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Outdoor Christmas lights add festive sparkle to your home’s façade and provide a merry welcome to family and friends. If you're thinking of decorating with outside Christmas lights this season, here are important tips and reminders to help you set up with ease.
How Do I Choose Outdoor Christmas Lights?
Choosing your outdoor lights will depend on where you’d like to display them. You need to know the measurement of each space, as well as the location of power outlets to determine the best type of outdoor Christmas lights to use. Here are practical steps to guide you in choosing the right lights for your exterior spaces.
- Take a picture of your home from across the street. Viewing your house from afar will make it easier to plan out where exactly to hang Christmas lights strings and place other decorative lights and lanterns.
- Get decorating inspiration. Now that you have a better understanding of your outdoor space, it’s time to find decorating inspiration through Pinterest, Christmas home décor magazines, and home design sites. Take note of the looks that strike your fancy in areas similar to what you have.
- Identify your power sources. Make sure to have secure access to power outlets in your decorating areas. Check that there are no damages or faulty wiring to ensure fire safety.
- Measure the areas you want to decorate. Prepare an outline sketch or print out a photo of your house where you can write down the measurement of each area. Measure your roofline by running a tape measure along the base of your house. This will give you a good estimate on the length of outdoor string lights that you’ll need.
- List down the types of outdoor lights that you’ll use. Roofs, columns, railings, and trees look best when decorated with lights strings or outdoor hanging lights. Lanterns, light stakes, and tape lights are ideal for illuminating pathways, lawns, and stairways. Meanwhile, outdoor LED Christmas lights arranged in popular holiday silhouettes like snowflakes, reindeer, trees, or snowmen are perfect for a fun display in the porch, patio, or garden.
- When purchasing lights, make sure that they’re marked safe for outdoor use. Outdoor-safe lights are designed to withstand sun, rain, snow, and other weather changes.
- Buy plastic light clips, hooks, and zip ties. These accessories will help you save time when putting up and taking down your Christmas lights. They also prevent damage to your walls, roof, railings, and any other surface where you want to hang lights.
- Test your Christmas lights before installing. If anything is not working well, get a replacement right away. One thing to keep in mind is to shop for Christmas decorations early to make sure you have enough time for returns and exchanges before peak holiday season.
When Should You Put Up Christmas Lights Outside?
There may be varying opinions on the best time to set up Christmas lights outside the house. For some, Christmas decorating begins as soon as Halloween ends. However, many believe that the day or week after Thanksgiving is the ideal time to decorate your home for Christmas, including hanging outside Christmas lights. Advent begins at around this time too, which gives many a good reason to start decorating as well.
When Should You Take Down Outdoor Christmas Lights?
Many people take down their Christmas lights and décor after New Year’s Day. There are several reasons why people choose to do so which includes tradition, religion, or simply to have a fresh start to the new year.
Setting up outdoor Christmas lights can be a breeze with proper planning, tools, and high-quality outdoor lights. With Balsam Hill’s collection of outdoor holiday decorations, you can create a bright and merry display that brings joy all season long.
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Please note that all tree heights indicated on our website include the tree stand. If you want the tallest Christmas tree your room will allow, we recommend buying a tree that is six inches shorter than your ceiling height to allow some clearance for a tree topper. For example, if you have a standard 8 - 9 foot ceiling, we would suggest a 7½ foot tree. Here are some more tips:
Under 6 feet trees
Best for tabletops or secondary spaces like kitchens or dens
6 - 6 ½ feet trees
Designed to fit homes with low to average ceiling heights.
7 - 7 ½ feet trees
Our most popular size, designed to fit perfectly in rooms with average 8 - 9 feet ceilings.
9 feet trees
Our second most popular size, designed for rooms with tall ceilings of 10 - 11 feet to create a stunning effect.
10 - 12 feet trees
These trees are beautiful centerpieces for two-storey living rooms, rooms with very high ceilings and some commercial spaces.
15 - 30 feet trees
These oversized trees are popular with churches, malls, and large office spaces to create grand holiday display.
We offer artificial trees in a wide variety of shapes, from traditional full-width trees to space-saving slim trees and flatbacks. When choosing your tree, we suggest that you consider the diameter (in the Shape description, this might be described as Full 40") of the Christmas tree to help you choose the perfect tree for your space. This measurement is taken at the very widest point of the tree. If you plan to have a few branches touching a wall or a piece of furniture, the true space occupied by the tree will be about six inches less than the stated diameter.
Regular (Full) Trees
Our most popular choice because of their lush profiles and sturdy branches.
Narrow Trees
Perfect for an elegant effect in smaller rooms and apartments.
Slim Trees
Our most slender trees, ideal for tight spaces, corners and foyers.
Flatback Trees
An elegant solution for small spaces, studios and small apartments.
Topiary Trees
Beautifully accent all parts of your home including patios, entryways and porches.
Balsam Hill's designers carefully craft our trees to mimic nature using site visits and cutting from live trees to guide them. We offer three types of foliage options that are made from either PE or PVC material. While some trees use one type of foliage exclusively, others may use mix of foliage types to achieve a particular look. The specific mix is specified on each product detail page in the section that describes the tree's foliage.
True Needle™ Technology
Balsam Hill's exclusive True Needle&tade; evergreen foliage is used to create our most realistic and luxurious artificial Christmas trees. This ultrarealistic foliage is created with injection-molded PE plastic and several different colors of pigment to mimic the structure, texture, and color of natural evergreen needles. A unique feature of True Needle™ foliage is the color variations within the branches. For example, the branch might be a brown/green while the needles start off a dark green and slowly fade to a lighter green.
Classic Needles
Balsam Hill's Classic Needle foliage has soft, flat and flexible needles with a more classic artificial look. These needles are made from thin sheets of PVC that are cut into fine strands to resemble evergreen needles. We use these resilient, flexible needles as the primary foliage of many of the trees in our very affordable Traditional trees. It is also used as filler for most of our Realistic and Most Realistic Christmas trees because of its superior ability to block light and create a "full" look for the tree.
Pine Needles
The PVC pine needles used by Balsam Hill® are specially designed to mimic the size and texture of long, thin needles of a pine tree. These needles even have the rigid texture of real pine needles. If you roll them between your thumb and finger, you will feel the ridges.
If you long for the beautiful glow of lights on your tree but dread untangling the wires, Balsam Hill's pre-lit Christmas trees are the answer. All of our lights are UL® approved and professionaly strung on the tree by hand to minimize the appearance of wires. Each of our pre-lit trees for indoor use come with premium commercial grade lights so that if one bulb burns out or is removed, the rest stay lit. We have a wide variety of pre-lit lighting options to suit every decorating need.
Color+Clear™ Lights
Our exclusive Color + Clear™ remote-controlled lighting system is available in both incandescent and energy-saving LED. The handy remote lets you choose clear lights, multi-colored lights, or both. With more than 50% additional lights, your tree will still have plenty of beautiful lights even if only one light type is selected. If you choose both clear and colored lights, your tree will display more lights than any other artificial tree you will find.
Clear Lights
Enjoy the timeless look of clear lights. Our most popular style of pre-lit tree, clear lights give you the mose flexibility in your decorating, and the ability to change your look from year to year.
Multicolored Lights
Warm your home with these pre-lit trees featuring traditional, festive multicolored lights. Most of our multicolored pre-lit trees feature red, green, blue and yellow lights.
Candlelight™ led lights
Enjoy our premium energy-saving LED lights that never burn out. Unlike cold light emitted from traditional LEDs, our energy-efficient Candlelight LEDs provide a warm glow reminiscent of a candle's flame.
Multicolored led lights
Our multicolored Classic Color™ LED lights bring a festive glow to your Christmas tree without the intense glare of standard LED bulbs. These red, blue, orange, green, and yellow LED lights are energy-efficient and will never burn out.
Unlit Trees
Use your own special lights on these unlit trees. For unlit trees that specify Simple String™, we have already pre-strung the trunk with extension cords, allowing you to plug your choice of lights into extension cord outlets throughout the center of the tree.
