Golden rules for choosing a New Year's garland

A New Year tree, sparkling with colorful lights, creates a festive mood and arouses admiration among adults and children. How to choose a garland so that it is stunningly beautiful, inexpensive and safe, and can surprise both guests and children? Those who believe that a garland is just a dozen light bulbs strung on a cord are deeply mistaken. Modern Christmas tree decorations are incredibly diverse and can create an atmosphere of magic both in a country house and in a small city apartment.

LEDs or incandescent lamps

For the first time in 1906, several Christmas trees in the capital of Finland were decorated with electric garlands. In Russia, the production of electrical jewelry began only in 1938. Many people remember New Year's decorations with ordinary light bulbs painted in different colors from childhood. Such garlands are still sold today. The main advantage of such products is their low cost. There are many more disadvantages: fragility, high energy consumption, unsafety.

LED garlands have become a worthy replacement for outdated Christmas tree decorations with electric mini-lamps. Despite the rather high cost, they quickly gained popularity. The advantages of these products are durability, strength, brightness, safety, cost-effectiveness and moisture resistance.

The color and type of wire matters

As you know, both LED and regular light bulbs in a garland are connected by wires.Therefore, the color and material from which the wire is made matters when choosing a New Year's decoration.

Today, rubber, silicone or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) are used to make New Year's garlands. The first two types of materials are particularly durable and protected from moisture. Products with elements made of silicone or rubber can serve at temperatures down to -50 °C. It is clear that a decoration with silicone wire is perfect for the facade of a house or a Christmas tree on a site. But for the interior, you can choose budget products with PVC wire.

The main color is of no small importance. If you need to decorate a spruce or pine tree, then choose the wire color dark green. To decorate artificial silver Christmas trees, it is better to take a garland with a white wire.

Power supply

In order for the New Year's garland to glow, a source of energy is needed.

• Mains power - the Christmas tree decoration, like any electrical appliance, is connected to the central electrical network. Used to create a New Year's interior in the house or with the help of an extension cord in the garden.
• Self-powered — decorations powered by batteries can be used to decorate a summer house or a Christmas tree in the forest, where there is no way to connect to central electricity.

If the lights are suddenly turned off just before the holiday, a battery-powered garland will preserve the solemn mood and magic of New Year's Eve.

Different types of jewelry

The variety of shapes of garlands is amazing. Here are a few types of these products that are especially common on sale.

• LED filaments — LEDs are connected into a garland using PVC wire.
• Grids — consist of squares or rhombuses, with light sources in the corners.



• Curtains - a horizontal wire from which long vertical threads with light bulbs descend.
• Icicles — the vertical wires have different lengths, and the light bulbs are made in the shape of icicles.



• Fringe – bundles of LEDs are connected to the main wire.
• Duralight — a flexible transparent cord, inside of which there are LED bulbs.



• Beltlight — the decoration refers to professional lighting and consists of several trains with different colors.

When choosing a New Year's garland, you need to decide exactly what objects it will be used to decorate.

Selection rules

When purchasing another garland, few people think about the fact that this product carries a potential danger. All it takes is a short circuit and the holiday can end in tragedy.

When choosing a garland, you need to pay attention to the following nuances:

• Information on the packaging - you must carefully read all the information on the product packaging.
• Certificate of safety.
• The functionality of the product - you need to make sure of this when purchasing: turn on the device, check the functionality of the lamps and the compliance of the modes with the declared ones.
• Length - it is better when the length of the wire is 3 times the height of the tree. The length of the wire to the plug must be at least 1.5 m.
• Power should not exceed 65 W.

When purchasing, be sure to check for the presence of a controller with which you can switch operating modes.

A Christmas tree flashing with colorful lights makes you believe in miracles, takes you back to childhood, and fills your life with fairy tales and magic. When purchasing a new garland, it is important to choose a safe product that will fit into the interior (or exterior) and will give only positive emotions.