Say so long to ‘Charlie Brown’ string lights for the yard, and hello to the new style of wicker. We polled over 100 designers and landscape architects to identify what’s in and out.

Say so long to ‘Charlie Brown’ string lights for the yard, and hello to the new style of wicker. We polled over 100 designers and landscape architects to identify what’s in and out.OUT: Silly Strings of Lights
A number of the experts we spoke with said that in 2018, they’ll pull the plug on what New York designer Mikel Welch calls Charlie Brown string lights. “Hopefully, homeowners will stroll off with this dorm-room décor like Linus with his blanket,” he said. Nashville designer Chad James agreed: “They are overused and just too cutesy looking.” And Raun Thorp of Los Angeles’s Tichenor & Thorp warns against the unflattering glow of exposed-filament bulbs.