In our last blog, we talked about holiday lighting and your safety concerns. In this blog, we’ll go over possible holiday light designs to choose from to help you set the mood to celebrate the holiday season.
As the holiday season fast approaches, the Christmas lights start going up. It’s the time of the year when all you need for a great evening out is drive around the neighborhood and take in the decorations. Maybe this year you’ll join the festivities and make your own yard a neighborhood landmark.
Well, this year, you can do it. All you need is a great idea, and you can hire a company to take care of the rest. Don’t let the labor scare you away from decorating. Just pick your style and run with it:
Quiet and Classic
Not all yard decorations are loud and colorful. If your favorite part of Christmas Eve is listening to “Silent Night” as you look out at newly fallen snow, there are Christmas lights that suit your tastes. The secret behind these classic decorations is to imitate the look of snow with your lighting.
Colors: Stick with white or blue lights to evoke the stillness of winter. These colors don’t draw too much attention, but they still make for a stunning yard.
Shapes: Though you can use single-strand lights, icicle lights add a touch of class to your decorations. Drape these along these along the eaves of your house to get the picture-perfect home.
Trees: If you plan to string lights around outdoor trees, stick to evergreens if you can. Though you could string
lights around deciduous trees as well, bare winter branches shouldn’t be the focal point of your charming winter scenery.
Warm and Festive
For some people, the best part of Christmas is the warm glow of colorful lights strung around the tree on Christmas morning. If that sounds like you, give your yard the same treatment. For this mood, string your lights with an image of a gingerbread house in mind.
Colors: Your house should remind people of Christmas cookies and apple cider-instead of using plain white lights, get colorful Christmas lights to string along your house.
Shapes: The key to an inviting-looking home is to keep just enough space between your colored lights. They should be close enough together to look continuous but not so close that they look clustered. To get this look, use oversized bulbs instead of smaller-sized Christmas lights. Bigger colored bulbs look like gumdrops on your home, which is just the mood you’re aiming for.
Trees: Instead of putting lights on tall trees, decorate your hedges and shrubs. Lights on such short and charming plants can feel homier, and since shrubs often lead right to your door, lights here seem to welcome guests into your home.
Grand and Impressive
Maybe for you, Christmas is about spectacle and awe-you can’t get enough of the elaborate lighting while you’re shopping downtown. You can replicate this same grandiosity at your house by following a few tips:
Colors: When you’re going grand, you don’t need to limit yourself to a particular palate. But you could consider using solid colored strings of light to make a bold statement. People may see multicolored lights every day, but they’ll pause to look at a home covered in just blue lights.
home covered in just blue lights.
Shapes: Though your lights don’t need to be a particular shape, they should form clean lines along your home. Look for the natural geometry, and string lights so they accentuate it. If you have a second floor bedroom, for instance, the offshoot of the roof could make for a bold triangle of lights to add to the rest of your design.
Trees: Deciduous trees may have lost all their leaves, but you can bring back their beauty with long strings of Christmas lights. Find the trees with plenty of thick branches, and string lights over every bit of the trunk and branches. In the end, your tree will draw attention from the entire neighborhood.
Once you know how you want to decorate with Christmas lights this year, don’t be intimidated by the work ahead of you. Just call a company that installs holiday lights, and enjoy your spectacular home.