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Residential Christmas Light Installation in Melissa, TX
Melissa grew from about 4,700 residents in 2010 to nearly 30,000 by 2025, and its median home dates to 2018. Our turnkey home holiday lighting brings a professional display to those new streets and to the estate lots on the edges of town.
✓ New streets and estate lots ✓ Leased lighting, no bins ✓ Google rating of 4.5 stars
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Christmas Decor by Carruthers Decorative Lighting provides residential Christmas light installation in Melissa, serving the 75454 ZIP code and the parts of town addressed 75071. Each season brings a plan for your elevation, commercial-grade LED lighting on lease, installation by our crew, fixes during December, January removal and storage.
Since 1978
Dallas family business
5+ years
Commercial and large residential lighting
Fully insured
Liability and workers’ comp
4.5★ Google
Rated by DFW clients
The Melissa Home Package
Covered from the tape measure in the fall to the last clip in January.
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Personal design
We look past the shared builder plan to the details of your house, like stone wainscot, a covered porch or a cross gable over the garage.
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Yard depth
Lit shrubs, small-tree wraps and walkway lights fill out the front on newer lots, and acre lots can take much more.
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No purchase required
The LED lighting is leased with the service, kept up by us and swapped out by us when a piece wears.
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Mid-season fixes
Phone us if a run fails in December. A crew comes out and repairs it.
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Exact-length runs
Each line is cut to your measured eave and rake, which keeps corners and peaks tight.
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January pickup and storage
The display is taken down after the holidays and kept in our storage until next season.
Melissa Homes: Builder Rows and Acre Lots
Most Melissa houses are recent builder homes. The median home in town dates to 2018 and sits on about 6,500 square feet, in subdivisions such as Liberty, Hunters Ridge and Meadow Run, where two-story brick and stone houses line up with consistent setbacks. Those streets reward a clean, repeated line: front gables, garage edge and a lit entry.
The edges of town are different. Country Ridge is a gated community of larger homes, a few of them on lots over an acre, shaded by mature trees, and newer projects like The Dawn are building modern two-story homes with cold-formed steel framing. Big lots shift the design toward trees, drives and lawn, while modern elevations call for straight, simple lines that match the architecture.
Front gables and garage lit as a set
Stone wainscot and porch posts framed
Acre-lot drives lined with path lights
Mature trees in Country Ridge wrapped
Modern facades lit with single straight lines
See the work up close
Five Steps to a Lit Melissa Home
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Visit and measure
We measure your home, note outlet locations and ask which neighborhood rules apply.
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Proposal
You see each roofline, tree and wreath listed and can change anything before we prepare the lights.
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Install
Crews fasten lighting with clips, connect it to a timer and test everything in one visit.
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Service
Contact the office during the season about any outage, and a repair visit is booked.
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Remove and store
When the holidays end, the crew packs every strand into storage under your address.
Where We Light Homes in Melissa
A sampling of Melissa neighborhoods and what their homes need. Neighbors in Anna to the north and McKinney to the south are part of our service area too.
Liberty
Built around an amenity center with a pool, a sports pavilion, a fishing pond and walking trails. Two-story brick and stone homes here suit outlined gables, a lit entry and netted shrubs along the front beds.
Meadow Run
Another newer Melissa neighborhood of single-family homes with young landscaping. Light tree wraps and lit beds add depth until the trees fill out.
Country Ridge
A gated community of larger homes, including Southern Colonial designs on lots of more than an acre with mature trees. Columns, long porches and big trees make room for garland, canopy wraps and drive lighting.
Hunters Ridge
A newer subdivision beside Hunters Ridge Park. Builder homes with front gables and porches take a tidy front outline and garland at the door.
North Creek Estates
Single-family homes with open floor plans and broad front elevations, where an eave-and-gable outline plus window wreaths reads well from the street.
Highway Wind and HOA Guidelines in Melissa
Melissa sits where US 75 crosses SH 121 and SH 5, and much of the land around the newest subdivisions is still open. Homes on the outer streets catch the North Texas wind with little tree cover, so we take care fastening each run and inspect it whenever we are back for a service call.
Nearly every new neighborhood here has an association, and their holiday guidelines differ on timing, color and placement. We collect yours at the design visit and stay within it. Associations that want entrance lighting can use our holiday lighting for HOA boards.
Runs fastened with open-land wind in mind
Service visits recheck exposed sections
HOA timing and color rules confirmed
Gate access in Country Ridge planned ahead
Ground pieces anchored against gusts
What Changes the Cost in Melissa
Lot size matters here as much as roof size.
Lit footage
The total eave, gable and garage length you want lit is the biggest single factor.
Color and bulb choices
Choosing classic warm white, bold multicolor or a pattern shifts the product list a bit.
Stories and pitch
Second-floor peaks and steep pitches take more setup than single-story eaves.
Garland, wreaths and drive lights
Entry greenery, window wreaths and lit drive markers are added one by one, so you control the scope.
Trees on large lots
Acre lots with mature trees can add a lot of wrap work, while young trees on compact lots add little.
What DFW clients say
4.5-star average on Google from clients across Dallas-Fort Worth.
★★★★★
“This is the first year I have used this company, & I can say I am absolutely pleased! The designer and I agreed on the overall design, and the team executed it properly. Any issues that have arisen since install, they have been very prompt in their…”
Ellen Sterin
★★★★★
“These guys were amazing. Highly recommend them for all your decorative lighting needs.”
Alex Shaw
★★★★★
“First season with them and hands down best service I’ve had. Very impressed with their service and communication. David was very professional and made the entire experience easy and worry free. Will definitely be keeping my business with them!”
Courtney Carrier
Melissa Home Lighting FAQ
Have a question we didn’t cover? Call 972-620-9560 or request a free quote online.
Do you install Christmas lights on homes in Melissa?
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Yes. We light Melissa homes in 75454 and in the sections of town that use 75071, from Liberty and Hunters Ridge to Country Ridge. For HOA entrances and highway businesses, see our Melissa holiday lighting overview.
Should I lease holiday lights or consider permanent lighting?
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Leasing covers a full holiday design with no purchase, maintenance or storage on your part. Permanent lighting is mounted for good and runs year-round from an app, which suits some new Melissa homes. Compare it on our permanent lighting page for Melissa.
How early should Melissa homeowners book?
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Plan on calling by early fall. Install dates generally start in early November, and routes are set by area, so Melissa dates go to the earliest requests. Returning homes are reinstalled from last year's design.
When will you remove the lights?
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We remove them after the holiday season, most years in early January, and take every clip and cord with us.
Does my HOA need to sign off?
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It depends on the association. Many Melissa HOAs allow holiday lighting but limit dates or placement, and gated communities may want to know when crews are coming. Give us the guidelines and we plan accordingly.
Will my roof or gutters be damaged?
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No fasteners go through your roof. The lights hang from clips seated on the gutter lip and the shingle edge, and every clip is pulled with the lights in January.
Will the lights run up my electric bill or need new outlets?
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LED lighting uses a small share of the electricity old incandescent strings did, and most homes run the display from existing outdoor outlets on a timer. We check outlets and circuits when we come out to measure.
Can you light a large estate lot in Country Ridge?
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Yes. On acre lots we can light the drive, front trees and porch columns along with the roofline, so the home reads from the road. We confirm gate access before install day.
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Schedule a Melissa Design Visit
Call 972-620-9560 Monday to Friday, or fill out a Melissa quote request and we will reach out to set a time.