How To Put Up Christmas Lights Around Windows Inside

There are a variety of solutions for trees.

How to put up christmas lights around windows inside.

Place around over and under windows in such a way as to frame the windows. Run the lights around the inside frame starting with the bottom corner closest to the extension cord. Put the light hooks 2 to 3 inches 5 1 to 7 6 cm apart around the windows. Use the same techniques as on the porch railings.

Use the open end of the electrical continuation area of another strand to strand up another line of christmas lights. Attach the lights to the inside of the window frame using a staple gun. Match your wires to the woodwork of your window. Installing lights around or on windows come christmas time is something that many people like to use in understated displays or to provide a centre piece as people come up towards your house.

Using an item such as a star or a snowflake can really emit a traditional homely feel on your property or even by simply running fairy lights around the window edges. Rubber band tie any unneeded and definitely unsightly extra length of empty christmas light strand sections that commonly end up at both ends of the used christmas light strands. Install the lights by pushing the wire into the molding. Starting at the bottom right or left corner working your way up to the top of the windows.

Either use the traditional wrap as you do with indoor trees or use a net of lights that drape over the top of the tree. If you have white woodwork a string of christmas lights with green wire will stand out and be less subtle than a string with white wire. The hooks will have an adhesive on one side that you can attach to the outside or inside of your windows so the hooks stay in place. Write down the total perimeter for each window or door separately not counting the bottom of the door so you ll know how many strands of lights are needed for each window or door.

Dark woodwork requires darker wire. Place the staples so that arms of the staples go on either side of the light s cord and not through it.