Christmas lights installation services in Stone Mountain, GA
Two different jobs share one name here. The Village is 1.7 square miles of Queen Anne cottages, bungalows, and small-lot streets laid out around a railroad depot that is now city hall. Everything past it, out Hairston and Rockbridge and up into Smoke Rise, is post-war ranch and 1960s to 80s subdivision. Our crews light both with commercial-grade LEDs cut to the roofline, clips that never pierce shingles or gutters, timers set before we drive off, and a January takedown that was in the number from the start. Quotes are free, written, and itemized.
The Village, the subdivisions, and everything with a Stone Mountain address
December out here has a benchmark, and everybody knows what it is. Stone Mountain Christmas runs at the park through the season with the parade, the Snow Angel overhead, and a tree lighting most evenings, and half the houses we quote in November mention it without being asked. Nobody is trying to compete with a theme park. They just want the front of the house to look deliberate on the drive home, and that is a very achievable thing.
The city itself was settled in the 1820s, incorporated in 1839 under the name New Gibraltar, and renamed Stone Mountain eight years later. Granite paid for most of what still stands: the Venable brothers bought the quarry company in 1887 and it turned out paving stone by the hundreds of thousands. That money built the housing stock the historic district protects today, and the state preservation survey lists it plainly. Bungalows are the most numerous type, followed by Queen Anne cottages from the 1880s and 90s, New South cottages, pyramid cottages, and shotgun houses. Shermantown, the late nineteenth-century Black neighborhood along 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Streets, runs to small lots and plain vernacular cottages. Then the inline ranch shows up, roughly 1935 to 1975, and it never stops: brick, one story, long and low, filling the streets off Sexton Drive and Ferndale and Cloud, and then filling every subdivision outside the city limits through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Only about 6,700 people live inside the city. Many times that number have a Stone Mountain mailing address, and we light all of them.
Quotes follow the house, not the postmark. We measure roofline foot by foot, note porch and dormer runs on the older cottages, note ladder heights and roof pitch on the two-stories, count the trees and shrubs worth lighting, and pick a spacing. Each item lands on its own line of a free written quote that already includes the lights, the clips, the labor, in-season service calls, and takedown. Text photos to (470) 777-7443 or use the contact form. Most answers go out within one business day, and booking by November 1st takes 10% off.
Stone Mountain sits 28 miles from Cumming, an easy run down I-285 to US-78, so it lands on ordinary route days alongside the rest of our DeKalb work.
Short rooflines, complicated shapes
A Queen Anne cottage has a hipped main roof with gables projecting front and side, and a New South cottage adds a pair of gables flanking a central hall. That is four or five separate runs on a house with maybe 90 feet of eave. We trace each one so the outline follows the actual shape instead of cutting a straight line across the front, which is the difference between a lit house and a house with a wire on it.
Nothing driven into a hundred-year-old porch
Village houses still carry original wood: rafter tails, turned porch posts, decorative gable trim. None of it takes a staple or a screw from us, ever. Clips grip the shingle tab or the gutter lip, posts and railings take tension wraps, and the display comes off in January leaving the trim as it was. Every installer on the ladder is fully insured, and on the older sloped lots the ladder feet get leveled and boarded before anyone climbs.
An 1890s cottage and a 1972 ranch want different bulbs
Small warm bulbs suit an ornate cottage because the roofline already has plenty going on, and the porch is where the garland and the wreath belong. A long brick ranch out toward Hairston is the opposite: one uninterrupted line, larger bulbs, wider spacing, so the length of the house does the work. Split-levels and 1980s two-stories can carry color on the gables. We say which we think fits and you decide.
On the US-78 route, October through January
Stone Mountain shares route days with Tucker and Lilburn, so crews come through most weeks all season. A dark run gets fixed on the next pass at no charge, generally inside a couple of days. Takedown starts in January and is part of the original quote, with every strand coiled and labeled for your attic or held in our storage. Displays another company hung and abandoned come down on the same route days.
Cottages, bungalows, and Shermantown's small lots
Inside the Village the houses are close to the street and close to each other, which makes the front elevation the whole design. A bungalow gets its low eave run, its porch roof, its exposed rafter line, and the porch posts wrapped. A Queen Anne cottage gets each projecting gable traced so the roof shape reads at night. Shermantown, along 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Streets, is plainer vernacular housing on smaller lots, and a single clean line plus a lit door does more for those cottages than anything busier. Footage runs low, usually 80 to 140 feet, but the number of separate runs is high and that is where crew time goes. The complete installation package is the same here as anywhere else: our lights, our hardware, our crew from October to January.
Main Street storefronts across from the old depot
Stone Mountain's city hall is the Georgia Railroad depot, built in two stages starting in the 1870s, and the tracks still run past it down Main Street. The storefronts facing that stretch are low, mostly brick, with flat parapets and transom windows, and they light beautifully with warm white outlines and garland over the door rather than anything fussy. Film crews use this street often enough that shop owners are used to working around equipment, but we still install before opening or after close so a ladder is never in a customer's way. Timers are set to posted hours. Along the wider corridors outside the Village, the shopping centers and office fronts out Memorial Drive and Mountain Industrial want entrance work and wrapped trees more than roofline. Commercial and HOA lighting is measured and itemized the same way a house is.
Old wiring, modern LEDs, and a timer you never touch
A cottage built when the quarry was still running has one exterior outlet if it is lucky, and a 1968 ranch out toward Hairston is not much better off. Commercial-grade LED is the reason that stops mattering. A full roofline, a wrapped oak, and netted shrubs together pull a small fraction of the load old incandescent strings did, so a single GFCI outlet carries the display through a month of dusk-to-late run time without tripping when the furnace kicks on. Every strand is cut to its measured run, so nothing extra dangles behind a downspout, and connections are sealed with the plug facing down. On a long ranch we split the feed so one bad plug cannot darken 120 feet at once. The timer is set and tested before the truck leaves.
Hardwoods, pines, and what is worth wrapping
Village yards are small and often hold one large tree, which makes that tree the second half of the design. We measure the trunk and the height to the first fork, wrap to the fork, and trace the lower limbs when the shape rewards it. Out in the subdivisions the lots are bigger and the problem flips: a ranch sits back from the road behind two or three mature oaks and a stand of loblolly pines, so the roofline is half hidden from November on. There the answer is wrapped trunks along the drive, larger bulbs on the eave so the line carries through branches, and path lights running to the door. Pines get the trunk only, since nothing up in a bare crown does anything for the front elevation. Wraps are never cinched tight enough to bite into bark, and they come off in January with everything else. The same approach carries a few miles north into Lilburn.
The five things that set a Stone Mountain quote
Roofline footage, measured rather than estimated, and on the older cottages counted run by run because a hip with two projecting gables is not one straight line. Height and access next, which is where a two-story in a 1980s subdivision separates from a Village bungalow. Trees and shrubs, counted individually. Design density, meaning how tight the bulb spacing runs. Then wreaths, garland, wrapped posts, path lighting, entrance work. Each gets its own line on a free written quote, with the lights, clips, labor, in-season service, and takedown already inside it. Call or text (470) 777-7443, Monday through Saturday 8 AM to 7 PM, or send photos through the form and expect an answer inside one business day.
Repairs, storage, and clearing the roofline in January
Installs open in late October and close around the middle of December, with the pre-Thanksgiving weeks going first every year. After that the display is watched rather than forgotten. Our crews run this side of DeKalb most weeks between Tucker and Snellville jobs, so a call about a dark section usually gets a truck there within two days, no charge, whatever the cause. Wind and falling pine limbs account for most of it. January is takedown: strands off in order, every clip removed, gutter lips and shingle edges checked as the crew works down the house, then the set coiled and labeled by run. Keep it in the garage or hand it to us. Takedown of any installer's display is available on the same route days, including displays we did not hang.
Stone Mountain lighting questions, answered by the crew
For Village cottages, Smoke Rise ranches, and everything with a 30083 or 30087 address.
Do you work in the Village and in the unincorporated Stone Mountain area?
Both, and there is a lot more of the second than the first. The city covers about 1.7 square miles around Main Street. The postal area reaches across a much bigger piece of DeKalb and into Gwinnett, which is where most of the ranch and subdivision work is. Smoke Rise, Hairston, Rockbridge, Mountain Industrial: all on the same route days, all quoted the same way.
Do historic district rules affect a holiday display in the Village?
Seasonal lighting is not a permanent alteration, so it does not go through the design review a new porch or replacement siding would. The mounting method is what actually matters on a protected house, and ours is clips and tension wraps with nothing penetrating historic wood. If your street falls inside the district boundary we still walk the house first and point out anything we would rather not touch.
How is a Stone Mountain installation quoted?
Measured roofline footage comes first, broken out by eave, gable, porch, and dormer. Then height and roof access, then the trees and shrubs to be lit, then how tightly the line is spaced, then specialty pieces like wreaths, garland, and column wraps. All of it is itemized on a free written quote, and photos of the front are usually enough for us to measure remotely and answer within one business day.
Can our house be lit before Stone Mountain Christmas opens at the park?
Almost always, if you book by November 1st. That date is also the early-bird cutoff and it is worth 10% off the itemized total. Installs start in late October and the pre-Thanksgiving slots are the first to go on this route. We can hang everything early and leave the timer switched off until the night you want the house running.
Do you light subdivision entrances and commercial buildings out here?
Yes. Neighborhood entrance monuments, clubhouse fronts, and the trees flanking a subdivision sign are some of the most common work we do in the Stone Mountain area, and boards usually book them alongside a handful of member homes. Storefronts and office fronts get installed before opening or after close, on timers matched to posted hours.
Get professional Christmas lights installation in Stone Mountain, GA
Queen Anne cottages in the Village, long brick ranches out toward Hairston, subdivision entrances up in Smoke Rise: every Stone Mountain display is measured, itemized, serviced, and taken down in January. Call or text (470) 777-7443, and book by November 1st for 10% off.