Putting together an outdoor Christmas decoration display for the average house or yard is a task a number of homeowners undertake and do a great job of. Decorating the average city lot a homeowner can put on quite a show at Christmas time, in fact one of our favorite displays is the one at komar.org (Alek’s Christmas Decorations). They have a fairly grand Christmas display, but it is also controlled in that it is close to the road and their lot is of limited size.

If your putting together an outdoor Christmas decoration display for a large lot or for a home or business that is some distance from the road, you have a bit more of a challenge. On of the main challenges is finding something that is large enough to be seen from a distance, that just isn’t the typical stuff that you find at your local Walmart or Kmart. If you decide to go with the local big box retailer for outdoor Christmas decorations your project is likely to look like lots of little decorations far away, you will end up running lots of extension cords for something that will look more like Santa crashed on your lawn that something recognizable. Couple that with people driving up your driveway to get a better look and you will likely need to find a source for some large outdoor Christmas decorations.

Luckily lots of this stuff is available online from commercial sources, and the key is that it is large enough to be seen from a distance.  Sure it’s expensive, but probably not as expensive as buying, powering and storing an entire herd of mini-reindeer you buy at the local Home Depot.  We did some checking and there are a few vendors offering larger decorations in the form of holiday light displays, animated light displays, trees and signs.  You can put together a pretty grand display and end up with some quality decorations that can be seen from a distance and don’t require 300 extension cords to run.  Just a few quality decorations like this animated Santa will do the trick and lead to much less headache.

In addition, lots of vendors carry commercial trees that come in a range of sizes, anywhere from 8 feet to 25 feet tall.  This makes a perfect decoration that can be used over and over every year, verses having to get your buddy over with the boom truck (twice), to put lights on the pine trees in your yard – if you have a pine tree that is.  We found a large selection of commercial trees online at eDecorSource along with some of the larger decorations mentioned earlier in this article.

Posted by editor on October 20th, 2010 at 9:55 am
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