Swim-tennis subdivisions, lake neighborhoods, and quiet Shakerag streets between Medlock Bridge and the river
Johns Creek is a city of subdivisions, and most of them have a pool, a tennis court, and a set of rules. That is fine with us. Text a photo of your house and the address. We send a written quote that fits your neighborhood, hang the lights in one day, and take them down in January.
Johns Creek became a city on December 1, 2006, which makes it one of the newest in the metro. It is part of North Fulton, tucked between Alpharetta, Duluth across the river in Gwinnett County, and Forsyth County to the north. Before the 1980s it was mostly farmland. Then Technology Park opened in the early 1980s, the office jobs came, and the subdivisions followed. Most of the houses standing today went up in the 1990s or later.
That history shows on the street. Johns Creek is mostly two-story traditional homes, many with brick or stone fronts, a tall entry, and a two-car or three-car garage. They sit in planned neighborhoods off the main roads, like Medlock Bridge, State Bridge, Abbotts Bridge, and Jones Bridge, and nearly all of them have an HOA. Seven Oaks, near Jones Bridge on the Alpharetta side, is split into sections with a clubhouse, pool, tennis courts, and a private seven-acre lake. Wellington is a classic swim and tennis community on rolling ground. Down in the south end near Peachtree Corners, River Glen backs up to the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area and has two small private lakes, and Ammersee Lakes is a gated neighborhood built around smaller ponds.
Not every part of Johns Creek feels like a subdivision. Shakerag, which reaches toward the river, still has a quieter, lower-density feel with bigger lots and more trees. Newtown, around Newtown Park, was open farmland before its first schoolhouse went up in the 1920s, and long before the subdivisions came. Those areas have more variety, and more tall hardwoods in the front yard.
In December, the city holds a holiday block party with a big Christmas tree lighting, and Newtown Park has long been home to a tree and dreidel lighting too. Plenty of Johns Creek streets do their own thing as well, with neighbors lining a cul-de-sac in matching white. If you want to match, tell us, and we will quote the same bulb and color the house next door has.
Nearly every Johns Creek subdivision has covenants. Send the guidelines with your photo and we design to them, including color and take-down timing.
Tall entry gables and second-story rooflines are standard here. Our crews handle the height and the ladders so you do not have to.
Homes near the Chattahoochee and the neighborhood lakes often have mature trees. We can wrap a few trunks so the house glows from the street.
We set the timer before we leave. If a section goes dark in the middle of the season, text us a photo and it goes on the next route.
Many Johns Creek homes from the 1990s have a brick front, a two-story foyer, and a big arched window over the door. The front gable sits high. A warm-white line on the gutters and up both sides of that center gable gives the house a clean shape at night. Add lit shrubs along the front beds and you have the look most people here are after.
Johns Creek has a lot of cul-de-sacs, and some streets like to light up as a group. If a few neighbors book together, we can often do the houses on the same day, with the same bulbs, so the whole street matches. Each house still gets its own itemized quote. The whole-house package is the easy way to include shrubs and trees.
Closer to the river, in Shakerag and the neighborhoods near the recreation area, lots have more mature hardwoods. Wrapping the trunks of two or three front-yard trees adds a lot of light without adding roof work. Mini lights go on the trunks and lower branches, held with tension wraps, never anything that cuts into bark. See tree and shrub wrapping.
Johns Creek has plenty of small businesses in the shopping centers along Medlock Bridge and State Bridge and around Town Center. We light storefronts and windows before opening or after close, and set the timer to your hours. The small business lighting page has the details.
After the holidays we take it all down, remove every clip, and coil and label each strand. The lights are ours, so we store them until next season and you have nothing to find room for. That also keeps you ahead of any HOA date for taking holiday decorations down.
You do not need to measure anything to get a quote. A photo works. But if you like to know the numbers, a Johns Creek two-story is a good one to practice on: walk the gutter line along the ground with a tape, then add the sloped sides of each gable, which run longer than the gable is wide. Our guide on how to measure your roofline has a worksheet. Most people are surprised how many feet a house with a three-car garage and a few front gables adds up to, and it helps the quote make sense when it lands.
Quick answers for subdivisions, swim-tennis communities, and everything in between.
Not at all. Warm white is a popular pick in Johns Creek anyway. Send us the rule and we will quote warm white or cool white only, steady rather than blinking, and note it on the quote so your board can see it.
Usually, yes. Tell us the bulb size and color, or send a photo of the house next door. C9 warm white on the gutters is a familiar look on plenty of Johns Creek streets. Our roofline lighting page explains the bulb choices.
If you want. The garage wing is often the longest straight run on the house, and lighting it makes the whole front read as one line. It adds footage, so it shows up as its own line on the quote.
Yes. Many Johns Creek neighborhoods have a stone entrance, a median, and a pool house. We quote those to the HOA board or management company and schedule around the neighborhood. See HOA and entrance lighting.
It depends on your HOA, so check first. Permanent track lights sit tight under the roof edge and are hard to see by day, which some boards like. Read more on our permanent lights 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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