Christmas & Permanent Light Installation in Fort Wright, KY

Seasonal displays and year-round architectural lighting for Fort Wright homes on the hills above Covington.

Lighting built for Fort Wright rooflines

Fort Wright is a hilltop city in Kenton County, incorporated in 1941 and named for Major General Horatio Wright, the Union engineer who planned the Civil War defenses on these hills. Battery Hooper Park still preserves one of the original fortifications. The city grew by taking in neighboring communities such as South Hills and Lakeview, and today it is close to six thousand people on a little over three square miles, with I-75 and I-71 running through it at Kyles Lane.

Much of the housing is post-war: brick ranches, Cape Cods, split-levels and two-story homes on streets that follow the ridges, many with walkout basements where the lot falls away. Straight fascia on that stock takes a permanent track cleanly, and seasonal displays suit anyone who wants a traditional December look. The hills are what make each job different.

What a Fort Wright install actually takes

Grade, mostly. On a ridge-top street the front of a house can be one story and the back two or three where the lot drops away, so access is planned side by side, and the rear roofline is often the one that most needs a permanent answer. We measure the full run, space the fixings for snow load and a winter of freezing and thawing, and fix to the fascia and trim, never through the roof.

Commercial work in Fort Wright centers on the frontage along Dixie Highway and near the Kyles Lane interchange: offices, restaurants and retail where lighting helps a building stand out from the road. Those runs are usually permanent, sectioned and scheduled around trading hours.

Red, white and blue permanent roofline lighting on a two-story home

What we install

Christmas & Seasonal

Full-service holiday displays: design, commercial-grade lights, installation, in-season service, then takedown and storage.

JellyFish Permanent

Track-mounted permanent lighting tucked under the roofline. Millions of colors, app controlled, holiday or everyday.

Bosso Smart Lighting

A permanent lighting alternative with its own fixture and control system. We fit it to homes JellyFish does not suit.

Commercial & HOA

Storefronts, offices, common areas and entrances, scheduled installs that work around your business hours.

Christmas and seasonal light installation in Fort Wright

Seasonal lighting is a full service, not a box of lights from a shelf. We design the display around your roofline, install commercial-grade product cut to fit your house, and service it through the season if anything goes dark. After the holidays we take it down and store it until next year, so nothing lives in your garage and nothing gets crushed between seasons.

Booking order decides the calendar. Installs run in the order they are booked, so the earliest dates go to whoever called first. If you want the lights on before the first weekend of December, get on the list well before the season starts.

Christmas light installation on a home in Fort Wright
Permanent outdoor lighting on a roofline in Fort Wright

Permanent outdoor lighting in Fort Wright

Permanent lighting is a slim track fixed under the roofline that stays up all year and reads as trim from the street. Run warm white on an ordinary evening, color through December, orange and white for a Saturday in autumn, or switch it off entirely. It is all controlled from an app, so nobody climbs anything.

We install two systems. JellyFish is the one most people have heard of and we are an authorized dealer. Bosso is an alternative with its own fixture and control system that suits some rooflines better. We bring both to the consult and tell you which fits your house, including when that is the cheaper option.

Commercial and HOA lighting in Fort Wright

We light storefronts, offices, entrances and common areas as well as homes. Commercial work is scheduled around your trading hours so the install never costs you a business day, and a larger property can be phased across several visits.

If an HOA, a landlord or a historic district has rules about fixture color, brightness or where a track may sit, bring them to the consult and we design to them from the start rather than asking for an exception later.

Commercial roofline lighting on a business in Fort Wright

How it works

01

Free design consult

We walk the property, measure the roofline and show you what the finished run will look like. No charge, no obligation.

02

Custom install

Our crew installs to your approved plan with commercial-grade product, cut and fitted on site, not a one-size kit.

03

Service & takedown

Something goes dark. We come back. For seasonal work we handle removal and store your lights until next year.

Fort Wright questions we get asked

You are in Deer Park. Do you really cover Northern Kentucky?
Yes, and it is half our market, not an add-on. We work across the river every season, from Covington next door to Independence further south in Kenton County. Fort Wright sits right off I-75 and I-71, which makes it one of the easier Kentucky trips from our office.
Our back roofline is a full story higher than the front. Is that a problem?
It is the most common question on Fort Wright's hillside lots, and it is exactly where a permanent track earns its keep. A rear edge that high is a hard job to hang and take down every year, and once a track is up nobody has to reach it again. We plan access for that side separately and tell you honestly if the front alone gives you the look you want.
Our house is a brick ranch. What works best?
Both options work well on that stock. A brick ranch usually has a straight, reachable eave, so a seasonal display we install and take down is a sensible choice for a December-only look. If you want lights for more than the holidays, a permanent track runs warm white all year and color on the days you choose, and it reads as trim in daylight. We show you both at the consult.
Is Fort Wright part of Covington?
No. Fort Wright is its own city in Kenton County with its own city government, even though it borders Covington and plenty of people use the names loosely. It matters whenever a job needs anything from a city, and we confirm what applies to your address while we are quoting.
What does the wind on the ridge do to the lights?
It is one of the reasons fixings are specified for the house, not taken from a kit. An exposed ridge-top home catches more wind than a sheltered valley street, and in winter that comes with ice and repeated freezing and thawing. Where a run is exposed the clips go closer together, and a permanent track sits tight under the roof edge where the wind has little to grab.

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