What are Christmas Lights?

Christmas lights are decorative lights used in the celebration of Christmas during the festive period. They come in a variety of colours and lengths, and can be used either indoors or outdoors to decorate the house and garden, and for large seasonal displays at Christmas time. All of our lights contain energy saving LEDs too, that can safely be hung on artificial trees or real trees without the risk of getting too hot, whilst also saving you money at the same time, compared to traditional filament lights. How handy!

2021 Christmas Décor Trends

We’ve identified three key Christmas décor trends for 2021, each with their own completely unique style. There’s Woodland Wonder, a Scandinavian inspired theme where natural woods, leaf motifs and floral details are the focus, with copper accents and woodland animals intertwined; A Winter’s Tale, an enchanting theme where you'll find elegant decorations paired with floral motifs to create a soft ambience and a fresh but regal finish; and Seasonal Splendour, within this luxurious and opulent style, you‘ll find highly decorated, embellished glass baubles that draw you in with their ornate intricacy.

We’ve created a whole new way to shop! Each of the themes has its own dedicated page on the website, meaning you can easily create a beautiful, cohesive Christmas style for your tree using one of the ready-made themes, since we’ve done the hard work for you.

2021 Christmas lights and decor trends have become a whole lot smarter! We’ve got our bulbs screwed in and our lights switched on when it comes to Twinkly - the revolutionary, app-controlled Christmas lights. Having stocked the range for the past 4 years, we know our apps from our elbows with all things Twinkly! These revolutionary lights allow you to create your own colour scheme and lighting displays, even setting them to music with the new Music Dongle. With Generation 2, you can even use Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to control your display!

Christmas Lights and the Celebration of Christmas

Although of course Christmas began as a religious celebration, today, celebrations take on many different forms, across more than 160 countries worldwide and by billions of people. Some traditions we still carry out today, such as putting up Christmas lights and decorations, were originally based around the nativity, but more recent practices are often more secular. Red, gold and green are still the most common colours at Christmas, and these do have religious significance however. It’s hard to imagine a Christmas, as we know it today, without wreaths and garlands, twinkling fairy lights and depictions of Santa, snowmen and reindeer. Lights have moved from the living room, throughout the house, and are increasingly used outdoors, along with various other decorations. There is some uncertainty about the precise date and origin of the use of Christmas trees in the home, but the first recorded use was that of fir trees decorated with apples in Strasbourg in 1605. The first recoded use of candles on trees was by a Silesian Duchess in 1611 and, of course, it’s from this tradition that the practice of decorating our Christmas trees with fairy lights began. Since the 19th century, Christmas trees in the home became commonplace and it’s now rare to find a home without one.