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Residential Christmas Light Installation in Plano, TX
Plano's houses span more than a century, from Queen Anne cottages near downtown to golf-course homes close to the Sam Rayburn Tollway. We design a display for yours, lease you the lights, keep them working and haul everything away in January, the same way our residential lighting program works across North Texas.
✓ Victorian to 2000s homes ✓ No strands to buy or pack away ✓ 4.5-star Google rating
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Christmas Decor by Carruthers Decorative Lighting is a Christmas light installer for Plano homes in every ZIP code: 75023, 75024, 75025, 75074, 75075, 75093 and 75094. Your season includes a layout drawn for your elevation, leased commercial-grade LED cut to the roofline, installation, repair visits if anything fails, removal once the holidays end and labeled storage through the off-season.
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
What a Plano Season Covers
Plano homeowners get a single crew and a single office line from the first tape measure to the January pickup.
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Design drawn for your elevation
A Haggard Park Foursquare and a Castlemere tile-roof house need different plans, so we walk the property and sketch lines that suit its shape and era.
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Greenery at the door
Lit garland around the entry, wreaths for upstairs windows and bows for porch posts can join the roofline, which helps single-story homes with deep front porches.
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Lighting you lease
The commercial-grade LED product stays ours. You get it installed each year with no purchase and no shelf of plastic bins taking over the garage.
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Service through New Year's
If a section goes dark after a cold front, ring our office and we send someone out to fix it. Maintenance is part of the season, not an extra.
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Measured runs
Every eave, peak and dormer is measured on site and the wire is cut to length, so corners stay tight and nothing coils beside the downspout.
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January removal and storage
When the season wraps up, the crew takes everything down, tags it to your address and keeps it at our northwest Dallas shop until the next install.
Plano Houses From Five Different Eras
Plano grew in layers. Around Haggard Park near downtown, houses from the 1890s through the 1910s include Queen Anne and Folk Victorian cottages and a 1918 Prairie-style Foursquare. The 1970s and 1980s filled east Plano with brick subdivisions and west Plano with single-story homes on alley-loaded lots, and the citywide median home was built around 1987. North Plano added two-story brick and stone homes through the 1990s and 2000s.
Each era asks for a different plan. On a Victorian, the porch trim, spindles and steep front gable carry the look, so we keep the roof simple and let the porch glow. A single-story ranch gets one level eave line with shrubs lit beneath it. The larger houses of the 1990s and 2000s, with stacked gables, arched entries and turret-like stair towers, look cleanest when we choose two or three strong lines instead of tracing every hip and valley.
Victorian porches outlined, roof kept quiet
Ranch eaves lit as one level run
Alley-garage homes designed for the street face
Tile roofs fitted with clips made for tile
Stone towers and arches traced, not boxed in
See the work up close
From First Visit to January in Plano
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Design visit
A designer walks your lot, measures eaves, peaks and trees, finds the exterior outlets and notes anything unusual, such as a tile roof in Castlemere or a wraparound porch near Haggard Park.
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Itemized proposal
You receive a written plan listing every lit roofline, tree and wreath. Add or drop pieces before anything is cut to length for your house.
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Installation day
Crews clip the lighting to gutters and shingle edges, run cords to your outlets, set the timer and test every section before they pack up.
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December service calls
Wind, a squirrel or a tripped GFCI can darken a run. Phone the office and a technician is booked to fix it.
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January takedown
Once January arrives, we take the display down, bag and label it for your address, and hold it at our shop until the following season.
Plano Neighborhoods We Light
Here is how housing shifts across Plano, from one side of town to the other. We also light homes just across the city lines in Allen's established neighborhoods and Frisco's newer subdivisions.
Haggard Park and downtown
Near downtown Plano in 75074, the streets around Haggard Park contain some of Plano's oldest houses, including Queen Anne homes from around 1900 on H Avenue and East 17th Street. Porch posts, spindlework and window trim light beautifully, and the big shade trees overhead can take trunk and canopy wraps.
Castlemere
A late-1990s enclave in 75093 beside Windhaven Meadows Park, where some homes wear Spanish-style tile roofs. Tile needs clips designed for it, so we plan attachment points during the design visit and often let arches, entries and year-round landscape lighting in Plano share the work.
Parker Road Estates
East Plano homes built mostly in the 1970s and 1980s, with modest rooflines and established yards. Where a house is single-story, the install is quick and safe from one ladder height, and more of the plan can go toward lit shrubs, a wrapped front tree and walkway markers.
Old Shepard Place
Off Preston Road and Park Boulevard in 75093, this neighborhood is almost entirely one-story houses, built in the early 1980s on quarter-acre lots, with garages at the back off the alleys and trees planted down the medians. Because the street sees only the front elevation, a level eave line, a lit entry and wrapped yard trees read clean.
Ridgeview Ranch
A master-planned community of about 870 homes in 75025, set on the hills of the Ridgeview Ranch Golf Course, with a median build year near 2000 and garages that mostly face the rear. Fairway lots are seen from the fairways as well as from the street, so we ask whether the back roofline deserves lights too.
Deerfield Sets the Bar, HOAs Set the Rules
Plano takes residential lighting seriously. Deerfield, a northwest Plano neighborhood of 733 homes near Legacy Drive, built a decorating tradition that began with a builder-sponsored contest and now draws drive-through traffic and reserved carriage rides through most of December. Viewing opens on the first of December, which makes a handy deadline for any Plano home that wants to be glowing for the season.
Much of west and north Plano is governed by homeowners associations, while older east side streets and the blocks near downtown often have none. Where an association exists, we read its holiday guidelines on installation dates, placement and color before we finalize a design. Boards that want their entrances and medians lit too can see our Plano HOA holiday lighting service.
Display finished before December viewing season
HOA guidelines reviewed with you before install
Warm white, multicolor or mixed palettes
Timer hours set to match your street
No-HOA streets planned with the same care
What Shapes a Plano Quote
Quotes come from your measurements and the plan you approve. These are the variables that move them.
Feet of lit roofline
The longest line on most Plano homes is the front eave. Adding side returns, the garage and rear elevations each extends the total run.
Bulb style and color plan
Warm white, cool white, multicolor and alternating patterns install the same way, but mixed designs and specialty bulbs change the product list. Browse ideas in our notes on current lighting trends.
Pitch, height and access
Steep 1990s roofs, second-story gables and tight side yards need taller ladders, harness setups and extra hours compared with a ranch eave reached from the ground.
Garland, wreaths and ground pieces
Lit garland, window wreaths, bows and pathway markers are optional line items, so a first-year plan can stay simple and grow in later seasons.
Trees and beds
Old pecans and live oaks in established neighborhoods can take long trunk and canopy wraps. Shrub nets and young ornamental trees take far less.
What DFW clients say
4.5-star average on Google from clients across Dallas-Fort Worth.
★★★★★
“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
★★★★★
“Fast and courteous office staff and installers. Abraham my installer was excellent!”
robert simmons
★★★★★
“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
Plano Home Lighting Questions
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 Plano?
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Yes. We light houses in every Plano ZIP code: 75023, 75024, 75025, 75074, 75075, 75093 and 75094. That includes historic homes near downtown, 1980s single-story streets in west Plano and two-story homes in the north. Our Plano Christmas lighting page explains the shopping center and entrance work we do in town.
Is a seasonal lease or permanent lighting the better fit for my Plano house?
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Leasing suits homeowners who want a full holiday design with garland, wreaths and tree wraps and no gear to store. Permanent track lighting is mounted under the eaves year-round and switches colors from an app. If that appeals to you, look over our Plano permanent lighting page before deciding.
When should a Plano homeowner book, and when do installs start?
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Aim to call before October. Crews usually start hanging lights in early November, and homes that want to be glowing when Deerfield's December viewing nights start or when family arrives for Thanksgiving should be on the schedule well before then. A home we lit last year is reinstalled from its saved plan.
When do the lights come down?
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When the holiday season ends, most often during the opening weeks of January. We schedule removal by route, so the crew may arrive while you are at work. Everything is packed, labeled to your address and stored with us.
Will my Plano HOA approve the display?
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Most Plano associations allow holiday lighting but set dates and placement rules, and a few ask homeowners to submit anything attached to the house. Send us your HOA name or its guidelines and we design within them. Older east Plano streets and the downtown blocks often have no association at all.
Can clips damage a tile or shingle roof?
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Our clips slide onto gutter lips, shingle edges and tile, and nothing is nailed, screwed or stapled into the roof. Castlemere-style tile roofs get clips made for tile. When the lights come down in January, the clips leave with them.
Will the display trip my breakers or need extra outlets?
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LED lighting draws a fraction of the power older incandescent strands did, so most Plano homes run the whole display from existing exterior outlets. We check outlets and GFCI circuits during the design visit and set a timer to the hours you want.
Can you light a historic home near Haggard Park without harming the trim?
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Yes. On older wood siding and trim we avoid fasteners and rely on clips, soft ties and freestanding pieces. Porch railings, spindles and posts can carry lit garland, and the design keeps original details visible rather than covering them.
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Book a Plano Design Visit
Phone 972-620-9560 any weekday during office hours, or send us a free quote request online. We will come out, measure the house and send a written plan built around it.