Department 56 Village Displays

The North Pole has the best lights in the world. But, since it’s a little difficult (actually impossible) to recreate the Aroura Borealis in your living room, you’ll need to add your own ambient lighting to give your village that quaint, picturesque feel.

Although the Department 56 North Pole Series buildings and factories are internally lit, if you want to be able to see details of your elves and other accessories, provide some additional ambient lighting. Department 56 already provides you with several options in the form of street lamps.

We like to be different, so we run a string or two of white (non-blinking) lights through out the village. These will then get covered with buffalo snow (see Tip #3) and lit up. The glow of the lights throught the buffalo snow, and shimmering off of the snow flakes (see Tip #3 also) make it seem as though the snow is glistening in the moonlight .