Christmas light installation in Bel Air.

Here's the Bel Air truth most Christmas light installers never figure out: the street never sees your house, so lighting it for the street is lighting it for nobody. What the world sees is the gate, the hedge line, and maybe a gable floating above the green — and what your family sees is the courtyard, the motor court, and the elevations that face the pool. So that's the design. Restrained warm white at the gate piers to say something good is happening up there. A clean line where the roofline crests the hedge, so the mystery has a punchline. And the real show composed for the views you actually live with, from Stone Canyon to Bellagio Road, drawn per facade and cut to measured wire — because an estate deserves a drawing, not a guess with a ladder.

The canyon estates add scale: wings, guest houses, pavilions. We'll tell you honestly which ones earn light and which ones look better dark. Editing is most of elegance, and Bel Air taught us that before we could teach it back.

The seasonal service covers the whole run: design from your address and a walk of the property, one scheduled install day, timers set for dusk, and maintenance included — if a run goes dark before a dinner party, we're back up the canyon before the caterer is. January takedown is as quiet as the install, and everything winters coiled and labeled at our facility. Estate-scale rooflines get estate-scale quoting, measured off the actual elevations — our guide to how roofline measurement works shows why.