10 Warm Outdoor Lighting Ideas For Christmas
Outdoor Lighting Ideas For Christmas
Get your home ready for Christmas! Decorating the outside of your house is as important as the inside of your house! It’s the first thing that people see and your chance to make a great impression. However, outdoor decoration does not need to be complicated. With some fancy lighting that we’re about to show here, is enough to make a difference.
1. Light Orbs
Beautify the landscape in front of your house with these charming light orbs. They’re actually spheres of grape vines wrapped with fairy lights. Just make sure the string lights are built for outdoor use for safety reasons.
2. Light Bucket
Outdoor Christmas lighting will be lacking the Christmas feel without the traditional pine cone and leaves. With simple arrangement and battery operated string lights, you can make an incredible presentation of a lighted bucket for your front porch.
3. Lighted Snowflake
Look! There’s glowing snowflakes growing under your tree! This fantastic visual is actually construction of poplar woods in the shape of snow flake. Holes are drilled around the boards to allow embedding of Christmas lights. Check out the tutorial by Home Depot via the source link below!
Here’s something similar but larger. Get the tutorial by clicking on the source link below.
4. Christmas Present Outdoor Lights
Christmas is about family, food and presents! Get the kids all excited with a huge lighted present outside the house! A little wood working maybe required to make this outstanding gift. A square wooden frame holds the shape of the presents. String lights are wrapped around it and secured by staples before wrapping it whole with a piece of translucent plastic wrapping.
5. Snowy Ice Lantern Walkway
Shed light to the path leading to your front door with this fascinating snow lantern. It can be easily made by putting clean container covering a lighted candle. Be sure to make a few holes to allow air in for the fire. Alternately, using tea light candles can produce similar effect as well.
Here’s another alternate version using paper bags.
6. Ho-Ho-Ho
Welcome your guests with this fancy board that you can make with pallet boards. It’s nice to be put outside in case it contradicts with the interior decor style of the indoors.
7. Lighted Sleigh
Impress your neighbors with lighted version of the Christmas sleigh! This can be made by wrapping Christmas lights around a deer shaped metal frame. The idea above shows the 3D version but you could opt for the 2D version which is easier to make.
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8. Lighted Fence
Mark the borders of your home territory with lighted candles in glass jars! It’s gonna be really awesome waking up to this in the morning!
9. Giant Light Balls
It’s snowing giant light balls! Just look at how amazing it is to decorate an ice field with glowing light balls. It’s amazement doesn’t just lie on its huge size, but also on how easy it is to make it. The balls are actually made with chicken wire shaped into a ball. Then, Christmas lights are wrapped around it.
10. Lighted Snow Balls
Other than snowball fights, this snowball lights is a must! You just need tea light candles. I reckon you’ve figured out what to do next with that.
11. Hanging Ornament Baskets
Time for a little bit modern style light ideas with ornamental baskets! This delightful wire basket is wrapped with grape vine and Christmas lights. The rustic rope secures it over the ceiling and gives
12. Lighted Bike
This is basically proof that almost anything can become part of Christmas decor if you wrap light strings around it.
13. Tomato Cage Christmas Tree
Spend your weekends in making something productive like this Christmas tree. This easy DIY just involves strategical wrapping of Christmas lights around a tomato cage. They’re a fun update for the outside of the house. You can also customize it by yourself. Add ribbons, pine leaves, sticks and what not. Make it truly unique to your home!
14. Mason Jar Light Garland
Glassed containers can be upcycled to become beautiful iluminaries. These mason jars are hung over a wire string. The Christmas light is then wrapped around the string. You can further decorate them by adding fake holly berries tied with hemp cords.
Here’s an example of simple decorated jar.
15. Holly Ice Lantern
Last but not least, introducing the Holly Ice Lantern! It’s made of ice! No mason jar involved in this DIY. Instead, you’ll be using cheap plastic bottles. Two sizes of bottles involved actually. A small one is put into a big one. You can put greens and cranberries to fill in the sides before filling it with water. Then, you’ll have to freeze it. This creates the icy effect.
The tricky part is using hot water to remove both the plastic bottles. For that, I recommend checking out their tutorial via the source link below.
Outdoor lighting is essential during the night. With little DIY touches like the ideas listed here, can make it seem more elegant. We hope this list inspired you to make your holiday a little bit different than usual. If you like this post, share it to a friend! It’ll encourage us to make better posts!
