Fall color along a wooded Minnesota lakeshore

Permanent Light Installation in Wayzata, MN

Warm white on an ordinary Tuesday, red and green in December, and nothing to put up or take down. On a lakefront house we can give the lake side and the street side their own scenes, because different people are looking at them.

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A two-story home at dusk with permanent lights along every roofline

The Wally's Way

Permanent Lighting in Wayzata

A slim aluminum track is screwed into the soffit under your eaves, with small LEDs seated inside it. We match the track to your trim color, so in daylight most people never notice it. After dark you run the whole thing from your phone.

No ladder every November, no bins of tangled strands in the garage, and no install bill every single year. Our permanent light installation goes up once and stays up.

Track color matched to your existing trim
Every run measured and cut at your house
Screwed into the soffit, never taped or glued
Separate lake and street scenes, where the layout allows
Fully insured and bonded, with free quotes
Backed by our 72-Hour Worry-Free Guarantee

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From the Dock or the Driveway

Control Everything From Your Phone

Say you're down on the dock and the roofline looks brighter than you'd like. You take out your phone and bring it down a notch. That kind of fine control comes from every light acting as its own pixel, so the app can address each one individually instead of flooding the whole house in one color.

Everyday settings start with true 3000K warm white, a soft golden tone close to an indoor lamp, not the icy blue-white you see on inexpensive LEDs. Switch over to full RGBW, three color diodes (red, green, blue) with a white one alongside, and 16 million colors open up. The lights are spaced every 10 inches.

Lake-facing rooflines in Wayzata tend to run long, and the far corner can be a good distance from the garage. Because our Signature system runs on 48 volts, brightness holds steady from one end to the other, with no dim tail over the water.

The app reaches the controller through Bluetooth and WiFi, and nobody bills you monthly for it. Sunset and sunrise drift across the year, and the schedule drifts right along with them. Save scenes for holidays, game day or while you're traveling, and single out individual lights where the layout allows. We get all of it working on your phone before we pack up.

A Wally's technician switching scenes in the phone app as a home's permanent lights change color along the roofline

Change the scene and the house follows.

Seen From the Water by Day

Invisible During the Day

A lake home is on view from the street, from passing boats and from the houses across the bay. The worry we hear most is that permanent lights will look like a holiday display someone forgot to take down. In daylight, they don't.

Our crew mounts a low-profile track with screws driven into the soffit, meaning the flat underside of the overhang, right in the shade line the roof already casts. The lights ride inside it. Nothing gets attached to your gutters or shingles.

Then we color-match that track to your trim. If your trim has an RAL code, the catalog number painters and trim suppliers use to identify a color, we can match it. From the lawn or a boat the track looks like part of the eave, the control box sits out of sight in your garage, and after sunset the roofline shows whatever you've chosen.

Dusk photo of a two-story house with the lights switched off, the thin track below the eaves barely showing

The lit version of that house, warm white permanent lights tracing its rooflines

Lights OffLights On

Drag across to see the house with its lights off and on.

Two-story home after dark with permanent lighting on every roofline in pink, orange, green and blue

The Coverage

Lifetime Warranty on Your Lighting

Permanent lights are meant to stay on your house for many years, so we back them three ways, all spelled out on paper. The coverage reaches the LEDs you look at from the water each night, the hardware that powers them and the service that keeps them going.

Lifetime

LEDs, for life

Should an LED fail from a factory defect, we cover it through every year the system is yours.

10 Years

System coverage

Ten years of protection on the working parts: track, power supply, controller and wiring.

5 Years

Parts, labor and visits

Nothing extra to pay for five years. Materials, labor and the service call are included, and our own local crew shows up.

How It Works

Our Lighting Installation Process

We follow the same order on every house, so nothing gets rushed and you know how to run the system before our van leaves.

1
Free Measure and Design
We measure the street side and the lake side, hear how you want the house to look from the water and the road, and pick a track color that matches your trim. We check height on site too, so any complication comes up early, and you get a written quote with an exact price.
2
Track Installation
Our crew fastens the trim-matched track into the soffit beneath your eaves and gables. We only haul a lift out for houses tall enough to need one. As for the control box, it goes in the garage, plugged into the outlet that already runs your door opener in most homes, tucked up near the ceiling.
3
App Setup on Your Phone
We install the app on your phone, create your first scenes and set the lights to turn on each sunset and shut off each sunrise. Next, the phone goes back to you, and we coach you through dimming, color changes and scene swaps.
4
Warranty and Night Walkthrough
We register the warranty and give you a copy of the terms. After dark we step through each scene with you, from the yard or the dock, until you're comfortable running it alone.

A two-story home just after sunset, warm white lights lining each gable and the eaves below

Blue permanent lights outlining a gable against the night sky

Gable peak and eaves glowing pink and orange after dark, seen close up

Comparing the Choices

Why Permanent Lighting Beats Seasonal Lights

Before permanent lighting, most lake homes in Wayzata got lit one of two ways: someone pulled strands out of storage and climbed, or a crew hung them in fall and took them down after the holidays. With a street side and a lake side to cover, that's a lot of roofline to handle twice a year. Here's how all three options compare as the years add up.

A two-story home at dusk, its permanent roofline lighting fading from orange into green and blue

Permanent Lighting

One system, every season.

Our Signature 48-volt system, which we make ourselves, goes into the soffit, finished to match your trim. Warm white for summer evenings on the lake, color for holidays and game days, all controlled from an app without a monthly fee.

A single install, then only electricity
Made to stay up through Minnesota winters
Everyday glow, security lighting and game days
Blends in under the eaves in daylight

Higherinitial investment
Very Easyfrom then on
App Controlschedules and 16M colors
Looks Greatby day or by night

Colorful holiday string lights in a tangled pile

Store-Bought Temporary

Lower price, more hassle.

Inexpensive at the store, but it takes your time each year. A fit for someone who decorates for a single holiday and doesn't mind the ladder.

A small cost per box
Buying new strands when old ones fail
Climbing up in late fall and again after New Year
Clips and cords showing the whole time

Lowinitial investment
Harderyear after year
Manualswitch or basic timer
Looks Goodonly while hung

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Seasonal Install Service

Our crew handles the ladder.

We put up your holiday lights each season, then return to take them down. A reasonable compromise when you want a display but not the climbing.

A moderate charge each season
Two visits a year, zero ladder time for you
Typically on for the holidays and no longer
Results vary with each season's lights

Moderateper season
Easyhandled by us
Seasonalholiday window only
Looks Greatfor the season

Pricing

Permanent Lighting Pricing

There isn't one honest average price, because your roofline sets the number. We charge by the feet of track you need and the corners it has to turn, and every corner is another cut and joint.

Lakefront houses often need more track than people expect. The water side tends to be the longer and taller of the two, it frequently has the more broken-up roofline, and if you want both sides lit you are lighting two full fronts rather than one.

We measure your house for free and give you a firm price, and nothing gets ordered until you approve it. Request a quote.

Lighting one side first is a perfectly normal way to start and plenty of people here do it. Doing both at once but paying over time works too: we offer financing through Klarna with 0% interest.

Free design
consultation
Track matched
to your trim
App setup with
your first scenes
0% financing
through Klarna
Lifetime lights,
10-year system
72-Hour
Worry-Free Guarantee

Setting It Right

Brightness for the Lake Side

Light carries much further over water than almost anyone expects. There's nothing in the way to absorb it and the surface throws it back, so on a still night your lake side is visible from the far shore in a way it never would be from across a street.

That cuts both ways. A restrained warm white along the lake roofline looks genuinely striking from the water. A bright multi-color scene on the same side is visible to every house on the bay, and none of them chose it.

So we set your first scenes low on purpose, and we set them standing where you'll actually be looking. If you have a dock, we'd rather walk down to it before agreeing a brightness, because the yard and the dock are not the same view.

You can turn it up from the app whenever you want. Most people here find they never do, and the everyday warm white is what they leave running from November through March.

Close-up of a gable outlined in blue permanent lights at night

Why People Here Pick Us

Why Choose Wally’s

Four things worth comparing against the other quotes on your kitchen table.

Built for Lake Weather

Aluminum track screwed into the soffit, never taped on, with extra fixings on the side that takes the wind off the water.

Two Sides, Two Scenes

Where your layout allows, we build a lake-side scene and a street-side scene and set up the app before we leave your house.

We Make What We Install

The lights on your roof are our own system, not another brand we resell, so a warranty call comes straight back to us.

We Do the Rest Too

Gutters, windows, washing. Booking together means one visit instead of three.

The Local Difference

Lighting the Street Side and Lake Side

On Ferndale, Bushaway or Breezy Point your house is looked at from two completely different places, and most lighting quotes only account for one of them.

The lake side is seen by boats, by the houses across the bay, and from your own dock every evening you're out there. It's usually the taller and better-looking of the two, and it's the one you personally look at most.

The street side is seen for about four seconds through a car window. Its job is making the house findable, and it doesn't need what the lake side needs.

We quote them as two separate decisions. Plenty of people here light one and add the other later, and we'd rather you spend the money on the side you actually sit and look at.

A two-story home at dusk with permanent lights along every roofline, shifting from orange to green to blue

The Lake Side

Seen from a long way off, by people who did not choose it.

Warm white, set low
Checked from the dock, not the yard
Color saved for occasions

The Street Side

Seen briefly, close up, from a car.

Can run a little warmer
Marks the entrance and the drive
Where holiday color makes more sense

Wally the walrus, the Wally's Home Services mascot

Reviews

Wayzata Lighting Reviews

Clean, evenly spaced lights are the whole idea, so a finished install is simple to inspect. After we leave, look it over from the street, and from the dock if you have one. If you spot a crooked piece of track, lights that aren't evenly spaced or anything else that looks wrong, reach us within 72 hours and our crew returns to fix it at no cost to you.

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Payment Options

0% Interest Financing Available

Lighting a lake home on both sides is a real investment, and plenty of people find a monthly number easier to weigh than a single total.

With 0% interest financing through Klarna, both sides can go up together while you pay the balance off gradually, with no interest on top.

At your free measure, we review the Klarna terms right beside your firm price, so you weigh the monthly option and the full price together before agreeing to anything.

0% Interest Financing

Get the whole system up this season and pay in installments with Klarna.

Financing through Klarna is subject to approval.

See It Lit

Permanent Lighting for Every Occasion

A few of the looks our customers run on their homes.

A two-story home at night with warm-white permanent lights along every roofline and gable — Everyday
Classic Warm White
A soft warm-white outline that makes the house look finished after dark, which is how most owners run it most nights.

A single-story home at dusk lit in red, white and blue permanent lighting along its gables — Holiday
Red, White and Blue
One tap switches the whole roofline to red, white and blue for the Fourth of July, then back to warm white when the holiday is over.

A brick two-story home at dusk with purple and gold permanent lighting along the roofline and garage — Game Day
Team Colors on Demand
Purple and gold for game day, set from the app in seconds, with no strings to hang and nothing to take down after.

Your Local Team

Serving Wayzata

Wally's Home Services covers Wayzata and the surrounding Hennepin County area. We are one local company, not a franchise or a dealer network, so the people who quote your job are the people who do it and the people you call afterward.

Address: 4300 Quebec Ave N #100, New Hope, MN 55428
Phone: (612) 216-7894
Hours: Monday–Saturday: 8:00 AM–6:00 PM · Sunday: Closed

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ZIP Codes We Serve Near Wayzata, MN

55305
55317
55331
55340
55343
55345
55356
55357
55359
55391
55426

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Frequently Asked Questions

Permanent Lighting FAQs

Straight answers so you know what you are booking. If your question is not here, call and ask.

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1. How much does permanent lighting cost for a Wayzata lake home?

Lakefront homes often need more track than people expect. The water side tends to be longer and taller, with a more broken-up roofline. Lighting both sides means two full fronts. We measure both for free, and you get a firm price before we order anything.

2. Should I put permanent lights on the lake side or the street side first?

The lake side is usually the one you look at most, from the dock and the water. The street side makes your house easy to find from the road. We quote them as two separate decisions. Plenty of people here light one side and add the other later.

3. Can people across the lake see permanent lights?

Yes, and from farther than you would guess. Light carries a long way over open water. A soft warm white on the lake side looks great from a boat. You can dim that side from our app, and we check it from your dock, not just the yard.

4. Can the lake side and the street side have different colors?

Where your layout allows, yes. We set up a lake-side scene and a street-side scene before we leave. Many owners keep the lake side in warm white and save holiday color for the street.

5. Are permanent lights worth it for a lake home?

If you enjoy the house after dark, usually yes. Warm white covers summer evenings on the dock. The same lights run holiday color in December with nobody on a ladder. You get use out of it all year, not a few weeks.

6. How long does a permanent lighting system last?

It goes up once and stays up. We give you a lifetime warranty on the LEDs against manufacturing defects. The track, power supply, controller and wiring carry 10 years, and our labor and materials carry 5.

7. Are permanent lights hard to install on a tall lakefront house?

We handle homes up to three stories. A lift comes out only for a house tall enough to need one. We check height at the free measure, so any complication shows up early and is in your quote.

8. Can permanent lights be removed if I sell?

They can. Our track is fastened with screws, not glue, so it can come down. That leaves small screw holes in the soffit.

9. What if I'm not happy with the results?

Then we make it right, free of charge. Walk the property after we are done, and if anything falls short, call us at (612) 216-7894 within 72 hours. We come back and fix it at no cost to you. No invoice, no argument, no fine print. That is the Wally's Worry-Free Guarantee.