How to Light a Christmas Tree
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Lighting a Christmas tree can sometimes be difficult but BHG.com provides you with the best tips for Christmas tree decorating. The first step is choosing the type of bulb. Basic indoor mini lights have been around for years and provide a warm glow. Led lights give off brilliant white light and are energy efficient. Short strands of novelty lights can add a unique look to your tree. After testing all the bulbs are working, start to light your tree by using one of three techniques. The wave technique is the simplest; beginning from the top to the bottom. The triangle tree technique split the tree into triangular sections and weave the lights up and down. The branch wrapping technique utilizes each individual branch for a beautifully lit Christmas tree.
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Thanks for the drawing showing the different methods! I kept reading about the "triangle method" on a bunch of blogs but all of the descriptions were vague and difficult to understand. This really helped!
My LED's have lasted over 5 years. I purchased new ones this year because the cords were getting all untwisted and looked funny. I will be using them outside this year. The "regular" strands only lasted me about 2 years if I was lucky. I have a rotating tree base, so I start from the bottom and work my way up doing a branch wrap, spiral combination. I have a 7.5 ft fake tree and have been putting 6-800 lights on it. I"ve never had a problem doing it this way and it has always looked great.
I like multi coloured lights
"Four hundred lights for a 6 foot tree" THANK YOU! I like my tree not way too bright and everywhere I see only recommendations of 100 lights per foot which would be 600 lights for my 6ft tree. I'll go with your recommendation and buy an extra strand or two just in case of failure. My home has dim lights and dark warm colors and my tree would have multi colored lights. For a home where everything is painted white and very bright home lights then maybe 600 lights for 6 feet would look better in white tree lights.
Can you putt lights on a tree when it is already decorated
This was very informative. Great host too
I prefer warm glow because it's more Christmassy.
Great job
This is semi accurate but it totally depends on the brightness of the bulbs and the bulbs per feet. The math works for a certain strand of lights but may not for other. Her math is coming from those old lights that are like 200 light count for a 74 foot strand. But some of these new strands it can really be a whole different story. I have one strand if lights thats only 200 lights and just by itself is enough for my nearly 8 ft tree but the bulbs are a lot bigger and brighter. And just because the bulbs are bigger doesnt mean theyre brighter so u have to look at the wattage. Its much more complicated unfortunately. U just kinda have to figure it out
To bad I'm finding that LED's aren't lasting any longer than the old lights I used to use. Plus the LED's are more expensive to buy. I don't know if I always get bad sets or if everyone has problems with LED's not lasting as long as they say they will last. Some I can't even get to last a season. Reason I bought LED's was to save energy but it isn't saving me money having to constantly buy new sets year after year.
Never thought of wrapping branches with lights. Would take forever on the trees we get.
Cheap Chinese lights don't last. Buy good ones and they will last for years and save tons of money in electricity bills.
We use LED lights because they look better and we can leave them on without them overheating. Walmart is the best store to go to for decent price lights.
We don't care for the LED lights because they are too bright. We prefer a soft glow.
Most Christmas lights are led these days incandescent ones are extremely rare now.
As an editor, the captions are pretty funny at times
I have a lifetime of decorating Christmas trees and I wanted to see what you were going to do. First off you need to have a long or short needle and a real or artificial GREEN Tree. You have about 500 too lights on the tree. One of the secrets to making it look really attractive and from the golden age of Christmas is enough lights but not too many. You should have at least two different styles of light bulbs, three would be better. Each string of lights should have different colors. How you want to put them on the tree is up to you. Starting at the top and going three quarters of the way around then recircling until you get to the bottom helps to achieve the golden age look. A tree that sits in the corner of a room always looks better. Recircling the lights should be done in a way to leave space for all three light styles. You should not put lights on the back quarter of the tree that is sitting in the corner of a room. Lights all around the tree will kill the look. Always put the lights on first and take them off last. Another important suggestion is to never put the lights on a tree when they are lit up. The reason for that is you want to achieve a random old fashion look which always has spaces big and small between lights. Bigger light bulbs should be fitted more to the interior of the tree with the small ones on the exterior. Putting the lights on this way will always give you a different look no matter where you sit in the room. LED lights should never be put on a tree. A lot of modern new styles of lights kill the look of a Christmas tree period. Lastly don't spoil the look by over loading the tree with decorations. The old saying is the fewer decorations on the tree the nicer it looks. Last but not least always congratulate yourself on a job well done. Merry Christmas.
Best to use green corded lights on a green tree!! Save those white ones for a white tree! :) I noticed you had it right at the end of the video! :)
Torey Gree
Torey Greene yeah, because she was only using the white strands for the tutorial because they would be easier to see.
Nice instructional video, great photography, but hate the text.. do we really need it?
+TheFRiNgEguitars text? what text
cute
I cant see you behind the paint on your face sorry...
I think she's beautiful, and she does a great job with the video. I'm glad I watched it.
@@joen9116 I think she is pretty too.. I personally don't like all the makeup but what do I know....
There is so much wrong with this video:
-it’s an advertisement for Phillips
-she is intensely partial to recommending tripling your lighting...
(2500 lights on the tree they’re talking about is 13 feet tall)
-300 lights on a 6 foot tree does exactly what they show you in that picture and more.
-they should not only be ashamed of themselves for the lack of real advice, but the shameless push to squeeze your wallet until the leather cracks!
-the people with random accounts hired to pretend to be normal people... defending the creator who is also paid!
I would buy the product but it seems the product is just as shameless and shady as the video creator and the network.
As human beings, try to have some self-respect! I get it you’ve got to pay the bills... but believe me there’s no way you’re making enough to sell your soul!
How do you do that and that's so stupid
i see plenty of dark patches... just saying.
white wires on a green tree yuk
Rick Maycroft My dude...clearly that was just done for visual purposes, for the tutorial...
@@serendipity1237 clearly it's ugly
And you can clearly see at the end of the video that it didn’t get left that way.
It's a very WASPy Christmas! Helpful video. Though disheartened to hear I need 1600 lights to get the effect I want. Yikes. $$$
hang lights on wall
Omfg I've got a roughly 6ft tree and I only used one strand of 100 light (I recommend using an extension cord for convenience) You most certainly do not need 100 lights per 1.5ft, that's just ridiculous. My tree looks absolutely fine. What are you trying to do, light up the whole house? Talk about a waste of space, money, and energy. I don't think it's probably very safe to advise something like that to people with houses that have old electrical work either. Moreover, 7ft to 7.5ft is statistically the recorded average for Xmas trees, so we're talking about buying 500 lights for most of us just to throw out some perspective here. I know people get rather vain about Xmas decorations, though. If you're the gloating sort, I'd recommend following her advise, hell, buy enough lights to blind your neighbors like in Christmas Vacation. LOL
xxhardforcorexx lol. You can use as many or as few lights as you want! Who cares? As long as you’re happy. :)
Ughh get on with it
White-wired lights on a green tree?? Seriously?
I think is it for educational reasons, just to watch it better.
Seriously what? Are you the Xmas fashion police? *rolls eyes* I guess you must hate the look of white snow on evergreen trees during winter, huh? Lol.
I hate telling you this, but what you are showing is how NOT to light a tree.
I hate to tell you that just because you do things a different way doesn't mean other people are wrong. SMH