Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images With holiday shopping starting earlier than ever this year, a lot of us are already thinking about Christmas traditions like buying a tree, either fake or otherwise, or starting an advent calendar, either beauty or otherwise.
Young uses about 300,000 individual bulbs, he says, which accounts for about 20,000 total feet of wiring. While you don’t need to use that many bulbs on your house to make an impression, there are tips from his and the other experts’ experience that can help you with your own display. The first, Young says, is symmetry. Good lighting setups don’t look haphazard. Like all of our experts, Young also stresses safety.
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