North Pole Lighting lights wreaths, garland and porch railings at front entries in Longmeadow, Westfield, and Feeding Hills.
A lighting contractor out of Southwick, and the same crew that does the rest of the house does the entry.
The entry is the one part of a display people walk up to. Christmas wreath lights over a garage get read from the road at thirty miles an hour. A wreath on the door gets read from three feet away, by somebody holding a casserole. Those are two different jobs, and they get sized differently in Longmeadow, Westfield, and Granby alike.
The entry is where a display stops being scenery and starts being a house somebody lives in. It is also where the wiring gets awkward. Nobody builds a front door with a decorating outlet next to it.
Every cord and every decoration used outdoors has to be marked for outdoor use. Those are the outdoor extension cord safety rules, and they are the reason we do not improvise this part.
The garage wreath is the one the street sees. It is sized to the door under it and centered on it. The door wreath is the one visitors see, so detail matters more than size. Making the two the same size is the most common mistake on the front of a house.
Most front doors have no outlet within reach. That gets solved on the walk-around, before install day. We find the nearest outside outlet and plan a cord route that misses the walk and the door swing. Some cords are only made for indoors. An indoor cord in a New England December is how a display goes dark in week two.
This is where the smaller bulbs work. Slim bulbs about an inch and a half tall suit a window or a door frame. The smallest sizes go on garland, railings and wrapped columns. The big roof bulb stays on the roof.
Lights go on either one. A real wreath holds a strand differently than an artificial one. It also changes over eight weeks outside. That is worth knowing before it goes up over a hard-to-reach garage. An artificial wreath holds its shape from November to January.
The entry also has to agree with the roofline they hang beneath. That is how the whole front of the house reads as one thing.
None of it is a separate decision. The entry gets planned at the same walk-around as the rest of the house.
Measure the entry.
We size the wreath to the door it hangs on and check the mounting point.
Find the power.
We locate the nearest exterior outlet and plan the cord route before install day.
Hang the entry last.
Wreaths, garland and railings go up after the roof run, so the front balances at once.
Take it down from the ground.
Entry work comes off in January without anybody going back on a roof.
The strand is wrapped through the wreath, not laid on top of it. It is sized to the diameter, so the light is even all the way around.
It depends on how the bulbs are spaced and how full the wreath is, so it gets sized in person.
Yes. A real wreath takes the strand fine, and it changes more over eight weeks outside than an artificial one does.
That gets solved before install day. We find the nearest outside outlet on the walk-around and plan a cord route that stays off the walk.
Ask when you book. Tell us what you already have on the walk-around, and we will tell you what we can bring.
Yes. Railings, columns and garland are part of the same entry work and go up on the same visit.
Warm white. That is what we hang. Other colors and options can be bought and quoted if you ask.
Yes, in January. Entry work sits low enough to reach from the ground, so it does not wait for the snow to melt.
The entry gets done on the same visit as the rest of the house. The route runs from Hartford County up through Western Massachusetts.
Longmeadow, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Wilbraham, Agawam, Feeding Hills, Southwick, Westfield, and Hampden County, Massachusetts. Suffield, West Suffield, and Granby, Connecticut, in Hartford County.
The entry is the last thing hung and the first thing anybody sees up close. It books with the rest of the job, on a calendar about sixty days long.
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