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DIY Xmas lighting project.
If this project ends up anywhere as lurid as the thumbnail image implies then it's going to look great.
For those who think my garden is a complete orgy of lights at Xmas it generally comes as a surprise that I don't put up much at all. This is because I spent over 20 years installing large quantities of heavy (steel frame) Xmas lights in Glasgow and by the time you've finished doing that work you just don't really have the desire to start again on your own home. It's very much the clockmakers clock (which never gets fixed). It tended to be just small scale stuff inside.
This year I'm actually in the mood to do something, so I thought I'd document it as I go along. I'll also make some videos showing the materials used and discussing how to use them properly and their good and bad points.
I also want to show that a display doesn't have to be complicated to look good. In fact, a simpler design often looks much more appealing and is more likely to get completed than an overambitious design.
Since it's there already, I'm going to be using a wooden trellis thing on the wall of my house. I'm using some old offcuts of LED tubelight which I ended up with in my van after doing a maintenance session on Glasgow's lights. We used tons of the stuff, so it was just regarded as a consumable and the shorter offcuts tended to clutter up the van a bit, so it's nice that I'm actually going to be able to use it instead of throwing it out.
The stars are existing consumer-grade aluminium frames that originally had tungsten tubelight on them. I cut it off and replaced it with the LED stuff, but the sizing of the star is such that it has an excess tail which I'm going to use as part of the feature.
I'm also planning on using a set of dodgy eBay lights to create a low intensity blue sparkly backdrop. I want to see just how they fare in actual use outdoors. To dim them down I've replaced the controller with a simple improvised power supply.
I'm going to use lots of colour because I can't stand the boring all-white lights that seem to dominate typical city Xmas lights these days. As far as I'm concerned the lights are mainly for the kids and should be brash and colourful. I realise that the all-white displays mean the install companies only need to keep a small stock of spares (cold and warm white) but it's just a bit bland. My preference has always been for colour and a bit of animation too.
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