Christmas Wouldn’t Be Christmas Without Led Lights
The development of LED Christmas lights has opened up a whole new world for the home at Christmas. It’s possible to make your home into a Santa’s grotto inside and out, a romantic winter wonderland hideaway for two and anything in between. The only limitation is your imagination.
Interior Decorating at Christmas
There was a time when the only Christmas lights we had in our home were lights on the tree. Now we have many more choices and that includes more options for decorating the tree. We can still have light bulbs in single colours or in a range of colours, but we can also choose illuminated baubles, berries, shapes including stars, trees and beads. The lights may stay on all the time or flash in any number of sequences.
As the tree is usually the focus of decoration, once that is decorated, the transformation you want in your home will start to take place. Choose single colours of LED Christmas light bulbs, such as white bulbs or red berries and you are starting to make a simple contemporary design. Multi coloured flashing lights are going to look good if you are transforming your home into a Christmas grotto with maximum lighting.
Using lights to decorate the windows can be very attractive. When it is dark, with only the Christmas lights on and the usual lighting switched off, the house will look magical. Windows may be decorated with curtain lights including snowflakes and baubles. Alternatively, images may be put in the window in shapes such as snowmen, Santa and reindeer.
Decorating Outside
Decorating the outside of your house is a great way of sharing the build-up of excitement to the big day with neighbours. If you live on a busy road, even more people will enjoy your display and people may even start to look out for it in the first few days of December. There are Christmas lights available for trees, hedges, walls and even the roof.
Three dimensional figures such as reindeer and snowmen can be installed on the lawn. Children will love going by the house on their way home from school and peering over the wall at a collection of illuminated animals or at Santa with his reindeer and a sleigh full of presents.
There are lights to hang from gutters and round outlines of the building. This can look especially effective on a solitary house, maybe in a rural area where it can be viewed from a distance.
A plain wall can be decorated with illuminated two dimensional images.
Trees look festive with Christmas lights draped from their branches. There’s a similar choice as for indoor lights. If the tree to be a solitary decoration in an otherwise shadowy garden, then white lights might be the choice. The light will give a glow to plants close by and create new and interesting shadows. However, if there are lots of lights flashing on the walls and roof, with moving images then colored lights would be more in keeping.
Sometimes a few houses on a street can get together and coordinate their selection of outdoor LED Christmas light bulbs. They may even make such a show that people drive by to have a look.
The choice of Christmas light bulbs is enormous and the resulting Christmas show can be fantastic. The first decision to be made is whether you’re going for an understated ‘less is more’ look, or going for bright, brash and gaudy. Make your decision and start choosing.
Author Bio:
James Holden is the digital content manager of Visible Lighting and has many years’ experience in the LED Lighting industry. To find out more information on James Holden, you can follow him on Google Plus.
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Category: Holidays, Home Improvements
