How To Put Up Christmas Lights Around Windows Inside

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.

How to put up christmas lights around windows inside.

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. Place around over and under windows in such a way as to frame the windows. Match your wires to the woodwork of your window. Then across the bottom of the top window then down and across the top of the bottom window then down again working your way around the window.

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. 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. Dark woodwork requires darker wire. Put the light hooks 2 to 3 inches 5 1 to 7 6 cm apart around the windows.

Run the lights around the inside frame starting with the bottom corner closest to the extension cord. Use the same techniques as on the porch railings. Install the lights by pushing the wire into the molding. 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.

There are a variety of solutions for trees. If the wires match the woodwork the lights themselves will be more emphasized. Attach the lights to the inside of the window frame using a staple gun. This will save you the trouble of using screws or nails to put up the lights which can damage your windows.

Use the open end of the electrical continuation area of another strand to strand up another line of christmas lights. 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.