Well it’s that time of year again when all of the Christmas lights begin to go up on houses. For the past couple of years I have posted this Christmas lights reminder that focuses on the “don’ts” of Christmas lights. This year I decided to take a different route.
As I was driving through my parents subdivision last night I saw this excellent display of Christmas lights. So, this year, I will use this as an example of all that is right about Christmas light usage!
1. Icicle Lights- Note that the lights are clear (just like real icicles) and that they are covering the appropriate peaks of the house. They are not hanging at strange angles where real icicles wouldn’t be.
2. Light nets- Notice how their light nets cover the entire bush. I am going to assume that they took into account the fact that every year their bushes grow and that each year they will need bigger or more light nets. Either that or they trimmed their bushes back. They did not cover only part of their bushes and they did not try to make a “creative shape” with the light nets, like that of a Christmas tree. Those are bushes, no one thinks the Christmas tree shaped light net is a real Christmas tree.
3. Strand lights- You will see that these are wrapped evenly around the garland and the wreaths. I am assuming that these were pre-lit items, which is always a classy and safe choice. You will also notice a lack of stringing random strands of lights through trees. That’s probably because they know that’s tacky and didn’t want to go to the effort of wrapping the branches, which would be the appropriate method.
OK, now that I have that out of my system. . . Happy Decorating!
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:51 pm
You may also want to know that the owners hired a service to decorate this house.