Planning a party? Enjoying summer evenings in the backyard? This project doesn’t require a ladder or special materials. With about 40 minutes of time and under $125 for bulbs and a cord, a backyard can go from “You have a lovely backyard” to “Wow, what’s the special occasion?” or better yet, “Whoo whoo, this looks…
Category: Customer Photos: Our Lights In Action
Get This Look: Mixing curtain and icicle lights
We love this project! Decorated with traditional glass-bulb icicle lights and curtain lights, this house takes our breath away. Our icicle lights are longer than big box store sets so their effect is more dramatic. Curtain lights have the same structure as icicle lights but have 6-foot long icicles so they partner well together. Here…
Get This Look: Deck Out Your Ride
Summer parades are just around the corner. Twelve-volt string lights make lighting a car for a night time event quick and easy. We love how 5 strings of multicolor, and single strings of warm white and red lit up this 1960’s era Cadillac for a Christmas parade. Find these colors and others in our 12…
Get This Look: Accenting roofline peaks with LED bulbs
A classic installation along a roofline of C9 LED bulbs and cords. See a suggested materials list and tips for installation.
Get This Look: Golf Cart Lights
We loved seeing this fun image in a review. Here’s that 5-star review: These lights were great. We installed them on our UTV along with some garland and went for a ride around the neighborhood with our grandchildren. We all had a great time, despite the near zero temperatures. 4 sets of lights was good,…
Get This Look: Classic Round Satin Finish Bulbs for Christmas
Thanks so much, Michael, for sending us these photos of your beautiful home and lights celebrating the Holidays. I’m glad you were pleased and they worked out so well. This project uses the largest round glass bulb that we have available. It’s the “G50” size. See the quick video below discussing their relative sizes. Be…
Get This Look: C7 LED Light Strings
This house is outlined with strings of pre-wired multi-color C7 light sets. These plug and play strings are constructed in series like a set of Christmas tree lights and the bulbs cannot be removed or replaced. Their uni-body, ultra-low current construction makes them easy to install since over 80 strings can be run in series…
Get this Look! Red and white smooth LED bulbs
Thanks, Brian, for sharing this photo of your project and your comments as well! Just wanted to thank you for all of your help. The bulbs were exactly what we were looking for and are actually brighter than the other incandescent bulbs being used on houses on our block. I had nothing to worry about…
Get This Look: Decorating a Chick-fil-a with Christmas Lights
If you live in the Houston area, be sure to head over to the N. Loop 610 & Shepherd Chick-fil-A this season to enjoy their Christmas light display and a #1 meal with fries and a shake. We love this combination of multi, red, and blue LED Christmas lights. Here is a quick guide to…
Get This Look: Karen’s LED Multi-color LED Christmas lights!
Be inspired by Karen’s all multi LED Christmas light display.
Get This Look: C9 LED Bulbs and Cords in Wyoming!
We love this fantastic display that a Wyoming customer shared with us via Facebook this week. To get the part of the look that does not include the 3D yard art, here is a starting shopping list for you if you are planning a similar project. This project uses a combination of pure white and…
Get This Look: Teal mini lights to light a roofline
We’ve noticed quite a trend in outlining rooflines with strings of smaller bulbs. Matt did a lovely job. We love the color. Materials 4 strings of teal mini lights, Matt used light strings with white wire and the bulbs are spaced 2.5 inches apart to give a more defined line to the project Clips, we…
Get This Look: Wrap trees with warm white LED light strings!
We’ve seen fantastic trees lit up at residences, shopping malls, and in corporate installations just like this residential installation in West Texas. Running so many lights in series takes advantage of the high maximum connectivity specifications of LED light strings. (You can run a ton of them together in one continuous circuit.) Materials Warm white…
Get This Look: Lighting a 20-foot tree
How do you light a 20-foot tree? How many lights do I use for a 20-foot tree? You’d be surprised how often we hear this question and it’s not always from Mall Managers and Park and Recreations folks. People across the US have REALLY BIG trees that they want to light up. We heard this…
Get This Look: Lighting a Hayride!
This project is one of our favorites. With a few sets of 12-volt lights, a fun covered wagon from fun to WOW, THAT’S FUN!!! Perfect for hayrides, parades, and parties, we hope this photo inspires you as much as it did us! Get the look! 3-5 sets of warm white 12-volt lights on green wire…
A lovely customer sent us a lighted glass block!
There have been a few bright spots in the Summer of 2020 and one of the brightest was opening a box to find this wonderful gift and note from Ellie. Dear David, I’m sending you this gift because you attended to my order. Your product is superior to those I’ve been using for the past…
Marvin’s Flagpole Tree
We love a great flagpole tree. Running string lights from the ground to the top of a flagpole becomes the centerpiece of an outdoor Christmas lights display. Thanks, Marvin, for sending us this photo of your fantastic project! Get the Look! This tree was made with strings of warm white M5 LED Christmas lights. Roughly…
Customer uses both LED lights strings and cords and bulbs for their Christmas Lights Display
We love customer Christmas lights photos and this one is fantastic. Wrapping trees and fences is easy with LED light strings. Outlining the roof with a custom pattern is easy with LED bulbs and cords. Three purple, two white along the roof are super-festive! Materials For the roof C9 cords in a color that matches…
The Canopy Crew and their fantastic Treehouses!
We recently received these photos from the Canopy Crew. From their website: The Canopy Crew LLC is a custom tree house building and tree care company. We offer tree house rentals in the Red River Gorge, Kentucky, build custom tree houses around the country, and take care of the trees in our home town of…
Our Lights in Action: Light a Corvette and bring the fun!
We want to send a big thank you to Roger for sending us photos of his Corvette. How cool is that? Get the Look! 12-volt multi-color light strings Blue painters tape (available at any store that sells paint) 12-volt lights are easy to work with when lighting cars, golf carts, campers and boats because they…
Our Lights in Action: Lighting a Pool with Rope Light!
A customer in New Hampshire, emailed us photos of their pool lighting project. You can easily get the look with a spool of blue LED rope light. (And we really love the pool toy!!)
Adding Sparkle to a Shelter-at-Home High School Graduation
We heard from Angela in Dallas that she needed royal blue lights to help celebrate her son’s High School graduation. It’s been tough during times like these for graduating seniors and we are glad we could help. We suggested that because of their electric quality that the LED version of blue light strings might be…
Parade of Lights: lighting cars for parades
The weather this past weekend was absolutely perfect for the Fort Worth Parade of Lights. John has a Model A and since we’re friends he texted me about lights. 😀 His car runs on a 6-volt system so we decided his best option to supply power 1000’s of lights was to use a battery and…