It's time to get serious. Here are some of my thoughts about building your own winning Christmas Lights Display. Start with a concept, theme or story It's like any basic design principle. A display can look lacklustre and extremely average when there is too much unorganised chaos. Try organising the chaos to showcase or highlight you properties architecture and combining that with a curated colour pallet. It doesn't mean you can't have chaos, just create some rules for it. Or

This is it!! Here’s the list we’ve all been waiting for- at least the list I’ve been looking forward to compose all year! I am so excited to tally up all my scores from the Christmas Lights Displays I saw and compose the see Christmas Lights Display’s lists for 2016. The houses I’ve seen have been ranked out of 25 based off my criteria stated in blog post 3. If you don’t remember my criteria, click here for a quick refresher! What else do you do on an airplane from Auckland t

This evening I'm writing this from my little motel room in Takapuna New Zealand, and from all the travel I'm feeling exhausted! So, I hope this blog reads well! Rounding out my little excursions of the best of each sides of Brisbane, here are some of the best displays on offer on the East Side! This was the shortest evening of viewing for me, but even with the few houses of commendation, there are still some pretty good finds! I began my journey for the evening heading out to

So you've chosen a night to check out some of my recommendations for the must see Christmas Lights of 2016. Good choice! But, oh! You've only allowed yourself one night to see as much as you can because you think that's all you can tolerate or you are way to social and have to many Christmas parties in which you must attend to keep your street cred. All rightfully so. Here are some of my tips for you: Dinner Know when you will want to eat dinner on the night either- beforehan

There are so many great houses worth seeing North of Brisbane's CBD. Jess and I kicked off a little tour (along with the 97.3 Saturday night party mix, woo!) of the best of the North starting with the Winner of the Best Small Business Display at 15 Graham Road Morayfield. Inviting the community into a spacious front open carpark of a childcare centre, there were plenty of things for the family to check out around the fence line from the nativity setting to a teddy bear picnic

Hi-ho! After a evening of exploring the best of the best around Brisbane's south side. Using the 4KQ Christmas Lights winners map as a guide here are some of my top tips/finds and thoughts! Following a beautiful pasta dinner at Artimino Italian Restaurant in Graceville, Jess and I head off to our first house of the evening which just happened to have won the "Best New Entrant' Prize at 34 Lawson Place Drewvale. Upon pulling up in the car Jess and I gasped as it glowed incredi

Following the release of the 4KQ Christmas lights winners 2016 list yesterday, Jess and I set off with the latest Pentatonix Christmas album in hand, on a lights tour to discover the best of the Western Suburbs. Here are a few of the highlights: We kicked off our trip last night at Tindle Street Redbank Plains. We were greeted (and handed a candy cane) by the son of a father and son team who built this display. Full of an eclectic and inviting mix of light figurines, lights a

Hey look, check this out! Before I jump straight into assessing displays, I feel I should share with you what grounds I'm basing my ideas and discussions off. Here is a criteria I've devised to critique some of the displays I'll be visiting this year. Community Engagement What does this display give/share with the community? Creativity What ideas that make this display unique or different? Execution Have the design ideas been fully and appropriately realised. Technology What

Congratulations, you have decided to go Christmas light viewing one night. But what to do now? Here's some ideas... Plan Plan Plan Grab a copy of the 4KQ winners list. It's the best/only way to ensure you see the best displays. PS. winners list will be published on the 6th of December, to find the list click here! Back to it: Using that list write down a list of places you want to see and develop yourself a route using your favourite map app. There is nothing worse (and I mus