How to Incorporating String Lights with Existing Decor

How to Incorporating String Lights with Existing Decor.

String lights are a relatively inexpensive purchase that can really add to the atmosphere of your room or home. They can soften the ambiance of a room, highlight certain features, or add a magical touch to an otherwise normal space. There are many ways you can arrange your lights, including doing things like wrapping household items or writing out a message with them. You can also make DIY decorations, like a festive vase lamp or flower lights. You can even incorporate string lights into existing decor by wrapping seasonal items with them or tying colored ribbons in between bulbs.



Wrap seasonal items in lights. This technique works great no matter what season it is. Lawn ornaments, like flamingos and garden gnomes, can be bordered or wrapped with string lights to create a mystic garden. Unused wire wreaths can be wound with string lights to make a dazzling display.

Get creative with your seasonal decorations. Even decorative jars can be turned into fairy jars. All you need to do is insert some lights.

At a family reunion, you might line the underside of tables with lights to give a soft, relaxed, diffused glow to the scene.

Try wrapping battery-operated string lights around a wreath.

Wrap chairs or trees with string lights in the summer to illuminate your backyard.



Tie colored ribbons to string lights to coordinate colors. Many kinds of string lights are white in color, but even colored light can be integrated better with your existing color scheme. Simply tie ribbon that matches the color scheme of your room in between lights.

For an extra dash of style, why not tie a decorative bow? You could also add suitably colored streamers or tinsel to the spaces between lights.



Hang a net of lights in front of displays. Wall decorations, like pictures, curio cabinets, and knickknack shelves are perfect to either have a net of lights in front of or behind. This can give a kind of underwater or otherworldly appearance to your displays.

Hang two separate lines of plain string or twine above or behind your display. Pushpins, adhesive hooks, and nails work well for hanging.

Run your string lights between the two plain strings, allowing plenty of the string light to hang in a loop below the plain string.

Repeat this process for another row of lights. The bottom of your first row and top of your second should be roughly the same height.





Warnings.

Always use hot glue with caution. It becomes very hot, and can burn you if used improperly or without proper supervision.

Avoid leaving the lights plugged in for too long because it is a fire hazard.

Check to make sure that the lights you are using are appropriate for where you want to use them. Some are meant for indoor use, while others are for use outdoors, and you can use some lights indoors and outdoors.



Things You'll Need.

Incorporating String Lights with Existing Decor.

Colored ribbons.

String lights.

String or twine.