Holiday lights make your Windsor property feel welcoming. Putting them up means finding time for ladders and outdoor work before colder weather arrives, with holiday commitments already claiming those last free weekends. A hired Christmas decorating service puts someone else in charge of installation.
Across Windsor-Essex, Garlatti Landscape provides holiday displays for residential and commercial properties. Drawing on its landscaping background, the company shapes designs around each property, with seasonal service covering the less festive work of takedown and storage.
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What a Christmas decorating service includes
A full-service Christmas decorating provider may inspect your property and develop a design before installing the display. Removal and storage follow after the season. Garlatti’s christmas decorating service follows that sequence, planning outdoor lights and decorations for homes and businesses around your goals and budget.
Hanging the lights is different from enjoying them. In Leger’s December 2024 survey, 48% of the 1,515 Canadian adults surveyed associated decorations and lights with holiday enjoyment; putting them up was a burden for 15%. At your consultation, bring up jobs you’d rather avoid, such as hanging lights above an entrance.
Before installation, pin down exactly what the job includes. Ask how the provider schedules the season’s work, specifying any indoor work you want included. As you mark the areas for outdoor lights, talk through removal as well.
How Garlatti plans a display around the property
In Windsor-Essex, Garlatti Landscape has served residential and commercial property owners since 1990. Its work includes landscape design and construction, so you can discuss holiday placement in relation to the planting and built features already on your property.
Consultation before installation
The process begins with a property inspection.
A member of Garlatti’s design team inspects your residence or business before developing the display. The team chooses installation areas guided by your preferred look and budget rather than treating every building the same. To keep that discussion concrete, point out the features you want the design to highlight:
- The entrance your household or customers use most.
- A tree that’s mature and visible through your front window.
- The roofline you’d prefer the lighting to follow.
Using existing landscape features
Beyond the roofline, Garlatti’s landscaping knowledge brings entrances and planted areas into the design. The company describes canopy lighting for larger trees, or wrapping their branches and trunks. Illuminated bushes add color nearer the ground. Include ground cover when you discuss placement, too.
Garlatti incorporates natural elements into entrance décor and landscape accents. Live wreaths and artificial trees are available, along with garland, swags, and tabletop decorations. Not all are needed. Ask which elements suit the space around your doorway.
How professional installation can reduce seasonal risks
Professional holiday lighting can reduce your need to work on ladders or roofs in cold weather, while a planned design can keep the lights and decorations from looking disconnected across your property. There’s still risk. Your display still needs careful placement around doors and walkways.
Before the installer starts, raise your access concerns while asking where lights will go, paying particular attention to decorations near an entrance.
LED lighting and lower heat
Garlatti says all its electric holiday lights are LED and may use up to 80% less energy. Compared with conventional incandescent strings, LEDs use about 75% less electricity on average and emit substantially less heat, says Hydro One’s holiday-lighting guidance. Less heat doesn’t mean the lights are fireproof. Ask where the proposed lights can be appropriately placed.
Why careful placement still matters
Decorations other than Christmas trees started an estimated annual average of 835 US home structure fires, according to the National Fire Protection Association’s winter holiday data. Those fires caused an annual average of three civilian deaths, 29 civilian injuries and US$18 million in direct property damage.
These are US estimates, not Windsor incidents or records of Garlatti projects. Professional installation doesn’t guarantee fire prevention. During Garlatti’s property inspection, bring up questions about product placement and electrical arrangements while reviewing suitable attachment points.
Christmas light installation and takedown
Garlatti installs the outdoor lights and decorations agreed upon during design. With the holidays over, the team returns for takedown and provides storage for the decorations. Garlatti’s service continues after the display’s final evening, so consider that work when comparing Christmas light installation and takedown.
Garlatti includes takedown work, so you’re not left tackling everything on a cold weekend. When comparing the proposed scope, include the post-holiday work if you’ve previously handled your own decorations. The job involves more than installation day.
You can also change next season’s design. Garlatti describes annual design flexibility, so you can revisit the layout rather than assume that next year’s entrance must repeat the same decorations.
How much professional Christmas decorating costs
House decorating and custom quotes
For Christmas, you can pay a professional to decorate your house. After residential design and installation, Garlatti offers removal and storage. With no standard package price published on its service page, your quote should account for the inspected property and the coverage you want within your design budget. Compared with decorating the broader landscape, lighting a roofline alone needs different specifications.
Ask for an itemized quote and a site assessment, specifying the outdoor lighting work separately from any proposed interior décor.
Christmas tree decorating
Christmas tree decorating and interior décor are jobs for seasonal decorators. Garlatti lists options including artificial trees and tabletop decorations, without publishing a separate rate for Christmas tree decorating. For a tree-specific quote, first discuss the decorations you’d like alongside the tree’s size and location.
Color choices for Christmas 2026
No single authoritative body sets official Christmas colors for 2026. Alongside traditional red and green, another choice is warm white lighting. These are design choices, not verified popularity rankings. Choose a different restrained palette if it suits your building and surrounding landscape better. Garlatti’s annual design flexibility lets you discuss a different look next season, including the color around your entrance.
What Windsor homes and businesses can expect
Garlatti offers indoor and outdoor festive lighting for homes and businesses. For both, installation starts after an inspection and design discussion, with takedown and storage following once the season ends. The intended view of the display, whether through front windows or at a customer-facing entrance, guides what you discuss during the consultation.
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Property |
Likely consultation focus |
Documented options to discuss |
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Residential |
Entrances and rooflines; views from inside the home |
Tree wrapping and bushes; wreaths and landscape accents |
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Commercial |
Customer-facing entrances and a welcoming interior or exterior |
Festive lighting and garland; swags and tabletop décor |
These are topics to discuss, rather than fixed packages. If you’re arranging a commercial display, ask how the proposed décor would fit the lobby and the approach to the door.
Conclusion
Planning around your Windsor property’s building and landscape is part of Garlatti’s appeal, along with handling the work that comes after installation. Even when professional setup reduces your time on ladders, some risks still remain. After the holidays, its documented removal and storage service handles the workload. Arrange an assessment of your property to talk through your budget and the display you want.
