Christmas light installation in Sierra Madre.
Sierra Madre's most famous resident is a wisteria vine planted in 1894 that holds a world record — we design, install, maintain, remove and store holiday lighting for the homes that share the block with it.
Sierra Madre, your most famous resident is a vine — the Wistaria that outgrew its own house a century ago and has never once apologized. We admire the ambition; we promise more restraint. Our Christmas light installation in Sierra Madre keeps to village scale: warm white C9 on craftsman rooflines, hung with care, and guaranteed — a promise the vine never made — to come down in January.
Send the address and we'll draw a design the canyon would approve of.
Tell us about your home and we will put together a lighting design and a quote for it.
Texting works too: 949-806-2333
Village manners, mountain-town craft.
A town small enough to gather at Kersting Court runs on reputation, and we behave like we know it. Crews stage in your driveway, keep the narrow foothill streets clear, and leave every block exactly as found — in Sierra Madre, the neighbors don't need a review site; they have porches. The setting adds its own considerations: canyon-mouth breezes coming off the mountains mean attachment intervals get planned for gusts, and the town's proudly old housing means gentle mounting is the rule, not the upsell. Certificates of insurance go out ahead of install day — bonded and insured, filed before anyone asks — and dusk-to-dawn timers make the display keep mountain hours: on when the ridgeline goes purple, off when the town's asleep.
Craftsman eaves were made for this.
Sierra Madre kept its craftsman bungalows the way other towns keep photographs, and December is when that pays off. Those low-slung gables, exposed rafter tails, and deep porches take a single warm outline like the architecture ordered it in 1912 — holiday lighting doesn't get a better canvas than a craftsman eave line under a dark foothill sky. The method matters as much as the match: clip-mounted, penetration-free runs that respect century-old wood, commercial-grade wire cut to a measured facade, corners resolved cleanly where the gables meet. Larger canyon customs and hillside homes get the same discipline scaled up, composed for the view from the village below. Christmas light installers who staple first and measure never shouldn't be allowed within a block of a rafter tail; we measure first, always, and the rafter tails stay pristine.
Grown for a season, pruned on time.
The seasonal service handles the whole arc: design from your address, one scheduled install day, dusk timers, maintenance included, and a January takedown the Wistaria's caretakers would envy — everything off the house, coiled, labeled, and wintered at our facility until next year.
Around the village, people ask.
Our bungalow is over a hundred years old — is the install safe for it?
Completely: clips only, weight kept light, zero penetrations, and full reversibility. Homes that survived a century of Decembers deserve installers who plan to keep it that way.
Will lights look out of scale on a small house?
Not when they're edited. One warm line on the primary gable and porch beam is village-perfect — small houses wear restraint better than any mansion wears excess.
Do the canyon winds cause trouble?
They audition for it. Tighter attachment spacing and proper tensioning handle the gusts, and if the mountain wins a round, in-season maintenance is included.
When should we book?
Fall — the village calendar is small like everything here, and it fills the same way the good tables at Kersting Court do. Our takedown promise is real too: the full end-of-season process is in takedown, storage, and your materials.
For everything else, the sitewide FAQ applies in Sierra Madre the same as anywhere in our service area — or call 949-806-2333.
We work the neighboring foothill towns too — Arcadia, San Marino, South Pasadena, and La Cañada Flintridge.
The vine proved this town can commit to something beautiful. Yours only has to last a season — send the address.
Send us your address and we will put together a design and a quote for it.
Texting works too: 949-806-2333