What is a " Permanent Lighting Systems"?

nonameag99 said:

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What is a " Permanent Lighting Systems"?

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They're lights that are hung on your home with a color matched aluminum channel (similar to gutters). You can use it for accent lighting, but they're LED's, so at Christmas time you can change the colors and you don't have to hang Christmas lights. Check out the link I posted. They look pretty cool, but they're not cheap so I was hoping I could get some input on them before I just jumped out there and bought it.

Was thinking about getting these installed at my home. How much was your overall cost? Just was wondering

ManvelAg2006 said:

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Was thinking about getting these installed at my home. How much was your overall cost? Just was wondering

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I haven't had them come give me an actual quote yet, but I know it's based on footage. Someone on Facebook said it's about $25/ft. That would be about $3500 for the front of my home.

There's a house in my neighborhood that did this. It's a big house that replaced a tear-down after Harvey, so I guess they figured it was a minor expense compared to the size of this thing. At first, I thought it was a little silly. Then when I've driven by and seen different colors depending on season/holiday/etc, it seems pretty cool. I don't think I'd ever do it on my house, mainly because of the expense, but it looks nice if done well.

Maybe you could get the app to function like an old school mood ring. Fighting at home, red lights. House got the Rona, green. Astros win, orange. I bet for a few extra thousand they will put the lights under your car too!

What color was horny?

nonameag99 said:

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What color was horny?

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Uh, pink?

Interesting idea. $3500 interesting? No thanks. If it was a permanent solution to Christmas decorations, maybe. But this only solves the issue of roofline lights. Still gotta do around the windows, wrap the trees, line the sidewalk, etc. Maybe if I was building new, and what's an extra $3500 lumped into the building cost I would do it, but I'm not that mad at my Christmas lights to shell that out of pocket.

ccolley68 said:

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Interesting idea. $3500 interesting? No thanks. If it was a permanent solution to Christmas decorations, maybe. But this only solves the issue of roofline lights. Still gotta do around the windows, wrap the trees, line the sidewalk, etc. Maybe if I was building new, and what's an extra $3500 lumped into the building cost I would do it, but I'm not that mad at my Christmas lights to shell that out of pocket.

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I guess I'm just not thinking of it as "Christmas lights." I actually was interested in the accent light effect when I first saw them and all the other features were a bonus. I just bought the system so we'll see. They get installed next week.

For $3500 I think I'd stick with traditional Christmas lights. And then I wouldn't put those up either.

I guess I'm kind of confused how you use these throughout the year (not holidays). They just look like white Christmas lights in all the pictures I came across.

htxag09 said:

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I guess I'm kind of confused how you use these throughout the year (not holidays). They just look like white Christmas lights in all the pictures I came across.

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I had a friend send me a link to their Facebook page and it explains it pretty well. On their website, the first couple of pictures in their gallery show accent lighting, and that's what I liked about it.