When we buy Christmas lights, their destination is usually settled in advance: they are meant to decorate our Christmas tree. In reality, though, string lights can be used in many other ways to enhance the festive decoration of interior spaces.
– Use Christmas lights to dress up bare walls in your space. Hang the strings vertically and fix them in place with tape. You can finish the look with festive red and green ribbons, or even by placing colourful pieces of paper over the lights.
– If you have branches in large vases, you can decorate them with the lights and create an extra festive corner in the room.
– Fix strings of lights to staircases or windows. Lights around windows give passers-by outside a very warm impression.
For these uses, curtain lights are also an excellent choice. Likewise, you can use lights around the frames of interior doors.
To make them easier to fix in place, you can combine them with festive garlands, on which the lights will rest.
– Place the lights inside large glass jars. For an even better result, add a few Christmas baubles, which will reflect the light and create an extra eye-catching decorative feature in your space. Alternatively, you can again put a garland inside the jar and weave the lights through it.
Useful tip:
One way to cut energy consumption during the festive season is to replace ordinary Christmas lights with LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). Not only do LEDs look brighter and more brilliant when grouped together, they are also clearly safer for this purpose, since they give off no heat, which reduces any risk of the decorated materials catching fire. And most importantly, they use 75% less energy than traditional lights.
Did you know…
Christmas lighting has its roots in the early Christians. Because they were persecuted and their gatherings were banned, they used small candles and placed them in the windows of their places of worship so that the faithful could recognise them. The tradition of using small candles to light Christmas trees dates back to the 17th century, although it took more than two centuries to spread, first in Germany and from there to the rest of Europe. These candles were fixed to the branches with melted wax. The first Christmas tree with electric lights was decorated in New York in 1882. By 1900, their use had begun to spread to festive displays in the city’s shop windows.
