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No Holiday Lights Up Yet? Here’s Some Inspiration

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

If you’ve been dragging your feet getting your holiday lights and displays up, here’s some last minute inspiration.  This set of photos might give you ideas; the displays (indoor and outdoor) range from the simple to the over-the-top, and just about every homeowner should be able to find something. 

As some of the photos show, holiday displays don’t need to be elaborate to be eye-catching; some of the simpler ones have understanded elegance, while some of the brightly-lit exteriors might bring back childhood memories.

The holidays are a time to express yourself in and around your home, from your front door to your back, inside and out.  If you’re stuck for ideas for your home and running out of time, give us a call.  We handle holiday lighting and displays, and we probably have just the right touch for you.  Currently our design consultations are free. 

 

 

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Holiday Wreaths, Trees, and Custom Container Plantings Welcome The Holidays!

Monday, October 15th, 2012

Plan now for the Holidays!

Create a winter wonderland by adding some holiday decorations at your entryway, front door, gate, fence, patio, deck, in your yard, and around your home’s exterior. The tone for the holidays at your house can be set by decorating your outside spaces with custom container planters, wreaths, garlands, and holiday displays. It’s also a great time to add yard sculptures or features that will create interest and draw your eye outside over the winter months. We’re also able to compliment these plans with an outdoor holiday lighting plan if you choose.

In addition, we can “spruce” up your outside during the late fall and winter holidays by adding some garden statutes, fountains, and ornamental trees or shrubs now. Out door decorations are great at adding spice at a time when color is lacking in the outdoors.

Our MN landscape designers and holiday light specialists can create a modern or traditional decorating plan that will transition your home through the fall and winter months throughout the winter. Simple to simply elegant container planters, wreathes, garlands, etc will brighten your landscape. We can go also go the natural way by planting shrubs and trees that provide seasonal interest like evergreens and shrubs with red berries. You can get a lot of punch without having outdoor holiday decorations with holiday light displays. You can add holiday outdoor lights that include candy canes, toy soldiers, Santa Claus, stars, entire tree lighting, decorations, and if you’d like flying penguins! We have hundreds of options you can consider.

Planning for the holidays was never so easy in Lakeville, Apple Valley, Burnsville, and Prior Lake, plus Minneapolis and St. Paul! We work all over the Twin Cities, just call us on 952-292-7717 to help create the plan that will transition your house from fall throughout the winter.

 

 

 

 

 

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Create a “Winter Dreams” MN Holiday Outdoor Lighting Display! It’s Not Too Early to Begin Planning

Monday, October 8th, 2012

Many homes in and around Minneapolis and St. Paul are showcased during the holiday seasons, appearing warm and inviting  due to the outdoor decorative, festive lighting on their homes and around their property. These beautiful displays have become a tradition for many Twin Cities homeowners as well as businesses.  However, installing all those holiday lights and outdoor decorations can be a very cold and somewhat dangerous prospect when you conside climbing on tall ladders to hang the lights and create these displays.

This holiday season the best looking home on the block could be yours! If you want a “uniquely you,” outdoor holiday lighting display without the climbing and cold, the best solution is often to turn the project over to a professional.  As a certified lighting contractor, ALD specializes in holiday display installation during the winter.  We have light displays and lawn features that will fit your winter dream for your home. We’ll design, install, and remove it per your schedule, while you can stay inside, toasty and warm, collecting all the compliments while we do all the work. Our MN trained landscape designers and architects will consider the outlines of your house, your trees, and any objects in your landscape as props for lighting. We’ll even design holiday container pots for your doorways, if that’s what you’d like.

And it’s not too early to start planning now. 

Currently offering a free design consultation when you schedule an installation of a holiday display. 

We start with sitting down with you for a free consultation to discuss your budget and your personal tastes.  We’ll then present our customized design along with a price quote.  Our online catalog features over 110 pages of products and displays to choose from. It includes a holiday lights, line, Christmas lights line, pre-lit trees, 3D Décor, light sets and accessories and the trademarked Lightlinks!   Once the display is installed, we’ll do a walk-through with you and review how the lights work, the timer schedule, what power sources and circuits are being used. Our maintenance of your display will be ongoing until we remove it, so if you need maintenance you just pick up the phone.  Then we’ll remove all the components according to your time frame.

Let us help you design the holiday display that brightens up your house and creates the winter wonderland of your dreams. Call us today on 952-292-7717. We love “lighting up”  Lakeville, Apple Valley, Burnsville, and Prior Lake, in addition to Minneapolis and St. Paul!

 

 

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Book Now! Holiday Outdoor Lighting Available for Businesses and Homeowners, Free No-Obligation Consultation!

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Are you planning on having the display of your dreams this winter? Are you considering a new way to set up lights and outdoor decorations at your house this winte but dread the thought of going up the ladder in the cold, and trying to estimate the costs? Or maybe this year you just want to add some extra outdoor pizzazz to your house.

If you would like a turnkey solution to make that all happen and make your house or business a standout in your neighborhood, our MN holiday decorators and landscape designers can make that happen. We are an outdoor lighting contractor with trained lighting technicians who can design a holiday decorating plan that meets your particular fancy and holiday traditions. We have hundreds of lighting displays and objects from which to choose. We’ll create unique plans with you based on the budget you set. We install the displays, do all the wiring, set the timers, handle the maintenance, etc. And when it’s time for the display to come down, we’ll handle that according to your schedule.

Fall Special – Free Holiday Design Consultation

Our holiday lighting software allows us to show you just what your house or business will look like with the plan we design, so you can modify the plan based on personal preference and cost! We have hundreds of decorations available including personalized signs with your name, pre-lit trees, household lights, swags, bows, angels, stars, holly, drummer boys, angels, holiday ornaments, even Santa climbing down the chimney. There is no end to the fun and joy these decorations can bring.We offer the latest in holiday lighting, the brightest, long lasting lights, and highest quality LED products. We use commercial grade materials, which are backed by warranties.

Light up the skies at your house with some holiday spirit; call us on 952-292-7717. Planning for the holidays was never so easy in the Twin Cities.  We serve the metro area, including the communities of Lakeville, Apple Valley, Burnsville, and Prior Lake, plus Minneapolis and St. Paul!

 

 

 

 

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Transform Your Bloomington Home Into A Monument Of Holiday Wonder With Outdoor Lights

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

With December now upon us and Christmas Day a mere few weeks off, neighborhoods all around Bloomington have started decorating their homes with a whole array of colorful outdoor holiday lighting displays. Embracing the holiday spirit with sets of multi-colored blinking lights and imaginative lawn displays isn’t just for homes though, contact our Bloomington outdoor holiday lighting services.

Schools, community churches, and even many public buildings and local businesses have gotten in on the act, erecting their own glittering spectacles in honor of the season. Not to be out done of course, some of the world’s truly colossal venues strut their holiday wares as well with some pretty remarkable outdoor embellishments of their own . . .

In Paris each year the famed Champs-Elysées is emblazoned with thousands of sparkling lights, acting as a virtual arrow designed to guide the eye to the cities main attraction, the Eiffel Tower, itself studded with Christmas lights from head to toe, all 1,038 feet of it. In Australia the Sydney Opera House gets a make-over as well each December, its iconic half-shells decked with thousands of sparkling lights seen all over the harbor and beyond. Opened in 1849 and widely regarded as the world’s most famous department store, London’s 1 million square foot Harrods’s department store attracts visitors far and wide during the weeks leading up to Christmas with its unparalleled display of glowing holiday magic.

Okay, so maybe you’re not saddled with the job of decorating something as immense as the Golden Gate Bridge, but that doesn’t mean you can’t approach your own humble abode with the same sort of Christmas-induced gusto. Go ahead and deck the halls with vibrant abandon and a sense of spirited fun. The good thing is you don’t have to go it alone. Architectural Landscape Design is there to help make your cherished domicile into a Christmas wonderland all its own. So don’t wait another minute. Call 952-292-7717 and transform your Bloomington home into something truly monumental this holiday . . . the envy of your entire block.

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Transform Any Minneapolis Neighborhood Into A Colorful Wonderland With Outdoor Holiday Light Installations

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Since roughly the mid-1960’s and the advent of tract housing across the United States, outdoor holiday lighting adorning homes has become not only big business, but an equally important tradition now celebrated in residential neighborhoods all over the world.

During the early stages of the custom, weatherproof strings of multi-colored lights were strung primarily along the eaves of houses. In the years to follow though, families got increasingly more creative and bold with their Christmas-themed displays, adding twinkling signs, hollow plastic figurines lit from inside (Santa, snowmen, etc.), and lots of other types of inventive ways to usher in the season of good cheer.

These days, whole swaths of neighborhoods linked together via connecting  highways across entire states have taken the idea of outdoor residential holiday lighting to completely new and far-reaching heights. As an inspiring example, look no further than the annual Holiday Trail of Lights held in northeast Louisiana and parts of eastern Texas.

Stretching across six cities and composed of almost 100 million individual lights, the legendary showcase isn’t just about electrical luminosity: Firework shows, live entertainment, Christmas musicals, parades, ice-skating, horse-drawn carriages, and festivals galore help link the communities together in what has to be the largest Christmas Party on the planet.

True to their historical image, the folks who help put on the Holiday Trail Of Lights tout it as a perfect example of ‘good ‘ol southern hospitality,’ but that certainly doesn’t mean that other neighborhoods can’t get in on the holiday action as well and fire up a festival all their own.

Minneapolis has long been known for its impressive outdoor holiday lighting displays too, so if you think your block could use a little more holiday merriment, lean on the team of professionals who make installing outdoor holiday lights not only their business, but their pleasure: Architectural Landscape Design. They’ll install, maintain, and take down all the lights without you having to do a thing . . . except bask in the glow. Call today: 952-292-7717.

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From St. Paul To Seattle: A Brief History Of Outdoor Holiday Light Displays

Monday, December 5th, 2011

The Christmas holiday is replete with an array of rich decorative traditions that go back centuries. From as far back as pre-Christian times, Roman citizens brought branches from evergreen plants indoors during the winter. Nativity scenes became popular in 1223 thanks to St. Francis of Assisi, and by the early 18th century, the now-famous custom of decorating a tree had taken root in Europe.

These days however, outdoor holiday lights adorning homes all over the world are some of the most recognizable, wide spread, and visually stunning methods of ringing in the Christmas season.

While the first accepted account of a Christmas tree being lit with electrical lights goes back to NYC circa 1882, it wasn’t until roughly four decades later that the public had a chance to fiddle with the colorful twinkling lights themselves. There were some small outdoor lighting sets offered for sale as ‘safe to use’ for outside decorations before 1927 when they became much more mainstream, but unfortunately these early batches were small, dangerous, and extremely impractical for the average family.

Once the craze had officially taken off, novelty companies, and ultimately, General Electric began manufacturing electric outdoor lighting kits that were affordable for practically everyone. By the time the 1930’s rolled around, more American were using them than ever before, and the rest is, pardon the cliché: history.

Part of the reason why decorating for the holidays can feel like such a chore is that it takes quite a hefty effort to hang all those lights. Well there’s no need to exhaust yourself with the outdoor holiday decorating when there’s plenty more things that need your attention, so why not hand the chore over to those who do it professionally: Minneapolis and St. Paul’s own Outdoor Lighting Design Team. We’ll install, maintain, and remove all the decorations themselves, leaving you and yours to enjoy the holiday season the way it was meant to be experienced: joyfully and at peace. Call today: 952-292-7717.

 

 

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Brighten Up Your Holidays With Our Minneapolis Professional Holiday Decorators & Holiday Light Installation

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Gathering with friends and family at your holiday decorated house is one of the Christmas Season’s finest pleasures. The home is a natural gathering place, and how it’s decorated plays an important role in setting a joyous mood. Our professional Christmas light installation and holiday decorating company can help brighten up your holidays this season. We provide holiday decorating services for Christmas and the entire Holiday season to convey your holiday spirit!

Our  professional Christmas and holiday light installation experts will work with you to design a  personal holiday decorating plan that is uniquely yours. Your house or business can be festive and captivating this season with a holiday display that we will install, maintain, and remove.  Meeting your holiday lighting and decorating needs and working with you year after year is our goal.  We can handle both your residential holiday decor and commercial holiday decor this holiday season. We’ll save you time and energy. Plus we’ll save you money with the latest state of the art lighting that we supply. We have hundreds of designs to choose . We also have a computer software program that allows us to preview what your house will look like with our planned design.

Our Minneapolis holiday lighting team installs unique holiday corporate decor for businesses and residences in the Twin Cities Metro  and St. Paul areas.We’ll come to see you for a consultation and exchange ideas. We’ll create a custom designed plan with a price quote that fits within your budget for a tastefully decorated landscape. Our online catalog features over 110 pages of products and displays. It includes a holiday lights line, Christmas lights line, pre-lit trees, 3D Décor, lightsets and accessories and the trademarked Lightlinks! You’ll know how it all works.  Post installation we’ll do a walk through and review how the lights work, the timer schedule, what power sources and circuits are being used. Pick up the phone and call us today on 952-292-7717 for your holiday decorating.

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Residential Holiday Light Installation: Light up Your Christmas Season

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Christmas and the holidays bring a feeling of expectation. It’s a time of visiting the past to keep the nostalgia alive and bringing in the new. Leave your Minneapolis and St. Paul Christmas and Holiday decorating to us. It is the old and new traditions that make Christmas and the Holidays like no other time of the year. Give yourself more time to spend with your family and friends by allowing our professional Christmas lighting and holiday decorating experts to light up your holidays!

Our Holiday Lighting installation staff is committed to decorating up YOUR home for the festive holiday season like it’s OUR home.  We’ll walk through the entire process with you including the design, installation, maintenance and removal. We’ll take pride in YOUR home like it was ours. Listening to your desires and creating a holiday lighting and decorating plan that is unique to your home and accentuates it’s best features is our goal. We’ll provide a holiday tree lighting or lighting display that could make you the envy of the neighborhood or just be your own personal holiday best.

Unique lighting software allows us to show you just what your house will look like with the plan we design. We can modify the plan based on your personal preference and cost! We have hundreds of decorations available including personalized signs with your name, pre-lit trees, household lights, swags, bows, angels, drummer boys, angels, holiday ornaments, Santa climbing down the chimney. There is no end to the fun and joy.

We offer Holiday Tree Lighting or lighting display Apple Valley MN the latest in holiday lighting, the brightest, long lasting lights, and highest quality LED products. We use commercial grade materials, which are backed by warranties, and we take care of the maintenance.

Light up the skies at your house with some holiday spirit  ~call us on 952-292-7717. Planning for the holidays was never so easy in Minneapolis, St. Paul and the Twin Cities metro area!

 

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