Christmas Lights Installation – The Parklands Hotel

We recently partnered with the Parklands Hotel, a 4 star boutique hotel located in the heart of Perth, to pull together a Christmas lights display that would enhance its traditional architecture and lovely gardens, while making it stand out in the city’s festive landscape.

As with any small to medium sized business, budget was highlighted as a concern, while the brief also featured a desire to “not go over the top”, to stick to a traditional upmarket look and feel, and to not tie up too much time on installation.

With this in mind, we opted for the timeless look of a warm white theme featuring a mix of our off-the-shelf Pro Series commercial grade lights.

Having spent an hour or so surveying the location, we decided to create a dramatic “avenue” of light leading up from the hotel car park to the main entrance. We did this by draping hedges with net lights and wrapping the trunks of the trees that defined the edge of the car park in our Pro Series string lights.

The Parklands Hotel boasts an excellent restaurant, with seating housed in a conservatory style setting, overlooking the lovely mature gardens to the front of the hotel. Perfect for icicle lights!

During our survey, we had noticed a very distinctive acer to the left of the main entrance.

With several diverging main branches at low level, it was a great candidate for wrapping string lights – something that always produces a dramatic talking point in any lights display. We used 10m lengths of string lights running from a multi-socket splitter at ground level.

Finally, the frontage of the hotel features a stone ledge at first floor level, which seemed to us perfect for running Pro Series cluster lights along, highlighting not only the main hotel entrance, but also the traditional architecture of the hotel frontage overall.

Combined with the existing festoon lights in the hotel garden, we loved the overall warmth and welcoming effect of what was, in reality, a relatively modest amount of lights, installed by 2 people in less than a morning.