Let Van Bourgondien Nursery help light up your life with Holiday De-Light!

One of the most beautiful touches during the Holiday Season are the twinkling lights inside and outside your home! Putting up the lighting can seem totally overwhelming with all that needs to be done during the Holiday Season.

Van Bourgondien Nursery is here to help take some of the guess and stress out of your holiday lighting. Why wait for the frigid temperatures of December to start planning and start hanging your lights?

Tips for Choosing the Best Holiday Lights for Your Home

There is more to holiday lights than just bulbs on a string. They can completely transform your decor. With all the different kinds of lights, how do you choose the best type for your home? Let Van Bourgondien Nursery help you choose the best combination of lights to suit your individual taste and home landscape.

C7 & C9 Lights
C7 and C9 lights are a traditional (old fashioned) type of light. They are big and bright and come in a variety of colors. It is very easy to form a neat straight line with these lights and they are also often used as an outline for decorating or in large trees. These lights are bright but tend to be the least energy efficient.

Icicle Lights
Icicle lights are still very popular. These lights come in solid and multi-colored strands.The advantage to these lights are that they can add extra depth and dimension to a home because they hang down 6 to 9 inches.

LED Lights
LED lights have risen in popularity because of their energy efficiency and their vibrant color. These lights conveniently come in solid and multi-colored strands. To be the brightest house on the street, you will want to use these lights.

Incandescent Lights
Incandescent lights are still the most popular type of lights on the market. They come in solid or multi-colored strands and are great for wrapping around trees, banisters, and columns. In addition, incandescent lights are great for a budget because they are relatively inexpensive.

Motion Lights
Motion lights are a multi-functional type of light. The settings can be changed according to personal preference. IE: steady, wave, slo-go, slo-fade, chasing, twinkle flashing and mixed.

Garland Style Lights
Garland lights are similar to traditional string lights but the bulbs are bunched closer together for a more garland like effect.

Net Lights
Net lights are a quick and easy way to decorate trees, hedges and bushes. Net lights cover a larger space like a blanket in a lot less time then traditional string lights.

Bubble Lights
Bubble lights are a type of light consisting of a liquid-filled vial that is heated and lit by an incandescent light bulb. Because of the liquid's low boiling point, the modest heat generated by the lamp causes the liquid to boil and bubble up from the vial's base thus creating the bubble light. The light illuminates the bubbles causing them to shine.

One of the biggest changes in holiday lighting over the last few years is the emergence of LED lights. Everyone has different opinions about their looks but the differences run deeper then just the way they look.

Warm Light
Incandescent lights have that warm glow most people associate with the holidays. Many of us are drawn to warm light, (warmth) and most people tend to prefer incandescent light for this reason. It's a softer light, and it creates a more traditional holiday lighting display than the cooler LED lights.

Easy to maintain. Incandescent holiday lighting technology has been around a long time, and manufacturers have figured out how to make them easy to maintain. Burned out light bulbs and other small maintenance jobs are easy to solve with incandescent lights.

Cooler Light
You can certainly tell the difference at a glance between warm incandescent lights and cool LED lights. This is changing as manufacturers are learning to mimic the warmer incandescent glow in their LED lights and as LED's become more popular. LED lighting generally has a longer light span.

Energy Savings. If you've ever been shocked by your December electric bill, you will certainly appreciate the energy savings LED lights provide. LED holiday lights use up to 90% less energy than incandescent lights. Your energy savings can really add up when you use LED lights exclusively.

One Stop Shopping at Van Bourgondien Nursery
When you look at the characteristics of all the of holiday lighting options there really isn't a clear winner or loser, and that's a good thing. Sometimes, a combination of different lights can create a unique look also. Whichever type of holiday lights you decide on, we have plenty of high-quality options for your holiday lighting displays. Van Bourgondien Nursery wants to help you create the perfect holiday lighting display for both indoors and outdoors. We carry a full line of string lights as well as animated light displays to decorate your "Home for the Holidays". We also have all the accoutrements needed....Hooks, Suction Cups, replacement bulbs, light testers, extension cords, multi-plugs and timers to name just a few!

Happy Holiday Lighting!