A few years ago our lights did look a lot better. We had enough strands of the white ones to put across our whole house. but they are breaking. As we only put up the lights after our Sinterklaas celebration (after December 5th), Home depot and other stores usually don't have a big selection anymore.
So yesterday evening my husband was very creative and put colored strands in between the white ones... hmm mm... Maybe I need to do some light shopping in November 2019....