Rope lights are an excellent way to spruce up your landscaping during the Christmas holidays. Using rope lights is an innovative way to decorate during any holidays. I believe they are a bit safer than the traditional string lights in that the lights itself are enclosed inside a flexible tube and are basically protected from the elements.

Because rope lights are flexible you can follow the architecture of your house and become very creative by making your own design on your landscaping. You can let you imagination run wild if you want. You can run them along the ground next to your walkway or driveway for easy access to your front door or better yet, elevate them on stakes. You can also use them indoors for illuminating a Christmas village that you have set up, light up dark corners of a room and you can decorate your Christmas tree. 

You can conserve energy with LED rope lights. What are LED rope lights, you ask? LED (light-emitting diodes) is simply tiny light bulbs that have no filament. Because of this, they use less energy, create less heat, and last longer. With LED lights you will not waste energy heating a filament and the majority of the power is used to generate the light which makes them brighter than ordinary bulbs. The LED bulb is made of heavy plastic and is much more durable.

Why should you buy LED rope lights? Here are a few good reasons: they have a much longer life and save more energy; their expected life is about 100,000 hours; you can run up to about 600 feet operating length; and they will not produce very much heat.

By accenting roof lines and windows with rope lights is a great alternative to the old fashioned traditional lights or even the mini lights. Outdoor rope lighting allows for a straighter line because they are spaced evenly inside their flexible tubing. There are special clips that are available for keeping the Christmas rope lights in place on the house. You can also surround your windows with indoor rope lighting or outside with outdoor rope lights that are a solid color on or blinking.

The flexible tubing of the rope lighting allows you to manipulate it into different shapes. These holiday shapes can be mounted anywhere on a fence. Some of these Christmas shapes could be trees, candy canes, stockings, bells, stars, animal shapes, or a holiday greeting. The rope light mounting clips that are made for these lights make it easy to attach them onto frames, walls, or fences.

When you purchase the chasing Christmas rope lights you can place them around the wheels of decorations that are placed on your landscaping, to similate movement. You can wrap them around poles, candy canes, or trees around a display piece to create a boundary.

Rope lights can also be used as indoor rope lights for your Christmas decorating. Use chasing rope lights on your Christmas tree for a look other than the traditional lights. Place them on the stair railings, fireplace mantels, around doorways, and even around the ceiling in your favorite Christmas colors.
 
The solar rope lights are probably best used as landscape rope lighting due to the fact that they need the sunlight as a source of energy. These solar lights can also be used when it is overcast, rainy, or with a snowfall with the help of the polycrystalline solar cells. These solar cells capture enough solar energy even with diffused sunlight or a small quantity of daylight to perform sufficiently.

When Christmas is over rope lights can be used for various sections of your garden year round such as deck rope lighting or landscape path lights. These can also be classified as indoor rope lighting and be used to brighten up a dark corner of a room, under counter lighting in your kitchen or accent lighting in a tray ceiling. As you can see there are endless ways to use rope lights in and around your house, not just for your Christmas landscaping.