Forsyth County's county seat, from Vickery Village and Polo Fields to Windermere and the roads out toward Sawnee Mountain
Cumming is where a lot of new Forsyth County houses went up, and a lot of them are tall. Big front gables, two-story entries, a bonus room over the garage. You do not need to own a 28-foot ladder to light one. Text us a photo and the address. We send a written quote, hang everything in a day, and pack it all back up in January.
Cumming is the county seat of Forsyth County, the next county north of North Fulton up GA-400. The city itself is fairly small. The Cumming mailing address is not. It covers a big spread of unincorporated Forsyth, so plenty of people who say they live in Cumming actually live out in the county, in a subdivision off Post Road, Bethelview, or Highway 9. We light both, and the process does not change at the city limit.
Most of the housing here is newer than what you find closer to Atlanta. Forsyth grew fast from the 1990s on, and a lot of it came as planned subdivisions with an HOA, a pool, tennis courts, and a clubhouse. Windermere is one of the big ones, a golf community built around a Davis Love-designed course with a mix of executive homes, townhomes, and smaller garden homes. Polo Fields, off Post Road, is an established swim and tennis neighborhood that really does have polo fields, with homes on lots of roughly a quarter to a third of an acre. Vickery, on the west side of town, was built as a small walkable village with shops and restaurants mixed in with the houses.
Newer building keeps going. Around Sawnee Mountain, you can still find subdivisions going up this decade, including 55-plus communities, next to older farm roads. So a single afternoon of quotes might include a townhome with 40 feet of roofline and a two-story with six gables on a lot that slopes toward the woods. That is why we quote from a photo instead of a price sheet.
Downtown got a new center of gravity in 2021, when Cumming City Center opened just west of the old square, behind Forsyth Central High School. It has an amphitheater, restaurants, trails, and a big lawn, and it is where the city lights its Christmas tree now. Around the same time of year, a lighted parade runs from Forsyth Central to the Cumming Fairgrounds, which turn into a Christmas festival with Santa and hayrides. If you want your house lit before all that, book early.
Lots of Cumming homes have a two-story front with a steep center gable. That height is where most people decide to hire it out, and it is routine work for us.
Windermere, Polo Fields, and most Forsyth subdivisions have covenants. Send us your guidelines and the quote will match them before anything goes up.
Inside the city limits or out near Sawnee Mountain or Lake Lanier, it is one quote, one install day, and one January takedown.
Earlier install dates go first. Book in October and the house can be lit before the tree lighting at City Center. We leave the timer off until you say go.
A typical Forsyth two-story has a main roofline, a tall front gable over the entry, a smaller gable or two off to the side, and a garage wing. Outline all of it and you are easily past a couple hundred feet of lights at real height. Outline just the gutters and the front gable and you get most of the look for a lot less work. We quote both ways if you ask. Our roofline lighting page shows what each option covers.
In places like Windermere and Polo Fields, the houses along a street often share a look, so a clean warm-white roofline with lit shrubs by the front walk fits right in. Some families add a lit driveway edge, which also helps guests find the right house on a dark cul-de-sac. The whole-house package puts the roof, shrubs, and walkway on one visit.
Vickery and the newer townhome communities near City Center have shorter rooflines, porches close to the sidewalk, and neighbors on both sides. A single line on the front roof, wrapped porch rails, and a wreath on the door is usually plenty. If your townhome association handles the building exterior, ask them first, then send us what they allow.
Out toward Lake Lanier and Sawnee Mountain, lots get bigger and more wooded, and driveways get longer. A roofline you can only see through the trees needs bigger bulbs, so C9s are the usual pick there. Wrapping two or three trunks near the road can do more than lighting a back gable no one will see. We will tell you honestly which parts are worth it.
In January we come back, take it all down, pull every clip, and coil and label each strand by where it hung. We store them until next fall, which helps, because garages in new Forsyth homes fill up fast with bikes and sports gear.
Newer Forsyth houses usually have a GFCI outlet by the front door and another by the garage, and not much else out front. That is normally enough for a roofline and some shrubs, since LED strands draw very little. We plan the runs back to the outlets you have and set the timer at install. If you want to know what the display will add to the power bill, our post on how much electricity Christmas lights use walks through the math.
Quick answers for Forsyth County subdivisions, golf communities, and newer builds.
All of it. Most Cumming addresses are outside the city limits anyway. Send us your street address with the photo and we will confirm. We also cover the counties next door, like Cherokee County to the west and Gwinnett County to the southeast.
Yes. Most Forsyth subdivisions have some kind of guideline, usually about color, blinking, or how long the display stays up. Send us the rules with your photo. We design to them from the start and take everything down in January, which keeps you on the right side of any take-down date.
Not much. New gutters and new shingles take clips just fine, and nothing gets nailed or screwed in, so there are no holes in your new trim. The main thing we check is outlet location, since some new builds only have one or two outdoor outlets. Our install day checklist covers how to test them.
Sure. Newer lots often have a row of young trees along the street, while older lots near the lake tend to have tall hardwoods. We quote each tree as its own line so you can pick. See tree and shrub wrapping.
Yes. A lot of Cumming subdivisions have a stone entrance with landscaping and a sign. We quote those to the HOA board or the management company. Details are on the HOA and entrance lighting page.
Text a photo of your house and the address to (470) 470-4485. Free written quote, lights up in a day, and gone in January.
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