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What is driving the interest Around Greenville, more rooflines are lit every December, and they are not coming down afterward. What you are looking at is a fixed LED track, put up once and left up. What it means for an Upstate house Holiday color is the reason most people call. What makes it worth the money is everything after December. A warm white line along the roof means the front of the house is not a dark shape at nine at night, which matters on a long driveway or a

A definition worth having The short version: an LED system that lives on the house, up all year, controlled from your phone. Where string lights go up and come down, this lives on the house. Because the track is matched to your trim, it mostly disappears in daylight. Where it goes on a house Most installs run the roofline, then pick up gables, dormers, porch edges and columns as the design calls for it. On a commercial building the same idea covers storefronts, entrances,

The roof edge is the line your eye already follows Look at any house after dark and the shape you recognize is the roofline. Nothing else on the house runs that far uninterrupted, and nothing else is backed by open air. Light that line and the building reads as a shape rather than a dark mass.Which is why the roof edge is where permanent lighting goes instead of being spread across the walls. It is the highest impact run on the building, measured by what it changes for what