When the Flames go on a run, Calgary doesn't keep it inside the Saddledome. The C of Red spills out — flags on cars, jerseys in the grocery store, and by the first intermission, whole streets glowing red and gold. Three hours north, it's the same story in orange and blue. If your house looks the same on game night as it does every other night of the year, you're leaving the easiest fan move in Alberta on the table.
Permanent LED lighting turns your whole house into the biggest jersey on the block. No flags to hang. No coloured bulbs to hunt down in April when every store sold out in the first round. You tap a saved scene, and your house is in team colours before the anthem ends.
And let's get this out of the way early: we install in Calgary and Edmonton. We don't pick a side in the Battle of Alberta. We just make both sides brighter.
The exact colour recipes, team by team
These are the recipes we give customers who ask for team colours. They're tuned for how LEDs read from the street at night — not for how ink reads on a jersey — which is why a couple of them run slightly brighter than the official swatch. Trust the recipe. Your eyes will confirm from the sidewalk.
1. Calgary Flames — The C of Red
Alternating red and gold around the full roofline is the classic — the look that makes an entire street read as Flames territory. Run it static at 85% brightness so it holds clean from the end of the block. For a playoff run, shift the ratio: mostly red with a gold accent every few sections. The street should read RED first — that's the entire point of the C of Red — and let the gold do the trim work.
App: Alternate → Red (#C8102E) / Gold (#FFC72C) → Static → Brightness: 85%2. Edmonton Oilers — Oil Country Orange & Blue
Here's the thing about Oilers navy: it's beautiful on a jersey and nearly invisible on a roofline. Dark navy LEDs read as "off" from the street. So our Oilers recipe bumps the blue up to a brighter royal blue and keeps the orange hot. Alternate the two, or run orange as the base with blue accents on peaks and gables — either way, there's no mistaking whose house it is.
App: Alternate → Orange (#FF4C00) / Royal Blue (#0055C8) → Static → Brightness: 85%3. Calgary Stampeders — Red & White for Football Season
Come summer, the Stamps take over the calendar. Red and white alternate is bold, simple, and — bonus — it doubles as your Canada Day scene, so save it once and use it twice a year. For the Labour Day Classic, go full red with a single white chase running the roofline. It moves, it's loud, and it's unmistakably football weather.
App: Alternate → Red (#C8102E) / White → Static → Brightness: 80%4. Edmonton Elks — Green & Gold
Green and gold might be the best-looking combination you can put on a house — rich, unexpected, and instantly Elks to anyone driving through on game day. The navy rule applies here too: skip the deepest forest green and run a true green so the colour carries at night instead of vanishing into your shingles.
App: Alternate → Green (#00843D) / Gold (#FFB81C) → Static → Brightness: 85%| Team | Base scene | Win scene | Season |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flames | Red / gold alternate, static, 85% | Red-gold pulse, 5–10 min | October–June (we're believers) |
| Oilers | Orange / royal blue alternate, static, 85% | Orange pulse, 5–10 min | October–June |
| Stampeders | Red / white alternate, static, 80% | White chase on red base | June–November |
| Elks | Green / gold alternate, static, 85% | Gold pulse, 5–10 min | June–November |
The goal-horn scene: how to celebrate a win
The final horn sounds, your team takes it, and ten seconds later your whole house is pulsing in team colours. That's the move. Here's how to have it ready before puck drop:
- Save a second scene per team. Your base scene is static team colours. Your "goal horn" scene is the same colours in a pulse or flash pattern at 100% brightness. Two taps total, all season: one at warm-up, one at the horn.
- Keep the win lap short. Five to ten minutes of pulse, then back to your static base. It's a celebration, not an all-night rave — your neighbours will cheer with you at 9:40pm and curse you at 1am.
- Overtime winners earn the flash. A dramatic OT goal is the one time to reach for a faster scene. Keep the rate moderate — a strong, slower pulse actually looks more triumphant than a frantic strobe.
- You don't have to be home. The app works from anywhere. Watching from a pub on 17th Ave, or from the nosebleeds at the rink? Your house can start celebrating before you've found your car.
Playoff-run etiquette: when the whole street goes red
The best version of playoff lighting isn't one house — it's a street. During a deep run, entire Calgary cul-de-sacs go red, and Edmonton crescents turn orange, one roofline at a time. A few unwritten rules keep it fun for everyone:
- Game nights, full colour. That's what the lights are for. If your street is doing it together, so much the better — nothing says playoffs like six houses in a row holding the line.
- Off nights, ease back. Drop to 50% brightness or slide back to warm white between games. It keeps game night feeling like an event instead of wallpaper.
- Respect the curfew. Schedule a dim to around 30% by 10:30 or 11pm. The schedule runs itself, so you never have to remember while you're rewatching the highlights.
- Static is the default; animation is for moments. Save the pulse and flash scenes for goals, wins, and series clinchers. A house that strobes for three straight hours isn't celebrating — it's malfunctioning.
- Lose with grace. After a loss, one tap back to warm white. No drama, no lights-out protest. Tomorrow's a new game.
- Know your street before you troll. One Oilers house holding the line in a Flames cul-de-sac on a head-to-head night? Elite. Flipping to the rival's colours the night your neighbour's team gets eliminated? You live next to these people. Choose wisely.
Mixed households: surviving the Battle of Alberta
Every Alberta neighbourhood has at least one: a Flames fan married to an Oilers fan, coexisting peacefully for eleven months of the year and negotiating hard for the twelfth. The good news is that your house doesn't have to pick a side either:
- Split the house with zones. Multi-zone control means the garage can run Flames red and gold while the front porch flies Oilers orange and blue. Both fans honoured, no ladder involved, marriage intact.
- Alternate game nights. Each team's scene is saved and named. Flames night, one tap. Oilers night, one tap. Nobody reprograms anything, and nobody "accidentally" deletes anything either.
- Head-to-head nights: split or Switzerland. When the two actually play each other, run half-and-half down the middle of the house — or save a neutral warm-white "Switzerland" scene and let the jerseys do the talking indoors.
- Settle it with a bet. Loser's half of the house runs the winner's colours for 24 hours. We've heard of this happening. We respect it enormously.
Don't forget football season
Alberta's sports calendar doesn't end when the ice melts. From June through November the Stamps and the Elks carry the rivalry, and the Labour Day Classic — the football Battle of Alberta — deserves the same treatment as any playoff game. Red and white for McMahon, green and gold for Commonwealth, recipes above.
And if your house is dressed up for summer game days anyway, it's a short hop to Stampede week lighting — same system, different party.
Set it up once, use it all season
The whole point of team lighting is that it costs you zero effort on game night. A few minutes of setup in the app covers the entire run:
- Save a named scene per team. "Flames Game Night." "Goal Horn." "Oilers Road Game." Saved scenes are one tap forever — no re-picking colours in the dark at 6:55pm.
- Schedule around puck drop. Most Alberta games start at 7 or 8pm. Schedule your team scene to come on at 6:30 and dim late, and the house runs itself all series.
- Fine-tune with millions of colours. If the red reads pink against your siding or the blue disappears at dusk, nudge the shade until it looks right from the sidewalk. Millions of colours means there's always a better match one tap away.
- April weather is not a factor. Playoff hockey in Alberta means at least one spring snowstorm. The system is IP65/IP68 rated with an operating range of -40°C to +60°C, tested through Calgary winters and Chinook freeze-thaw cycles — built for exactly this climate.
Team scenes are one page of a much bigger playbook. The same system covers Canada Day, Halloween, Christmas, Diwali, and everything in between — we've mapped the whole year in our Alberta holiday lighting calendar. And if you want to squeeze more out of the app itself, start with the app features most customers never find.
What does it cost to get in the game?
Most Starise installs land between $3,000 and $8,000 depending on the size and complexity of the home — a small single-level typically runs $3,000–$4,500, and a mid-size two-storey around $5,000–$7,000. Running costs are about $5–$15 a month in power, so an entire playoff run of game-night lighting costs less than a single pair of decent tickets. The full breakdown is in our Calgary pricing guide.
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