Start with a style
Aqua-Bright frames the first design choice as a question of mood: delightful whimsy or cool elegance. That choice drives almost everything else, starting with color.
- Whimsy usually means multicolored strings, more elements, and a display that feels like a celebration.
- Elegance usually means white light that follows the architecture and the shapes of trees and shrubs.
Aqua-Bright's designers help select the design and colors that suit the plan, so the homeowner does not have to find a look through trial and error.
Decide where the light goes
Aqua-Bright installs four kinds of decoration on Gaithersburg properties:
- Roof displays. The outline that reads from down the street.
- Lights wrapped around trees and bushes. These carry the display into the yard.
- Wreaths. Focal points for doors and windows.
- Outdoor lighting displays. Freestanding elements placed around the property.
Walk the property at dusk before the design meeting. Note which trees stand out, where guests walk from the driveway, and which windows face the street. Those notes make the plan concrete.
Installation by trained professionals
Hanging lights takes tools and ladders, and it is unsafe for anyone not used to them. Aqua-Bright's team members are used to the work and know the safest way to do it. The company states that its displays are installed by trained professionals and built with high-quality, warrantied materials.
For a household, that means the display goes up without anyone in the family climbing onto the roof in cold weather.
Why the display is built on LEDs
All of Aqua-Bright's lighting systems use energy-efficient LED lights and FX Luminaire products. For a residential display, three points matter:
- LEDs use less energy than CFL bulbs, which helps when the design uses many lights.
- They are designed to last many years and do not easily burn out.
- They are not easily broken outdoors in cold, wintry weather.
Homes first, businesses too
This guide is about homes, but Aqua-Bright's Gaithersburg service also covers commercial property. The company has designed holiday displays for shopping centers and buildings of many kinds. For a business, the lights add cheer to the storefront, keep it lit through long winter evenings, and help bring in customers.
Some homeowners who run a local business book both at once. The design conversation, LED products and season-end removal are the same for both.
When the season ends
After the holidays Aqua-Bright returns to remove all the lights safely. Homeowners who want a display up year-round can have Aqua-Bright visit for the maintenance it needs.
The lights do not go back to the company. Aqua-Bright's holiday lighting page states that installed lights are yours to keep, and later years cover labor and maintenance. The design you settle on this year becomes the starting point for next year.