Whether you prefer an elegant holiday décor or you go for a more casual, fun look, there are Christmas walkway lights available to meet that style. From snowflakes to gingerbread men, there are hundreds of designs to choose from. Standard walkway lamps are designed to light up a sidewalk or other path. Typically, they're designed simply with shades that cast the light down where it needs to be. Christmas designs, on the other hand, are more for decoration than illumination, but they can still brighten an area enough to make it easy for people to see as they walk.
This is the first thing you should look at carefully before you purchase these types of fixtures, especially if it's clear they're designed for their looks and not their light. A set of stakes that each has a plastic red Santa on top won't be as bright as if they had white snowmen instead. The brightness can't come through the red as brilliantly as it can the white. These darker plastics and shades will dim the fixtures at least a little, so keep that in mind before you choose all red Santas and brown reindeer.
Even the light-colored shades, however, can serve to dim the brilliance of the bulbs quite a bit, depending on how the thick the plastic is and how bright the bulbs are. If the walkway lights are solar, they probably won't burn as brightly as low-voltage lights, and they may start losing something of their power fairly early on after dark. This can make them too dim, too early, especially if the design is dark in color, and leave your walk in the dark.
Better quality Christmas walkway lights will almost always be the best choice. While some off-brand and generic-style products can be wonderful, if you purchase from a known name in lighting or even in holiday décor, you're more likely to be pleased with the way the products work. They're also more likely to be longer lasting. Since you'll want to store them to use them each year, higher quality materials are best, especially if you store them somewhere that's not temperature regulated.
Plastic shapes that cover the bulbs can stand up to wintry weather around Christmas, but if they're stored somewhere that gets hot and then cold, they'll end up being more brittle and more likely to crack or break. Careful storage to keep bulbs and designs from breaking will serve you well each year when it's time to put out your Christmas decorations.
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