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Christmas Decor For Home and Exterior Christmas Lights

Exterior Christmas Lights display of outside Christmas lights on a house in Minnesota

This is a gallery of ideas and examples of Christmas Decor For Home and Exterior Christmas Lights. This image above shows a stunning display of outside Christmas lights on a house in Minnesota in the snow.

Christmas time is a celebration and means many different things to many people. To some its a time for family and celebrating life together in what is often the rare times when everyone can be together uninterrupted by the day to day activities of living. A fabulous time of the year, where families come together, sometimes from far away places to be together on the one special day of the year.

The lead up to Christmas day often starts in late October for most stores, with Christmas themes and decorations all going up on display for us to all start our Christmas gift spending. (The sensible people will have co-ordinated this throughout the year, whilst many others decide to leave their gift buying till the last minute) The display of Christmas lights on houses and buildings, and the decorations we place inside our homes create a sense of peace and generosity and goodwill to our fellow man and neighbors.

Here we show a gallery of inside and outside Christmas decorations. Some are simple, some are extraordinary. Whatever Christmas means to you, celebrating it in your own way hopefully brings you some seasonal joy, even if it only just enjoying the displays that others put on or in their houses. Hopefully, you will find some ideas and inspiration to splash out on some themed decorations for your own home for this coming festive season

A decorated ‘real’ Christmas tree with multi colored tree lights and a warm open fire and large Turkish style floor rug

A beautiful red and green style vintage christmas background display with birdcage, candles and baubles on top of a table.

A lovely Christmas living room display with a large decorated tree, cream floor rug and a cane rocking chair

A pretty Christmas table decoration with gingerbread biscuits, flowers and candles

Christmas Sleigh with gift bag, sack full of letters to Santa Claus and lots of colored lights

A Christmas holiday seasonal decoration with tree and presents in the countryside

Iced colorful gingerbread Christmas cookies on a white plate and surrounded by a few Christmas decorative items

Christmas celebratory decorations on a table at home beside the Christmas tree with a large bowl of nuts and raisins, two glasses and a decanter of whiskey

Christmas light decorations over the exterior of a house and tree in a community neighborhood

Stunning magnificent Christmas tree in the corner of a room, with presents at the base with white tree lights reflected in the windows around the tree

An exterior Christmas scene with lighted path to a front door

A living room with a fireplace filled with Christmas tree and decorations

Table setting during festive Christmas season

Beautiful home entranceway decorated and lit up with Christmas lights

Beautiful entrance to home with a Christmas holiday wreath on the door in the snow

Christmas stockings stuffed with gifts and hanging near the fireplace

Christmas room with fireplace, chair, and a few presents under a decorated fir tree

Amazing Christmas exterior lights display on a big home in Southern California

Suburban house decorated with lights for Christmas

Christmas tree with lights and presents in a living room

A living room with a fireplace decorated with small trees and stockings for the Christmas holidays

Table place setting for Christmas in white

Beautiful home decorated with Christmas lights in Vancouver, Canada

Fireplace and simply decorated Christmas tree with presents in living room

Modern living room with Christmas tree lights reflecting in the mirror

A beautiful decorated Christmas tree sits to the side of an open fire along with holiday seasonal decorations in this wooden floored living room

High End Chandeliers and Unique Crystal Chandeliers

High End Chandeliers -Elegant stunning crystal chandelier

Elegant stunning high end chandeliers in crystal

Welcome to our gallery of high end chandeliers and unique crystal chandeliers. The definition of a chandelier is that it is a “Decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture that is often ornate, and normally uses lamps. Crystal chandeliers have more or less complex arrays of crystal prisms to illuminate a room with refracted light.”

Chandeliers originally used candles as their means of lighting with the earliest candle chandeliers being in use during medieval times primarily only by the wealthy. Chandeliers then became more complex and took on different shapes such as the crown or ring shaped designs from around the 15th century onwards and became popular as status symbols and luxurious decorative features within the palaces and homes of the wealthy and noble.

From early on in the 18th century, ornate developments began to take the chandelier to a new level with various castings of long and curved arms and multiple candles adorning the homes of the growing upper class. Subsequent developments in glassmaking techniques permitted cheaper production of lead crystal, which quickly made it a popular feature to add and leading to the development of the crystal chandelier. This gallery shows a selection of exceptionally elegant and ornate modern and vintage styled chandeliers. The value of chandeliers as a luxury item and one that enhances the look and opulence of you home is a lot more affordable than it once was, so if you’d like to explore styles of chandeliers available for your home, just click here.

Very large and beautiful modern crystal chandelier

Beautiful crystal chandelier highlighted against a black background.

Beautiful crystal and gold chandelier light

Stunning contemporary and opulent glass chandelie

Crystal chandelier glowing with a golden light against a dark background

Beautiful vintage chandelier lighting

Simple luxury six light chandelier.

Close-up of a beautiful crystal chandelier

Luxurious glass and brass multi light chandelier

Luxury crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling of an hotel

Big multi light chandelier in a large ballroom.

Close-up of a beautiful rounded edged modern crystal chandelier

Giant brass chandelier with look-a-like candle lights

Vintage crystal lamp inside theater building

Vintage ornate chandelier hanging from beautiful ceiling

Vintage bronze chandelier with ten individual light shades.

Vintage white chandelier with eight individual lights and shades

Vintage chandelier with intense floral and brass leaf decoration

31 Visually Stunning Swimming Pool Lights at Night

Swimming Pool Lights at Night from this Modern style apartment building with beautiful long swimming pool

The beauty of swimming pool lights at night are highlighted by this stunning modern style apartment building that overlooks a crystal clear beautiful long lap swimming pool.

There is something magical about an illuminated swimming pool at night. With all of its lights turned on, or the spotlights from outdoor patio, or deck blazing down on a pool in all its glory, often provides an ambiance or feeling that you just can’t replicate during the day. When you get the lighting right, and in balance, it creates a sense of romance or absolute heaven.

Investing in a swimming pool can be a fantastic investment, not just in your home, but also in the feeling and the enjoyment your home can bring to you and your family. Pools obviously come in many different shapes, sizes and budgets, but whatever your level of investment, don’t make the mistake of failing to invest in the night time effect of good quality lighting for your swimming pool, however humble it may be.

There are another 30 images in this gallery of outdoor settings with swimming pool lights and illuminated pools at night. These are fantastic views that make you want to take that evening dip or alternatively create that romantic mood or ambiance for a special night. Take a look through them, and see if they create some ideas or inspire some creativity for your very own backyard. Swimming pool (with lights) – Who else wants one?

This image of a beautiful villa with lights and illuminated swimming pool at night provides an amazing striking contrast of color with the light blue of the water and the yellow orange of the villa.