Moniteau County · The county seat
Christmas Light Installation in California, Missouri
A courthouse square, older streets around it, and a town that has always dressed properly for December.
California is the seat of Moniteau County, built the way these towns were built — a courthouse square at the center with the older and more detailed housing on the streets running off it. There is real architecture here: brick two-storys, tall narrow windows, porches with turned posts and trim worth tracing rather than covering.
On houses of that age we work carefully. Attachment is by clip only, with the weight carried on the gutter edge rather than into century-old wood, and the palette stays warm — cool white bulbs turn old brick grey and make painted trim read blue. Warm white along the original rooflines is what these homes were built to wear.
The square itself is worth lighting too. Storefronts and offices are installed outside trading hours and run on timers so the frontage is glowing every evening you are open, maintained through the season without anyone on your staff having to think about it.
What neighbors ask us first
Will the work damage older trim?
No, because nothing is fastened into it. Clips only, no staples, no screws, and crews who have worked enough old houses to know where a ladder should and should not rest.
Warm white or color on a historic home?
Warm, almost invariably. These houses predate anything that glows blue-white, and the difference between a warm and a cool bulb on old brick is not subtle.
Do you serve the square as well as the neighborhoods?
Both, and often in the same week. Commercial frontage goes in early and on timers; residential follows on the schedule you have chosen.
California Quotes
A firm price, written down
Tell us what you are picturing. We will call back and arrange a time to walk the property and measure it properly.