Thursday, December 4, 2008

LED Lights


Sticking with the theme of the cost saving and long lasting LED lights, we have discovered another exciting Christmas lights trend that will capture your imagination with absolutely unlimited potential. While these Christmas lights may not look remotely beautiful or compelling all wrapped up in one enormous 330-foot bundle – yup, I really mean three hundred and thirty feet – these clip lights are the ones responsible for creating this outstanding and awe-inspiring vista captured in this picture, and are sure to become a popular Christmas lights trend.

Now, before you dismiss this idea as being too big for your home, try to take a few minutes to imagine what you could do with these Christmas lights. Of course, a single tree bedecked, from the base of the trunk to the tip of it’s branches, with magical sparkles is hard to beat, but there are also many other possibilities. You could wrap your entire roof with these lights to make a sparkling landing pad for Santa! You could even use these for double purpose as LED garden lighting once the snow leaves. If after giving these lights some serious imagination, you still feel that the lights in this picture are a little long for your needs there are other lengths are available.

Admittedly these Christmas lights are a bit pricey, at $957.00 per 330 feet. You would need to think of these lights as a Christmas tradition investment that your family could enjoy for years to come. These lights can be purchased at CSN stores.


Wednesday, December 3, 2008

IKEA Kallt LED Christmas Lights


Kallt Indoor-Outdoor Christmas String Lights from IKEA
IKEA always provides you with a modestly priced and innovative seasonal offering you just can’t resist. These Christmas lights are very original and resemble little snowballs with their soft and charming defused glow. They come in several colours including clear and warm white which can be seen in the picture. There are 48 LED bulbs per string and are available for a modest price of $19.99 per string. One of the best features of these adorable little snowballs is that they can be hung indoors to adorn a tree, staircase or fireplace or they can be hung outdoors. The versatility of these Christmas lights allows you to change your design scheme year after year.


It goes without saying that Ikea has other Christmas lighting products to compliment the snow ball string lights. Why don’t you had a splash of grandeur to your outdoor light décor by adding an outdoor garland chandelier. These chandeliers are nothing short of fabulous. They are clear in colour and are a substantial 28 inches wide by 33 inches high. This chandelier adds the perfect for a dash of glamour to your Christmas lighting scheme but can also be used all year long as a decoration feature for outdoor summer barbeques, for example. Each chandelier is $69.99.


Both the snowball string lights and the chandelier are totally LED lights and therefore save you money while looking fabulous. LED Christmas lights consume 70% less energy and have at least 4 times longer life than incandescent bulbs in similar decorative lighting. At this price and with these really great designs you can’t go wrong.

Light Globes

Ooooh nice - these little things are sure to add a bit of holiday color to any decor or color scheme. Christmas Lights spheres from Dekra-Lite are a total treat but also a total splurge. These beautiful light globes come in a multitude of colours such as clear, red, amber, green, blue as well as in multi-colour and are in 6, 7.5 or 10 inches in diameter.

The price starts at an eye popping $35 Cdn per sphere for a string of six. However, even the smallest sphere is comprised of 50 lights per globe or sphere, and the larger ones have proportionately even more lights.

These lights are so compelling and elegant that just a few of these strings decorating a porch, or outdoor gazebo, will be all you need for your entire outdoor decoration scheme. Trust me, all of your neighbors will be impressed. The price of these sparkling beauties might be steep, but these Christmas lights are an investment – you will feel pride of ownership year after year! These Christmas lights will undoubtedly become a treasured part of your family’s Christmas traditions.

These lights can be complimented by other stand-alone light design produced by the same company. Perhaps you could add a beautiful starburst light. These starburst Christmas lights include 120 lights and are 20 inches high by 15 inches wide. These dazzling lights come in clear, blue and red. Another option would be to add a simple snowflake rope light sculpture. These beauties are clear in colour and range in size from 12 to 24 inches. There are four different snowflake designs to choose from.

Make your house sparkle this Christmas season with a beautiful and unique light design.

Dekra-Lite is an innovative Canadian lighting design company.