Orangevale Christmas Light Hanging

Up on the north end of Orangevale, around Oak Avenue, there are still horses behind board fences and houses sitting way back from the road. We’re a Loomis crew, so this is familiar country, and Orangevale Christmas light hanging is some of our favorite work, because those deep lots let a string of lights do what it does best on a dark night. Call (916) 675-8282 and we’ll talk it through with you.

The Orange Vale Colony was laid out in ten-acre tracts back in the orchard days, and plenty of those big parcels are still in one piece. You’ll see it off Oak Avenue and down Filbert Avenue: long driveways, a barn or shop out back, an old walnut or oak standing in the middle of the yard. For lights, that means the house is only part of the picture. A lit fence along the road, a tree near the gate and a glowing roofline set back behind it all give the place some depth when you drive past.

Fences are easy to overlook, and they shouldn’t be. The strand rides the top board on little clips, never staples, so the wood isn’t chewed up come spring. On a barn or shop we’ll trace the roof edge and maybe hang a lit wreath above the big door. If the outlet’s up at the house, we plan the power run before anything goes up, and we put it on a timer so you’re not trudging out there at ten o’clock to shut it off.

One more thing about horse property. A horse will test anything new in its paddock with its teeth. Cords run high or outside the rails, and the stall side of the barn stays dark. From the road you’ll never notice the difference.

Not every street out here is horse property. Over on the west side toward Citrus Heights, Woodmore Oaks is mostly single-story, and the oaks planted with the houses are now the tallest thing on the block, so the tree wraps can be the real showpiece. Linda Creek Estates and Chestnut Grove Estates are regular subdivisions with houses side by side and neat front lawns, which suits a clean eave line and a row of stakes down the walk better than the fence-and-barn plan out on the colony tracts. Near Orangevale Community Park, with its big stand of shade oaks and the disc golf course, plenty of yards have a mature trunk right by the curb, and one wrapped tree there reads from the whole street.

On single-story homes, we keep the roofline lights tight to the gutter and add pillar wraps on the porch posts. Garland on the entry and one lit wreath finish it off without looking busy.

We bring the lights, down to the last clip. Stake lighting goes along the front walk and the driveway edges, set in clear of your sprinkler heads. Tree wraps go on trunks and main limbs, snug enough that the wind doesn’t loosen them. Our stake lighting page has more on the pathway side.

If something quits halfway through December, call (916) 675-8282 and we’ll set it right. And in January we come back out, take every bit of it down and cart it off, so nothing stays on your roof or clutters up the garage.

Orangevale borders Granite Bay to the north, and we’re over in Granite Bay and Folsom all season long. Orangevale sits between the two, so a stop here fits any day of the week. We also light churches and small shops along Greenback and Hazel Avenue. If there are horses on the property, say so when you call (916) 675-8282 or write through our contact page.