New Holiday Lighting Contest Guidelines

Get ready to “wow” your neighbors with your holiday home designs, because this year the judges will be the residents!  Here’s how it will work:

1. By December 9^th, residents who wish to enter the contest should send us a message at the contact page:  https://villagecreek.us/index.php/contacts/  (Scroll down to the Social Committee section and fill in your information.  In the Message Subject box, enter “Lighting Contest Entry”.  In the Comment/Message box, enter the categories you are entering.  You may enter in 2 categories.)

• We will publish the entrants and send out a form so residents can vote for their favorites until midnight, December 18^th.  (Instructions will be on this form regarding returning of the votes.)
• The Events Committee will tabulate the results and publish them and place the signs in the winners’ yards and award small gift certificates/tokens of appreciation to them.

These are the categories we will be featuring this year.  The description/guidelines for each one will be shown on the next page. 

• Best Overall 
• Most Festive 
• Most Traditional 
• Kid’s Choice
• Door Decoration Contest
• Best Animated.

Guidelines: 

• Best Overall –  This home will give you a WOW factor as you view it.  This home generally should have trim on the roof line, sidewalks, and yard edge and also have lights around the trees. Single color themes or tasteful multi-colors are also a plus where you can tell that the resident made considerable effort to design a pattern and really make it look nice.  

• Most Festive – When you look at this home you should think that this house is “over the top.”  This home should really load up on the lights; blow up figures, yard ornaments, etc.

• Most Traditional – This home should have an elegant theme that is clean and neat, not cluttered.  It should have a consistent color theme such as white, red or green or combination of the three.   It would remind you of an “old-fashioned” Christmas. 

• Kid’s Choice – This home would be decorated with a theme or decorations that would appeal to children.

• Door Decoration Contest:  A well-lit (visible from the street) door.  Creativity will be considered.  Any of the above motifs can be used, or create your own theme.  Note: A winner of one of the above mentioned categories cannot be awarded in this category.

• Best Animated– A new category, this home will be the best use of animation to celebrate the season.

• Honorable Mention – While these homes may not win in any category above, this category would honor the residents’ expenditure of their time and money decorating their houses. Many of them deserve recognition for the effort they make beautifying their neighborhood during this season.