Christmas Lights

Everyone who is reading this knows how useful and fun Christmas lights are. They quickly accentuate our back-breaking decoration and give a festive makeover to our homes. Choose from soft, subtle and elegant styles to bold and colourful ones, whichever you like!

You can use Christmas lights as a standalone decoration. Or to complement other Christmas staples like trees, mantelpieces, snow globes and wreaths. Through differently patterned lights, you can illuminate both indoors and outdoors at the special festival. They come in many colours, shapes and sizes to suit different decorations and preferences. Some are just usual styles, whereas others can have advanced features like remotely controlled, sound operated modes, music systems etc. Perhaps browsing for the perfect set can be an overwhelming experience. So, on this page, we will unveil everything you need to know about Christmas party lighting.

All about doing a perfect Christmas light decoration

A perfect Christmas decoration initiates with some Christmas staples. Like the tree, snow globes, reindeer, wreath, and not to miss, Christmas lights. They come in a wide assortment. The categories depend upon whether you are planning to decorate outdoors or indoors, whether you want to be LED or incandescent, little or a lot of lighting and many more factors. In addition, you can go for mini strings, wide-angled, battery-operated, colour changing and more varieties of lights to suit your decoration. Moreover, modern lights are more energy-efficient than traditional ones, so they are hard on your energy bills as well. Let us explore various lights apt for the Christmas decoration.

LED Christmas lights

There are two main types of illumination in use for decoration – Incandescent and LED. LEDs win over the former in every aspect, from energy-efficient to producing more light and better life. Incandescent lamps were used traditionally that consume a fair amount of electricity. LEDs, by contrast, last ten times longer than incandescents. Their initial cost is higher, but they consume low energy and are a lot more durable. Plus, they emit more distinct colours and bright lights needed to illuminate your Christmas decoration. You can install them anywhere in indoors or outdoors, like garden space, backyards and even the entry.

Christmas tree lights

Putting lights on a Christmas tree accentuates its natural beauty. While choosing them for your Christmas tree, you can find mini and large C7/C9 styles bulbs. 5MM wide-angle, M5 mini, C6 strawberry, G12 raspberry and C7 or C9 are some of the popular choices. Out of these, 5MM wide angle LEDs and G12 raspberry LEDs exhibit evenly distributed light. C7 or C9 bulbs, by contrast, throw diffused light that looks a bit dim. Your selection also depends upon the size of the tree. Further, for large trees, you can go for large sizes, whereas small ones would require shorter bulb styles. Regarding colours, multicoloured light is a popular choice. But warm or pure white lights are also prevalent in indoor spaces.

Battery operated fairy lights.

Christmas fairy lights are small and bright LEDs. They beautifully illuminate your Christmas decoration and outdoors on the eve. They come in the form of a string with tiny LED bulbs. You can bend and shape them anyway to fit around various items like trees, wreaths, mantelpieces, and reindeer. Some fairy lights have plug-in adapters, whereas others are battery powered with a timer function. Further, you can get your hands on fairy lights with decorative accents like gems, beads, globe covering as well as mesh rope, ribbon, fairy light balls and many other varieties.