Jefferson City · The East End

Christmas Light Installation in East Jefferson City

Older porches on one side of the highway, business frontage on the other, and a crew that is set up for both.

East Jefferson City is two things at once. North of the highway, up around the university hill and out along East High Street, it is one of the older residential parts of town — frame two-storeys, bungalows, generous front porches, deep lots and street trees that have been there longer than anyone living under them. South and east along the Highway 50 corridor it turns commercial: shops, offices, service businesses and light industry with frontage that thousands of cars pass every evening between Thanksgiving and New Year.

For the houses, the porch usually leads. A run of warm white following the porch roof, garland and bows on the rail, a wreath centered in the front window and one clean line along the main eave will do more for an older home than any amount of product piled on. We cut every run to the measurement of your house, hang it on clips rather than staples, and keep the lines straight enough that the trim carpentry underneath still gets the credit.

For the businesses, the value is simpler: an outlined building is the cheapest December advertising there is, and it works every evening whether or not anyone is watching a screen. We dress parapets, entries and window lines in warm white or classic color, put it on a timer, and schedule the work around your open hours. Service calls through the season are part of the price, so a dark section gets fixed rather than lived with.

A restaurant storefront outlined in warm white and red lights along the parapet
A storefront lit for the season

Common questions on this side of town

Do you light older houses with tall porches?

Yes — that is a good part of the work over here. Tall porch roofs and steep gables take longer ladders and slower work, and the quote reflects that honestly and up front rather than as a surprise afterwards.

Can you do a small business as well as a house?

Both, and often on the same street. Commercial installs are scheduled around your hours, tested after dark, and covered by the same season-long service and January takedown as any home on our list.

What happens if a section goes out in December?

You call and we come. Service through the season is included in the price, not billed as a visit, because a display that is dark for two weeks in December is not much of a display.

East Side Quotes

Measured on site, priced in writing

House or business, send the details and we will call back to arrange a free measured quote.

Rather talk it through? Call (573) 983-4866 — we answer.