If your idea of fun is decorating your house for the holidays, then you need to think about outdoor lighting ideas that can transform your New Lenox and Manhattan, IL, area house into a holiday beauty. These fun lighting ideas can kickstart the festivities from Thanksgiving until the end of the year.
Thanksgiving Lights
You might not think of Thanksgiving as the start of holiday lighting fun but there are quite a few ways to illuminate your home and landscape for the season of thankfulness. Consider adding string lights to your fall pumpkin displays so that they can be seen at night. Your guests will “oooh and ahhhh” over baskets or urns filled with multi-colored and various sized pumpkins that are twinkling as they arrive for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Consider stringing maple leaf shaped string lights over you patio for a seasonal twist on patio lights. If you have pergola, add some yellow, orange, and red leaves to the posts and illuminate the entire space with globe lights that draw attention to a perfect spot to relax after the big meal.
Grapevine pumpkins can be part of your porch display as they glow in the evening from the lights within and adding lanterns to your walkway can be easy when you use flameless candles for a soft glow.
Christmas Lights
Christmas can be an opportunity to go all out with landscape lighting. Twinkle lights in the branches of specific trees can look amazing but be careful to end them all at the same height regardless of the size of the tree because when they are alight at night, the symmetry will look amazing.
Adding lights to your home can be a dangerous activity and is better left to the professionals with the proper equipment and safety precautions. They can also install spotlights to focus on parts of your house and porch like the spot where you have placed an outdoor Christmas tree.
If you are feeling bold, you could change out your spotlights for red and green lamps and add colored bulb lights to a vintage wagon, sled, or other unique feature. Another way to add interest and fun to your landscape can be to backlight a feature where the shadows of the object are what you see instead of lighting the actual feature. Shadows can create some special drama in your holiday yard, too.
Make Effective Use of Timers
The fun of holiday lighting can be ruined by having to remember to go outside and turn them on and then off at the end of the night. A landscape lighting service can take all of the hassle out of holiday lights by installing all of your lighting choices and attaching them to timers that do all of the work for you. They can even monitor the lights to ensure that none burn out so that your display is magnificent from the install until the removal.
When you want to set the stage for the holidays with a fun light display, let a landscape lighting specialist help you plan which lights to use for the scene you desire. From the ideas stage to the final takedown, they can kickstart the holidays with a stunning lighting display for your New Lenox and Manhattan, IL, area home and property.
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