CHASEN Christmas Light Hanging in Citrus Heights

On Orelle Creek Court, the neighbors hand out popcorn. That’s the level we’re dealing with in CHASEN. The dead-end court off Old Auburn Road, up toward the Roseville border, has nearly every house decorated each year, and the popcorn goes out by the bagful in exchange for donations to CHASEN’s own Giving Tree. If you live in this corner of Citrus Heights and want your place to hold its own, CHASEN Christmas light hanging is our department. Call (916) 510-0929 to talk it through. Popcorn machine not included.

CHASEN is three of the city’s neighborhood areas (7, 8 and 9) merged into a single neighborhood association. It runs from Sunrise Boulevard on the west (the Sylvan Old Auburn Road neighborhood is on the other side) to the Orangevale and Fair Oaks lines on the east, and from Greenback Lane up to the Placer County line. It’s a registered nonprofit that meets at Foundation Christian Church on Wonder Street. What it isn’t is an HOA. No dues, no architectural committee, no opinion about your roofline. Everybody who lives, works or owns property inside those borders belongs.

There is one real HOA inside the area that we know of: the Sunrise Homeowners Association, a bit over 200 homes with a pool on Stone Canyon Circle, near Fair Oaks Boulevard and Woodmore Oaks on the Orangevale line. We didn’t find its rules posted anywhere online, so quoting you dates would mean making them up. If yours is one of those homes, look in your current rules for a holiday decoration period and pass it along. Our hang day and our January pickup day will both land inside it.

We don’t do house calls for estimates. Text us pictures of the street view and anything else you want lit, mention where the outdoor outlets are, and a plan and a quote come back to you by phone. That’s (916) 510-0929, or the contact page. Lights, cords and clips all arrive with us. You buy nothing and store nothing.

Besides Orelle Creek Court, the city’s Best Lights contest keeps turning up addresses on this side of Sunrise. A Moss Oak Avenue home nearby won the Sleigh the Theme category in 2024 and had taken Hollywood Holidays the year before. Allene Creek Court had the Griswold (brightest) winner that year. Cross Drive, Glen Canyon Court and Glen Alta Way have all shown up among winners, nominees or local must-see lists. As for which area each street officially sits in, we’re going off the city’s area map, so treat that part as our best reading.

Nobody says you have to compete with any of them. Still, it’s nice to know a good display around here gets noticed.

Three merged areas don’t share one kind of house, so we won’t pretend to know yours. Your photos tell us, and the hardware follows. Roofline lights ride on clips that grab the gutter lip or a shingle’s edge, and a tile roof gets its own clip, set from the ladder. Fascia never sees a nail. A front tree gets a wrap, trunk first and then up the main limbs as far as it looks good. Porch posts and entry columns take pillar wraps, and so does the mailbox post if you’re feeling bold. Stake lighting follows the driveway, the walk and the lawn edge once we’ve located every sprinkler head. The door or the garage gable gets a lit wreath, and garland, lit as well, gets tied to the entry or a railing with nothing that scars the paint.

A timer handles on and off, and we can set it to go dark at an hour that keeps the peace with the folks across the street. A strand that dies in December is our problem, not yours. Dial (916) 510-0929 and it gets handled. The longer description lives on our Christmas light hanging page.

A house that faces C-Bar-C Park on Oak Avenue, Madera Park on Wonder Street, McDonald Field Park on Old Auburn Road or Northwoods Park on Old Ranch Road has a bigger audience than it realizes, because a park across the street means open sightlines. The same goes for a house near Woodside K-8, if the drop-off line runs past your door. On those lots we’d put the effort into the roofline and one strong feature, such as a wrapped front tree, since both read from far off. On a tight court it’s the reverse. Garland, wreaths and stakes do more there, because people see them up close.

Our lights stay on private property. Park trees and school fences aren’t ours to decorate.

Is CHASEN an HOA, and can it limit my Christmas lights?

No on both counts. CHASEN is a volunteer neighborhood association covering city Areas 7, 8 and 9. It collects no dues and has no decorating rules.

I’m in the Sunrise Homeowners Association. When can my lights go up?

We couldn’t find that association’s rules online, so we can’t give you dates. Dig out your rulebook or ask the association office, then fill us in, and we’ll book the hang day and the pickup day to match.

Can you light several houses on our court, like Orelle Creek Court?

Yes. Neighbors can book together and we’ll plan the houses as a group, quoted one by one.

Where is Orelle Creek Court?

It’s the dead-end court off Old Auburn Road, toward the Roseville border, on the CHASEN side of Citrus Heights. Nearly every house there decorates each year, and donations collected on the court go to CHASEN’s Giving Tree.