Let's see your... Christmas Lights

We inherited my FIL's collection of resin Christmas characters.

I have a dozen more to fix still...

Ashful you should ask Scott Kelly to take a picture of it from the space station



he he. Id add a shot of our house but its downright dull by comparison.

I'm not doing the outside (mineself& ladders ='s not good ), but I'm doing the inside. Right now I'm in tear it apart and put it back together mode.

Will post pics when done

Very nice guys. Here's mine I've been adding every year started with eaves last year and railing this year. Figure I'll wrap a couple trees next
Year

No pictures yet, but I added a laser projector, it looks like a net light on the whole house, but only has a stake and a cord to set up

Ok I finally got some photos of the lights. Nothing exciting and doesn't really come out so great with the phone camera. Hard to see but we do have electric candles in every window.



Looks better in the daytime. My wife does the wreath decorating herself and we put up a lot of live garland on the fences and around the lamp post and door.




Inside. She was going for a more traditional look this year with the mantle decorations. If not for me she would have the tree all white as well.

Believe it or not the living room paneling is all a modern reproduction. The inside of that large cabinet behind the tree is all plywood and sheetrock. They did a decent job however even hand planing some of the panels above the fireplace. Hearth is original and the ovens where functional before a PO put the stove in.

The small fireplace is an original surround and rebuilt brickwork.

The stone steps I think may be original. Many houses around 1800ish in this area have the granite slab steps. The foundation is rubble stone capped with these big granite slabs at grade and I believe they just put an extra one at the door for step when they where building them. the granite comes from a quarry about 5 miles away in the next town.

Even found room for my major award!


Sorry about the phantom file initially posted, if you feel any better, I didn't have permission to view it either.

Fixed. I think. New OS here doesn't let me upload from the phone anymore, need to go through PC. Either uploads and looses the file, or tells me it has an improper extension on it.

Our first tree wasn't a tree............ it was a pine scented candle set on a coffee table.

it got a little chilly here in NW Florida hitting a whopping 61 deg, for now, We have to burn in my fire pit in my driveway... X-mas boxes etc... here's some pics of us and the neighbors have a bit of wine n cheese right after Christmas...

Ashful said:

Cool! But... a Floridian on a site dedicated to heating your home with wood?

On the subject of lights, we pulled ours down and packed them away today, and hauled the tree out of the house. Always one of the more depressing days of the year.

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Yes!! totally dedicated! and that is my goal to heat my beach house (1600sf) with wood!! It gets in the 20s and 30s here in January.. I actually burn a little bit of wood in my gas log fireplace now, I know! very dangerous!! I have insurance lol, but seriously, its a newer home (1994) and I'm seriously looking to convert my NG FP to a wood burning.

Ashful said:

Wow, big climate difference from Naples or Orlando! A cold January in Naples is 55F, and it's 75F there, today.

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Actually where I am is the coldest climate in Florida, Being at the highest elevation and in the northwest corner of the state. Last year we saw teens.. lol I'm about 6 hours NW of Orlando in Crestview / Destin.