How to Hang String Lights [ an outdoor chandelier!]

Learn how to hang string lights together with chandeliers on your patio, deck, front end porch, or pergola! Make your outdoor infinite stand upward out alongside outdoor lighting!

We built a floating deck together with privacy wall at the terminate of final summer, because nosotros didn’t pick out whatever where to relax, consume outside, together with hang out alongside around shade. I was planning out this space, together with at that spot were a few end-of-season sales spell I was hunting for beautiful outdoor decor. During my hunt, I spotted this beautiful outdoor chandelier together with it changed my whole sentiment of the space! I grabbed around basis string lights too, together with the lighting transformed our dorsum patio! I’m excited to demo you lot how to hang string lights together with chandeliers inwards your outdoor space!

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Lighting is everything! One of the initiatory of all things I hold back for inwards whatever infinite is the lighting, together with it’s oft 1 of the initiatory of all suggestions I brand to assist transform a infinite – add together a lamp! The same goes for our outdoor spaces. Hanging string lighting is genuinely a pretty quick together with slow alter to make, when you lot know what tools to use!

Materials Needed to Hang String Lights

String Lights
Outdoor Chandelier
Q Hooks
Metal chain
Outdoor outlet

How to Hang String Lights

Hanging string lights is genuinely fairly easy. The hardest business office of the whole procedure is splicing multiple string lighting strands together (if you lot pick out to – which I volition acquire to shortly!).

The top dog matter you lot demand is a Q Hook. They are genuinely slow to use, together with twist into place, together with they tin concur a ton of weight! We pick out ours belongings upward our heavier chandelier equally well.

Whether you lot are putting lights nether a deck, stringing betwixt trees, or hanging lights along a debate or privacy wall these hooks volition work. Simple twist them into house inwards the wood, past times hand.

You’ll wishing to lay out your string lights first, hence that they create a V or west pattern. String it through 1 Q Hook 1 one side of your deck or patio, together with hence string it through a Q Hook on the other side but slightly over, etc. etc, to create your V or west alongside lights.

You tin sort of encounter how to hang string lights alongside the west pattern inwards the photograph above. We pick out 3 hooks on 1 side for the string lighting, together with 2 hooks on the other side (the 5 points of the W).

How to Splice String Lights Together

The adjacent matter you lot may endure wondering, is how to hang string lights when you lot demand multiple cords. When you lot demand to a greater extent than than 1 department of lighting you lot commonly are able to connect multiple cords past times plugging the ends together, but you lot should ever follow the manufactures recommendations on how many sets of lights to connect together hence you lot ensure you lot don’t overload the cord or outlet.

This is a quick together with slow agency to extend your lights. You may demand to strategically house the ends where the cords connect equally you lot volition pick out sections alongside no lights. If you lot tin strategically house these sections, and/or your ends halt nearly your outlets, it is the easiest agency to string the lights.

In our illustration nosotros didn’t similar the hold back when all the cords were plugged together equally at that spot were large sections alongside no lights due to the cord having a large extension at the initiatory of all to allow you lot to plug it in. So nosotros decided to cutting the electrical cords downwards together with splice the wires together.

There are several ways to practise this, inwards our illustration equally the cord was going to endure used exterior nosotros wanted a prophylactic waterproof connection. We stripped the wires, twisted the copper sections together (ensure wire colours gibe if applicable), together with using electrical solder together with a soldering iron, solder them together. Finally nosotros used oestrus shrink to protect together with comprehend the solder joint.

This tin hold back intimidating, but if you lot are familiar alongside electrical work, it is definitely an option. Here is a groovy video of the entire process:

How to Hang an Outdoor Chandelier

After learning how to hang string lights, hanging the chandelier is fairly slow together with a rattling similar procedure First nosotros installed Q Hooks at either terminate of the deck, trying to pump the low-cal to the dining table.

Second nosotros strung a black chain betwixt the hooks, you lot tin add together or take away the “sag” inwards the chain past times adding or removing tension (making it tighter or looser) for your desired look. Remove whatever excess chain alongside a sets of pliers.

Once you lot pick out your chain inwards the seat you lot volition demand to string the electrical wire through it. You volition demand to take away the plug end, together with inwards our illustration nosotros also had to lengthen the wire. With the terminate removed, start at the indicate where you lot wishing your low-cal to endure hung, nosotros centred out low-cal over the middle of our dining table. Feed you lot electrical wire through the chain towards the Q Hook at the nearest outdoor outlet.

Once you lot accomplish the outlet add together a cord end or if your wire is besides curt lengthen the wire alongside the same procedure equally noted inwards the video higher upward together with than add together a cord end.

Here is a skillful video of how to string wire through chain, it is for a Chandelier but follows the same full general idea:

Here is a skillful video showing how to add/replace a electrical cord end:

How the String Lights hold back at night

We are hence happy alongside how our string lights together with outdoor chandelier hold back at night! Lighting genuinely is the best agency to create ambiance inwards a space.