Christmas Lights: Use Them for Decorating All Year Long

Christmas lights make beautiful displays inside your home as well as outside at Christmas time. Did you ever think about keeping those twinkling little lights out of the storage boxes and using them all year long? That doesn't have to mean you are like Gretchen Wilson's song, "Redneck Woman." She sings about keeping lights up on her trailer all year long. You can do it and make beautiful displays!

　

Christmas Light Displays Inside Your Home All Year Long

An entertainment center with shelving units looks great when you suspend tiny twinkling Christmas lights at the back of the shelves and let them drape down. If the unit has glass shelves, the effect is even better as the lights reflect off of the glass. They will also help to highlight the delicate collectables you have on the shelves.

Is it to hot for a fire in your fireplace right now? Set up the logs and then drape a string of tiny twinkling lights over the wood. If you don't care for that look you can suspend the lights up inside the fireplace box. The lights are hidden but you will still get a twinkling effect that will remind you fire. You can use a strand of all red tiny lights if you like that effect.

Icicle Lights Inside Your Home All year Long!

Icicle lights aren't just for the outside when decorating! Suspend them under a table's edge, and then toss a sheer lace tablecloth over the table. This is a dramatic effect when you are serving a buffet style meal. You can use pots or baking pans to line the top of the table and then toss a large tablecloth over all of this. Tuck the tablecloth around the pots and pans. This gives your serving dishes various heights to sit on.

Now, just arrange some twinkle lights and strings of beads though out the table. This looks great and is a very inexpensive way to decorate whenever you are planning a buffet style dinner for family and friends. It doesn't have to be at Christmas time either.

Christmas Lights for All the Holidays

If you serve an Easter Buffet, just toss some colored plastic eggs around the table top! For St. Patrick's Day, change it up to some sparkling green shamrocks, and use a string of green Christmas lights. For the 4^th of July, sprinkle in a bunch of red, white and blue confetti mixed with Christmas lights that twinkle red, white and blue!

See how easy and fun this can all be, when you keep your Christmas lights out and use them all year round to decorate your home? There are a million other ways to use Christmas lights to decorate your home all year long. When you are packing up all of the Christmas decorations, leave the lights out and start thinking about where you can use them. They will create a peaceful and serene atmosphere in your home.

The best part is that when next year comes, you won't have to try to remember where you put them all, because you are still using them!