The William Miller House offers the premier Bed Breakfast Richmond VA Inn experience.

Tacky Lights are pretty specific, in order to be included on the tour, the house and yard has to have 40,000 lights! Can you imagine? Well, you don’t have to imagine; here are a couple of photos.

Every square inch seems to be covered in lights and there’s a limo in front! I wonder how they get those lights all the way up in the tree! One stop we made was where a mother and son live next door to each other and both houses were decorated to the nines! These two homes present the longest running display – going on 32 years now. The approximate light count is one million, powered by 66 breakers and, according to the owners his extra expense for electricity for the two houses is in the $6,000 to $8,000 range. The owner told the tale of a young man in his 20′s who used to live in Virginia but moved up to the DC area. He drove down just to see the display at 9604 and 9606 Asbury Court; he was worried that with the economy, it might not be up this year. But, despite the financial strains (he’s in construction, his wife has a baby-sitting business), he believes he has to honor the commitment he’s made to the community. What a fabulous gift to us all…..

There was music playing, a choir of lighted angels, Santa, penguins, landing lights with a sleigh and reindeer coming down just like an airplane, penguins, snowmen, candy canes and every other symbol of the holidays. I made a few notes, just in case I can ever convince my people that we should try out for the tacky lights tour. We actually have enough yard and space that we could use up 40,000 lights very easily. But, I guess I better start saving my money now so I can help pay the electric bill.

This house even had a train along the side, a nativity scene, lollipops, reindeer, stars, just about anything you can imagine. This next house was so over the top that the next door neighbor had a pretty innovative way of decorating his own house. Check it out!

Well, the tacky lights tour runs from Thanksgiving through New Year’s. If you don’t have time to catch it this year, please make arrangements to see it next year! You can stay with us here at the William Miller House and see all the fantasy of this very old Richmond tradition which has been featured in a 2006 holiday special on the learning channel and in the 2007 book “Merry Christmas America! Megawatt Displays Across the USA.” Signing off for now and wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!  Nuggett, Official B&B Greeter