Why the roofline and not somewhere else
From the street, a house is mostly a silhouette, and the roof draws it. Nothing else on the house runs that far uninterrupted, and nothing else is backed by open air. Light that line and the building reads as a shape rather than a dark mass.That is the reason permanent systems live at the roof edge, and the reason a single run there does more than fixtures scattered around the yard. One continuous line, installed one time, carrying the whole outline: that is the case for it.
What is up there
The system is an aluminum channel, matched to your trim color, with the LEDs running inside it. The channel does two jobs at once: it holds the lights and it hides them. Matched to the trim, it reads as part of the house at noon.
Where the run goes
Every plan starts with the primary roof edge, and grows from there. After the main line come the gables, the dormers and the porch, each one judged on whether it helps. Lighting every edge on a
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Daylight is the other half of the design
A roofline system is on the house every day, lit or unlit. That is why the channel gets matched to your trim rather than sold in one color. Tight to the line, color matched, wiring concealed: that is a clean install.
One line, a lot of uses
After install the system runs from your phone. Warm white on a normal night. Red and green in December. A single color for Halloween. School colors on a Friday. Most owners land on one white and leave it, using color for the handful of days that call for it.
What makes one roofline a bigger job than the house next door
Rooflines are not comparable by square footage. Length matters less than people assume. Complexity is what drives it: a simple gable runs fast, and a roof with six changes of direction, three dormers and a turret does not. Two stories changes the job.
Does it attach to the gutter?
Homeowners assume the lights clip to the gutter, because that is how seasonal strands work. The channel mounts to structure, rather than to gutter that flexes and fills. Fastening to solid structure is why the run stays true.
The next step
Because houses are not interchangeable, the design has to be drawn for your building. EverCrest Lighting installs permanent roofline lighting for residential and commercial properties across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, based in Greenville. Consultations are free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email
[email protected] to have somebody look at your roofline.