Give a winter fairy tale to yourself and your loved ones
Imagine how pleasant it is to return home and find yourself in a real fairy tale - where the facade sparkles brighter than the starry sky, and the illumination of trees and bushes organically complements the picture. All this can become your reality in just a few days - just leave a request, and we will prepare and approve the project, purchase materials and carry out the necessary work.
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Before installation, see how the New Year's street decoration will transform your home - we will prepare a project and visualization. If you order this service separately, its cost will be at least 30,000 rubles
Limitless possibilities, we can create any illumination
Tell us about your wishes or just show the decor you like - we will take the information into account when creating New Year's lighting for a country house and plot. We are capable of any task, since we have been working in this field for more than 12 years.
Not only beautiful, but also safe
Be sure that the New Year's decoration of your home will last for more than one season. We use bright, high-quality garlands that are protected from environmental influences by IP65 and are fireproof. We give 1 year warranty
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How to Create a Holiday Lighting Design
The task of New Year's illumination is to create a special, festive mood and at the same time emphasize the advantages of the site. In holiday lighting, everything should be subordinated to the New Year's theme.
The first step is to determine the center of the New Year's composition. Usually choose one of three options:
- house;
- spruce or large beautiful tree;
- large snow sculpture.
The selected object will be highlighted as much as possible by illumination (for this, either the amount of light, or color, or dynamics is used), and the entire New Year’s project will dance from it.
Next, you need to think about what other objects will be included in the project: usually this is a house, a gazebo, a pergola, a well, a fence, a path, some trees and shrubs.
The contours of a house, paths, or any buildings are made according to the principle of a child’s drawing, so that not a single line “hangs in the air,” but connects with the next. In the dark, only the roof line should not glow, without the contours of the facade, and vice versa - it will be strange and ugly.
When highlighting trees and shrubs, the main thing is not to overdo it.
If the tree is not the center of the composition, it is better to use the smallest light bulbs for illumination; the result should be as delicate as possible.
It remains to think through the small details. They fill the “drawn” light contours, creating volume and depth. Light figures, silhouettes, light clusters are suitable here.
Three simple life hacks that will help you create a festive lighting design for your area:
- In a small area with a natural landscape, soft illumination of the Christmas tree may be sufficient; it is better to start with this: perhaps nothing else is needed.
- If lighting design of the facade is carried out, it must be supported by path lighting.
- If your holiday lighting budget is limited, you can simply decorate several trees with a grid of LEDs - a festive atmosphere will be created.
Making holidays unforgettable is our job
The employees of our organization develop the project down to the smallest detail. The wishes of the customer are taken into account without fail. A competent approach will allow you to offer New Year's decor that will fit into the design of the New Year's frame of the street. Craftsmen will plan the decoration of the facade to emphasize the mood and architectural features of the building.
But decorating the street and elements comes with some installation difficulties. The organization has a huge material and technical base with ladders, towers, and equipment for working at high altitudes. Therefore, installers can easily carry out work and adapt to even the most unexpected working conditions. The wishes and preferences of clients are taken into account, individual original projects are developed so that the territory looks great.
Our employees will create an individual LED design at the client’s discretion. Designers will take into account the features of the street, install reliable lighting, creating a festive design. We can offer both ready-made solutions and take on the creation of an individual project. The work is done quickly and efficiently.
DIY Christmas lights
When creating New Year's lighting, adhere to the following rules:
- If the site is small, holiday lighting is tripled throughout its entire territory.
- Several festive light zones are being created on a large area.
- On a site of any size, the dimensions of the holiday area must be clearly marked (around the Christmas tree, area with a slide, etc.).
- Lighting in the festive area should be done in the same color scheme and maintained in the same rhythm.
Before starting work, you need to evaluate how the existing outdoor lighting is made and eliminate defects. The biggest hindrance to harmonious holiday lighting is blinding lamps, which visually blur light lines, drown out colors, disrupt the rhythm, and in every possible way draw attention to themselves. They, of course, need to be replaced.
But in winter, any, even the quietest outdoor lighting, due to the reflective effect of snow, gives a lot of light. Experts recommend completely turning off conventional lighting for the duration of the holiday illumination - then the effect of a “winter fairy tale” will be guaranteed.
What tools to use to create New Year's lighting
Modern lighting means allow you to “paint” a Christmas picture of any complexity on your site. For this purpose, garlands with incandescent lamps are now rarely used. They have been replaced by LEDs, which last longer, consume less electricity and look more impressive. But lamp garlands are cheaper, and they have a cozy “warm lamp” light, although not as bright.
Most often, the following LED devices are used for New Year's decorations:
| Device | Characteristic | Where is it used? |
| Duralight | Transparent PVC cord inside with LEDs inside. Protected from dampness, cold, ultraviolet radiation. The brightness of the lamp increases as the temperature decreases. Can be cut into pieces of a certain length. | For decorating the facade, porch, windows, marking the outline of the house, marking paths, etc. |
| Belt-light | Quite a thick wire with large bulbs (4.5 - 5 cm). | For decorating really large objects, for example, to create the effect of running lights on a huge fir tree. |
| Network (netlight). | A garland-network with square or diamond-shaped cells with LED lamps at the intersections of the threads. | For decorating windows, facades, architectural elements. |
| Clip-light. | Low voltage tree garland (12 or 24 V) | For decorating trees and shrubs. |
| A curtain. | A garland consisting of one main horizontal wire, to which falling threads with LEDs are attached. | The curtain can be placed on the window from the inside. Outdoor varieties are suitable for decorating the facade of a house. |
| Simple LED garlands. | Lamps in a sealed plastic case are the most economical option. Often used for permanent, non-holiday decorative outdoor lighting. | Universal, can be used everywhere. They decorate windows, open balconies, fences, railings, roofs. |
| Fringe and icicle (icycle). | Like a curtain, it is a horizontal cord with hanging threads, but fringe has threads of different lengths. | Most often for New Year's lighting of the roof of the house. |
| LED consoles. | Durable frame equipped with durlight. Can glow in different colors. | For decorating vertical structures. |
Flexible neon
This light illumination can be called differently, flexible or cold neon, or more scientifically - electroluminescent cord (El cord).
It glows due to the phosphor in the central core, and voltage is supplied through it through two very thin wires.
Cord tubes can be of any color. Here you can choose according to your taste and color. However, unlike LED RGB strip, the color of neon cannot be changed arbitrarily.
Whatever color cord you bought in the store, this shade will illuminate your façade. There are indeed models with the “crawling snake” effect, but they cost a little more.
For more details on all the varieties of El cord, how to choose it correctly, what advantages and significant disadvantages it has, read the article at the link below.
Neon cord is a rather unpretentious product. You can bend it at different angles, which is very important on complex and curvy facades.
It consumes very little electricity - about 4 W/m. At the same time, it is ideal for installation outdoors on any surface, as it is not afraid of moisture.
And it practically does not heat up. Therefore, there is no need to worry that it may cause the wooden structures of the attic to catch fire.
More details
Another undoubted advantage over LED tape or garlands is its universal length. Neon can be cut with millimeter precision, absolutely anywhere.
At the same time, it’s easy to build up and solder additional pieces of completely different colors.
It is most often attached to the facade by conventional gluing with sealant or Moment glue.
Slight difficulties may arise with connecting cold neon. The fact is that you can’t just plug it into a socket or 220V network. To power it, a special inverter is required.
On the one hand, this is inconvenient, but on the other hand, it makes it possible to connect it not only from an outlet, but also from battery-powered inverters.
In fact, you don't even have to run any wiring outside. It is enough to hide a sufficiently powerful battery pack in the attic or under the canopy.
Taking into account the low power of the backlight, such power can easily last for a couple of nights. With spare batteries, your facade will glow all night long without interruption.
If you prefer standard 220V, and don’t want to climb into attics and roofs every time to change batteries, then don’t forget about the adapter. It's something like a phone charger.
It reduces the voltage from 220V to 12 or 24V. It is from them that cold neon inverters need to be powered.
The conductors are connected either using a soldering iron or through factory male-female connectors already soldered to the cord.
How to choose high-quality outdoor lighting devices
According to the experience of FORUMHOUSE participants, most of the garlands are made in China, but “China is different.” Be sure to ask the seller for installation instructions and understand what restrictions this garland has for installation on the site.
Thus, many types of garlands may not be suitable for the street, and their light is quite dim, although sellers often keep silent about this. How to identify street garlands was explained by the guru of the “Lighting” section of our portal with the nickname Dale85, who professionally deals with these issues. Need to:
- Look at the thickness of the wires - they must withstand light, stuck snow and icicles;
- The place where the wire and LED are soldered must be completely insulated; it cannot just be a casing placed on top.
Dale85FORUMHOUSE Member
If water gets into the cambric, hydrolysis begins and the contacts will rust or dissolve over time.
This is a street garland - the joint is filled with epoxy, a cambric is put on top:
Here is an indoor garland, with a simple cambric at the junction. It was not outside, it just hung in a warehouse for a long time and began to rust.
Duralight
The third lighting option is a kind of symbiosis of LED garland and cold neon. Chinese craftsmen once hid LEDs inside a PVC cord and got the so-called duralight.
It comes in two types - flat (duraflex) and round.
The most popular duralight:
- round section - 13mm with 32 LEDs per linear meter
- and rectangular shape 11*17mm 60 LEDs per 1m
Some varieties, just like flexible neon, can glow in a running fire mode. In addition, duralight can pulsate and flicker at a given frequency.
Today, this is no longer a particularly common facade lighting. And in some respects it is inferior to both neon and garlands.
For example, over time, duralight tubes will stretch and lose their original shape from year to year. Not to mention the fact that for many Chinese specimens, the insulation in the cold after one winter becomes completely unusable.
In terms of brightness, duralight is inferior to an LED garland. But it is worth noting the fact that this is the cheapest and easiest to connect New Year's façade lighting.
Therefore, those who are engaged in facade lighting for the first time prefer to buy it. It is sold in bays of several tens of meters.
Just keep in mind that you need to cut it off in strictly marked places, and not wherever you want. After cutting, the end is sealed with a special plug.
Wall mounting is carried out using mounting clips.
Despite the voltage being 220V, the connection must be made through an adapter that supplies direct current to the LEDs.
And if you want magical blinks and flickers, you will also need a controller.
Duralight can be expanded, but this is done through adapter couplings.
The 220V ends are also connected via pin contacts.
Summarizing
When lighting an area for New Year's, you must definitely choose the center of the composition, highlight the holiday zones, and use optimally suitable lighting devices to decorate them.
The materials on our portal can help with this: find out what type of lamps are most beneficial to illuminate an area, how to fill a slide and skating rink at your dacha, how to grow compact coniferous plants. We offer you ready-made scenarios for celebrating the New Year in the country and in the forest. Check out selected New Year's recipes from users of our portal. Get acquainted with the advice of a specialist on organizing lighting for a country house.
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