Not only children, but also adults are looking forward to the holidays. After all, these are pleasant chores, joy and fun. Especially if on the eve of the New Year holidays. Everyone is immersed in this special atmosphere. New Year's lighting of trees, streets and houses cheers up.
Without a bright, colorful highlight, the holiday will not be so long-awaited and joyful. It is very difficult to create a festive New Year mood without lights on the street. Therefore, we will tell in more detail about how to independently make New Year's lighting.
Christmas lights
In our country, relatively recently, they began to actively decorate not only the Christmas tree in the house, but also buildings, landscape elements and trees. Often we saw such pictures in American New Year films. But today, to create a festive atmosphere, such an illumination is created from a wide variety of lighting devices.
Choosing New Year's garlands, you should know exactly where you will install them. After all, New Year's street lighting requires the use of models designed for outdoor use. Most commonly used:
- fixtures;
- flashlights;
- candles.
The latter option is more preferable for decorating the interior of the house.
Features of the Christmas lights
Modern buyers have a large selection of beautiful New Year street lights. Relatively recently, the decoration of the homestead area consisted in the use of several Christmas garlands.
Christmas decoration is not only the use of various garlands on trees and around the perimeter of the house. Often use luminous figures of snowmen and deer, and for each individual zone they organize a unique highlight.
To decorate a large area and use the services of specialists. But you can do this task yourself. The main thing is your imagination and beautiful lighting elements.
All work on the design of New Year's lighting at home should be carried out in 2 stages: decorating the house inside and out.
Benefits of LED Lighting
The use of LEDs in home decoration for the New Year holidays has several advantages. The main ones include: ease of installation, minimal power consumption, durability, a variety of colors. So, why is LED Christmas lighting preferable to others?
- Almost 10 times reduced energy consumption, because you do not need a power source of 220 watts. Voltage converters reduce it to the required level. Therefore, on New Year's Eve you can use up to 75% less current than using ordinary lighting fixtures. Remember that one 35 W halogen lamp can be replaced by 3 1 W LEDs.
- The indisputable advantage of LEDs is a large selection of colors. Experts also developed a color mixing system, because in the case many manufacturers install three groups of LEDs at once. That is why the luminous flux acquires the desired shade.
- Having bought LEDs once, for a long time you will forget about the additional cost of lighting for the New Year holidays. Their service life is long. For example, a household 10 W incandescent lamp works for about 2000 hours, but the LED analogue will last 100 thousand hours. From these data, it can be calculated that, working daily for 8 hours, the LEDs will last about 20 years.
- Security. Unlike other lighting devices, LEDs do not emit a lot of heat, which means they do not heat up. Therefore, your children will not be burned by studying everything around.
- Ability to use anywhere in the home. Attractive design and compact size allow you to decorate various elements in the house, starting from furniture and accessories, ending with a nozzle in the shower, which is now very popular.
Home decoration inside
LED strips can create a miracle in any room, especially in the nursery. Of course, everyone knows that the tree is the main decoration of the New Year holidays. For its decoration, not only multi-colored garlands are used, but also Christmas toys. But often a Christmas tree is installed in one room, but what about the rest? With simple actions, the tree can appear on any wall or even the ceiling. Believe me, such a beauty will be very happy to see your children in their room.
In this case, the LED strip is mounted on tape or glue. It must be laid according to a previously prepared sketch (along the contour). In the central part, you can drive a few small cloves onto which you can hang toys safe for children or homemade crafts.
Such lighting fixtures can be placed at the window, along the contour of the furniture. The main thing is your imagination, which will surprise relatives and give a little fairy tale to children.
Home decoration outside
New Year's lighting of a private house has no boundaries. At your disposal all the space of the house and yard.
Before you start decorating, you should understand where exactly the backlight can be placed. Most often decorate the porch of the house. There is enough space here to show your imagination.
New Year's lighting of the facades involves the decoration of the roof, windows, railings and columns supporting the canopy. Often it is decorated with a garland network. And on the front door they place a Christmas wreath. But a couple of LEDs installed inside will create a festive mood.
The highlight of the railing and steps looks attractive. You can still put the figures of animals on the steps.
Adjacent area lighting
Particular attention must be paid to lighting the surrounding area. Lighting devices can be installed on structures for various purposes (porches and arbors), trunks and tree branches. Highlighting the landscape features of the site also looks attractive. Luminous figures can be arranged throughout. They will look beautiful in the snowdrifts of only the fallen snow.
Outdoor illumination also includes the design of not only the facade of the building, but also fences and evergreens.
Rules for creating an unforgettable street illumination
Many owners of country houses independently decide to issue their personal territory. But for everything to turn out beautifully, you should be guided by the appropriate rules for the New Year's lighting of the cottage.
- Use colors that are in harmony with the evergreens.
- It is necessary to place the backlight at different heights. So your area around the house will not be too bright.
- Plan the illumination of the garden so that the garlands and structures with luminous figures alternate.
- If possible, highlight illuminated garden paths, ponds, flower beds, as well as recreational facilities.
Remember that the rest of the area should be in the dark. This creates the necessary contrast between darkened and illuminated areas.
What lighting products are still used?
To illuminate various areas of the garden, separate lighting devices are used. Each of them should emphasize the space, bring its own flavor.
New Year's decoration of a house and a personal plot may include such lighting devices:
- hemispherical lamps and garden lights, they are used to illuminate paths in the garden;
- light figures, but these are not only figures of Santa Claus, deer, snowmen (abstract balls and hemispheres look attractive in decorating a site);
- LED strips, they allow you to effectively illuminate trees, porch, roof (the use of multi-color ribbons and controllers allows you to create various lighting effects);
- Flexible neon is a special PVC cord that bends well, two wires and a copper core with a phosphor pass along its entire length.
Output
Self-organized Christmas lighting will create a great mood for your loved ones. You can fully enjoy the atmosphere of the holiday, and your children will fall into a fairy tale for several weeks, believing in the New Year miracle. Do not stop dreaming - fantasize! And everything will be fine in the coming year!