Case study
Mews House, Mayfair
A garage arch in warm festoon bulbs and a garland to the door — installed off a barrow, because nothing bigger fits down the mews.
- Property
- Mews house
- Area
- Mayfair, W1
- Access
- No van access — barrowed in
- Lights used
- 22m festoon, 6m garland
Schemes like this run £1,500–£1,800 for the season
The brief
A deep-green mews house off a cobbled Mayfair lane, W1. Two storeys, a garage arch at ground level, and a lane too narrow for a van, let alone a platform. The owner wanted something that photographed well on a wet night, which in a mews is most nights.
What we installed
- Warm white festoon bulbs outlining the garage arch
- A fresh fir garland over the door, wired to the boot scraper and the bracket
- Two lit planters either side
- One coach lamp re-lamped to 2200K so it matched everything else
How do you install Christmas lights where there is no van access?
You plan the load, not the vehicle. Everything for this job fitted on one barrow: pre-measured festoon on a reel, garland made off site to the exact door width, tools in a single crate. The van parks on the main road on a two-hour bay, and two fitters walk it in. Measuring the arch a fortnight earlier is what makes that possible — you cannot cut and re-run festoon on a cobbled lane at four in the afternoon.
Why it works
A mews is small and close, so the arch is the whole facade. Outlining it turns a garage door into a proscenium. And matching the existing coach lamp to the festoon temperature matters more here than on a big house: at three metres away, two different whites are the first thing you notice, and the only thing you cannot unsee.
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