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Christmas Net Lights
Christmas net lights are an easy and convenient way to decorate the outside of your home for the holiday season. Aptly named, the wires are crisscrossed in a net-like fashion with lights throughout, but usually at every vertices, or connecting point. The average traditional 4'x6' net has 150 lamp bulbs (or 100 LED).
How To Fix Christmas Lights
Christmas lights are a festive addition to your tree, home and your yard. The most frustrating part of Christmas lights is when you take the strands out and find that one strand will not light, or you get a dud bulb. The process of checking one light after another can be quite tedious and nerve racking.
Snowflake Lights
In the south it is rare that snow falls in December. There’s rarely a hope for a white Christmas, but that does not mean they cannot have snowflakes. Snowflake Lights are a unique decorative lighting option for the holidays. They bring a flair to holiday lighting beyond the standard white string lights that normally adorn porch eaves and rooftops.
Bubble Christmas Lights
As far as Christmas lights are concerned, or any type of decorative lights for that matter, bubble Christmas lights are one of the favorite types, both for children as well as adults. Bubble lights, as the name shows, are lights which produce a bubbling effect when turned on.
Buying Wholesale Christmas Lights
Most people have an old set of lights for their Christmas tree and a few decorations, and are content with that. What should a person do, however, if he or she is really in the holiday spirit and wants to buy in bulk? It might be a good idea to buy wholesale Christmas lights.
Try Battery Powered Fairy Lights for Christmas
To add a simple, elegant look to your decorations this Christmas try using battery fairy lights. There is no need to purchase all new decorations since these small, simple lights give a delicate ambiance that enhances any style and will match both traditional and modern decorations. These lights can also be reused for occasions all year long. They make romantic wedding decorations or add a beautiful touch to backyard parties or Hawaiian themed luaus.
How and Where to Put Up Your Lights
Decorating for Christmas is one of the best parts of the holiday season. Here are some simple tips that will help anyone from a novice designer working on their first yard to old pros who have been decorating for years.
Make Your Lights Flash to Music
Outdoor Rope Lights
Outdoor rope lights are an interesting option for Christmas lighting projects. Outdoor rope lights are basically standard indoor/outdoor Christmas lights that are threaded through a vinyl tube. The tube glows from the light produced by the twinkle lights creating a unique effect. You can use outdoor rope lights to create scallops of Christmas lights on your home, to wrap trees and shrubs in your yard and to decorate other items outside that you may not want light bulbs making direct contact with, such as inflatable decorations or Christmas wreaths.
How to Choose Lights
With the number of lights in stores today, you'll want to have an idea of what you are looking at. Here we have compiled a list of the common lights, the bulbs they use, and most importantly, where and how you should use them in your outside Christmas decorations.
Outdoor Lighting
One of the staples of outdoor Christmas decorations is outdoor lighting. You have a number of great options when it comes to outdoor lighting for your outdoor Christmas display. The most commonly used lighting option is indoor/outdoor Christmas lights. These lighting sets come in single and multi-color sets, they come in a variety of bulb sizes and now they even come in isolated bulbs or rope lights. The final feature offered by Christmas outdoor lighting systems is light patterns. Light patterns offered by most string and rope lights include steady beam, twinkle effect and running patterns. Some are even programmable so that they follow Christmas music.