Commercial Christmas lights and displays
Lit ornament sculptures, walk-in ornaments for a photo spot, ornament stacks and plain oversized balls, each drawn to the space it will stand in. Tell us the spot and how far away people will see it. We have the piece made in China, crated in sections and quoted landed.
What can be made
At a glance
A giant ornament is bought for one spot: a square, a mall court, a lobby, the end of a light-show path. Four kinds get made, and you choose the kind before the size.
A lit piece reads after dark and needs power at the spot. A plain ball reads by day and under the building's own lights, and it needs no power at all. Decide this before the size, because it changes the frame, the skin and the price.
This page is not for a single ornament for a home porch, a tree ornament under a foot across, or an inflatable ball. Retail shops sell those from stock.
A walk-in ornament is a structure people use, not a prop they look at. The opening is drawn to the widest group you expect, a stroller or a wheelchair included if they have to get in, and the floor inside is flat. The frame is specified for visitors leaning on it and touching it.
A flat arch shaped like an ornament, standing over a path, is drawn as an arch.
Before you ask
Size is set by how far away people stand. In a square the ornament competes with buildings and sky, so it has to be large. In a mall court or a lobby, visitors see it from a few steps away, so a smaller piece reads better and fits through the service door. On a big tree, mix two or three sizes rather than one. Send a photo of the spot with a measurement in it and the distance people will see it from, and the drawing comes back sized to that.
A lit ornament sculpture, a walk-in ornament, a stack or group, plain oversized balls, or ornaments for a big tree or an atrium.
Indoors or out, and the surface: paving, grass, a floor, a tree, a ceiling or a cable. A photo of the spot with a measurement in it does more than a description.
Across a square, from a few steps away in a mall court, or from an upper floor. This sets the size more than anything else.
The overall height and width the spot allows. For a tree, the tree's height and what it is built on.
For a walk-in piece, the widest group you expect, and whether a stroller or a wheelchair has to get in.
For a lit piece: the colour of the light, outlined or filled, steady or chasing, and whether there is power at the spot and how far away it is.
A ball, a finial, a teardrop or a shape of your own, and the skin or finish: mesh, garland, acrylic, paint, glitter or mirror. Colours are matched to your references.
The artwork, and your right to use it.
Base plates, ballast, stakes or hanging points, and who signs off the fixing: your engineer or your installer.
Whose rules apply, the building's or the fire official's, and what they will ask to see.
The narrowest door, lift or gate on the way in, and where the ornament will be kept after the season.
Each design and size, and how many of each.
The dimensioned drawing, then photos or a video of the piece put together and lit before it is taken apart. Spare light strings or skin, if you want them.
The night it has to be lit, the delivery address, whether there is a dock, a forklift or a liftgate, and who installs it.
How it stands is decided on the drawing, not on site. Outdoors, a ball on paving sits on base plates bolted down or weighted with ballast, and a ball on grass is staked. A tall piece, or one that catches the wind, has its fixing signed off by your engineer or installer, who knows the ground it stands on. We send them the factory's drawings and weights.
Indoors, a mall or a lobby usually has its own rules on what can stand on the floor and what can hang from the ceiling, and the building or the local fire official decides which skins, garland and lights can go into a public space. Tell us whose rules apply. The test paperwork for indoor fabric, film, mesh or foam is discussed and agreed with you before the order is placed, not after the piece arrives.
Ornaments for a big tree or an atrium are hung, so the hanging point and the weight matter more than the finish. Tell us the tree's height and what it is built on, a tower frame or real branches, and whether the ornaments hang from the tree, from a ceiling or from a cable. Your installer decides how they are rigged.
Your colours, your logo or a shape of your own can go on an ornament if the artwork is yours to use. The ornament is drawn from your sketch, or from a picture of one you like, and the drawing comes back to you before anything is cut or welded.
Price
We do not publish a unit price, because a giant ornament is drawn to your spot. Here is what moves it.
A bigger ball needs heavier frame members, more light and more skin, and it breaks into more sections.
Light adds the strings, the controller and the wiring. A plain shell adds paint, glitter or a mirror finish instead.
An opening people step through needs a stiffer frame and a flat floor, and it is drawn around the people who will use it.
A plain outline costs less than a ball skinned in mesh, wrapped in garland or set with acrylic jewels.
Base plates, ballast, stakes or hanging points are made for the surface the ornament stands on or hangs from.
Sea freight is priced on volume, so a ball that splits into curved sections costs less to move than one crated whole.
Timing
We do not publish a production window for this product. It depends on your design and the quantity, so it comes with the quote, and the calendar for your order is worked back from your date and the ocean transit on your lane.
We build these to your design, so we set the date with you.
What goes wrong
Before we quote a lit piece, we ask what your electrical inspector or venue will want to see, and build to that. The papers your venue asks for are written into the quote from the start. Before you commit, we also ask the factory where its steel, aluminium, PVC and copper come from.
Shipping and entry
Every ornament on this page is made in China, by the factories that build the other light displays we supply, and each piece and each crate is marked with its country of origin, China. We are the trading company that has it built and brings it to you. Each ornament ships complete: its sections crated together with their fixings, never a bare frame or loose tube on its own.
Who carries duty, and what happens if the rate changes between quote and landing, is stated on every quote. How that works Add up a landed cost
A sectioned ornament comes apart along the same joints and goes back into its crates. Keep the crates and the assembly drawing, and next year's setup repeats the first. Spare light strings and skin can be ordered with the piece, so a worn panel is a swap, not a new ornament.
The record
We do not name customers without written permission, and we do not ask them to be references. What we can show is the paperwork.
Custom display structures and lighting consumables over six seasons, several containers a year, with the customs entry filed by us each time.
Available redacted, on request
Questions
Home sizes come from shops and online stores, from stock. Ornaments sized for a square, a mall or a light show come from commercial display suppliers, and most of them sell from a catalogue. We have them made in China to fit your spot and quote them landed, with freight and duty on separate lines.
On a home tree, anything over a few inches. In a public space the measure is the people standing next to it. A display ornament is sized against visitors, buildings and the distance they see it from, not against a branch.
As big as the spot, the frame and the crate allow. Very large ornaments are made in sections that bolt together where they stand. Indoors, the service door and the lift usually set the limit before anything else does.
Lit, if people will mostly see them after dark. Plain, if they stand indoors or are seen mostly by day. A lit piece needs power at the spot and carries across a square at night. A plain ball needs no power and looks best in daylight or under the building's own lights. Settle this before the size, because it changes the frame, the skin and the price.
On paving, it sits on base plates that are bolted down or weighted with ballast. On grass, it is staked. The fixing is chosen on the drawing, not on site. A ball catches the wind, so a tall piece has its fixing signed off by your engineer or installer, and we send them the factory's drawings and weights.
Yes, if the building agrees. Indoors, the building or the local fire official decides which skins, garland and lights can go into a public space, so tell us whose rules apply. The test paperwork for the skin is discussed and agreed with you before you order. Size the sections to the service door and the lift as well.
Only if it is drawn as a walk-in ornament, with the opening sized for the groups you expect and a flat floor inside. A look-only ornament is not drawn for that, and it should not be used as one.
Yes, as long as you hold the rights to the artwork. Colours are matched to your references, and a logo or a name can be cut into the frame or set on the cap. The drawing comes back to you for approval first.
Work back from the night they have to be lit. The drawing, your sign-off, the build, the crates, the crossing and the customs entry all come before it. The quote gives the date to order by for your spot.
They come apart along the same joints they were put together on, and go back into their crates with the drawing. Plan the storage space when you order, not in January.
In the same category
Lit walk-through arches for park entrances, paths, plazas and light shows, in stars, snowflakes, hearts, gingerbread or a shape of your own. Tell us the opening to cover and what has to pass under it. The arch is built in sections that bolt together on site, and the quote covers it delivered to you.
See the arches
Walk-through arches, animated figures, tunnels and photo-op structures for light attractions, downtowns and parks. We build from your drawing or make one from your sketch, crate the structures to fit the container, and clear them through customs at the other end.
See the displays
Walk-through and drive-through light tunnels for light shows, parks and zoos, made as a run of lit arches or panels that bolt together on site. Send the route, the length and what has to fit inside. We plan the sections and the crates, and quote the tunnel landed at your gate.
See the tunnelsSend it as a sourcing request. Tell us what it is, the quantity and the date, and we will say whether we can get it made, and by when.
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We take on the orders we can do well, and we will say so if yours isn't one of them.
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