The bungalow blocks between Pine, Carlton and Idaho carry the lowest eave lines in Meridian — single-story, deep overhangs, wood fascia that's been painted for the better part of a century. Easy height, fragile material: the opposite problem from the two-story vinyl tracts, and a different install because of it.
Everywhere in town we attach lights with plastic clips only — no staples, no nails, no screws, no adhesive — but Old Town is where that rule earns its keep. The fascia and trim on a pre-war bungalow is old-growth wood under decades of paint, and every staple ever fired into it left a hole that let water in. Walk these blocks and you can see fascia boards still carrying rows of rusted staples from Christmases past. Our runs grip the gutter lip or the shingle edge and come off in January leaving nothing behind — no punctures in hundred-year-old wood, no adhesive pulling off paint layers that may predate your grandparents. On a house this age, the attachment method isn't a detail. It's the difference between decorating the house and slowly wounding it.
A low, deep bungalow eave with big C9 bulbs spaced along it is about as traditional as a Christmas roofline gets, and Old Town's architecture wears it better than any subdivision in Meridian. The runs here are simpler than a production two-story — mostly one long eave line, a porch, maybe a small gable over the entry — so the design conversation is short and the result reads clean from the sidewalk. We custom-cut commercial-grade C9 or mini LED to your actual eave lengths and label each section for takedown. We don't hang store-bought or customer-owned strands on any house: old retail sets fail by sections in mid-December, and on a street where people actually walk past your porch, a half-dark run shows. Because the lights are ours, the mid-season fix is free — call and we come repair it.
Old Town is the original townsite grid — narrow, deep lots, short setbacks, detached garages off back alleys, parking on the street. For an install that mostly means staging: tell us whether to work off the street or the alley and which side of the house is clear. The trickier part is footing. The mature shrubs planted decades ago sit right under the front windows, and the old concrete walks have heaved and tilted, so we set ladders on standoffs and pads and pick footing deliberately instead of trusting a flat driveway that doesn't exist here. The upside is height: a single-story bungalow eave is honest ladder work, no second-story rake runs, which keeps the install quick once the staging is sorted. Cords route down a porch post or downspout to the nearest exterior outlet, on a timer.
Old Town has the one mature elm and poplar canopy in Meridian, and by December those trees are bare — a light run reads through the branches fine. But on a lot where a big elm stands square between the sidewalk and the house, we'll tell you plainly which sections of roofline will actually show and which would be paid-for footage nobody sees. The same honesty goes the other way: a single-story eave this low is genuinely DIY-able for a homeowner with a stepladder and patience, and we'd rather say that than pretend otherwise. What you hire out is the commercial-grade product cut to the house, the clip-only method that protects old wood, the January takedown in the cold, the storage, and a free fix if a section goes dark in December.
We book Old Town from October through the first week of November and aim to have everything hung before Thanksgiving — routes fill by mid-November, though late deciders can still get installed through December. Hanging early matters here the same way it does everywhere in the valley: warm shingles take clips without cracking and dry roofs are safe roofs, and the lights simply sit dark until you flip them on. The quote is per roofline and covers everything — the lights, the install, mid-season repairs at no charge, takedown in January, and off-season storage with an inspection before next fall, labeled by section so year two is a repeat. Reflekt was founded in April 2025 by Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy, is locally owned and fully insured, and holds 4.9 stars across 125+ Google reviews. Call or text (208) 453-6760.
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With the right attachment, yes. Everything we hang grips the gutter lip or shingle edge with plastic clips and comes off clean in January — no staples, nails, screws, or adhesive ever touch the fascia or trim. That matters most on old painted wood, where every staple hole is a water entry and adhesive can pull up paint layers. The house ends the season exactly as it started, minus the dark evenings.
Because the fascia on these bungalows already shows what staples do — rusted rows of them from decades of Christmases, each one a small hole that let water into old-growth wood. Staples are faster for the installer and worse for the house, which is the wrong trade. Clips cost us more time and leave nothing behind, and on a pre-war home that's the only version of this job worth doing.
By December the canopy is bare, so light reads through branches better than people expect. But we'll be straight on the walkthrough: if a section of eave genuinely won't show from the sidewalk, we say so and quote the lines that will, rather than selling footage nobody sees. On most Old Town lots the porch and front eave carry the display, and that's often all the house needs.
Honestly, on a low bungalow eave, a careful homeowner can. What you're hiring out is the rest of it: commercial-grade C9 cut to your exact eave lengths instead of store strands that die by sections in December, clip-only attachment that spares the old wood, a free repair visit if anything goes dark, and the January takedown and storage. Plenty of neighbors decide that half is worth more than the hanging.
Call in October — the install window runs October through the first week of November, and routes fill by mid-November. We hang while roofs are dry and shingles are warm, and the lights sit dark until you want them on, usually Thanksgiving week. If you decide late, we still install through December; you'll just be further down the route than the October callers.
One per-roofline number covers the lights themselves, the install, any mid-season repairs at no charge, takedown in January, and storage of your cut runs through the off-season with an inspection before next year. We pull the clips at takedown and the house is untouched. Nothing gets guessed over the phone — we look at the eave, the porch, and the access, then give you the number.
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