Wilton Lights! is now on Facebook. Our website referral statistics tell us Facebook is where everyone is talking about the display, so we figured we might as well give the display some presence there. If the display is down for whatever reason, we’ll be sure to make note of it there so folks don’t waste a trip down.

And just to keep things interesting, we’ve posted a few “behind the scenes” pictures to Facebook which aren’t available on this website!

You can “become a fan” today!

Merry Christmas!

We just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for their nice comments and holiday wishes! We’ve been getting a lot of feedback (too much to reply to all of it) and reading your kind words has felt great and made us feel awesome about putting up the display. Keep ‘em coming! We can’t reply to all of them but we do read them all!

Be sure to let us know which song(s) you like best. We’ll most certainly be changing the playlist for next year and we’ll try to keep/improve the ones you all like the best! Also, if you have questions about something send them along as well, and we’ll set up a page of answers here on the website.

On a related note – Please remember to keep your car radio down to a reasonable volume. We heard one car from inside the house tonight (no joke!) and as much as we love Christmas music, we’ve been listening to these particular 11 songs all year while programming the animations, and we could use a break from them while we’re eating dinner or watching TV. Thanks!

Well… We got all excited (not to mention tired of folks asking us when things will be turned on) so we’ve decided to move the date to turn things on to today, December 2nd. The lights will be on 5-10 PM starting tonight at 1228 Main Street in Wilton, through January 6th. Just tune to 96.9FM to hear the music when you’re close enough to see the house.

Merry Christmas!

The display won’t be turned on full time until Dec 6th, but you can check out a few pics now on the new Photos page.

Have a look!

13 days ahead of schedule, Wilton Lights is up and ready to go. You may see us outside testing some animations or tweaking things, but everything that needs to go up, is up. See ya Dec 6th!

As of 11:50 PM Saturday night, the 21 foot mega tree is up and running. 96 strings of mini lights, 4 strings of strobe lights, and another 2 strings of mini lights on the star (9,821 lights in total) are all working great. Still need to tighten things up before a good wind comes through, but otherwise it’s good to go.  Just 2 more minor (but important) projects to complete and we’ll be ready for showtime.

We’ve just installed the 6 foot tall Bethlehem Star on the roof.  It’s insanely bright and illuminates most of the yard. If you’re driving by we’ll have a simple animation running on it until it’s time to turn everything else on (Dec 6th).

We’re well on our way to have the display ready. in the next couple weeks. Here are some pics of what we’ve been working on.

The star topper on what will be our 21 foot tall tree of lights, though it doesn’t look like it from directly below. We actually have this turned on most nights if you happen to be driving by…

The “mini trees” are out and ready to go.

The 6′ star which will go on the roof just got a completed frame. All it needs now is some paint and wind-free day to get it up there.

We’ve synchronized the Halloween lights to “Thriller”. If you happen to be within sight of the house and the lights are on, tune in to 96.9FM to hear the show.

UPDATE: Halloween is over but you can still check this out on The Video Page.

This was sort of a dry run for Christmas this year, and we identified and fixed several issues. Now that we’ve put all the orange away expect to see winter elements hitting the lawn soon. The Mega-Tree pole should be up any day now.

Just for laughs, we’ve put out some halloween “mood lighting”, which consists of 6 flood lights and a couple of our decorative cut outs (a trick-or-treating Frankenstein and Linus & Sally waiting for “The Great Pumpkin”), hooked up to a light animation controller. It’s nothing too elaborate, but we’re pretty sure we’re the only folks with a flashing house this month.

These lights will run from 5:30 to 10:00 PM until Halloween.