While there’s nothing like creating a warm, theme-inspired, glowingly decorated interior that welcomes company into your home, your home’s exterior is a wonderful canvas where you can bring out your creativity.
This guide will help you put together your most stunning outdoor display yet, from decorating your home and trees with outdoor Christmas lights and shatterproof ornaments to tying it all together with some Christmas resin pieces and signs.
Here are some areas to focus on if you’re looking at ways to decorate your yard for Christmas.
Deck the Trees
Does your yard have any trees that are easily accessible? The trees are the perfect place to start!
We recommend shatterproof ornaments, and the bigger, the better. Outside, bigger ornaments will attract and captivate attention from far off.
One tip is to get two Christmas ornament sets (shatterproof, again) in compatible colors (like red and green) and in staggered sizes, large and medium large for example. Either stagger the two colors across each tree you decorate, or deck one tree all in one color and size, and the ones around it in the second color.
Changing up the sizes and colors creates contrast and the illusion of movement that will make your exterior decorating really pop.
The great thing about shatterproof ornaments is that they’re better for use on trees outside than glass ornaments.
Even if the trees in your yard are too tall, you can use a lightweight extendable pole to place shatterproof ornaments higher than you’d normally be able to reach (these can also great for placing outdoor Christmas lights, too).
Outdoor Christmas Lights: Illuminate the Bushes, Trees, and More
If you’re planning on placing ornaments, do that first - then you can turn your attention to outdoor Christmas lights, like 5mm and C9 Christmas lights, and finishing off the trees.
A quick way to add some light to your outdoors (and a little reflective relief for any ornaments you used in the trees) is to wrap the trunks of your trees. Both 5mm and C9 Christmas lights are great for this. Start at the base of the tree and spiral the light strand around the trunk till you get to the base of the crown.
For evergreen trees and pines, you can also spiral the lights around the outside of the crown, a similar technique to wrapping the trunks.
If your home has a lot of shrubbery, net lights might be the best option for illuminating them. Net lights are more convenient and much faster to put out then string lights, and make it easier for you to light up a larger surface area effortlessly.
One thing to note here is that if you have other outdoor structures that you’d like to light up, doing so can enhance the look and feel of your exterior. Consider fences, posts, mailboxes, and even structures like sheds - all of these can be brought to life with outdoor Christmas lights.
Light Up the Walkways
With the trees and shrubbery decorated, you can turn your attention to any walkways that you want to illuminate, which will offer not only ambiance but also improve safety.
Lighting Up Your Home’s Exterior
Now we can turn our attention towards lighting up your home’s exterior. Your home, like the trees around it, offers numerous opportunities to enhance the overall setting with outdoor Christmas lights.
One of the easiest and least labor-intensive ways to add light and cheer to your home is with a spotlight. Some homeowners direct spotlights at prominent features of their homes, such as the entryway, or simply use relief lighting. White spotlights and floodlights are great for this, as are colored red and green lights.
String lights, especially C9 Christmas lights, with their big, bright bulbs, can be used to decorate a home’s eaves and roof ridge lines, framing the whole house and adding pleasant ambient light.
You can also light up the periphery of your home’s windows, which will add light and color to the setting.
Tie It All Together with Christmas Resin and Yard Signs
The last step is to round out your entire outdoor Christmas decorations with appropriate resin Christmas pieces, figures, lawn ornaments, or yard signs.
What you include in your yard should be determined by the overall theme of your decorating. Traditional yard decorations include nativity scenes, but other resin ornaments and figurines, such as elves, reindeer, and snowmen (especially for winter wonderland themes) also lend a nice touch. Yard signs can too.
As for resin, it is a great ornament for exterior Christmas decorations because it is physically durable, relatively inexpensive, and tough enough to last season after season, even when exposed to the elements. All you need to do is get settled with what sorts of decorations and ornaments you want to display!
Get Started Planning Christmas Decorations for Your Front Yard Today
Your best Christmas ever - and a successfully decorated and illuminated yard - begins with a vision. All you need is a little inspiration and then you can bring it to life.
We can help with the last aspect of pulling it all off. Decorator’s Warehouse is ready to help you have your BEST Christmas EVER with high-quality indoor and outdoor Christmas lights, resin figures and yard signs, shatterproof ornaments, and everything else you need to make your yard glow with the magic of the season.
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