How to brighten the holidays with smart christmas lights

The holidays are the perfect time to upgrade to smart lights, bringing festive colours like red and green into the home with ease. Smart lights offer endless possibilities for creative displays, allowing for complete customization through voice commands that are sure to impress your family and friends. If you’re looking to elevate your holiday décor, now is the perfect time to explore smart lighting options. Let’s start with outdoor Christmas lights and work our way indoors for a truly immersive holiday setup.

Brighten the holidays with smart outdoor Christmas lights

During the holiday season, traditional Christmas lights are often draped across deck railings and around shrubs to bring festive cheer, only to be packed away after New Year. Now, with smart outdoor lighting options like Twinkly, creating beautiful, adaptable displays is simpler and more enjoyable.

Twinkly’s smart lights offer customizable displays that add colour and vibrancy to any occasion. A great choice this season is the Twinkly 600 RGB light string, featuring 600 high-density LEDs perfect for larger spaces. It offers a dazzling array of colours and effects, all easily controlled through a smartphone app, making it ideal for creating vibrant holiday displays with ease.

For smaller areas or additional lighting layers, the Twinkly Strings 250 RGB LED provides the same quality with 250 LEDs and endless colour and effect options. Both the 600 and 250 models are compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant, so adjustments are just a voice command away.

If you’re looking for something unique, the Twinkly Strings/Dot is an excellent choice to light up any outdoor space. Featuring 460 RGB LEDs and 16 million colour options, this string can even sync with Twinkly Music, allowing the lights to react to your favourite tunes. Wrap it around a tree—indoors or outdoors—for a show-stopping effect. If that doesn’t impress your neighbours, nothing will!

Best Buy offers a wide range of Twinkly lights to suit any decorating style. With easy app control, voice assistant compatibility, and flexibility to use year-round, Twinkly lights bring both magic and convenience to home lighting, creating memorable displays that extend beyond the holiday season.

Decorate indoor spaces with light panels

Smart light panels provide endless creative expression to add holiday colours indoors. These are modular LED light panels that are installed on the wall and connected to a power outlet. They come in many different shapes and sizes. You can make your own arrangements on the wall and control the colour through an app. It’s a great way to entertain your guests during the holiday. Install it in the living room, dining room, or wherever people gather.  

GE Cync Dynamic effects kit

For the holidays, the GE Cync Dynamic Effects Kit is a great choice. This consists of 7 hexagon light panels and a neon-shaped smart light strip. It’s exactly what you need to see the full potential of smart lights. With this kit, you can individually control colour segments and sync lights to music. This allows you to create multi-colour, holiday-themed light shows. These lights also sync to voice assistants allowing you to control them with voice. These lights are dynamic, hence the name. 

Holiday lighting with Smart LED strip lights

Out of all the various smart lights, Smart LED strip lights stand out as a top choice for their incredible versatility, especially during the holidays. The key to achieving a festive look with these lights is to install them subtly, so only the reflected light is visible. For example, placing LED strip lights under tables, couches, or behind TVs creates a soft glow that reflects off floors and walls, adding a warm, holiday-inspired colour to any room. Once the holidays pass, simply adjust the colours to fit the season. Installing multiple Smart LED strip lights throughout a home and grouping them together allows for seamless control through voice commands, adding a touch of convenience and a bit of holiday magic that’s sure to impress guests.

When selecting an LED strip light, it’s always good to go with a longer length than initially anticipated for added versatility. Philips Hue light strips are available in multiple lengths, allowing you to choose the perfect fit for various spaces. They’re ideal for setting the mood in bedrooms, kitchens, or living areas. If you’re looking to add a creative touch, the Twinkly Flex strip is an excellent choice—it’s designed to be molded into unique shapes or words, bringing a personal flair to any setup.

For a more cost-effective option, the GE Cync strip provides just the right length, making it a budget-friendly way to transform indoor spaces with vibrant colours. Each of these light strip options offers the flexibility to add accent lighting wherever it’s needed, whether under a bed, over cabinets, or along stair railings, illuminating rooms with surprising brightness and creating a stunning ambiance year-round.

Adding holiday colours with smart bulbs

If you’re new to the world of smart lights, start with smart bulbs. These look like traditional light bulbs with standard light sockets but do so much more. First, they are LED bulbs. They’ll last up to 25,000 hours before needing to be replaced. Second, they can change to any light colour, selectable via an app or voice assistant. Third, they can be grouped together and controlled on a schedule. Set them so your holiday lights turn on at dusk and turn off at night. That way, all your holiday lighting will be automated so you can enjoy time with loved ones. 

For the ultimate setup, check out our best-selling Philips Hue 3-pack. This set of bulbs provides a wide range of colours, including holiday tones, and works seamlessly with voice assistants and app controls.

Another great option is the Nanoleaf Essentials smart LED bulbs. Perfect for replacing existing bulbs, they provide traditional white lighting as well as a spectrum of vibrant colours. During the holidays, you can switch the lights to festive shades like red and green to instantly transform your space. Kids will especially enjoy changing colours with their voices, adding an interactive touch to the holiday decor.

Light up the holidays with smart lighting

The holidays are the perfect time of the year to get into smart lighting. It’s a quick and easy way to add colour outdoors and indoors. You can set colour on an app, or with voice controls. Indoor light panels turn boring walls into interactive walls of art. Best of all, unlike traditional decorations, you don’t have to remove them. Smart light bulbs act as traditional bulbs until you want to add colour to your space. LED strip lighting brings ambient holiday lighting into any room. With effects and music syncing, the possibilities of smart lighting are endless. 

If you are new to smart lighting, this buying guide will tell you everything you need to know. If you like holiday decorations, now is the time to brighten the holidays with Smart Lights.