Lighting It Up in Boulder, Colorado — How To Get Your Best Christmas Lights Display

Hire Professionals To Design Your Holiday Decor

There is one easy solution to the above problems--hire Outdoor Craftsmen to create the design and color scheme for your Christmas lights. We'll also manage the installation, and remove all your holiday decor once the festivities are over.  Our professional landscape architects are craftsmen, artists, engineers, and technicians--they can bring those visions of sugarplums dancing in your head to life with taste and elegance.

Going Beyond The Entrance Garland

As we move towards a greener and more sustainable way of living, there is no better way to decorate than to use live greenery and incorporate surprising elements into your existing landscape. At Outdoor Craftsmen, we use clippings from live plants and incorporate native evergreens into our boughs and garlands. We are lucky to have white Christmases here more often than not, so your greenery stays fresh and aromatic throughout the season. These are some of our decorating services for your home.

• Design--our team can create a plan for your, or fine-tune and execute your vision.
• Installation--we install the greenery and Christmas lights. Outdoor Craftsmen brings the right equipment and a trained team to hang lights along your roofline, windows, and in trees, and to install the garlands and boughs over the entrances. We'll also make custom wreaths that coordinate with your decor for your doors and windows
• Accessories--we don't forget to include outbuildings (garage, guest house, outdoor living room or kitchen), walkways, and mailboxes in our design plans.

In short, our design team will create a showstopping holiday look for your home; one that is as elegant or as whimsical as you wish. We don't stop with the house and hardscaping, we'll also incorporate your landscaping into your Christmas lights display.

Integrating Christmas Cheer Into Your Landscape

The really gorgeous Christmas displays have one thing in common--the grounds are decorated to highlight the house and the property. Landscape design and lighting are what separate the truly spectacular displays from the ho-hum.

Another hallmark of holiday decorating is to look beyond the traditional colors of red, green, silver, and gold, and use colors that are complementary to your home. While any house looks good at night with traditional colors and lights, consider that just as many people drive by during the daylight hours, and you don't want your fabulous nighttime display to be a clash of the colors during the day.

Our Boulder, CO designers are artists and understand color--they'll help you come up with a scheme that complements your home's "everyday" look--one that weaves the most attractive colors and textures into a cohesive design. Lights and decorations in unexpected colors like chartreuse, turquoise, brown, violet, and hot pink add surprise and charm to your display.

Here are some ideas for enhancing your landscaping for Christmas in Boulder, CO and beyond.

• Fill empty planters with something festive--either outdoor tree balls or lighted live greenery spheres, a candy cane forest, or small lighted Christmas trees--for a festive touch along walkways, on the front porch, or by the entrance
• Weave twinkle lights into beds and shrubbery, hang them in trees.
• Create a winter wonderland by lighting trees with bare branches
• Hang outdoor tree balls on bare branches, too--doing something horizontal breaks up all the verticals you get with garlands and lights that draw the eye upwards.
• Find an old sled and decorate it with greenery, lights, and a big ribbon, and prop it up by the front door. With battery pack-powered lights, you can light up just about anything without an unsightly orange power cord.
• Lighted topiaries by an outdoor fireplace or firepit add interest when it's too cold to actually go outside
• Spotlights hidden in beds enhance the entrances, the Christmas tree window, or outdoor decorated trees.

Let There Be Light — Even In February

The harsh winter climate of the Boulder area means that just about everything dies off, leaving only evergreens to soften the landscape. So why not leave the Christmas lights in the trees and beds until spring? Once the holidays are over and Outdoor Craftsmen has taken down all the greenery and lights from the house, there's not much more depressing in a cold Colorado winter than a newly-bare house and grounds. We can replace your traditional Christmas colors with white lights, or something more intriguing--like that chartreuse or turquoise you used as an accent color for the holidays. Maintaining some color in your landscape until things green up in the spring adds a great pop of unexpected color, and is a nice surprise for your guests as they arrive.

Spoil Yourself Year Round With Professional Landscape Design

We find that many of our Boulder, Colorado holiday clients become part of our full-time family as they continue to use our services for their lawn maintenance, hardscape (patios, walkways, terraces), and soft scape (beds, trees, shrubs) design and installation. Our expert teams create designs that use clean energy (LED lighting), limit irrigation needs, and quickly improve your overall environment.

Need An Exterior Facelift? We Can Handle That, Too

Outdoor Craftsmen is unique among Boulder and Colorado landscape firms in that we are also a design-build company. What does this mean for you? Once all those glorious Christmas decorations are down and you take a good look at your house in harsh winter light, minor repairs and upgrades seem more urgent to implement. We offer design and construction services for your exterior upgrades--a feature that eliminates any misunderstanding or conflict with an outside landscape firm. When we manage your whole project, you are much more likely to realize your dream than when there are several chefs in the proverbial kitchen. Our teams work together to ensure that the finished project matches the original plan--no matter how many years it takes to complete the work.