Griswold Lights writes guides to planning, hanging and fixing holiday lights, collects display ideas (Griswold-style ones included), and recommends specific products where one helps.
What you’ll find here
- Christmas light guides: indoor and outdoor lights, and troubleshooting when a string goes dark.
- Griswold-inspired display ideas, for anyone planning a display in the spirit of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
- The roofline light calculator, for working out how many lights a roofline needs.
- Amazon picks: researched product recommendations, grouped by season.
How we choose products
Most picks are researched: we compare the listings, not the product in hand. Before a product is added we check the specs that matter for a display, the average rating and how many people left one, and whether Amazon flags it as frequently returned. A pick marked Tested by us has been in our hands. The details, and what each label means, are on How We Choose Products.
How we make money
Griswold Lights is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. When you buy through our links we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. Nobody pays to be recommended, and we don’t sell or ship anything ourselves: every purchase happens on Amazon.
Corrections and contact
If a spec, a link or a recommendation is wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it. Use the contact form.