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Professional Christmas lighting, brass landscape lighting and permanent eave lighting — designed on your property, installed by the owner, serviced by the people who put it in.
What we do
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What we actually do
Bridges Lighting Pros does two things for North Georgia homes and businesses, and does both properly.
Landscape lighting, eleven months of the year — solid brass uplights on trees and stone, path and step lighting, moonlighting down through mature canopy. It is the lighting that makes a property look like itself after dark, and it stays in the ground permanently.
Christmas lighting, in season — full professional holiday displays, installed in November, taken down and stored in January, on a lease program where the lights are ours rather than yours. Nothing goes in your attic and nothing comes out tangled next year.
Most of our clients buy both, and there is a reason they go together: the same low-voltage design that lights your trees in July gives the December display something to sit against. A roofline outlined in warm white over a dark yard is half a picture.
We also install permanent eave lighting, café and patio lighting, and wedding and event lighting. Owner-operated out of Loganville, covering Gwinnett, Walton, Fulton, Hall, Jackson, DeKalb and Clarke counties. Call (770) 630-4653 — the person who answers is the person who will walk your property.
The single biggest difference between a system that looks good in twenty years and one that looks tired in three is what the fixtures are made of.
Solid brass does not corrode. It develops a patina — bright gold when new, darkening over a few seasons to a soft brown that disappears into a planting bed — and it keeps working underneath that. Cast brass has real wall thickness, so a mower clip or a frost heave bends it rather than breaking it.
Aluminium is the common alternative and it is cheaper for a reason. In an irrigated bed it pits, the finish blisters, and the fixture body eventually fails around the lens seal. Composite and plastic fixtures are cheaper again, go chalky in Georgia sun, and become brittle enough to crack when somebody kneels on one weeding.
You are not buying light. You are buying the housing that keeps delivering it.
Pointing a light up a tree is easy. Getting it to look like anything takes deciding what you are trying to show.
Grazing puts the fixture close to a surface and rakes light across it, which throws every bit of texture into relief. On a stone chimney or a brick facade it is the difference between a lit wall and a wall you can read.
Washing moves the fixture back and floods evenly, which flatters smooth surfaces and flattens textured ones. Use it on stucco and siding, not on stone.
Moonlighting puts a fixture high in a tree aimed down, so light falls through the branches and lays their shadows across the lawn. It is the most natural effect available and almost nobody asks for it by name, because from the ground you cannot see where it is coming from.
Silhouetting lights the surface behind a plant instead of the plant, turning a Japanese maple into a shape against a glowing wall.
Which of those a property wants depends on what is growing on it, which is why the design happens standing in the yard at dusk rather than on a plan.
The failure is always the same: fixtures spaced evenly down both sides of a walk like an airport runway, each one a bright dot you look at rather than a pool of light you walk by.
Path lighting is supposed to light the path. That means fewer fixtures than people expect, staggered rather than paired, with a shielded top so you see the ground and not the lamp. Two or three along a front walk usually beats eight.
Steps and grade changes are the exception — those are a safety item and they get lit deliberately, usually from the side or from under a tread rather than with a fixture standing next to them.
Holiday lighting is not a sideline here. It is half the year's work, and it runs on a lease program rather than a sale.
That means we own the lights, not you. They are commercial-grade LED strands cut and built to your rooflines, stored by us between seasons, and replaced by us when a run ages out. In November a crew installs them. In January a crew takes them down and they go into our warehouse instead of your attic. You never buy strands, never store them, never untangle them, and never stand on a ladder in December.
What gets lit is a design conversation, not a default. Rooflines and gables, wrapped columns and trunks, garland and wreaths at the entry, lit shrubs and walkways. On a wooded lot, outlining every eave is frequently the wrong answer — the trees hide half of it — and greenery at the entry plus a few well-placed runs looks far better than a roof the street cannot see.
Service in season is the part that actually matters. A display that goes dark on December 18th and gets fixed in January is a display you paid for and did not get. Anything that fails between install and December 23rd is handled within 24 hours.
Book holiday work early. The calendar fills from September and the last two weeks of November are gone first.
Call or text (770) 630-4653. We walk the property, usually near dusk so you can see what the light is going to do, and you get a design and a written price before anything is dug.
Why homeowners call us
Uplighting on trees and stone, path and step lighting, moonlighting down through the canopy — all in solid cast brass. Brass oxidises to a patina and stops there. Aluminium pits and the powder coat lifts. The fixture body is the part you are actually buying.
We walk the lot at dusk and aim fixtures where they belong, because a daylight visit and a satellite photo both tell you nothing about where light needs to land. Beam spread, placement and aiming are decided on site.
The person who walks your property and prices the job is the person who installs it. No call centre, no rotating subcontractors, no quote off an aerial image.
Holiday lighting runs on a lease program — we own the strands, build them to your rooflines, store them between seasons and replace anything that ages out. Nothing goes in your attic in January and nothing comes out tangled in November. Anything that fails before December 23rd is fixed within 24 hours.
How it works
The trees worth lighting, the stone and brick that take a graze, where a walk goes dark, and where the power already is. Landscape design happens on site and in the dark, because that is the only time you can see what the light will do.
Which trees get uplit and at what beam spread, where path lights sit and how far apart, how the zones split, and what it costs. Most residential landscape installations run one to two days.
Fixtures set, cable buried, transformer mounted. Then we come back after dark and aim every fixture with you standing where you actually look at the house from — the street, the porch, the kitchen window.
Service, warranty work, re-aiming as planting grows in, and additions later. For holiday lighting, anything that goes out between install and December 23rd is handled within 24 hours.
Questions
We install it, and for some houses it is genuinely the right call — a simple, visible roofline and a household that wants the outline lit every night of the year, in warm white most of the time and red and green in December.
But it is not what most properties here need first. A track along the eaves draws the roof. Landscape lighting draws the house and the ground it sits on, and on a wooded North Georgia lot with mature hardwoods the trees are the reason the property looks the way it does. Light those and the house takes care of itself.
It is worth being clear about how it compares to seasonal Christmas lighting, because people ask. A permanent system covers December as one of its scenes and does something the other eleven months, but it is a fixed track on the fascia — it will not do wrapped trunks, garland, wreaths or lit shrubs. Plenty of clients run a permanent system and have us add the seasonal elements each November.
If you want both landscape and eave lighting, the honest order is usually ground first, eaves later.
Quoted per property after a site visit, because the number comes from fixture count, cable runs, transformer size and how hard the ground is to work — not from square footage.
What moves it most is fixture quality and count. A dozen brass uplights properly placed will outperform thirty cheap ones scattered about, and cost less to own over ten years because nothing needs replacing. We will tell you when a design has more fixtures in it than the property needs.
Yes, and a good share of the work is exactly that — a system somebody else put in that has gone dim at the far end, or has fixtures buried under three years of mulch, or lost a run when a bed was replanted.
Most of it is repairable. Voltage drop, a failed connector or a transformer past its life are all ordinary fixes, and worth diagnosing before anyone suggests replacing the whole thing.
Any time the ground is workable, which in North Georgia is most of the year. Winter is often the best time to design, because with the leaves down you can see the structure of the trees you are going to light.
The one thing worth timing is planting. If beds are being redone, the lighting should be designed alongside so the cable is in before the mulch goes back.
Get in touch
Call and talk to someone who does the work, or send the details and we'll get back to you.
Call (770) 630-4653