Decorating with LED Rope Lights

Modern LED rope lights are a new alternative for holiday decorating, or illuminating your garden, landscaping or business year-round. These flexible strands of closely spaced mini-lights are encased in plastic, very bright, and cool to the touch, which makes them safe for long-term installations.

Rope lights come in bulk spools that are 150 feet long. But they can be cut at 3-foot intervals and customized for a wide variety of projects with our suite of rope light accessories. The spots to cut are clearly marked and altering the lengths is easy with additional rope light power cord kits. For everyday uses, rope lights are great for illuminating walkways, patios and awnings or accenting gardens and landscape designs. They also make good choices for decorating boats, RVs and commercial spaces such as bars and restaurants. When installing your project, rope light clips and tracks can help you lay the ropes in precise lines and achieve a more professional look.

But the real fun and flexibility of rope lights shines during the holiday season. They can be twisted into any variety of shapes – peace signs, a dove, the outline of a manger, trees, stars, snowflakes, sleighs and Santas – and installed in a window or on the outside of a house. Rope lights can be used to spell out holiday greetings or wrap tree trunks. And the closely spaced lights add a modern and architectural touch to whatever holiday theme you choose to create.

Methods for installing rope lights can vary, depending on where you want to place them, but here is one idea for creating designs using pegboard and zip ties:

With some simple supplies from the hardware store and accessories, investing in a spool of long-lasting and environmentally-friendly LED rope lights can help you create permanent and weatherproof outdoor lighting features or just have more fun with your holiday designs.