Beautiful every night.
Ready for every holiday.
Three photos of your house → a lighting design for your rooflines and a written price. Free, no site visit, no obligation.
Gemstone permanent lighting, installed by Stellar’s in-house electricians. Warm white for everyday curb appeal. Colour for the moments you want to celebrate. You never touch a ladder again.
- Layout drawn for your actual rooflines
- Itemized price in writing — no obligation
- Installed by our own electricians, backed 12 months
$28 to $32 a foot, installed, plus a $500 controller, travel and GST. Your exact number comes from your rooflines.
Warm white,
every single night.
Most people buy permanent lighting for the holidays and end up using it every day of the year. A clean line of warm white along your rooflines does what landscape lighting does for a garden: it gives the house shape after dark, makes the address easy to find, and lights the walk to your door without a floodlight glaring at the street. It comes on at dusk and goes off at bedtime, on its own, all year.
Gemstone product photography, supplied for illustration. Not Stellar installations.
One system.
Every occasion.
Orange and purple for Halloween. Red and green through December. Blue and white for a birthday, green for St. Patrick’s Day, red and white on Canada Day, or your team’s colours on game night. Every zone is individually addressable, so you pick a scene in the app and the house changes in seconds — no ladder, no clips, no boxes in the garage.
Gemstone product photography, supplied for illustration. Not Stellar installations.
A house that isn’t dark.
From October to March most Alberta homes are dark from four in the afternoon until morning. A dark front reads as empty — to the courier who can’t find your number, to a guest walking up an icy path, and to anyone paying attention to which houses stay black all evening.
Warm white along the rooflines changes that for a few dollars of electricity a month. The house has an outline. The address is findable. The walk to the door is lit without a floodlight glaring into the street or your neighbour’s bedroom.
- On every night, without anyone remembering. A dusk‑to‑bedtime schedule is set once and runs itself, all year.
- On from anywhere. The app works from a hotel room exactly as it does from your kitchen, so a week away doesn’t mean a week of a black house.
- Full brightness in one tap. If you want the whole front lit right now, that is a button on your phone rather than a walk outside.
- Zones, not one switch. Every light is individually addressable, so the garage side can behave differently from the front door.
No ladder
in November.
The worst part of Christmas lights in Alberta isn’t the cost. It’s standing on a ladder on a frozen driveway in November, and doing it again in January when the clips are frozen to the eaves. Permanent lighting removes that job permanently.
- Installed once, used for years. Gemstone Lights is a Calgary company and the system is designed for year-round outdoor use in this climate.
- Nothing to store. No tangled boxes, no replacing a third of the strand every season because half of it failed in the garage.
- Nothing to re-hang. When a scene changes, it changes in the app. The hardware never moves.
- Wired properly the first time. Sealed penetrations and a clean connection matter more here than anywhere, and that is electrical work.
Everything, itemized.
Your quote is built from your home, the coverage you choose and the installation requirements — and every line of it is in writing before anything is booked. No deposit to see the number.
The Gemstone system
Low-profile track colour-matched to your soffit and fascia, individually controlled LEDs, the controller, and the app set up on your phone.
A layout for your home
Front only, front and sides, or the full home. Drawn from your photos, with peaks and corners planned, and confirmed with you before install day.
Installation by our electricians
Stellar’s in-house crew, supervised by a Red Seal Master Electrician. Sealed penetrations, tidy runs, proper connection. No subcontractors.
A written, itemized price
The lighting for your layout, the controller, the installation and any travel for your location, listed line by line so you can see what you are paying for.
The system, specified.
See the full specification — 10 lines
| Lights | RGBWW LEDs — red, green, blue and warm white in every diode — at 46 lumens each, spaced 9 inches apart along the track |
|---|---|
| Colour | 16 million colours, or mix your own in the app |
| Patterns | More than 14,000 ready‑made scenes, including team colours, plus any you build yourself |
| Track | Slim aluminum channel, colour‑matched from more than 30 track finishes against over 150 soffit and fascia colours |
| Weather | IP67 waterproof, UV‑rated cable, rated for year‑round outdoor use |
| Rated life | 50,000 hours — roughly 20 years at 7 hours a night |
| Control | The Gemstone Hub app on iOS and Android; every light individually addressable, so zones behave independently |
| App cost | No monthly fee and no subscription — the app is included and stays free |
| Power draw | 0.25 to 1 watt per light depending on the colour. A typical 117‑foot front elevation takes about 150 lights, so roughly 150 watts at full brightness — and most scenes draw well under that |
| Wiring | Low‑voltage runs, sealed penetrations, and any ground runs buried so nothing is exposed to a lawnmower |
Product specifications published by Gemstone Lights. We install the system; we don’t manufacture it.
See what yours would include$28 to $32 a foot, installed.
Most homes land between $28 and $32 per linear foot of lit roofline. That includes the Gemstone track and LEDs, installation by our own electricians, and both warranties. Add $500 for the controller that runs it from your phone, plus travel to your address and GST. Your exact number comes from your rooflines, which is why we ask for three photos.
- Peaks and corners. Every gable, dormer and return is a cut, a join and a run back to the track. A long, straight fascia sits at $28; a roofline with six peaks sits nearer $32.
- Height and pitch. Two‑storey eaves and steep roofs take longer and take more of the lift.
- Fascia material. Stone, stucco and metal cladding mount more slowly than wood or vinyl.
- The run to power. A short path to a sheltered outlet is simple; a long run around the house is not.
| 117 ft of roofline × $28 to $32 | $3,276 – $3,744 |
| Controller | $500 |
| Installed, before travel and GST | $3,776 – $4,244 |
Front and sides, about 150 ft: $4,700 – $5,300. A full wraparound, about 300 ft: $8,900 – $10,100, and a large wraparound sometimes needs a second controller.
A ballpark, not a quote. Your written price is free and comes from your photos.
Get my exact price from 3 photos →Canadian dollars, before GST. Homes outside the typical band — three storeys, unusual access, very long runs — are quoted individually, and we say so before we quote. Four worked examples, how to measure your own roofline and the ten-year comparison with seasonal lights are in our Alberta permanent lighting cost guide.
An electrical contractor.
Not a seasonal crew.
Almost nothing that goes wrong with permanent lighting is a product failure. It is the mounting, the sealing of the penetrations, the alignment of the track along an uneven fascia, and the connection back to power. All of that is electrical work, and most permanent lighting in Alberta is sold by lighting retailers or seasonal holiday-light crews who subcontract exactly that part.
Stellar Upgrades is a licensed electrical contractor with its own crew, supervised by a Red Seal Master Electrician, working on Alberta homes since 2018. We are the people who would be in your panel for a solar array or an EV charger. We do not subcontract, and we are still here to answer the phone in year five.
In plain words.
Two companies, two jobs, both in writing. Central Alberta Lighting in Red Deer is an authorized Gemstone dealer. They supply the system and register your manufacturer warranty with Gemstone, so your product coverage is exactly the same as any other Gemstone installation. We do the electrical work, and we stand behind it ourselves.
| What | How long | Who stands behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Installation and workmanship | 12 months | Stellar Upgrades — us |
| LED lights | Lifetime — Gemstone rates them at 50,000 hours | Gemstone Lights, registered by Central Alberta Lighting |
| Track, controller and power components | 10 years | Gemstone Lights, registered by Central Alberta Lighting |
We’ll tell you straight away whether it’s an installation issue we fix ourselves, or a product issue — and if it’s the product, we coordinate that claim for you rather than handing you a phone number.
Gemstone requires warranty registration within 30 days of installation; Central Alberta Lighting handles that as part of your job. The manufacturer warranty can transfer to the next owner of your home on Gemstone’s published terms (gemstonelights.com/warranty). Stellar’s 12-month installation warranty is separate and set out in writing with your quote.
The back of the house
is where you live.
Most quotes stop at the street view, because that is the cheapest thing to sell. But the side you actually sit on is the back: the deck, the patio, the pool, the yard where people gather in July. Run the track along the rear rooflines and you get usable evening light out there every night of the summer, not just a display for the neighbours in December.
- Front only — the classic. Curb appeal and holidays, the lowest entry point.
- Front and sides — a fuller outline, and light down the walkways on both sides of the house.
- Full home — including the rear, for patios, decks and pool areas that are dark for most of the year.
Tell us which you want on the form and the quote covers exactly that. If you are not sure, ask for the layout both ways and compare the two numbers.
Common questions.
Hang your lights once.
Never again.
A custom layout and an itemized written quote, free and with no obligation. Send a few daytime photos and we’ll design it for your rooflines before we call.
Get your lighting quote.
Tell us about your home and what you’d like lit. We design the layout, confirm the details with you, and send a written price. No obligation, and no deposit to see the number.
- Custom layout drawn from photos of your home
- Written, itemized quote before you commit to anything
- In-house electricians, no subcontractors
- 12-month installation warranty
After you submit you can upload photos straight away. We reply by phone or text within one business day.
No deposit, and no site visit needed to get a number. If the photos show something we can’t price from a picture, we’ll say so and book a look.
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Edmonton and Red Deer, and the communities around them.
Same in-house crew, working out of our Edmonton and Red Deer offices. Not sure whether we cover your town? Ask, and we’ll tell you straight.
