Professional Christmas Light Installation

CD by Smitty's

Christmas Décor by Smitty's designs, installs, maintains, and stores custom holiday lighting displays for homes, businesses, and municipalities across northern New Jersey. Since 1981, we've handled every part of the process so property owners can enjoy a professionally lit property without a ladder, a tangle of lights, or a trip to the store. Our Christmas light installation service is fully turnkey: you approve the design, we do everything else.

Turnkey Holiday Lighting, Handled Start to Finish

Our full-service Christmas light installation covers five stages under a single agreement: custom design, professional installation, proactive in-season maintenance, post-holiday takedown, and off-season storage. We supply the lights, greenery, and hardware, and we return every following season to install the same display, refresh the design, or expand it. That means no annual shopping trips, no untangling last year's strands, and no storage bins taking up garage space in July.

Christmas Décor by Smitty's is part of the national Christmas Décor franchise network, which gives our team access to a proprietary line of commercial-grade lighting, wreaths, garland, and daytime décor developed specifically for professional installation. Combined with our four-plus decades of local landscaping and lighting experience, that product line lets us build displays that hold up through the full New Jersey winter, season after season.

How Our Christmas Light Installation Process Works

1. Custom Design Consultation

Every project begins with a complimentary design consultation. Whether you'd like us to walk your property with you or already have ideas in mind, we'll discuss your goals, assess the space, and develop a customized design and proposal tailored to your vision.

2. Professional Installation

Our trained installation team handles every aspect of the project on installation day. Our team professionally installs, connects, and thoroughly tests all lighting and electrical components on-site. We use high-quality, UL-listed products and follow industry best practices to ensure reliable performance and safety. As a fully insured company, we maintain strict safety standards to protect both our crew and your property throughout the installation process.

3. Proactive Season-Long Maintenance

If any part of your display stops working during the season, we come out and fix it, usually within one business day. Maintenance is included in every package, so there's no service call fee.

4. Takedown and Storage

After the holidays, we carefully remove your display, inventory, and inspect each item, and store everything in our climate-controlled facility until next season. No boxes, lights, or décor taking up space in your garage, attic, or basement.

What We Decorate

Rooflines, Architectural Features & Windows

We use commercial-grade C9 lights to decorate Rooflines, architectural features, and windows, custom-cut and fitted to your home's exact dimensions for a clean, professional appearance. For windows, we install mini-LED lights that beautifully highlight architectural features and create a cohesive, elegant display. We professionally install all lighting to ensure consistent spacing, reliable performance, and a polished look.

Trees, Shrubs, and Landscape Features

Wrapped tree trunks and branches, canopy lighting for mature trees, uplighting for evergreens, and mini-light coverage for hedges and foundation plantings. Landscape features like pergolas, arbors, and fencing can be lit as part of the same display.

Wreaths, Garland, and Windows

Fresh-look artificial wreaths and garland with integrated lighting, sized for entryways, mantels, gates, and large commercial facades. Window candles and window wreaths are available as add-ons.

Walkway and Ground Lighting

Pathway markers, driveway lining, and ground-mounted spotlights that create curb appeal from the street and safely light walking surfaces after dark.

Daytime Décor
Bows, ribbon, ornament clusters, and non-illuminated greenery designed to look intentional in daylight, not just after sunset. Daytime elements define the Christmas Décor product line and set our installations apart from bulb-only displays.

Professionalism

  • Extensive Design Training

  • Comprehensive Electrical Instruction

  • Precise Installation Methods and Techniques

  • Annual Continuing Education

  • Thorough Ladder & Roof Safety

  • Strict Electrical Safety Measures

  • Courteous, Uniformed Crews

  • Completely Insured

Premium Product

  • Consistency from Season to Season

  • Energy-Efficient LED Lights

  • Super-Bright Bulbs

  • Property-Friendly Fasteners

  • Lush, Realistic Greenery (Lit & Unlit)

  • UL-rated, Commercial-Grade Electrical Components

All-Inclusive Service

  • Design Unique To Your Property

  • Thorough Installation

  • Convenient Take-Down Service

  • Trouble-Free Storage

  • Service Calls Included

Why Choose Christmas Décor by Smitty's

Smitty's Landscaping & Irrigation has served northern New Jersey since 1981, and our holiday lighting division has grown into one of the region's most experienced Christmas Décor franchise operators. We're a family-owned, locally operated business, fully licensed and insured, and active members of the New Jersey Landscape Association and the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute. Our installation crews are trained in-house, background-checked, and led by supervisors who've been running holiday installations for us for years, not seasonal contractors hired every October.

Areas We Serve

Christmas Décor by Smitty's provides Christmas light installation across Essex County and Bergen County, New Jersey. Our primary service area includes Cedar Grove, Little Falls, Montclair, Verona, West Caldwell, Caldwell, North Caldwell, Essex Fells, Roseland, Livingston, Nutley, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, Upper Montclair, and the surrounding communities. Bergen County service extends into Wayne, Fair Lawn, Ridgewood, Glen Rock, and neighboring towns. If your property is nearby and doesn't appear on this list, contact us, and we'll confirm coverage.

Reserve Your Christmas Light Installation

Design consultations begin in late summer, and installation dates fill up quickly starting in October. To secure your preferred installation date, we recommend booking at least four to six weeks in advance.

We schedule returning customers first, followed by new residential and commercial customers in the order requests are received. Call us at (973) 785-8483 or request a free on-site design consultation, and we'll get you on the schedule!

Residential Christmas Light Installation

For homeowners, our Christmas light installation service is built around a single principle: you shouldn't have to climb a ladder, buy anything, or store anything to have a professionally lit home for the holidays. Every residential package includes custom design, on-site installation, season-long maintenance, post-holiday takedown, and off-season storage.

Commercial Christmas Light Installation

For homeowners, our Christmas light installation service is built around a single principle: you shouldn't have to climb a ladder, buy anything, or store anything to have a professionally lit home for the holidays. Every residential package includes custom design, on-site installation, season-long maintenance, post-holiday takedown, and off-season storage.

Municipal Holiday Lighting Programs

We work with towns, boroughs, business improvement districts, and public agencies on downtown holiday lighting programs, including light-pole banners, wreaths and garland for public buildings, tree lighting for parks and town squares, and coordinated displays across main street corridors. Municipal programs are quoted on an annual contract basis and include the same design, installation, maintenance, takedown, and storage as our residential and commercial services. Municipal work is a service tier most local competitors don't offer.

Superior Quality Lights, Greenery, and Materials

Christmas Décor displays use a proprietary product line developed specifically for professional installation. The greenery is designed to look full and fresh year after year without shedding or fading; the LED lights hold consistent color across strands and seasons, and every electrical product is UL-rated for outdoor use in cold, wet, and windy conditions. 

Because our materials are commercial-grade and stored properly between seasons, most residential and commercial customers use the same display for five to ten years before any significant refresh. That's a fundamentally different economic model from buying big-box lights every two or three years and hiring someone to hang them.

Christmas Light Installation FAQs

How much does professional Christmas light installation cost?

Pricing depends on the property size, the complexity of the design, and the specific lighting and décor elements you choose. Every quote is based on an on-site design consultation, and the price you're quoted covers design, installation, maintenance, takedown, and storage under a single package. There's no separate line item for service calls or repairs during the season. Contact us for a free written estimate.

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