How to Put Up Christmas Lights Inside

Last Updated: August 6, 2020

When dressing up your house for Christmas, you'll sometimes end up so bored with common tasks, that you'll feel that you'd like something else to do to dressing up the inside of your house for Christmas. If you don't know what to do with extra Christmas lights and feel that more lights are definitely needed, this article can give you some ideas of how to put these extra strand up.

Steps

1
Plan to use several strands of Christmas lights when you use them on interior areas.
2
Place cuphooks at frequent intervals on your walls or around windows in the area, if planning to use them on your walls or windows. Cuphooks are cheaper than those hooks meant specifically for hanging lights. Cuphooks might not look as pretty, but they can also be used in the kitchen, so it still can be a stylish item to use to keep the lights hanging. Cuphooks should be used on either side of track lighting strands and at both sides of corner areas.

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3
Test out each strand of lights, to ensure each strand works.
4
Plug the strand into the electrical outlet, as you begin to loop the strand up to the closest first cuphook. Use packaging tape sparingly for a few minutes, if the strand will end up cutting in front of any other objects until it reaches the first cuphook.
5
String a few of the lights over a few of the cuphooks.
6
Unplug the strand from the electrical source temporarily, while you hang the rest of the strand or strands.
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Continue hanging the strands of lights on these cuphooks.
8
Use the open end of the electrical continuation area of another strand to strand up another line of Christmas lights. 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.
9
Use some packaging tape in areas that cuphooks would not be able to be able to be used for some reason, or if the area is smaller than the lights would allow, or if the cup hook forces the lights to hang in an unnatural position on the wall.
10
Tie any unneeded extra Christmas lights at the end of the strand with a twist tie or rubber band and let the remainder hang.