Outdoor lighting is a great way to add atmosphere to a lawn, patio, patio or any space outside your home. Bring the place to life with outdoor string lights for your special events; the sky’s the limit what you can achieve, so read this article to get ideas to make those creative juices flow.
The advantages to using outdoor string lighting can be summed up to include: versatility, you can string them along anything, plants, shrubs, fencing, walls, etc.; they are waterproofed to avoid any accidents; the lights are available in varying sizes and lengths and colors. Best of all they are fairly inexpensive to purchase and safer than the other types of lighting available because of the LED lights used, which are not a fire hazard.
The beauty of outdoor lights is they are so versatile they fit any occasion, from Christmas to Thanksgiving, ringing in the New Year or a simple birthday bash in your backyard. Flood lighting tends to drown everything in its harsh light whereas the outdoor string lights give a rather magical, fairyland feeling to the place, setting the tone for fun and festivities.
String the lights along your shrubbery or fencing, rig them up from the ceiling and along the walls of the house and you will have plenty of illumination for your party or cookout or any other type of celebration you are planning. These lights usually come out in full force during the holiday season; you will find that people really go to great lengths to decorate their homes using numerous strings of lights.
One major benefit to be had from using string lighting is of course the value factor; most sets come with the connectable feature which allows you to keep adding on lights. For example if you are doing a line of fencing and find you run short, you don’t need to get a whole new set, just connect a few more lights and you will have it covered. The only thing you will need to make sure of, is the additional lights are from the same company as the original set you purchased.
Energy efficient:
Another benefit is that the LED lights consume approximately 75% less electricity than traditional lights do. If you want to be really economical in your use of electricity or are concerned about using “green power”, you can set up your solar light during the day to get charged so to speak, and then run your outdoor string lighting off solar power.
There really is no limit to the numerous ways you can use your string lighting; string them along the walkway.
As an affordable and safe decoration accessory you simply cannot do better than battery powered christmas lights. The adaptability is truly unmatched and you will have a lot fun decorating with these lights. Here’s a tip, check out the stores during the off-season period, it’s when they get rid of lots of stuff at what they call clearance sales.