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Garden Houses For Your Landscape

Going way back many centuries in English times garden houses were once referred to as “shadow houses”. They stand by themselves, often across the garden far from the house; they add that extra sense of a romantic setting, because they are separate from the house. Arbors, bowers, poolside shelters, teahouses, pavilions gazebos are all “house like” shelters. They have decorated gardens for centuries. And the enthusiasm for them has never waned or decreased. Today, there can be a surprise when you enter one of these places. They are often times hiding the spa, the shower facilities, the pool pump, and

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Make It A ‘Green’ X-Mas This Year With Energy-Saving LED Holiday Lights | Outdoor lighting Services Edina MN

Back in the early days when people first began decorating the exteriors of their homes and Christmas trees for the holidays, actual wax candles were sometimes brought in to do the job. Now I don’t have to tell you why this was an exceedingly dangerous and unpopular idea. In the decades to follow, companies like General Electric satisfied the growing demand for safe, affordable Christmas lights by manufacturing strings of variously colored tiny bulbs, which became the industry main-stay for a very long (I remember these as a kid myself). Then an extensive lull came over the Christmas Light industry,

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Be The Toast Of Eden Prairie This Holiday With A Dazzling Display Of Outdoor Christmas Lights

Following the end of WW2, the United States enjoyed many years of unparalleled prosperity. For the first time, household appliances became commonplace, families took vacations together, and more Americans than ever before purchased automobiles. The car has probably done more to alter the way we live today than any other convenience over the last century. As odd as it may sound at first, widespread automobile usage actually helped pave the way for outdoor holiday lighting. As a way of mimicking New York’s famed Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, businesses in Los Angeles along Wilshire Blvd. (the ‘Miracle Mile’) set-up 27

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

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

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

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

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

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

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