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How to hang up string lights in bedroom.
Combining string lights and columns of soft transparent fabric draped from ceiling rings gives the illusion of a canopy bed in this attic bedroom.
To hang string lights from a portico or pergola.
And speaking of reading lights and task lighting in general in the bedroom you can also simply hang string lights from a nail hammered in the wall.
Just make sure to hang some white holiday lights behind the fabric.
Use tape or tacks to secure the lights to the wall.
Use nails or thumb tacks for all other items including outdoors.
Let the lights be a replacement for your bedside table lamp.
You can even buy pre painted staples to blend in with the color of your pergola s wood.
Either hang them from command hooks on the wall that line the bottom of the top bunk or ask your roommate if you can thread them through the top bunk s bed frame slats.
Now that we ve discussed how to hang string lights both from your walls and ceiling let s take a look at some of the best ideas for bedroom string lights.
Instead of a headboard you can have a breezy drapery behind the bed.
This simple fabric headboard could make your bedroom really attractive.
Use a staple gun meant for wires and cables and with an angled tip for a truly professional look you ll inconspicuously secure the lights this way because that staple gun gets into hard to reach places.
Command hooks on walls mirrors shelves and items you do not want to ruin.
Get more inspiring decor.
One of the most whimsical ways to use string lights or fairy lights with a bed s canopy.
Infuse your bedroom with sparkling magical twinkling fairy lights.
Secure one end of the light strand to an intersection point on one of your bedroom walls by placing a piece of tape over the wires or pushing a tack into the wall in between the wires.
Use clear self adhesive wall hooks i e.
They can be simply looped around the bed frame.
When the occupants of the bed wake up they see these illuminated drapes providing a bit of privacy and a lot of romance.
Get a roll of transparent tape or a box of tacks and step up onto a stepstool or small stepladder.