HOA approval for permanent lighting in Colorado

Will my HOA allow permanent lighting?

Yes, in most cases, with conditions on color, hours and profile. The color condition is the one that decides it, and the channel is painted to your fascia and mounted under the eave, so what a board is approving is not a strand of holiday lights. We prepare the submission on your behalf rather than handing you a form.

The submissions we make most often are to the newer Erie subdivisions, where an active architectural committee reviews any change to the outside of the house. If a board has turned outdoor lighting down before, it was ruling on a different thing from this one: a strand of bulbs, and a seasonal crew back on a ladder twice a season.

Permanent lighting in Erie

What do HOAs usually require?

Color, hours and profile. Those are the three things Front Range boards attach conditions to, and a permanent system is built to satisfy all three: the channel is painted to your fascia, the scenes and the schedule are held on the controller so the lights run on set hours, and nothing sits out on the open roof. We prepare that submission for you, and the color match is the part of it that usually decides the answer.

The color match is measured rather than eyeballed. A proprietary Sherwin-Williams paint reader takes the color straight off your trim and returns the exact paint ID to order against, and the channel is sprayed to that ID in our own booth before it reaches your house. The corner connectors are printed to match as well, so what a board is looking at is a line the same color as the fascia it is mounted on, not a row of white joints.

Who decides what I can install?

The architectural committee, in most associations. Most of the newer Erie and Front Range subdivisions have an active one, and an exterior change like this is reviewed there before anything goes on the house. We make that submission on your behalf rather than handing you a form to fill in.

That is the practical reason to talk to us before you talk to them. We submit to new-build architectural committees more often than any other kind, and the submission carries the color match, which is the detail that usually settles it. You own the system outright once it is installed, with no lease and no monthly fee, and it transfers with the house if you sell.

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What happens at holiday take-down deadlines?

Nothing, because there is nothing to take down. A take-down deadline is the date your association sets for holiday decorations to come off the house, usually in January, and a permanent system never meets that description: it is painted to the fascia, mounted under the eave, and it stays where it is all year. On the deadline you change the scene on your phone instead of booking a crew.

Seasonal lighting goes up on a ladder and comes down on a ladder, twice a season, every season. This goes up once, and the reason it can stay up past the deadline is the same reason a board approves it in the first place: in daylight there is nothing on the house to see. The scenes change from warm white to your team colors to whatever December needs, on a schedule, without anyone back on the roof.