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Buy a Decorate With Lights Franchise

Decorate With Lights is a full-service outdoor lighting franchise built around four verticals: holiday lighting, permanent roofline lighting, landscape lighting and event lighting. It serves mainly affluent residential customers, plus commercial and municipal clients, handling design, installation, in-season maintenance, takedown and climate-controlled storage. The company was founded in 2016 and has franchised since 2021.

The model is home-based and owner-led, with no storefront or fleet required at launch. Territories are protected and defined by approximately 50,000 single-family homes with household incomes above $100,000. Holiday work anchors a September–December core season; the other three verticals extend revenue across the year. Customers own their décor while the franchise maintains and stores it, so displays are typically reinstalled annually for the same households.

In 2026 Decorate With Lights became the eighth brand of Five Star Franchising, a home-services platform with more than 1,700 locations across North America; sister brands include Mosquito Shield, Bio-One, Card My Yard and Five Star Bath Solutions. The franchise network is young, with early locations in North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Massachusetts.

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Why buy a Decorate With Lights Franchise?

Professional outdoor lighting is still a largely independent, local-operator category, and Decorate With Lights brings franchise infrastructure to it: a decade of operating history, design-led premium positioning (custom décor rather than commodity light-hanging), and the shared services of the Five Star Franchising platform, including ProNexis lead intake and Five Star Buying Group supplier pricing that a solo operator would have to build alone.

For anyone weighing whether to buy a Decorate With Lights franchise, the appeal is low fixed costs and repeat seasonal work. The home-based setup keeps overhead down; the four verticals turn a seasonal trade into a year-round business; and because clients own their décor while the franchise stores and reinstalls it, each holiday season opens with a book of returning customers.

Decorate With Lights Franchise Costs & Information

Based on 2025 data reported in the 2026 FDD

  • Brand Profile

    • Year Founded

      2016

    • Franchising Since

      2021

    • New Startup Cost

      $36,200 – $70,450

    • Avg. Resale Price

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  • Franchise Fees

    • Initial franchise Fee

      $10,000

      for new territories

    • Transfer Fee

      $5,000

      (plus any sales commission owed on the transfer)

    • Royalty Fee

      8%

      of Gross Revenue

    • Marketing Fee

      2%

      of Gross Revenue

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  • Unit Performance

    • Total Units *

      128

    • New Units Opened *

      1

    • Units Transferred *

      6

    • Avg. Unit revenue *

      $47,979

    * Based on 2025 data reported in the 2026 FDD
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Decorate With Lights – Additional  Information

  1. Training & Support

    Initial training combines classroom and on-the-job instruction at company locations, covering sales, estimating, software, safety and field operations; up to three team members can attend at no extra charge. Owners run the business on franchisor-designated scheduling, estimating and quoting software, with ProNexis handling inbound lead intake. Ongoing marketing runs through Five Star's in-house team across SEO, paid search, social and direct mail, and the Five Star Buying Group provides preferred supplier pricing. Resale buyers should confirm what transfer training and ProNexis and software access carry over when ownership changes.

  2. Ideal Owner

    Decorate With Lights fits a sales- and relationship-led local operator: someone comfortable presenting design proposals to premium homeowners, quoting and closing high-touch projects, and coordinating install crews through an intense September–December ramp. The owner's role is building the business through marketing, estimating, scheduling and community visibility, not working solely on the ladder; the franchisor is explicit that it is not a passive investment or a field-only installer role. No lighting experience is required, and the system suits career changers, including veterans, who want a home-based service business.

  3. Recognition & Awards

    Decorate With Lights builds its recognition through its premium design positioning and the standing of its parent platform. Five Star Franchising has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing companies five times, ranking #780 in 2025, with further placements on the Utah Business Fast 50 and MountainWest Capital Network Utah 100 growth lists. Sister brands such as Five Star Bath Solutions and Card My Yard hold current Entrepreneur and Franchise Business Review honors. For resale buyers, brand-level recognition should be weighed alongside the specific territory's local reviews, referral sources and community visibility.

  4. Industry / Market

    Holiday and outdoor lighting draws on two spending streams. The National Retail Federation expected US winter holiday spending to pass $1 trillion for the first time in 2025, while the North American outdoor landscape lighting market is forecast to grow by $145 million at a 4.9% CAGR between 2024 and 2029 (Technavio). Demand comes from affluent homeowners outsourcing ladder work and from app-controlled permanent roofline LED systems that turn one-off installs into year-round accounts. Professional installation remains fragmented and local, so an established territory reputation carries real weight for resale buyers.

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