Permanent Lighting for Large and Estate Homes in Nashville
Who installs permanent lighting on large homes in Nashville?
Permanent Lighting Solutions sells permanent roofline lighting for large houses in Nashville, including Brentwood and Belle Meade, and our installers fit it. A large house gets the same system as any other: a color-matched aluminum channel along the roof edge, with the lights sitting down inside it and one controller indoors. What changes is how much of each there is, and that comes from measuring the house itself. Each part is shown up close on the system page.
How a big roofline is planned
A big roofline is planned from a measurement, because nobody can work out the number of lights a large house needs from a photograph. Every foot of the roofline is measured before any price is named.
| House feature | How the system handles it |
|---|---|
| Many gables and dormers | Every peak and dormer adds a cut and a turn, and each corner is mitered to its own angle instead of bent. |
| A second story | Every foot of the run sits higher off the ground, which makes it slower work. |
| Stone or a curved turret | The channel follows whatever edge the house has, and its finish is chosen to blend in by day. |
| Lighting more of the house | Carrying the run around the garage and the porch adds more to the number than anything else here. |
How many lights does a big house need?
For scale, an average system runs about 250 lights, but that is a yardstick and not an estimate for any one house. What moves the price of a large home is set out in plain terms on the pricing page.
Zones and controllers on a large house
One controller runs up to 8 zones, and each zone can play its own scene at the same time. On a large house the porch can hold warm white while the gables run a color, or the back of the house can go dark while the front stays on. A house with more roofline than one controller can carry takes a second, and up to 4 controllers link on one account so the property behaves as one system. How many a house needs is settled at the free estimate, and the zones are laid out when the controller goes in.
| Situation | What the system does |
|---|---|
| A long house with several wings | Each wing can have its own look at the same time as the others. |
| A detached garage | It is measured with the house, and a second controller links to the first when it needs one. |
| Away from home | The whole house runs from one account on a phone, anywhere the phone has service. |
Voice control and schedules are covered in full on the app control page. There are 256 presets in the app to start with, and you can try the looks on a model house before choosing one.
Beyond the roofline
A covered patio and a porch have roof edges of their own, and the same channel follows both back to the one controller. Under a patio ceiling it stops looking like a roofline and works as lighting for a room with no walls. A pergola or a column works the same way, because the channel can follow any edge the structure has.
Each of these is priced from the structure itself, so the installers see it first. Name the spot on the quote form and the reply says whether it works there.
What a large-home install day looks like
For an average install the work comes to 8 to 10 hours, and the size of the job is what moves that figure. The figure for a large house comes from the walkthrough, which is free. The roofline is measured first and the channel is made to that house, so it arrives ready to fit.
Installers fix the channel under the roof edge and join the runs, then mount the controller indoors and wire it in. The controller usually goes in the garage or a utility room, and the spot is settled when the roofline is measured.
Licensed, insured and certified installers do every job, and the work is backed by the manufacturer's 5-year product warranty and our installers' workmanship warranty. What is covered if something fails is set out in full on that page.
How soon does it start?
The goal is 1 to 2 weeks from the deposit to the channel on the house, and weather or a full November schedule can move that.
Large lots in Brentwood and Forest Hills
In Brentwood the houses sit well back on larger lots, so from the curb most of what you see is roof. Lit evenly along the whole run, a roofline reads as one shape, while lights on just the porch leave most of the house dark.
Forest Hills is a city of steep, wooded hills, and the usual lot there is one to two acres. A big estate roofline carries more channel and more corners to cut, and a second controller can join the first so the property acts as one system.
A house with many gables in Belle Meade takes the channel in short lengths, one for each gable edge, with every corner mitered to the roof's angle. The long, low ranches of Green Hills sit on large lots and suit one continuous run of channel better than a few fixtures. Every town with a page of its own is listed on the service areas page.
West of Belle Meade, Metro's plan for West Meade and Hillwood puts some setbacks at 100 to 400 feet. In Oak Hill, minimum lots run up to four acres, and in Franklin, Westhaven adds three-story townhome fronts with the eave far off the ground.
For the climb and the two-level look, see Christmas lights on a two story house.
On a big property the roof edge is one half of the night picture and the lit grounds are the other, and roofline vs landscape lighting sets out how the two share the work.
How do you get a number for a large home?
The number comes from measuring the house, and the measurement is free. Send the street and what you want lit through the quote form, and the reply comes the way you pick.