Christmas lights question: Does it look bad...

[Rajah]

...if you only have lights on the lower story of a house? Especially when the only place that is lower-story is the garage? Our neighbors have their lights up now, and that just makes me want to put up lights outside even more. Especially when I saw the prices of indoor/outdoor lights yesterday! They're more affordable than I though (not counting the electricity to run them, of course )

DH also said he'd really like to have lights, so I'm taking that as a "go" to go get some and set some up

I'm going to do the type along the ground running from our door all the way around to the edge of our property. I think.

I'm debating whether our tiny trees are large enough to put lights in. I mean, lights *aren't* that heavy, after all.... but I don't know. We have wimpy trees so far.

I'm also debating what to do in the flowerbed since we really only have *one* bush large enough to put lights on. I think it would look silly to put lights on a bush that's about 18" high and 6" wide. Am I thinking wrong?

And, furthermore, I can't decide whether to go with white outdoor or multi-colored. I got the lights up in our dining room window last night, and our tree is visible through the dining room window and both of those are multicolored, both are indoors. I'm trying to decide between continuing the mulit-colored theme outdoors, or stick with white outdoors and multi indoors and put one more strand of multi's in my craft room (the only other front-facing window we can reasonably get lights to). Or maybe white "trim" around the grass, red in one tree, green/blue in the other tree, and multi in the windows?

Hmm... I think I need to pull out some pictures and do some playing.

 

[ratsrule]

Christmas Light Cost Calculator

 

[Disney Doll]

DH and I do red,white, and green lights on the 2 small pines trees on either side of our porch and all green on the pine tree sort of set off in our yard.

Do you have a porch with railings?? Maybe you can wind some lights around your railings, and let your little trees get bigger over the next couple of years before you start putting lights on them.

Do you have a lamp post? Wind some lights around there.

 

[Rajah]

Thanks Ratsrule -- I'll have to try that out once I can find out the cost/hr and watts/hr.

Disney Doll -- Nope, no porch, no lamp posts, nothing but the trees in our yard.

I played with some pictures and I think the combination I like the best is multi-colored lights around the perimeter and up to the door, multi-colored lights on the garage, and white lights on the trees and maybe the one big bush we have that's large enough to put lights on. I'm waiting to see what DH thinks. I'm going to get my parents' opinion on the trees to see if they think the trees could hold one strand each of the miniature lights.