Roof Line Lighting: Why the Roof Edge Is the Line That Matters|What Makes Roofline Lighting Look Right on a Real House|Considering Roofline Lighting? Here Is How It Works

The roof edge is the line your eye already follows

Look at any house after dark and the outline you pick out first is the roof edge. Nothing else on the house runs that far uninterrupted, and nothing else has the sky behind it. Put light on it and the outline comes back, which is most of what people mean when they say a house looks good lit.Which is why the roof edge is where permanent lighting goes instead of being spread across the walls. It is the highest impact run on the building, measured by what it changes for what it takes.

What roofline lighting actually consists of

Roofline lighting is an aluminum channel matched to your trim with LEDs set into it, fastened along the roof edge and left there. The channel does two jobs at once: it holds https://evercrestlighting.com/about/ the lights and it hides them. Because it matches the trim, you generally have to be told where it is.

Where the run stops

Every plan starts with the primary roof edge, and grows from there. Gables, peaks, porch edges, posts and second story lines all get considered, but not all of them get used. Outline everything and the house reads flat, which is the most common way a roofline plan goes wrong.The run itself is worth looking at closely on a finished job, because a straight line held over a long span is harder than it looks.

Daylight is the other half of the design

The hardware does not come down, so the daytime look is part of the product. That is why the channel gets matched to your trim rather than sold in one color. Mount it tight to the edge, match the trim, and hide the wiring, and nothing about the daylight view changes.

How it gets used

Once the run is in, the rest is what you set it to. Warm white on an ordinary Tuesday. Red and green in December. A single color for Halloween. School colors on a Friday. Most owners land on one white and leave it, and save the color for occasions.

What makes one roofline a bigger job than the house next door

Rooflines do not scale with house size. Length matters less than complexity. Every corner is another cut, another fitting and another decision. Height is the other one, because a second or third story changes the equipment and the time.

Where it fastens

The gutter comes up in almost every consultation. The channel fastens to the roof edge itself, rather than to gutter that flexes and fills. Fastening to solid structure is what keeps the line straight for years.

Getting a run designed for your roof

No two rooflines have the same shape, so the plan gets drawn after somebody looks at yours. EverCrest Lighting installs permanent roofline lighting for homes and businesses throughout Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, based in Greenville. Consultations are free. Reach them at (864) 252-1732 or [email protected] to get started.

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