When hanging christmas tree lights on a tree you should plan on using 100 lights for every foot of your tree s height.
How to put christmas tree lights on.
Try decorating your lights vertically instead of horizontally image.
Most holiday decorators recommend 100 150 mini lights per foot.
To help you get it just right this year we ve compiled a guide on how to put lights on a christmas tree.
For 10 years i decorated christmas trees for the albany institute of history and art s festival of trees.
The easy way that i put lights on those trees i am going to cover here.
So for a six foot tree you ll need about 600 lights.
Leave them on while you work so you can see how they look on the tree.
For every foot average 100 lights.
Read on for our favorite tips and tricks.
How many lights to use.
We ll show you how to hang lights on a real christmas tree it requires just a little patience.
For a real tree take the lights and start near the trunk of the tree bring it out along a branch and run it back towards the trunk again in a circular motion continuing until you get to the.
The first thing you should consider before purchasing lights is the size of your tree.
Putting lights on a christmas tree for some is a laborious chore.
So if you have a six foot tree you ll probably need 600 lights.
The whole tree glows and the strands of lights aren t barely as noticeable as with the lasso method.
The act of going around and around trying to get the lights evenly placed can wear you down.
Before you start plug in the lights to checks if all the bulbs are working.
The first designer secret is you can add a bit of twinkle to your christmas tree by adding 1 2 strands of 50 or 100 clear or white blinking lights no more than 2 strand for a tree under 10 tall or 3 if you have a tree that is at least 10 tall wrapped around just the trunk of your christmas tree they can be a different color white than your.
The general rule of thumb is 100 lights per 1 foot of tree.
Use this guideline to determine how many lights you ll need.
But that my friends is how i put lights on my christmas tree.
No more light lassoed christmas trees.