Make Your Front Yard Visible From Outer Space With These Amazing Christmas Yard Decorations.
Are you ready for Christmas this year? I know I am…And after a year like 2009, I’m looking forward to this Christmas even more. And my favorite part of the holiday season is seeing the colorful Christmas yard decorations set up in front of every house in the neighborhood.
I have noticed outdoor holiday decorations popping up earlier and earlier every year on my block, and the displays are getting larger and more elaborate. It used to be that the first weekend after Thanksgiving was the soonest that you would ever see lights being strung along houses in my neighborhood…Not anymore! October is the new November when it comes to installing Christmas yard decorations, and I don’t expect this trend to stop.
If you haven’t been shopping for Christms yard decorations in a few years, you may be surprised at the amazing number of choices and options available. This year you’ll find an almost endless varienty of decorations to install in your front yard: LED lighting, solar powered Christmas trees, holographic images, 8- foot tall inflatable Santas, and even net lighting designed to wrap around tree trunks!
However, I recommend that you take a moment to carefully plan your new holiday display before purchasing any new Chistmas yard decorations. This will ensure that your new display will not turn your jolly wife into the Grinch…Instead, you will be the hero this holiday as your friends and family admire your new and improved Holiday display.
Let’s start from square one: Does your front yard have a source of electricity? This may sound like a silly question, but it will determine whether your Christmas display will be visible from outer space or not. If you do have power, great! You’re off to a fantastic start. If you don’t an electrical outlet handy, don’t worry…you still have some good options available to you:
1. There are actually many kinds of Chistmas yard decorations that do not require any electricity at all, like a nativity scene, outdoor tree ornaments, garlands and bows. Setting these up under a streetlight will illuminate them at night without any lighting of your own.
2. Thanks to new technology developed in the North Pole, you can find many new solar-powered decorations like string lighting available in 2009…These are also great for to lighting up trees and shrubs far away from the house.
3. My dad was famous for stretching out three hundred feet of extension cord to light a tiny tree in our back yard…I don’t recommend this, but if this is your only option please use a heavy-duty cord!
If power is not an issue, then you can get started with some simple string lighting. Start small by lighting a few trees in the front yard. You’ll also get lots of curb appeal by installing net lights over shrubs and bushes near the house. Icicle lighting looks terrific hanging from a front porch, and a Christmas wreath can really dress up a front door.
Are you ready to do something completely different this year? Don’t know where to start? It’s always easiest to begin by picking a theme and working around that…Here are some ideas for you to get you started: Santa’s village, reindeer, snowmen, toy soldiers, Peanuts characters, candy canes, gingerbread cookies, etc…You can even brainstorm with your kids and have some fun with it!
Once you have a theme, it’s time to pick out the decorations: White lights? Colored lights? Do you prefer a contemporary display, or will you keep it traditional this year? And there’s one more thing to consider…your spouse may like to have some input as well on what the front lawn looks like during the holidays for the next ten years.
And here’s the last word on buying your new Christmas yard decorations…You get what you pay for. Today you can find decorations manufacted in dozens of countries to various — and often poor — quality standards. Often these products do not even come with a UL electrical rating. Therefore, if you find an mechanical Santa being sold at an amazing price from an unknown vendor online, you may have good reason to be suspicious about the quality and safety of this product.
And here’s the most important ingredients to a successful holiday display: have lots of fun with it! And with that let me wish you and your family a very merry Christmas season, and a joyful and prosperous New Year.
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