Have you heard about rope lighting?
Wow, can you believe that it's November already! If you're getting ready to bedazzle your property with Christmas lights for your Ottawa home, then rope lighting may be the best choice for you. Before you book your appointment with Christmas Décor to beat the December rush for holiday lighting, you'll want to choose which fixtures you want to light up your holiday season. If you're unfamiliar with this gorgeous form of lighting, read on to learn more. Remember; your roof is the first thing that Santa will see when flying over your neighbourhood. Might as well give him something pretty to look at!
what is rope lighting?
Rope lighting is a tube of PVC with small light bulbs inside. This lighting is flexible, and therefore easy to shape around doorframes and eaves troughs. This lighting is great for interior decorating as well.
It has LED Options
Rope lighting has LED options, so if you want to prevent your Christmas lights from hiking up your energy bills, LED may be a great option. These bright lights use less energy and can last up to 100,000 hours, whereas incandescent rope lights will only last up to 3,000. LED lights also cast a broader splash of light across the night due to the concave bulbs.
Flexible LED strips can also be found for your holiday light installation. These are flatter than regular rope lighting, but this doesn't prevent them from being versatile in use. These can still be used indoors, around trees and eaves, doorframes, along porches – anywhere your holiday heart desires!
Rope lighting, particularly LED rope lighting, will not add extra heat to an already heated living room. Because of this, you can string them through garlands and wreaths without worrying about causing a fire hazard.
The benefits of rope lighting
Rope lighting adds soft accents that brightly light up your home on even the darkest winter nights. This is subtle illumination that adds a little festive mystery to any aspect of your home's architecture or landscaping, and creates flourishes that you didn't even know were there. Their flexibility entitles you to wrap it around trees, eaves, doors, and even through garlands.
The plastic coating protects the bulbs from damage, even in heavy and wet snowstorms. Their durability is one of the more enticing benefits of rope lighting, as this allows you to have more diversity when it comes to landscaping and shaping your yard.
Rope lighting comes in a variety of colours, including bi-coloured. Bi-coloured lights let the tones fluidly change into one another, creating an almost Northern Light kind of vibe and appearance, something the whole neighbourhood will love!
The exact measurement:
For smaller projects, such as signs and designs, you'll want to use 3/8" rope lighting. This is great for making sharper corners and tight designs.
Larger projects that span out over a wider area will use ½" rope lights. Any eaves troughs, trees, or doorframes can use this diameter.
