Christmas decoration of the facade of buildings - how to stand out from the crowd?

New Year's Eve happens only once a year, however, long before its occurrence, both large cities and small villages are transformed before our eyes. Shop windows sparkle and shimmer with multi-colored lights, in houses and apartments decorated Christmas trees decorate with toys. However, in recent years, people are increasingly decorating not only the internal space of the premises, but also the outer part of their dwellings. Large offices of inflatable, plastic or metal elements are assembled in front of offices and large industrial objects, and small suburban towns wink at the roofs and windows of houses. This creates an indescribable atmosphere of a fairy tale and allows you to fully feel the approach of the upcoming magic.

The tradition of festive decoration of the exterior of the building before the New Year came to our country from its western neighbors and is gaining more and more popularity every year. This design is the installation of electrical equipment and various decorative elements on the front of the building, as well as around its entrance. All these elements and equipment must be made with the ability to work under wet snow and at low temperatures, since they are all located outside the heated room and not under the roof of the house.

It is especially important that all electrical parts of light decorations have certificates of conformity and necessarily meet safety standards. It is better to buy such lighting from trusted manufacturers so that the New Year's Eve does not turn into a catastrophe.

Most often, facade lighting and decor are mounted on the home owners of commercial outlets or municipal authorities on various schools, administration buildings, mail, etc.

This is done not only in order to transform a boring gray building into a real magic palace, but also for a number of more mundane reasons.

• Attracting the attention of buyers. Merchandising research has shown that bright lights and flashes attract people’s eyes and make them stay in the store for a longer time and make as many purchases as possible.
• Themed design. Various events require the creation of certain decorations and lighting. Assistants in this business can make facades of nearby buildings, decorated in the same style.
• Masking defects. Large lighting and decorative compositions placed on the porch, roof or facade of the building will be able to hide even serious construction defects and defects.

Decoration can be placed on columns and pillars, you can arrange the nearby trees and shrubs. It will look good lights and lights in the window and doorways. And the ribbon of lights shining in the snow, enclosing the driveway, will be an excellent reference point for Santa's sleigh. In addition, the illumination can be mounted on the wall itself, the roof and just hang it on any supports.

Before you decorate the facade of the house and make a beautiful design of trees growing on the site, it is necessary to understand the difference between external illumination and internal illumination.

• Cost Street decorations have a higher price compared to home decor.
• Manifold. Garlands and figures for the design of the courtyard are very diverse in their shape and color, and their sizes can vary in such wide limits that the longest garland can be larger than the smallest several hundred times.
• Variability. If desired, street illumination can be easily used for interior decoration of rooms, but it will not be possible to hang room garlands outside the window.

There are many types of outdoor illumination, with which you can create a unique decor of any area, the facade and even the whole area. All of them differ significantly among themselves in their design and method of operation.

• Highlighting on a flexible basis in the form of ribbons, fringes or nets. Bulbs of such illumination are attached to the wire protected by a special coating from the effects of low temperature and moisture. Most often, this option looks like a regular interior light, but it has a larger wire diameter and a larger size of light bulbs.

• Rope Light Such a tape is a long transparent hose, inside of which tiny light bulbs or LEDs are inserted. With this design, none of the elements of the garland, except for the external surface of the hose, are in contact with water and snow.
• Highlighting on a rigid basis. Small lamps on the legs and tubes, mounted on the railing of the porch, along the stone paths or along the perimeter of the arbor. Such lighting is not solely festive and can be used at any time of the year.

• LED screens on ceilings or walls. Flexible and rigid LED-screens, which consist of a set of point LEDs. They can shine in different colors, run beautiful moving patterns on their surface, and even play small scenes. Most often, these screens are controlled independently, and the operation mode can be configured from the console or remote. They can be mounted on the wall of a building, under the roof of an open veranda or arbor.
• Flickering figures and whole compositions of them. These are frames made of various materials, in which there are many LEDs placed inside or outside. They can also be wrapped with a LED garland or have built-in spotlights.fixtures.

• Strobe lights. An insulated housing with a xenon lamp inside that flashes like a camera flash. The frequency of such flashes can be from 50 to 60 times in one minute, and the lamps themselves can be combined into chains and even complex compositions.
• Spotlights. Spotlights placed at a height can illuminate squares and fountains. They are sent to the night sky and the walls of neighboring buildings. The more around there will be mirror and shiny surfaces, the more bizarre will be the play of light from such a device.

• Point light bulbs. Single LEDs mounted on a small surface area. For example, on the railing or steps of stairs, window sills or porch gables.
• The combination of several types of illumination. In order to house was decorated as interesting as possible, you should not be limited to one type of illumination. A combination of various garlands and shapes will look more thoughtful and neat than just plain lights flashing on the wall of a building.

In addition to the use of various light bulbs and garlands, as the outer surface of the house, porch and entrance group, and The adjacent area can be decorated with many other decorative elements.

• Frame figures of metal and wood. Such figures, placed near the entrance group of the building or under its windows, will make you feel like a participant in this presentation. It can be images of animals and people, fairy-tale characters and high palaces. If such figures are additionally decorated with illumination, they will be clearly visible even in the darkest winter night.

• Wreaths from artificial and natural materials. The traditional Christmas decoration for European countries is a door wreath. It can be twisted from several fir branches and decorated with cones, and can be made from colored tinsel and sparkling balls. On sale there are many different options from plastic, fabric or wood. It is not so difficult to make this decoration and independently from the materials at hand, for example, Christmas-tree balls or a placer of colored buttons.

• Pots with artificial plants. Best of all, the New Year's theme will be revealed by elegant decorative Christmas trees, placed in front of the house in small pots.You can dress them up or just lightly spray them with snow.

• Greeting inscriptions, drawings and stickers. Not only the windows, but also the doors, and the walls of the house themselves can be painted with stencils, pasted over with various iridescent images and inscriptions. At the front door you can hang a congratulatory banner with bells, which will notify you of the arrival of guests with melodious sounds.

• Sculptures made of ice and snow. If the weather allows, you can make a small snowman near the house, dressing him in a knitted hat and mittens. Pre-painted ice balls can be beautifully arranged on the rails and steps of the porch, make a small snow slide for children.
• Santa Claus sleigh. Fairly expensive, but very spectacular decoration are the real or decorative sled, exposed at the fence of the site. Even without additional decorations, they create a real atmosphere of the Great Ustyug.

• Bows and ribbons. Scarlet and golden ribbons tied to columns and branches of trees look beautiful. They can be draped beautifully and hung from the outside of the window or entwined with them by a staircase railing.
• Inflatable compositions. An inflatable figure or composition exposed in front of him will also be a very effective, though not budgetary, decoration of the facade of the building. A hot air compressor installed around the clock will keep it in an inflated state, and the built-in illumination will allow the visitor to see the figure to any passerby even at night.

You can think of a design and mount it on your own, or you can use ready-made ideas from the Internet. With a lack of experience and knowledge, installation of electrical devices is best left to professionals, because safety in this matter is the most important thing. The original decoration will allow you to feel the approaching holiday not only to the owners of the site, but also to all their neighbors, and even ordinary passersby. It is rather simple to present a fairy tale to others - you just need to draw it on your facade.

How to make a New Year's wreath on the door with your own hands, see the next video.