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A dazzling outdoor Christmas lights display can brighten the deepest and darkest mid-winter days and bring joy to the cold hearts in your neighbourhood.
But you will need to follow a few simple rules to ensure you get everything just right.
Follow these simple guidelines and your home will be the stylish epicentre of illumination this winter – while the rest compete to be the next Clark Griswold from National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.
Everyone is familiar with traditional white or multi-coloured festoon lights decorating houses all over the country each year.
These have now been brought up to date with the use of LEDs and maybe this year it’s time to consider decorating the outside of your house with other Christmas lights that benefit from new technology to create even more dazzling effects.
LED Christmas Lights
Stunningly bright and extremely versatile, LEDs have certainly stretched the limits of lighting displays over recent years and Christmas wouldn’t now be the same without these intense stars lighting up the sky.
An extendable LED light system represents the ultimate in reliable outdoor Christmas lighting. Robustly constructed using heavyweight cabling and weatherproof connectors, it is flexible enough to cover your house with myriad of colours.
Ice And Snow
Multi-action and Staticlights come in a range of highly durable sets, maximum intensity LEDs forming intense strings and clusters of the brightest lights in rainbow colours.
Icicle lights have rightly become very popular and ‘snowing’ icicles are surprisingly energy efficient. Snow tubes are lines of brilliant white LEDs encased in a plastic tube or icicle. The microchip controlled LEDs illuminate in rapid succession to create a fantastic effect.
Rope Lighting is also a tried and tested arrangement. Weatherproof and using very strong cabling, the lights can be secured in the desired position by using small plastic tie straps. They can be static or have many function settings bringing your display to life.
It’s all about attention to detail – but don’t lose site of the big picture either – make your home shine with a new coat of weatherproof paint.
Also bear in mind you will need to prep your home for hanging lights. These days there are a wide range of products to suit your needs.
Consider how easy it will be to screw sturdy cup hooks into your outdoor walls. When you pick the right ones, the choices to then light your house are literally limitless.
And festoon lighting is also a good alternative. But with heavy belts, they could become a little heavy for standard home gutters.
With the smaller cup hooks leaving just a small indent afterwards – this is a small price to pay for such fantastic decor.
Whether you want a dramatic hi-tech light show or something more restrained, there’s plenty of ideas to choose from that will turn even the most modest house into a icy evocation of a wintery scene, making it a prime destination for Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve.