Use a hammer and nails if pictures or additional items will hang from your fairy lights.
What do you use to hang string lights on wall.
Use nails or thumb tacks for all other items including outdoors.
What you use to hang the lights with depends on what you are doing with the lights.
If your space is longer than 10 feet.
Hang string lights on a pergola or other structure with cup hooks or decorative metal planter brackets.
Command hooks on walls mirrors shelves and items you do not want to ruin.
Use a ladder for hard to reach spots.
Weatherproof outdoor tape will help hold them in place so they don t move throughout the night.
This demonstration shows how to hang edison bulb string lights within a covered patio.
Hanging string lights indoors.
Use clear self adhesive wall hooks i e.
Use painter s tape to fasten string lights beneath a deck railing.
Once the cable is taut it s time to install the string lights.
Some commercial grade string lights come with built in holes for hanging.
Now that you know how to hang string lights on your ceiling let s take a look at how to hang them on your wall.
Use nails thumb tacks or clear wall hooks to hang the lights up.
To allow for easy string light cord replacement i chose to use zip ties for cable attachment as opposed to feeding the cable directly through the string light mounting holes.
If you don t have walls or trees in just the right spot to hang your string lights you ll need to put a little extra effort into making supports for your patio lights.
One single use sachet of sugru is enough to create five sugru hooks.
In a pinch thumb tacks can be used for wall hanging.
If you have a wood fence that isn t high enough for the lights attach 10 foot long wooden posts with cup hooks on the top to bump up the height of the.
Before opening your sugru measure out the length of your lights along the wall or where you plan to hang them up.
Browse online for the look and feel you want then evaluate the level of difficulty.
Once again it s best to use adhesive hooks rather than nails.
Use wire to hold the string light to the bolt in the wall.
Hang string lights in or on shrubs.
Use small lightweight string lights for this purpose.
How to hang small christmas lights on a wall without using nails and making holes.
Work out how many hooks you will need.
Along a wood fence.
You have a lot of options when it comes to where and how to hang your new lights.
To drape your christmas lights around the room the way you want them you need to attach them to the walls in.
This would look pretty on a house or fence too.
Attach string lights on a stucco wall or brick with a masonry screw anchor like a tapcon bolt.
