PlanetChristmas Showing Off 2006

Here are some pictures of my house located in Orange County, New York ( Monroe).  This years display is not finished yet will have more than 90,000 lights.  I also raise money for the Make A Wish Foundation last year the total was just over $3,000.

Anthony Volpe

The Fowee's in Fairfield, Ohio.  We put up over 70,000 lights. We decorate all sides of the house and our play set out back. This is our 13 year. Merry Christmas.

Hello Planet Christmas,

On Christmas Eve we blockade the street and have over 200 candle lanterns in the gutters.  The local kids enjoy running along lighting the candles and standing back to see a "Candle Lit" landing strip runway for Santa to arrive...  People donate money as they enter our street and all the money goes towards to Cancer Council of Australia. Over the past 4 years we have raised over $20,000.00 for this great cause.  And without saying many, many smiling faces being lit up with happiness, friendship and goodwill.....  I have attached a few pictures... Although they are dated 2004, they are the best pictures i had since discovering your web site.  This year, if you are interested I will obtain some more recent and clearer pickies The 1st is a picture of Santa trailing on a Holden FJ Ute behind 6 white Boomers.
 

The display stretches 20 metres between Two gum trees in our Avenue. Each Boomer (Kangaroo) is 6 metres of steel rod.  I would challenge that this is the only display of its type in the world?? We love it dearly   We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hopefully hear from you during the New year   Thanks & Best Wishes   Greg Young

This image is from Ballston commons in Vienna, Virginia.

 

Of course as you understand these pictures don't do the display justice.

 

More to come of my stuff later.

 

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This is of my home in Tucson, AZ. I just found this wonderful site.  Happy Holidays!

This is my second year submitting my display. I hope to keep expanding as the years go by.  If the rain ever stops I still have a few plans for the rest of the lights I picked up last year on sale. MERRY CHRISTMAS ,  Bob and Lynette Mayfield Hts. Ohio

Here is our house in Batavia Illinois. I will still be adding lights this year so I can pay more on the electric bill.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

This is our 2nd Christmas in our home in Ulster County New York.  We are working on doing a little more and more each year.  We are located off Route 300 which is at a higher elevation so it makes for a nice view while passing by.  This year we have about 25,000 lights on our home.  We do it for the kids, but I think I get a bigger kick out of it than they do!

 

I've been replacing all my minis with LEDs, I really like the way they show, almost neon. Have so more work to do, but getting there.

 

Merry Christmas, Ted Hebert, Lafayette, La

This is a picture of our house in Waukesha, WI. ( Near Milwaukee ) Lots of C-9’s and ice lights; plus two extra 20 amp circuits. The snoopy dog house gets a lot of interest ~ and the porch nutcrackers as well. Last year we were even featured on TV! We have the neighborhood Griswold Trophy nine years running.  Merry Christmas!

 

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This is a picture of our home for the 2006 season.  This year we added a lot of color and many new songs.  We are proud uses of Animated Lighting’s Computer products.  Ken & Terri Good   Tyler, Texas

Happy Holidays from our family to yours! Due to unforeseen circumstances our holiday display this year ended up being completed a little later than originally planned.  Wasn’t certain it would make it up at all this year, due to the loss of my loving grandmother. As you can imagine the family kept busy and this all had to be placed on the back burner. This is the second year we have had my father’s very first eighteen wheeler as the center piece for our families Christmas display. Our local area has already nicknamed this display as the “Christmas Express” last year.   Using the open belly of the trailer, we placed a sled and reindeer with many snowflakes which appear to falling around the holiday scene. You will also see a jolly Santa Claus, a Snowman holding his hat held high for all the world to see, Christmas trees, bells, stockings, ornaments, and two Merry Christmas Signs. My goal was to use rope lights to outline and still show that it is in fact a real tractor trailer. There is even one of Santa’s helpers which made his home in the passenger side seat of the tractor, an Elf who watches all drive by! And this year we even have Santa inside of the cab too! It certainly seems to be a big hit within our local area, just wish it could be shared with more families for the up and soon coming holidays!  Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday season, Charles, Doris Redmond and Christopher, Kristen Gillespie – Ijamsville, Maryland.

I would like to dedicate this year’s holiday display, In Loving Memory of four very special people who always believed in everything I wanted to achieve, Jack Alden and Shirley Hone Gillespie and George Albert and Doris Larue Savage.

Hello,  Here is my 2006 Christmas light display in a small town in eastern Oregon.  This year’s display contains a theme of life at the North Pole.  Of course we have Santa in his house next to a Christmas tree with presents.  The house is surrounded by lollipops, candy cane lane, a Toy Soldier, A polar bear in front of an Ice burg, and a 7ft candy cane arch with a Snow Man next to a 6ft Christmas tree. New this year is a pond scene with a gathering of deer spread out around the pond, a church, a fish coming out of the water, and a set of 3 motion horse and sleigh with a chaser control box, gliding by the pond. To compliment everything is a Santa’s Sleigh and reindeer in a snow storm with a teddy bear.  To finish it all off is a 25 foot motion train made out of lights. Enjoy our detailed pictures and new this year video of the display at http://www.bowlercentral.com/christmas.htm Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  Matt Schilling

This is the Holden House in Scranton Pennsylvania. This is the first year I am putting my holiday house on this website. I think it is a very cool way to see people's great holiday houses. My house has about 4000 lights, 2 animated reindeer, 5 airblown inflatables, and a projector. We have been decorating big for the last 10 years and we grow a little bit more each year. Enjoy.  MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Merry Christmas from the Meyers in Thornton Colorado home of Rocky mountain Christmas lights.  The display is controlled by 3 LOR boards and has approximately 5000 lights. The house is a gingerbread theme. This is the 1st year for the gingerbread theme. The theme décor is made entirely out of corrugated plastic. it turned out awesome!! The manger is all hand made from old barn wood from Michigan.  The nativity is synced to the Christmas story.  The lights in the frosting  and the candy canes are LED!!   you can read more about my display and see more pictures at http://rockymountainlights.spaces.live.com/  Merry Christmas!!  Scot Meyers  http://rockymountainlights.spaces.msn.com   

God said "let there be light"  so I had to decorate my house!!

The Rice Family is located in Troy, Illinois, just east of St. Louis, Missouri. We kicked it up a notch this year and added many new pieces.  My wife and I like to make our own decorations.  Last year we built a 10’ Ferris Wheel.  This year we added a carousel, which features Wonder Horse spring horses from the early 60’s. Each horse was hand painted by my wife.  Since we are running out of yard space we went “up on the rooftop” with a 12 foot wireframe  Hot Air Balloon with a waving Santa. The Balloon is animated with 22 channels of LOR.  Also on the roof is a 12 foot Radio Tower which flashes the call letters of our Christmas radio station K-O-L-D.  The display is animated to music, but our feature pieces are left lit during the show.  In the yard we have  “Toyland”, “Candy Land”, “The North Pole” and our Nativity scene which are made up of wireframes, blowmolds and inflatables…we have such a variety of pieces there is something for everyone.  We will be appearing on the HGTV show “What’s with that Christmas House” along with some other PC members.  We are really excited to be on the show.  Each year we accept donations to support a not-for-profit charitable organization.  This year we are collecting for a local no-kill animal shelter. On December 15-16th Santa will visit. All the neighbors and other visitors will stop by for hot cocoa and a quick visit with Santa.  Thanks to everyone on PC for trading ideas and inspiration.  Merry Christmas   The Rice Family

12th Annual Schrimp Family Display.

 

Too many items to fit into just one photo. Thousands of lights, numerous animated characters, many hand made, thru out the yard. Huge interactive animated garage display, along with candy canes and falling snow every night. 31142 Via Cristal, San Juan Capistrano, CA.

Here's a picture of my small decorations in Covina ,CA.

 

Merry Christmas to all.

 

The Aclans

Merry Christmas from Northwest Georgia.  Every year we decorate the house with lots of lights, but the last two years the number of lights has grown.  Although small compared to all the other wonderful displays on PlanetChristmas so far, our display features 7000 mini lights and a new addition this year, a Santa blow mold.  There are also lights to the left of the house and on the mailbox not visible in the picture.  I had to install a new 20 amp outlet in the front (last year the light total was only about 3300) and an outlet in the soffit for the lights around the windows.  My hope is to double the size of the display every year.  -The Woodsides

Kelly & Richard Moore

201 Ash Drive, Gatesville, Texas

This is our 1st year with an animated lighting display.  We committed to the project very late and thus are starting off small.  We have 16 channels via Light-O-Rama driving 5564 lights.  We are in Folsom, CA.  Here is a photo with all lights on.  We should have a live web cam up this weekend and I'll post the URL.  Cars are already stopping to look.  I'm hooked!  Merry Christmas!

 

-Mike Breton

Lumberton, NJ.  First year decorating, have approximately 8000 lights up this year.  Just purchased a 32 channel Light O Rama controller for next year.  Looking to hit the 25,000 light mark next year.  Merry Christmas!

 

DS

Merry Christmas from the Arizona desert, Still wishing for a white Christmas :-) . My display includes 29,000 lights, and computer animation with animated lighting and fm music transmission. 80% of this years display is energy efficient led lights. Merry Christmas everyone. For more pictures and videos check out www.andersonholidaylighting.com.

 

Michael Anderson

Hi There Every one. Welcome from Down Under I've been busy again for the third year building up my lights and working on the mega display. This is the house in 2005 but working on a home brew designed computer controlled display just finishing off the software although I may go out and buy a few LOR kits next year. This years display will be a 64 output extravaganza. Anyway I love the site.  Wombat, Sydney Australia.

Here is Michael and Rosina Liquori's display for 2006. Located in Glen Cove NY. There are 1000's of lights 450 blow molds and 20 air blown inflatables. This year we have been featured on HGTV's Christmas special. "What's with that Christmas House", to be aired on December 10th. This years display is the largest its ever been. We have been featured in all the local papers and TV stations, and last year on CNN. The house has truly become an institution in the city of Glen Cove, over the years. This is our 18th year decorating., and more is in the works for next season.  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Liquori family. www.mikeliquori.com

We have been doing this for quite a few years but each year is a little  different. This year we did red white and blue to show support for our troops.  Seabrook, NH

Molly McKinney

This is my brothers house in Omaha, Nebraska. When we sold him the house we told him that he must continue to decorate it and he has come through. We love looking at our old house! Merry Christmas. 

 

Deb and Marc Hansen  www.twasthelightbeforechristmas.com

Enjoy,  James & Carri Kiehl

Merry Christmas, the picture i attached is of my front yard Christmas Light Display. My name is Bill and I’m 16 years old. I’ve been decorating since I was 5 and my display gets bigger every year. You can see all of the pictures I have of my display at http://www.billhartelectric.com/photo.html I update these pictures frequently. Also, you can look under the links page for links to websites that have my display on them. You can view the article from the Pittsburgh Pose Gazette about my lights there too. I hope you enjoy them!

 

Bill Hart, 947 Saxonburg Blvd.,  Pittsburgh, PA 15223

I wanted to share our latest display with everyone.  Our home is located in Vermillion SD.  It is a three story Victorian with the peaks at about 37 feet.  I got every peak and roofline done all the way around it this year.  There are way too many hours involved to count and at least 20,000 lights.  What you can’t see are the 13 Christmas trees inside and about another 300 feet of lighted garland.  It has been a project both I and my fiancé have worked hard on and thoroughly enjoy doing every year.  Merry Christmas everyone! 

Hi.

 

Merry Christmas to all from Denmark.

 

Greetings from Jankowski Family

DENMARK

Mousseau and Roy Display 2006.  Located in Hudson,NH.  This is our 5th year lighting our home with thousands of lights This year we scaled back to 110,000 lights and are using a circus theme for the 2006 lighting season. 48 computer controlled channels .  34 mini trees.  6400 light mega tree.  Several new wire frames were also added this year to include a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, hot air balloon and several new circus animals to just name a few. You can see more photos and info at www.hudsonchristmas.com

Chuck,  I'm just another one of the lovers of you web site.... Thanks so much.  ere are a couple of pictures of our display at 1188 Clubhouse Drive, Broomfield. CO.   For Owner’s Kim Weibert and Kevin Hart, Christmas is a time for Family, and their display is a family affair.  The decorating starts in late September, and gets very busy after Halloween.  The display highlights the custom built Candy Cane Express Christmas train, that chugs around on an elevated, oval track through the front lawn.  The train was built by Kevin’s father Marvin Hart, of St. John USVI.  The train track circles a 35’ tall tree that is decorated with over 400 lighted candy canes and is complete with assorted packages under the tree.  The display continues with a beautiful custom built carousel in the picture window of the home and observers will even hear very unique Christmas carousel music throughout the yard.  An eight foot tall Nutcracker greats visitors to the entry way, and even Mickey and Minnie Mouse have made a special guest appearance in the yard.  Rudolf and his eight other friends and a sleigh, complete with packages decorates the roof, along with multiple snow flakes that twinkle like new fallen snow.  Looking in the front picture window you will see that Santa has made it down the chimney and is waving to everyone.  The arches over the driveway dance, flash, and sparkle courtesy of a computerized lighting system.  New in 2006 is a 10’ tall Ferris wheel, built by the owner’s fathers.  Each chair is decorated in a different theme.  Look for Snoopy, Santa Claus, Pooh, and Tiger too. This classic Ferris wheel has it’s own light show that is fascinating to watch.  Another addition this year is the scene of Santa’s Workshop on the double garage door which was created by a graphic designer here in Denver.  The huge outdoor Christmas tree has over 4500 lights and lots of over sized ornaments reminding us that Christmas is just around the corner.  Look for Kim’s dad John Weibert outside every weekend handing out candy canes and giving everyone a personal tour of the display.  Guests are welcome to take an up close and personal look every night till 10 PM.  The entire family enjoys in the creation of this annual display – especially when it is enjoyed by the children and neighbors.  Come on by and see for yourself.

Hi Chuck.  This is my 1st year at PC and I would like to share my pics.  Christmas In Shirley.  www.ChristmasInShirley.com  This year we have over 13,000 lights and 108 channels of control utilizing 2 64 port Olsen 595 boards controlled by Vixen light control software.

 

Thank You,  Brian

Greetings from Midland, Texas!  This is Ricky and Lucy Thames’ 2006 Christmas Display.  This is my 8th year of decorating and my forth year on Planet Christmas.  Below are a few statistics of this year’s display: Lights – 34,274; Amps – 156.46; Installation time – 132 hours; Designing, planning and building – 200 hours; 20 amp dedicated circuits – 18; Extension cords – 148; Length of extension cords – 3,529; Watts – 18,776, Timers – 18; Three-way taps – 54, Spot lights – 4.  I started putting out the lights on October 16 and had the grand lighting on Thanksgiving night in beautiful 70 degree weather.  I’m finally up to 48 channels of LOR that I used on my new 20’ “Mega Tree” and 9 mini-trees.  Also new in my display this year is a 101” train, Light storm, new arches over my walkway, garage door banners, polar bear, church, angel and an abominable snowman.  We have a lot of traffic every night looking at our display and taking pictures and video.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 

This year we have 72,000 lights 48 channels of computer control.  We also accept donations for children's hospital.  You can listen to the music on 88.7 fm

 

stop by1736 Beryl, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

Merry Christmas from James and Camille Wagoner in Edgewater, Florida

www.jamiejames316.com

This is our display for 2006. We have about 20,000 lights. 64 channels of Light o Rama control and we are transmitting on 88.5fm.  On the roof is Santa Flying a 30 foot diameter landing pattern. This is our 9th and best year for our display. We live in Livonia, Michigan   Have A Merry Christmas

Here is our display for 2006 in Deltona, Florida. I completed my goal of 50,085 lights this year.  My roof cutouts and my wall of lights are our favorites. Along with 2 - 15 foot mega trees, we found a way to use purple mini's they mix well with Blue and Gold, works out nice!  Next year LOR and a major sub electric panel upgrade, storage solutions, and bringing my home web page up and running!  Any questions private message me through the PlanetChristmas chatroom " Deltona "  (http://cr.planetchristmas.com).  Wishing you all a " Merry Christmas " and a " Happy New Year "  Deltona

This is our "first year" display in San Diego called "Belardo Lights".  It features 220 channels of LOR, over 38,000 lights, 12,000 feet of wire used, and a lot of fun to design and build.  The inspiration for this display came from our 9 year old son Brandon, who has Autism.  Last year at this time, we were driving around looking at different displays, and Brandon really enjoyed them for the first time.  So I asked him if he'd like to work with me to help build our own Christmas display, and it was off to the races after that.  We're broadcasting on 89.7 FM, and have been featured by a local television station and the local newspaper.  We've received great comments from folks driving and walking by, and plan to expand the display next year and also do some fundraising for local Autism charities.  Thanks to all the fine folks at PlanetChristmas, I was able to learn a lot about this great hobby / obsession, and produce a display that has been called pretty amazing for a beginner.  We'll be back again next year bigger and better than ever...  Randy, Belardo Lights, San Diego, CA 

Merry Christmas...From Troy, Michigan  Our second year submitting to Planet Christmas.  This year we put 5,000 lights on our large tree, it's a real eye catcher. All together we have six 20amp and three 15amp circuits running the lights, running at around 17,000 watts. Lots of animation, chasers, faders and controllers, but no computerization...yet! Maybe next year we'll add the computer...until then, Merry Christmas...From Mike & Margaret

 

http://home.comcast.net/~mike-margaret/

Merry Christmas from Christmas In The Grove.  We are located at 810 Power St, China Grove, NC.  We’ve been decorating our House for the last three years. This is our biggest display so far. Our display this years has 12000+ lights, 60 blowmolds, 2 inflatables and  a Mr Christmas Light Show machine. You can see more pictures of Christmas In The Grove here.

Below is the link to our 2006 Dancing Waters Holiday Decorations:

 

http://www.xmasdancingwaters.com 

 

Happy Holidays,

Bill Vanderslice

This is our first year decorating!  I'm an official newbie!  We are using Animated Lighting with 63 of our 64 available channels in use, and around 9000 lights. 

Danielle Earl

Simi Valley, CA

www.danielleslightshow.com

This took me about 3 weeks in November to put up and I have roughly 3000 lights in the display, maybe a little more. I have nearly tripled my display from last year (#178 on 2005 pg. 4) Next year I am doing the same display but adding more icicles and lawn displays, and maybe something on the roof. This display is powered through 3 outlets. One outlet that controls the front portion comes on at dusk and shuts off 6 hours later, the next 2 portions both are controlled with a remote that has a 50 foot range. If anyone has any questions or would like to see more pictures feel free to e-mail me at worthchristmasdisplay@yahoo.com.  Merry Christmas from Upstate NY 

we just wanted everyone to see our Christmas spirit........i don't know how many lights there are but i know everything was made not bought.......it took a while but they look really great this year..............

debbie and john savage, md

This is a pictures of our Santa toyshop.  it is 30 ft long,10ft tall & 6ft deep.  it is made of all wood, with close to 80 animated figures,24 in & life-size. there is a life-size animated Mr. & Mrs. Claus, elves & snowmen.  there is 6 large windows with animated Disney, peanuts, Looney tunes, elves,& carolers characters. there is 2 large double doors which house Mr. & Mrs. Claus we are located at 14338 Funston ave. Norwalk, California so if your in the area, please stop by and look at our display.  open every night until after new years.  merry Christmas from the Veloz family.

We are Mark and Tina Bolt, and we have a 2 1/2 year old daughter named Emily.  We live in Billings, MT.  Our display contains 24,000 lights this year, which uses about 195 amps.  We live down in a valley called Alkali Creek valley, so we always go with a theme of "Light up the Valley".  This Christmas season we also want to remind people that Jesus is the reason we do all this stuff.  We may light up our little valley, but He is the light of the world.  Merry Christmas from the Bolts in Montana.

Hi Chuck, 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!  From the Bromley’s located in Shrewsbury, Pa.

This a photo of our 2006 Display in Greencastle, Indiana. Visit us at www.freewebs.com/hillsdalechristmas for more pictures. While viewing our display you can listen to our Christmas station. We began setting up our display the weekend after Halloween. We have about 9,000 lights used in the display. The new major addition to this years display was the Nativity Scene, but there were also several other small improvements. We hope that you get a chance to come by, but if you can't we hope that you enjoy the pictures of our display.

 

Merry Christmas, Justin (Hillsdale Ave. Christmas)

Hi everyone, Here is the photo of our Home this year. Hope you all enjoy.

 

Happy Holidays

The Deweil Family

My display is very simple. I put lights all over a very old mesquite tree at the front of my house near downtown Tucson. In fact, the house was designed around the tree when it was built 15 years ago. While not as flashy as some, it shows off the shape of this amazing mesquite tree. Happy Holidays!  John Laswick,  560 S. Samaniego Street,  Tucson, AZ  85701

This is my fraternity (Phi Kappa Psi) house at the University of Illinois. This year we purchased 17,000 lights. We took second in the campus decorating contest. The coolest part is Santa on the roof. Next year we look forward to saving for a light controller and a very tall ladder!  Merry Christmas...  DOUG McDonald

My first year of Christmas decorating - with musical lights.

Skagit County, Washington

Randi

http://www.freewebs.com/azparadise/
christmaslights.htm  Aaron & Kristen Jabkowski 

 

Sincerely,  Jim Hardesty, 3313 Wolfe Court, Plano, Texas 75025

This is our house in Ellicott City Maryland this year.  There are approximately 25,000 lights.  New additions this year are the NOEL, 2 - 6' drummer soldiers at the driveway entrance,  a north pole candy cane, Mickey Mouse Santa blow up, Snowboarding Reindeer Blow up and two angles.  This year is a tribute to my wife Wendy, who was the artistic director of the display in the past.  She passed away in February after a 2  year battle with ovarian cancer.   Hope everyone has a happy holiday season.  Jon Fiedler    p.s.  Thanks Chuck, I was chosen to be one of the featured houses on HGTV for next years "What's up with this Christmas House". 

This is our small display, we are in Nottinghamshire UK

have a great Christmas

from Tony & Angie

Welcome to the Wullkotte's 2006 Christmas display. This will be our 4th year decorating the house and it gets bigger and better every year. Classic Christmas music plays nightly and this display is sure to put a smile on your face. Unfortunately the other side of the yard could not be fully captured, but you get an idea of what the display looks like. We had to add an extra circuit this year due to it being overloaded and next year we hope to have the whole display synchronized to music. We have one of the larger displays in Ohio and put more emphasis on things in the yard than lights on the house. New additions this year include a Santa stop here sign, large light up holiday banner, Nativity scene, extra ice cycle lights, extra candy canes and more.  Seasons Greetings,  Noah Wullkotte

Cincinnati, OH

CHUCK:  HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM OUR HOUSE IN JACKSON NJ. THIS YEAR WE ADDED SOME ROPE LIGHTING, THE ROOF, AND THE LAWN LIGHTS.  WE ALSO ADDED A FEW YARD DECORATIONS AND THE “NOEL” INFLATABLE.  WE REALLY ENJOY THE WEBSITE AND ALL THE THINGS GOING ON HERE. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE     FRED & TRISH HELFRICH   JACKSON NJ

This is our second Christmas in our home and our first time submitting our house on this site. We want to add more next year. Decorating our home is something we really enjoy and our kids love helping us. Hope everyone enjoys our home and Happy Holidays.

James, Mande and Kids. Mentor-On-The-Lake, Ohio.

Hello. I'm am located in Middleton Nova Scotia. With over 15,000 lights and over 35 years experience Our 120 foot frontage yard is seen by hundreds every night from December 1st to January 5th.  Merry Christmas  Eddie and Sue O'Connor

Hello there and a merry Christmas and a happy new year from Mike and Maryellen from Boston here is a little something I whipped up this year and would like to dedicate this year to my father who has just passed away  and will not be with us this year as we are all trying to cope with both Christmas and a passing as I also have more pictures as I hope the gentlemen will help me post them like last year  merry Christmas to all

 

 

you will be the blue/white motif and the red/green/white motif.

 

 

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llori of falls church, VA

This is my Christmas light display.  It is my first year for computer control.  It runs a light show to music broadcast over a low-power FM station from 7:00pm to 8:00pm every night.  We went from 7,800 lights last year to over 23,000 lights this year.  The Mega-tree on the left is 23 feet and has over 5,000 lights.  It’s located in Noblesville, Indiana  RJ Strycker.

Merry Christmas wishes from Sweden. Here comes a picture of my garden which I every year turn into a wonderland of brightly shining Christmas lights. This year I almost reached 10'000 lights controlled by 10 chasers. In Sweden its very rare to have lots of lights. Next year I will put layers of lights and start to use LOR. Thank you very much Chuck and everyone here at PlanetChristmas for all of your inspiration.  Feel free to visit my website: http://www.imprezive.com/christmas  Best wishes from Niklas Adolfsson.

Christmas Utah is located in a suburb of Salt Lake City.  The display is 100% computer synchronized.  For more details go to www.christmasutah.com.

Marty Slack - Christmas Utah in Murray, Utah

Here are some pictures of my home located in Jackson, New Jersey.  This is our third year here and we keep adding more every year.  Thank you for looking and enjoy!

 

TARANTINOS IN BAYVILLE NEW JERSEY

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

This is our Townhouse in the suburb of Castle Hill in Sydney, Australia.

 

Regards

 

Noel

This is my first year doing a computerized light show.  So far I have 5000 Lights.  I hope to grow this every year.  Check out the video of the light show at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgj71bNBXI0

My Christmas light display doubled since last year! Every square foot in my front yard is covered by thousands of lights, and I ran out of room! This is the first year that I am setting up a second display in my back yard. Everything doubled from last year including my inflatables (I had 6 last year and now I have 12), the amount of lights I’m putting up doubled, and everything else I put up doubled too. I’ve been working on my display since September and I’m going to continue thru December 25. We even had to redo our whole electric panel for the 3rd time; The Christmas lights have 20 circuits that are dedicated to them. Another feature I’m going to try to add is my own radio station, which will broadcast Christmas music to people viewing my display, right from my own room! This is the most out of the box, over the top display I ever worked on!

 

Bill Hart (Now 16 Years Old)

Pittsburgh, PA 15223

 

Tom Raczok

Here is the front of my house for Christmas 2006:

 

This is the display for 2006. Not the biggest, I know, most of the power went to all the blow molds in the backyard. We've been decorating for years; it sure has grown from the original 3 piece nativity.

 

Merry Christmas from Michigan,  Noah Greenia

I am sending a picture of my display for 2006.  I have many more pictures on my website at http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-redneckchristmaswoman.  This year I have added a shed to store everything in and of course it had to be decorated.  I have used LED lights on it.  I plan on having more of them next year.  I love them.  I am a PLC programmer so on my shed I added a little animated scene with a flying snowman landing on a sleigh.  I have wanted to use a PLC on my lights for some time now.  This year I have 49 extension cords, 3,840 miniature bulbs, 16 strands of icicle lights, 48 lighted figures, 11 rope lights and 5 wood art figures for a total of 45.7 amps across 5 circuits.  I have also added some music playing.  I plan on having some outdoor speaker and controlling this from the computer next year.  Michelle Heath

This is The Shuman House located in beautiful Pickerington, Ohio.  My kids, Bradley and Katie, are my inspiration.  They make the holidays all the more wonderful.

Thanks for looking and best wishes for a great holiday season!

Justin Shuman   Pickerington, Ohio

This is our house we more than doubled the amount of lights from last year from this picture you can’t see the side yard.  The trees have LED lights this is the first time I used them.  The kids love it and we have been inspiring the neighborhood to do lights especially because this weekend (after thanksgiving) has been very nice for NH I was wearing short sleeve shirts all weekend.  The guy across the street puts up a lot of lights also we are trying to think of a way to make arches over the street we live on a quiet street with very little traffic, if anyone has ideas for that or my house please email me at macdonald5@comcast.net

http://www.mrivey.com/christmas/index.html  I'll be adding a few more lights this weekend, and you'll be able to see the additional lights there. 

Scott

This is Jeff &Lisa Long's House in Atco, NJ.  Been doing lights along time and keep procrastinating about going computer controlled.  Getting flack from the wife that she doesn't like the on off lights, but I am going to make the call to go computer controlled next year.  Have a Merry Christmas!

Hi my name is Tony Lorio.  I don't think I have enough lights up!!  What do you think.  I been doing it for over 20 years and adding something new every year.  I added so much that the neighbors ask if I could do there's also.  Me my wife Darleen, my son Tony, his girl friend Cherly, my niece Heather ,her boyfriend Brooks and there daughter Hailey .Started putting up the lights right after Halloween and just get finished Dec.1st.Everyone calls me the Griswald's from the movie National Lampoon.  The lights are on from 5pm to 11pm every night.  Good weather I put a dancing Santa out that sings. I live at 528 Delmar Ave  Glen Burnie.  Every night there's seems to be over 40 to 50 cars that come in the circle that stop and  come see the lights.  There's over 1,600 sets (not sure how my light bulbs never counted them) and that's only on my house.  We put three new blow ups in the yard and four new trees we put lights on.  We also added more lights in all three houses. The whole circle is lit up.  You can see the glow when your in Glen Burnie.  We are already talking about what where going to add next year,  It's going to be crazy!  MERRY CHRISTMAS From the Iorio'S  Tony Sr., Darleen, Tony Jr.  528 Delmar Ave, Glen Burnie, Maryland

Over 22,000 lights at the Noble residence Africa Rd Westerville Ohio

Not as elaborate as some others but I have a lot of time and $$$ in what I have. Next year I'll try and computerize plus have many plans on the works.  About 35K lights up but still have just as many in the cellar and buying more after Christmas.  Ron, Diane and Rebecca Doustou  Presque Isle, Maine.

While I have always been one to love lights, this is my 2nd year of more than a few lights, this is also the first year that we have had cars stopping to look.  I  have over 10,000 lights, the tree in front has almost 5,000 alone and cycles through a six channel sequencer. We are located in Hudson, MA. Love PlanetChristmas and have gotten many great ideas!!

Merry Christmas.. This is our first Christmas in our new home, but not my first Christmas decorating.. I currently have about 3000 lights and it does grow EVERY year... I love doing this for my two daughters as well as for other families... The highlight is when people drive by and slow down to take pictures.. i found out too late about computer automation but will give it a whirl in 2007... I am looking forward to show off for next year

This is our house in Jacksonville, Florida.  It has been a very busy year so we have a simpler display in 2006. 

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Keith and Claudia Portell    http://www.keithportell.net

This is our first year using Light O Rama controllers and we love it!  Merry Christmas from the Donner’s – Fisherville Kentucky

Ray Donner

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED NEW YEAR TO ALL! 

I just started to display Christmas lights two years ago and still have far to go but this is the end result for CHRISTMAS 2006!!!   

Maria & Carol – Gillette, NJ

 Here is my house. Bought 3 years ago, and this is my 3rd year trying to drive the neighbors crazy. Just kidding. They love it, as do their kids.  Located on Hansard Cres. Coquitlam, B.C., it’s on a very minor, quiet street, so I am not getting much traffic. I am sure it will change as soon as our weather gets better. In July.  I have 4 inflatables, 2 on the roof, and two on the lawn. Unfortunately, I ran out of lights before running out of electricity. Next year I will have more, and will look into adding LOR or some such program.   Thank you for looking, and I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Safe New Year.   Thank you Kyle, Janice, and Jessica.   Tim and Janice Murphy, from B.C., Canada.

This is 2nd year in a row for us decorating in Slapout Alabama.  We have uploaded more photos at the following link:  http://www.showmesites.com/gallery

Merry Christmas from Alabama!

This is a house that I found while wandering around the county,  I talked to the owner and took some pictures.

Here is a page with lots of pictures of this house and the story behind it. http://www.christmasingriffin.com/lights.html

Burt 

We built our new house in 1999 and have been lighting ever since.  In the past I used a DMX theatrical light board and cakewalk using SMTPE time code to sequence the lights to music.  Last year I used 48 channels of custom built DMX dimmers ..  This year I converted to Light-O-Rama and have 64 channels of LOR and 5 X-10 channels all sequenced to music on a small FM modulator.  I have over 6000 mini lights, 100 C9 lamps, 60 10watt sign lamps, 2 blowups, 2 blow molds, 2 hand made wireframes with tube lights and over 300 foot of tube lights.  I am sure I will add nest year.  This is located at 185 Bell Road in Niles, MI

My humble display from Media, Pennsylvania.

Wishing all a Merry Christmas.

John Bartholomeo

We Wish You A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2007

Katarina, Charlie. Mike, Liz, Katie, Brandon
 

Hoffman Estates Illinois

This is the 10th year of decorating our house. We have approx. 16,000 lights and it takes me 4 weeks to get it all put up. The pine trees are 40 feet up and to get the stars up in them I have to climb the tree to attach it. I have a lot of handmade decorations throughout the display, which you really can't see in the pictures but look great in person. A couple of the hand made items are the wreath on the garage door that splits in two places so we can open the door and I built a ginger bread house that is 5 foot tall and has approx. 1000 lights on it. Well, Merry Christmas to all and we'll see you next year.  Frank Merhaut.

After not decorating for about 12 years we are back!  This years display features 22,000 lights, up from 8,000 last time we decorated!  The garaged is converted into Santa's Workshop with animated elves making toys and decorating a tree.  In the front yard we have an antique sleigh with reindeer ready to make Santa's deliveries Christmas Eve.  All while a huge animated Santa watches closely from the front window.  The back yard features a miniature forest with lots of wire form deer and trees.  Visit our website at http://www.thatchristmashouse.com for more pictures.

Merry Christmas! 

Wizard of Winter,  Orlando, Florida.  15,000 plus lights, 16 Channel LOR box.  1st Year animated.  http://geocities.com/wizofwinter

Best Regards,  Tom Badolato

We would like to wish all our Family and Friends a Very Merry Christmas from  Wallace , Shirley and Daniel

p.s   hope you enjoy the picture of our tree and pipe organ

just for the smell of it...   got a video of the fire truck this year...   the still pictures didn't turn out...  both of us are getting too blind for our own good.

 

:D

 

luv, llori & mr. b

 

 

OH merry XMAS!

About 35,000 lights, 30,000 more in cellar. About 6 weeks to build and setup, hope to computerize (with my music I have now) next year with many plans in the works...

 

Happy Holidays from Ron,Diane,and Rebecca

Presque Isle, Maine

My family has a static display just outside of Evansville IN.  It is spread out over 3 acres and consist of blowmolds, hand-made wood cutouts, and lights.  The plan after watching some of the displays we found in Louisville is to go to a mega tree and about 128 LOR channels.  Getting started right now for next year.

Chuck, here are some pictures of my 2006 display. One of these days I’m going to have to invest in a better camera! J

Ken Knighton

Merry Christmas from www.Whetstonelights.com  We have 15,000 lights with 2000 feet of extension cords. This is our first year animating to music using 32 channels with Light-O-Rama equipment. We have 6 songs running nightly. We have been in the local paper and on the Radio and had a blurb in a local Magazine.

My display for 2006. Controlled by X-10 and Dasher software to a 7 minute loop of songs and my daughter doing the DJ bit on the recording. Broadcast on a home-built FM transmitter from Ramsey Electronics.

 

This is my Merry "Fishmas" lights display from Charleston Air force Base, South Carolina. This is my 1st year attempt as creating something . I used the 100 count sets of mini lights and just arranged them into the shapes i wanted. I hope everyone enjoys what i have done. MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!  Sincerly, Wendy Schoonmaker 

Hi PlanetChristmas, our home is located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island on Frenchtown Road, this is our first year running computerized lights from Animated lighting, using LED Lights on a Christmas Tree, Broadcasting Christmas Music over 97.7 FM, and thru speakers also, this is only a part of the display that we have decorated, could not get it all in the picture, we have a small pond in front of the display, we have 9,000  lights up this year, we will be changing over to more LED Lights in the future running Animation, MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone and a HAPPY NEW YEAR, from BOB and ANNE.

Hi Chuck, hope you and your family have had a good year!  Finally finished putting up the lights for 2006. We've had a lot of rain and it always seems to happen on weekends.

 

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Wishing everyone all the best for 2007!  Thanks.  Marcel

 

This is my 5th year decorating, and my second year submitting to your site!  This year we have approximately 15,000 lights including figurines.  We also have finally been featured in our local newspaper, and local TV station!  Look for more next year, although we are running out of room fast!!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!  This is my display for 2006 in Waretown, New Jersey.  I am hoping to go computerized in 2007.  I have been doing this for 5 years.  I hope you enjoy it.  Paul Z.

: “Shamrock Sensations” is located off Lake Elmo, turn onto Emerald at the Giggling Grizzly, take the next right and that’s Shamrock. I happened to come across the web site “Planet Christmas” last Christmas and was totally amazed at the Christmas displays. My original plan was to have a computerized display this year but it didn’t happen. I started buying lights on clearance after Christmas 2005. I have been collecting lights for years with a large display in mind and a dream of winning the Christmas Contest. The next step was to remove two hedges and three huge junipers and make way. My husband is an electrician and I have lots of power and at least 6 breaker boxes!!! He loves the lights and this display is a tribute to him. He was going trough chemo last Christmas and now is going through it again. Every light was put up by me and I started in November. My husband, Paul Schmittou, myself, and our daughter Bridgette Schmittou live here. My friend, Christine Edwards and I made the “mini trees” that dance to music with 300 to 800 lights each. I use a light and music controller to make them dance. The neighbor’s grandson loves the lights and came over tonight and was dancing around to the music. As a child I can still vividly remember going to Black Eagle to see the Anaconda Company’s display. They trimmed all the huge pine trees in green and red. Oh to be a child again!!! See 27 lighted trees, 2 “Firework Storm Lights”, 11 animated, 2 trains, Musical light controller, 30,000 + lights, Catch the spirit of Christmas and leave an everlasting memory for your children or revive one of your ownJJJ!!! My Thanks to the Anaconda Company for my memories and to the folks at “Planet Christmas” for being my companion during this last year. The lights are on from 5:00 till 11:00 every night. Merry Christmas and God bless you.

This is a not so clear picture at the beginning of my sons decorating for this holiday season the sides and the back of the house are done as well since this picture this is the only picture I took of it this yr and wanted to show what my son has done.  the house is located in Buchanan, Michigan.  The bug has defiantly bitten him.  Seasons Greetings

Vic Malvo

Dingmans Ferry PA

Hello...welcome to the Flowers family Christmas house in Rochester, Michigan. We are using 575 Amps across 38 20-Amp breakers. We are maxed out and need to do another power upgrade or plan a migration to LED lights. The display currently uses C7, C9 and miniature lights. If all miniature lights were used, we draw enough juice to light over 100,000 bulbs. The main theme is "Peace On Earth".  Happy Holidays.....Norm Flowers and Cynthia Holland.

 

Seasons Greetings from Frank Bustamante

Anaheim Hills, CA

This is the 10th year of decorating our house. We have approx. 16,000 lights and it takes me 4 weeks to get it all put up. The pine trees are 40 feet up and to get the stars up in them I have to climb the tree to attach it. I have a lot of handmade decorations throughout the display which you really can't see in the pictures but look great in person. A couple of the hand made items are the wreath on the garage door that splits in two places so we can open the door and I built a ginger bread house that is 5 foot tall and has approx. 1000 lights on it. Well, Merry Christmas to all and we'll see you next year.  Frank Merhaut.

Located in Yuma, Arizona, the house of Butch & Kim Koretz.  This years display had over 100,000 mini lights and twelve computer controllers from Design Specialty  http://www.chaselights.com/ . We also had over 20 wire frames and 25 inflatables, plus over 1000' of rope light to make up the display.  New for 2006 was three large computer controlled crosses and the large arches over the driveway changed seven different colors.  The arches over the driveway had over 10,000 lights.  The display is over 240' wide & 140' in depth.  Merry Christmas   The Koretz Family

This is our 4th big year, 100,000+ lights.  250+ channels of LOR Computer Control.  Located in Northbridge, MA.  Rich and Leslie Arsenault  Merry Christmas,  Rich

Hi Chuck,

 

a Few more from a sunny South Africa.  For 2006 we have a Neighbourhood Craft Market under thousands of Christmas Lights. We and the kids dress up in Santa suits and we were very privilege to have a troop of the world famous "Kaapse Klopse" to attend and join in our festivities.  We have our event broadcast on KFM for 2 days and the outcome was out of this world.  We nearly couldn't cope with all the people.  Once again thank you for a wonderful inspirational site.  Our best wishes for 2007 and may their be peace all over the world for each and every one. 

 

Marius & Hetta

Parow, Cape Town - South Africa

Here are some of our photos from 2006's Christmas showing..... It was great to have been included last year, and I love what I've seen on the site thus far!  Doug Allen

Here is the Ahwatukee Holiday’s 2006 Christmas lights display.  The display features 60,000 lights that are all set to computer animation with 256 channels. This is my second animated year, and my first set to music.  You can also look for a 30,000 light mega tree next year, along with a few other surprises.  You can read all about it, and watch video’s of the songs at www.AhwatukeeHolidays.com

This is our first year with a AL 16 channel animated music and light show in years past we were static and our Halloween show was animated. we used over 5500 LED lights and 1200 feet of cord. visit www.counterholidaylights.com to see it in motion. while it may be small compared to some we took great steps to focus and the location or all the lights and the use of all 16 channels. thanks for looking and watch us grow for next year.  Best Regards and happy holidays.   

Lorne, Tracy and Paris Counter

Sparrow house in Oshawa, Ontario.  This is my first attempt at starting to light up my yard.

This is my home in Tulsa, Oklahoma located at 14108 E. 19th St.  My display consist of around 40,000 lights and have been adding since I was was ten and this is my 10th year.  The display consists of a driveway arch's, animated wall, a steam with deer, and many others.  Thank you for looking.

Merry Christmas from Al Zaragoza

Anaheim Hills, CA

LOR controlled 248 channels.  Lots of lights.  West Haven, Utah

 

Thanks and Happy New Year!  Dave Horting

www.westhavenlights.com

Greetings from the piedmont of North Carolina!  Don't have a clue how many lights we use, we just enjoy the results.  We just started doing this last year and won "best decorated" in our neighborhood.  It seemed to inspire others in the neighborhood, because we had quite a few join in on the fun this year.  Happy Holidays from Ben, Katrina and "Buster".

Here is my townhouse in Birmingham, Alabama.  We have roughly 5,000 lights and we are already planning for next year!  We hope that you enjoy our humble display!  Merry Christmas and thanks for letting us show off!

Merry Christmas to all!  100,000  static light walk around display with window displays and new age, jazz, and classic Christmas music that truly brings out the Christmas Spirit in all who interact with it.  Christmas in Winter Park continues to draw 50,000 plus visitors. My lovely wife Betty is in remission on her cancer and is doing very well. Visitors this year included Ron Lister and of  Kissimmee and Gilbert Ramos with their computerized displays from Kissimmee and Goldenrod area of Winter Park.This picture is from Orlando Sentinel shot at F8 with a Nikon D2 on tripod using a wide angle lens to give the full view of the display. We are also listed in Chuck Smith's Planet Christmas The World's most extreme Christmas Decorations, Collins & Brown  Chrysalisbooks.co.uk ISBN 1-84340-325-0. We wanted to post earlier in the season but just to busy with work and being a traffic cop along with maintenance of display.  As usual, Thanks to all our visitors and Chuck Smith and this remarkable web site.  Bob and Betty Petersen.

MERRY CHRISTMAS CHUCK AND ALL AT PLANETCHRISTMAS,

 

FROM WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.   50,000 LIGHTS AND MORE.

ALL PLANETEERS CAN CONTACT ME WHERE AND WHEN FOR 2007 VIEWING AT Qhighwire@aol.com  for 2007.  SPECIAL THANKS TO WAYNE DAVIS A

Hi Chuck!  Our first computerized display (Thanks to PlanetChristmas).  Over 100,000 lights and 250 computer controlled channels.  We did six synchronized songs and even my 13 year old son did one!  We had such a good time and made many new friends.  We look forward to Christmas 2007!!!   Kevin Thomas, Christmas in Kent  www.christmasinkent.com