Of course decorating with lights means stringing lights. Stringing lights means stringing wires. And all these wires need something to plug in to. That can involve running wires all through the house, hooking them into different outlets, and then trying to keep up with them when it comes to turning them on and off.

Well last year David and Joani tried a different approach. They put the Christmas lights on an ActiveHome lamp module. First they used a power supply so that they could get all the lights in one spot, and from there put the power supply into the lamp module. That gave them much more flexibility. Not only could they turn on and off the lights simply by using the remote, but they could control the brightness as well. "We were able to have our tree lit, but dimmed real low during movies, which gave a very romantic effect... like having candles lit," Joani said.

There’s nothing like taking a simple remote and turning on the tree lights. Or maybe just dimming them if they get too bright. Perhaps you want to snuggle on the couch, and you don’t want to get up. Or maybe you fell asleep right there, and rather than getting up, you turn off the lights, roll over and go back to sleep.

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