By Maria Bargellini, holiday lighting designer for DFW Christmas Lights

Icicle drop lights are fairly new and have been used mostly for large commercial holiday lighting displays – until now. Icicle drop lights are designed to give off the appearance of falling snow by using the LED lights (diodes) in the tube to “drip” down the length of the tube repeated. They look great in trees or over your entryway, breezeway or any type of archway. The tubes come in a variety of lengths and combinations. For example, you can get a 5 tube strand in 10 or 20 inches, a mixed strand of  (3)-20 inch tubes and (2) 40″ tubes, or (5) 40 inch tubes. The best tree displays will use a mixture of these strands. Make sure to use the shorter icicle drop lights if you are using them in an area where there is pedestrian or vehicle traffic. For a striking upgrade you can add colored light to the trunk of the tree like in the video below.

(The icicle lights are toward the end on the next video)

These LED Christmas lights may be more expensive than incandescent mini lights but you don’t need any where near as many mini lights as you would icicle drop lights, you definately wouldn’t use as much energy, and they surely don’t take as much labor to install or take up as much space in your storage room. So in terms of what the two different displays will cost – they should be about equal. Of course it will depend on the type and amount of mini lights you were using, it can in some cases be less or more expensive.

Icicle drop lights are also a great way to add movement to your holiday lighting display without making it look to busy or like the Griswalds, not that there’s anything wrong with the kind of thing, if you’re into it. If  you would like more information or have questions about this product please feel free to write or call us at 214-257-8813.

Icicle Drop Light Pros

You can add up to 10 sets together

Use less Storage space

Use less energy

Less effort to install

Low profile disappears during the day

Not your grandmas Christmas Lights

Icicle Light Cons

More expensive than other lighting options

Only comes in the pure white color

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This home has all 4 sides decorated with warm white LED C9 bulbs. It also has red berry, “Razzleberry” LED mini lights on the shrubs and “Ice Drop”  tube lights on the tree, entry way and breezeway. It’s on the Highland Park carriage trail and it is a must see this holiday season.

DFW Christmas Lights and The Outdoor Lighting Expert are owned and operated by Dallas Curb Appeal Inc.

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Don’t let this be you this Holiday Season

If you want to take out the guess work and Hassle out of the Holidays have your Christmas lights professionally installed by DFW Christmas Lights.

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The ITree by Music in Motion

By Maria Bargellini of DFW Christmas Lights

Wants something new this holiday season? Love those crazy Holiday videos where someone else’s home is dancing to tunes in a spectacular Holiday Lighting display? Well people–I want to introduce you to a fantastic new product that will give you a similar display without the cost or hassle of a high tech computerized show. It’s called the ITree, by Music in Motion. There’s two products in this family, an indoor tree that looks like your traditional Holiday tree and an outdoor version, which is a cone shaped tree made with lights instead of green material. You can scroll down to view the video for a demonstration of this innovative new product.

Indoor Itree: This tree is not just an attractive artificial tree. It is wired with sets of solid green, white and multi colored mini strands of either incandescent or LED’s that light up to music. The tree comes with 7 songs on a card that plugs into the unit, but you can buy more cards or download your own songs. The ITree comes ready to use, taking minutes to set up. If you use other decorations such as lighted gift boxes you can connect them to the tree to incorporate them into your dancing display.

Outdoor ITree: This tree is simple to set up, usually taking only 15 minutes for the tree itself. But aside from the tree itself synchronizing to music–it allows you to run additional lights off of the tree to incorporate your entire home in the musical lighting display. You can use 3,000 incandescent lights or 30,000 LED lights. The video below shows you a house that did just that.

Those lighting displays you see on Youtube use expensive computerized equipment–not this tree. It’s the most affordable tool on the market today. It gives you the freedom to create your very own display without breaking the bank. If you would like more information on this new product please refer to the comment box below.

DFW Christmas Lights and The Outdoor Lighting Expert are owned and operated by Dallas Curb Appeal.

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Came across this while searching for Christmas Videos to share and couldn’t help but pass it along–Hope you like it. I think no matter what faith you follow you will find it inspirational. The photography and message are spectacular.

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