How Do You Put Up Christmas Lights Outside?
• Determine the style of your home. Is it ranch? Tudor? Victorian? Basic tract box? Multi-story? Use lights and/or other ornamentation that will complement your own home. Just like accessorizing yourself for a party, you want to select the right jewelry for the outfit, the occasion, and your body size and style. • For a Victorian style house, there may well be no such thing as “over the top”. But elegance is a key factor. Strings, strings and more strings of lights around every architectural feature of the house will enhance it’s stature. • A ranch-style or single story home calls for lights around the roof line, the fence and along your entrance walkway. (Refrain from putting lights on shrubbery. You’re trying to show off the house, not the bushes.) • Multi-story homes call for the same basic theory as a Victorian, with less “fluff”. String lights along the roof line, around columns, along the porch railing. • Browse through a few magazines for ideas that may be suitable for your own
