Aren’t you sure what to do with your home for the holidays? Check out our top 10 ideas for transforming your Houston home into a stunning seasonal success.
1. Emphasize existing landscape features and the graceful branches of deciduous trees by illuminating them with ground-level flood lights. Use existing landscape lighting or modular spotlights to highlight wreaths and green decorations. Fill fountains, urns, and birdbaths with gazing balls or evergreen boughs to maximize their seasonal appeal.
2. Think about your landscaping before you decorate. Watch for decorative plants that will complement your holiday display. Treat landscape shrubs in late fall to protect them and keep them looking healthy all season. Evergreens, hollies, and berry-producing shrubs are ideal for incorporating into your holiday display.
3. Place greenery, topiaries, garlands, and evergreen wreaths on entryways, windows, mailboxes, columns, and porches. These items will look beautiful during the day before the timer activates your lights.
4. Add string lights to enhance greenery and garlands at night. Wrap tree trunks and branches with mini lights to create a splendid visual effect. Use evenly spaced mesh lights to cover evergreen trees and shrubs.
5. Give your home a sleek silhouette by brightening the roof line, gables, and eaves with sparkly string lights. Decorate the edges of walkways and driveways to create a warm and inviting look that is tasteful and traditional.
6. Go high-tech by decorating your home with textured string or snowfall lights. These LED icicles have multi-faceted covers that sparkle and an animated light resembling falling snow.
7. Decorate your backyard to create a wintry paradise. This is an excellent option if you have a gazebo, a pond, a lush garden, or a backyard hot tub where you’ll be spending time. Backyard lights look magical from the inside too.
8. White and gold Christmas lights are two of the season’s most popular colors. Stay traditional with white or solid red and green lights, or go modern with all-blue lights that look great in winter.
9. Hang trendy light balls and sparkling snowflakes from tall landscape trees to turn your property into a winter wonderland.
10. Upgrade to energy-saving LEDs, and lower the cost of lighting your holiday display by 80%. LED Christmas lights last much longer than incandescent lights, too.
At ABC Home & Commercial Services in Houston, our elves, Christmas gnomes, and professional light stringers are standing by to deck your home for the holidays. Call us today to turn your home into a holiday paradise.