How to Decorate a Christmas Tree

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How to Decorate a Christmas Tree

Updated February 28, 2011
2 minute read

Have you ever seen a Christmas tree without lights? Surely, you don’t want an empty Christmas tree during the festive season. However, with a little skill and intelligence, you can set the lights around the tree correctly. You can learn some tricks to choose your preferred lights, start with a basic design for simplicity and work your way to more advanced methods.

1) Choosing a Christmas tree!

Choosing a wrong Christmas tree for your home can ruin your expectations. You need to find the correct location, measure the height and the width as well as a perfect tree stand before purchasing and putting on your lights. For more information on choosing the perfect Christmas tree, please visit ‘Choosing Christmas Trees’.

2) Choosing Christmas Lights!

There are specific Christmas lights that will most certainly suit the style of your tree and home. However, not all Christmas lights are built for trees only but for homes, outdoor displays and roofs. You might want to see and learn more information about lights that could save you money on electricity bills and avoid fire risks. For more information, please check ‘Choosing Christmas lights’.

3) How to Put on Christmas Lights: The Easy Method!

Putting on Christmas lights takes patience. You need to stay calm and choose your lights wisely for the perfect finish. Indeed the effort is worth a well-lit display.

• The first job

The first job of achieving a well-lit Christmas tree is to learn how to set the lights up in small steps. Most commonly, a single strand of Christmas lights are an easy way to start. These can be found in stores in a multiple of colours. Don’t get attracted to all the large designer lights in the store. Start with the basic lights and work your way up until you know how to do the job well.

• Take out the lights

Once you have brought the correct set of Christmas lights home, take out the lights from the sealed box and lay them across the floor. Plug the lights into the socket and see if they work. Fortunately, a few sets of boxes give extra lights just in case some of the bulbs are dead. Also observe a few strings of lights together to make sure the wires are not faulty.

• Work your way up to the top

From the bottom centre, work your way up to the top of the tree. Wrap the lights around the branches of the tree closest to the trunk. Lace through the middle and towards the top and back down. While lacing your way down the tree, drape the lights around the far edges of the branches. Continue this process until the whole tree is filled with pretty lights. Once the job is complete, you may choose to alter their placements.

4) Get Creative!

If you want to get more advanced in your designing, buy more unique Christmas lights that you can hang outside your home on rooftops, windows and yards. You can buy a vertical cord and plug a strand of lights into each outlet and create all sorts of patterns like criss-crosses and other shapes. If it turns out wrong, then start over. For more lighting options, visit the article ‘Choosing Christmas Lights’.

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