Holiday Lighting

There is a week every November when the South Shore decides it is the holidays — and you can see the properties that planned for it. Rooflines traced in clean, even light. Trees wrapped trunk to canopy. A wreath over the garage, garland on the rail, and not a sagging strand or dark section anywhere. At Hynes Landscaping, holiday lighting is a managed seasonal program: designed for your property, installed by insured professional crews, maintained all season, taken down in January, and stored until next year.

Lighting your own home? This page covers the full program, including storefronts, office parks, and HOAs. Homeowners can go straight to our Residential Holiday Lighting page — typical scopes, what's included every season, and how booking works.

Based at 118 Cushing St in Stoughton, MA, we have spent more than 25 years working on properties across 145+ towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Holiday lighting is a natural extension of that work: our crews are already on ladders, roofs, and lifts all year, and nobody knows your roofline, your trees, and your walkways like the company that maintains them.

We install for homes and for commercial properties alike — storefronts, office parks, restaurants, and HOA entrances — across the South Shore, Greater Boston, and MetroWest. November installation slots are limited and book quickly, so call 781-356-3311 early to get on the schedule.

A great holiday display starts the same way a great landscape does: with a design conversation. We walk the property with you and decide what deserves light and what does not — a roofline traced edge to edge reads elegant; the same house with lights on every surface reads chaotic. The elements we work with:

• Rooflines and ridgelines — the signature element. Crisp, continuous runs along eaves, gables, and peaks, with clean corners and no drooping spans.
• Trees and shrubs — trunks and branches wrapped in mini lights, or canopies draped for a softer effect. One well-wrapped specimen tree often does more than a yard of scattered strands.
• Wreaths and garland — full, commercial-grade greenery with built-in lighting for entries, columns, railings, and lamp posts.
• Pathway and entry accents — stake-mounted lighting that frames walks and driveways and welcomes people in.

Because we design landscapes for a living, we think about sightlines, scale, and what the display looks like from the street and the front door. The result is a property that looks composed — not decorated.

The product matters, and it is the clearest difference between a professional display and a weekend of box-store strands. We install commercial-grade LED lighting — the same class of product used on municipal displays and retail centers — not consumer light sets.

What that means in practice: bulbs and spacing selected for the scale of your home, lines custom-cut to the exact dimensions of your roofline so runs end where they should instead of where the strand happens to stop, and weatherproof connections built for two months of New England sleet and freeze-thaw. Commercial LEDs burn brighter and more uniformly, draw a fraction of the power of old incandescent sets, and hold their color across the whole display. Warm white is the perennial favorite on traditional South Shore homes, but we design in cool white, multicolor, and combinations.

If what you really want is lighting that stays up all year — path lights, uplit trees, architectural lighting for every season — that is a different discipline, and we build those too: see our Landscape Lighting program for permanent low-voltage LED systems. Holiday lighting is the seasonal layer; many clients run both.

Holiday lighting is not an installation; it is a season. Our program covers it all:

Design consultation. We walk the property, talk through what you want, and quote the full season — install, maintenance, takedown, and storage — as one price. No surprises in February.

Professional installation. Trained crews install with proper clips and attachment methods — no staples, no nails, nothing that damages shingles, gutters, or trim. Timers are set so the display runs on schedule without you touching a thing.

In-season maintenance. If a bulb fails or a section goes dark in mid-December, you call and we fix it — typically within days, not after the holidays. Keeping the display perfect is part of the service.

January takedown. When the season ends, we remove everything carefully and leave the property exactly as we found it. You never climb a ladder in January to pull frozen clips off a gutter.

Labeled storage. Your display is coiled, labeled, and stored until next season, so next year's installation is faster and starts from what already works.

Here is the honest case for professional holiday lighting, and it has nothing to do with aesthetics. Emergency rooms fill up every November and December with people who fell installing their own lights — off ladders, off rooflines, onto frozen ground. A steep pitch, a layer of frost at 7 a.m., a ladder footed on icy turf: these are conditions our crews are trained, equipped, and insured for, and most homeowners are not.

Hynes Landscaping is fully licensed and insured, and the crews on your roof work at height all year. We bring the right ladders, the right habits, and a second set of hands on every install. For two-and-three-story colonials, steep gables, and mature trees, that is the whole point: the display is the fun part, and not going up the ladder is the reason most of our clients call.

For a storefront or a restaurant, holiday lighting is not decoration — it is foot traffic. A lit facade in December signals open, warm, and worth walking into; an unlit one disappears next to the neighbor who made the effort. We design and install commercial displays for storefronts, restaurants, office parks, professional buildings, and HOA entrances and common areas across Greater Boston and the South Shore.

Commercial work runs on the same full-service model, with the scheduling flexibility businesses need: early installs ahead of Black Friday, after-hours work where daytime access is a problem, and multi-year programs for property managers. For HOAs and office parks we already maintain, holiday lighting folds directly into the existing relationship — one vendor, one invoice, one call.

The holiday lighting calendar is short. Installations run from early November through mid-December, and the best slots — the ones that have your display lit before Thanksgiving — go first. If the season is already underway, call anyway; cancellations and late slots do open up. Takedowns run through January and are included in every program.

Pricing is quoted per property after a consultation; no two displays are alike. The factors that drive it:

• Roofline length and complexity — a simple ranch eave is a different job than a three-gable colonial with dormers.
• Tree and shrub count — wrapping trunks and branches is labor-intensive, and large specimen trees take time.
• Elements selected — wreaths, garland, and pathway accents each add to the design.
• Product ownership — first-season pricing typically includes the custom-cut product, with options to own or lease; returning seasons, using your stored display, cost meaningfully less.

We will give you a straight number for the full season after one walk around the property — call 781-356-3311 to schedule it.

Plenty of outfits hang lights for three months a year. We are a year-round company with 25+ years on these same properties — trained crews rather than seasonal pickup labor, real insurance rather than a promise, and a company that still answers the phone in January when the takedown is due. Holiday lighting also pairs naturally with the late-fall calendar: many clients schedule their install alongside Seasonal Cleanups, so the property goes into winter clean, cut back, and lit in the same stretch of weeks.

One team, one number, all season: 781-356-3311.

When should I book holiday lighting installation?

As early as possible — October is ideal, and early November is still workable. Slots fill in the order they are booked, and pre-Thanksgiving dates go first. We take on new displays through early December as the schedule allows, so if the season is underway, call anyway and we will tell you honestly what is available.

Do you take the lights down after the holidays?

Yes — takedown is included in every program, not an add-on. We schedule removals through January, take the display down without damaging roofing or trim, and coil, label, and store everything until next season. You never touch a ladder.

What happens if a section of my display goes dark in the middle of the season?

Call us and we fix it — typically within days. In-season maintenance is part of the program: bulb swaps, section replacements, timer adjustments, whatever the display needs to stay perfect through the holidays. A dark section on December 20th is exactly the problem this service exists to solve.

Do you install holiday lighting for commercial properties?

Yes. Storefronts, restaurants, office parks, professional buildings, and HOA entrances are a core part of the program, with after-hours installation and multi-year scheduling for property managers. For commercial clients we already maintain, it folds into the existing contract.

Can you install lights I already own?

In most cases we recommend against it. Consumer light sets are not built for professional attachment methods or a full New England season outdoors, and if a box-store strand fails on December 18th there is often no matching replacement to be had. Our commercial-grade LED product is custom-cut, warrantied, and maintained all season; we are glad to incorporate owned specialty pieces where it makes sense, but the core display should be professional product.

A professional holiday display pays off every single evening of the season — every time you pull into the driveway, every guest who walks up the path. Hynes Landscaping handles the design, the ladders, the maintenance, the takedown, and the storage; you climb nothing and enjoy all of it.

Call 781-356-3311 or visit us at 118 Cushing St, Stoughton, MA 02072 to schedule a holiday lighting consultation across the South Shore, Greater Boston, and MetroWest.