent LED lights on Franklin houses near the square and in the newer subdivisions alike. There are three channel shapes to suit different roof edges, and the track tucks under the eave. Every estimate is free, and the colors are picked on a phone, ready for Dickens weekend.
Stone, brick and board and batten in Franklin
Stone or brick near the old downtown, board and batten in the newer subdivisions: the track tucks under the eave the same way on all of them, so in daylight the house just looks like the house.
The channel is cut and fastened to whatever roofline the house already has, so the lit run follows your gables from one end to the other.
There are more finished rooflines in the gallery.
Franklin's historic streets and newer subdivisions
Franklin's roof edges come from two centuries of building: Federal, Greek Revival and Queen Anne in the historic district around the square, Colonial Revival, Bungalow and English Tudor in Hincheyville, and newer subdivisions past both. That mix puts a boxed eave on one house, an open rafter tail on the next and a steep gable rake across the front of a third, which is why the channel is made in three profiles. The installers pick the one that follows your own roof edge, on site, before anything is ordered, and match its color to your trim so that in daylight it passes for part of the house. The system page shows the hardware close up.
Three channel profiles, one per kind of roof edge.
What putting permanent lights on a Franklin house involves
A Franklin install runs in four steps:
- An installer calls, then measures every foot of the roofline for the estimate.
- One of three channel profiles is chosen for the roof edge, from a boxed eave to an open rafter tail, and matched to the trim color.
- The track is cut to length, mitered at each corner and fastened to the fascia or soffit.
- Most Franklin houses take 8 to 10 hours, start to finish, and the app schedule is set on install day.
Franklin outdoor lighting, roof edge to patio
- Main roofline
- Covered patio
- Porch
- Detached garage
Permanent outdoor lighting starts at the roof edge, and it does not have to stop there. A covered patio has a roof edge of its own, and so do a porch and a detached garage. The same channel follows each of them, and every run answers to one controller.
Zones are what make that useful. The porch can hold warm white while the gables run a color, or the back of the house can sit dark while the front is lit. Where the zones fall gets settled when the system is laid out.
An average install takes 8 to 10 hours, and the size of the job moves that number: one long eave is not four gables, two porches and a garage. So every foot of roofline is measured before anyone writes up your estimate.
The pricing page shows where a system starts, and what moves it on a real house.
Are permanent Christmas lights worth it in Franklin, TN?
Yes. At 6 to 12 hours a day, the system works out to about 10 to 20 years, so the ladder weekends before the Christmas Parade and after Dickens of a Christmas end with one install. The channel stays under the eave, and each Franklin install gets the manufacturer's 5-year product warranty and our installers' workmanship warranty.
Christmas lights installation in Franklin, TN, done once
Here, permanent Christmas lights are the same channel and lights that run warm white the rest of the year, switched over to a December scene. The controller carries its own holiday colors, and if you would rather choose them yourself it is fully programmable, zone by zone. Nothing is hung in November and nothing comes down in January.
Still weighing permanent against putting lights up every winter in the first place? That comparison has its own page.
The Franklin Christmas Parade falls on the first Saturday in December and Dickens of a Christmas fills Main Street a week later, so those two Saturdays are the natural dates to have your roofline lit by.
On Dickens Saturday, December 12, the sun sets in Franklin at about 4:34 pm, more than an hour before the festival closes at 6:00 pm. Set the roofline to come on at sunset and it is already glowing when you get home from Main Street.
A Franklin year of weather
NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals for the Franklin station give January an average low of 28.6 degrees and an average high of 49.1, so on a typical winter day the roofline freezes and thaws, and the channel stays up through all of it.
The lights sit inside the channel, set down under the roof edge, so water runs off the roof the way it always has. Every component is UL rated and tested by outside companies, and the lights are rated for roughly 50,000 hours. If a storm is on the way, leave them up. Upkeep is a rinse with the gutters, and the care and coverage page has the rest.
One install, every holiday after
The same lights run warm white on most nights, orange for Halloween, red, white and blue for the Fourth, or your team's colors on game day. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, New Year's, Valentine's, St Patrick's and Easter are the same channel on a different setting, so permanent holiday lighting still has somewhere to go once Christmas comes down.
You change it from your phone in a few seconds, or set a schedule once on install day and let the controller keep it every night after. Nothing new to buy and nothing to hang. You can try some presets before you decide, or read how the app control works.
Get a free lighting estimate for your Franklin home
Put the house address in the quote form and an installer will call you, with a free estimate for that roofline to follow. Franklin and the towns around it are listed on our service areas page.
Downtown Franklin's holiday dates for 2026
Three Downtown Franklin dates are confirmed for 2026.
- Franklin Christmas ParadeSaturday, December 5, 2026, 1:00 pmFranklin's Main Street, Historic Downtown Franklin
- Dickens of a ChristmasDecember 12 to 13, 2026, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 11 am to 5 pmMain Street, Downtown Franklin, TN
- Franklin Christmas Tree LightingFriday, December 4, 2026The Square, downtown Franklin
The whole area list lives on our 2026 holiday lights calendar. See our Franklin holiday lights guide for the 2026 tree lighting, parade and Dickens dates.
Planning an install around Dickens weekend
The organizer's listings show the schedule can change from year to year. The 2025 edition is listed as a single day, December 13, while 2026 runs two days. That is a reason to leave a buffer instead of planning an installation for the week of the event itself.
Installs go up if weather and the schedule allow, so start the conversation early if the goal is a house lit by December 12. We lay out how the festival fits a lighting timeline on our Dickens of a Christmas planning page, and what happens after you say yes is in our FAQ.
Nearby in Williamson County: Brentwood, Nolensville, Spring Hill, Thompson's Station and Arrington
Williamson County sits inside the one Middle Tennessee service area we cover, so the towns around Franklin get the same installers and the same app-controlled track under the eave.
Franklin shares one Middle Tennessee service area with Nashville and Brentwood, and permanent lighting in Brentwood has its own page. Inside the city, the Westhaven community has a page for its townhomes and lake-facing houses, and west of town the village of Leiper's Fork has one as well.
Nolensville
Nolensville still has 19th-century houses and shops along Nolensville Road, old roof edges the channel is cut to fit like any newer one.
Spring Hill
Spring Hill has its own page, with the date of its Christmas Parade on Main Street to plan a lit-by day around.
Thompson's Station
Lighting a house in Thompson's Station gets a page of its own too.
Arrington
For Arrington, see permanent lighting in Arrington.
If your house is in one of these four, send the address through the quote form and an installer will call you.