How to Decorate Your Ceiling for the Holidays
When holiday cheer is in the air, no space is safe! Create a unique yuletide atmosphere that includes a ceiling bedecked in color and light.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Christmas Decorations
- Christmas Garlands
- Christmas Tree Lights
- Christmas Tree Ornaments
- Holly
- Mistletoe
- Christmas Music CDs
- Staple Removers
- Staples
- Thumbtacks
- Fishing Lines
- Staple Guns
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Run an extra-long string of white indoor lights along the perimeter of the room at the top of the wall where the wall and the ceiling meet.
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Secure the lights with thumbtacks or staples.
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Purchase several boxes of glass Christmas ornament balls in one color - or in an array of hues such as red, silver, gold and green.
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String clear fishing line through the ornament hooks twice, creating a durable, double-stranded attachment.
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Cut the fishing line in a variety of lengths, ranging from 4 to 12 inches long.
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Hang the ornaments from the ceiling, spacing them equally. Secure the fishing wire to the ceiling with pushpin tacks or a staple gun.
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Attach another strand of fishing wire to a crystalline star, miniature disco ball, or Santa ornament. Hang the ornament in the center of the room and slightly lower than the lowest grouping of glass balls.
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Pin or staple small sprigs of holly and/or mistletoe to each corner of the room at the point where the walls and ceiling meet.
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Tips & Warnings
Be careful when tacking or stapling into walls and ceiling. Some stucco-type ceiling materials are sensitive and tend to crumble when tampered with.
To minimize fire hazards, unplug all lights when you leave the house and when you go to bed.
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Comments
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Don't secure lights with staples or thumbtacks--the pressure of the staple can damage the wires inside the light and cause a very serious fire hazard. They do make special hooks that make a hole about the size of a tack that would allow you to set the lights on that hook. Also, from experience, go with plastic ornaments and not glass-- should one fall, glass WILL break, even on carpet. Cleaning shattered glass out of carpet is a fun you don't want.
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aquaeyedgirl
Apr 16, 2009
Nice article. We always use faux mistletoe-garland around the edges of the ceilings in the living room and entry way using clear, long tacks. Sometimes we put different bows with pine cones on the garland. -
aquaeyedgirl
Apr 16, 2009
Nice article. We always use faux mistletoe-garland around the edges of the ceilings in the living room and entry way using clear, long tacks. Sometimes we put different bows with pine cones on the garland.
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K Mueller Stroup
Dec 14, 2007
This, alog with the comments, give me a lot more ideas on how to decorate my home! I thought I had already gone "over the top" but I have more to do now!
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K Mueller Stroup
Dec 14, 2007
This, alog with the comments, give me a lot more ideas on how to decorate my home! I thought I had already gone "over the top" but I have more to do now!
