String up lights and lanterns around your outdoor space to give an enchanting twinkle to any garden party.
How to string outdoor lights on rock wall.
Use furring strips or thin wooden posts to hang your string lights.
Visualize where you want each strand.
The way to do this is make sure that your two hanging points start and end and exactly secured at the same level and give the string lights just a little slack.
The soft glow will invite everyone to linger outside in the nighttime summer air.
Learn how to hang outdoor string lights for the dreamiest backyard escape step 1.
But you can use any type of wooden post that you want.
Install the bulbs and check your lights.
Line lanterns and smaller string lights around your seating area and hang a few off tree branches for a touch of ambiance.
We used this method on the house side of our patio.
Shape the sugru using a pinch and press method with your fingers.
Predrill holes into the wood structural supports in your marked locations.
Continue this process adding staples near each light.
When you have reached the first planter and have formed a rectangular outline of lights begin zigzagging the lights from one side of the outline to the other spacing the passes of string far enough apart so that they will be evenly distributed to the end.
Smudge this piece onto the wall to form a sugru base layer.
Pull the string of lights taut as you go.
Furring strips are thin 1 inch 2 5 cm by 2 inches 5 1 cm posts that work great to hang light things like string lights.
If you want to hang your cafe lights from your house or another wall or fence simply drill a pilot hole and screw either an eye hook a cup hook or a coaxial staple into the wall.
Just use posts that are strong enough to withstand wind and rain.
How to hang string lights from a wall fence or building.
Secure the end to a cup hook as you did the beginning of the string.
Starting with the string light closest to your power supply use a staple gun to fasten the lights under your railing.