When hanging holiday lights around your garage door, stay safe and protect your home by using hooks and clips designed for the task. Follow basic safety tips for a worry-free holiday. Nov. 26, 2015 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – I love the look of Christmas lights, but boy, do I hate hanging them! I’ve always struggled with how to attach them to the gutters or shingles (sticky tabs?? Noooo!).

5. Start from the ground up – use net lights to hang over bushes, use a hanging pole to tackle trees and wrap around railings, using the clips to secure the lights. 6.

Many of us have got our Christmas trees up by now but, while we think our homes look beautiful and twinkly, we might not know we've been hanging our lights up wrong.

Tip: In general, plan for about 100 Christmas lights per foot; a 6-foot tree would get 600 lights. How to Hang Christmas Tree Lights Horizontally Nico De Pasquale Photography - Getty Images ...

6. Hang Your Lights Many string lights have built-in clips or hooks, while others attach to the wire more securely with zip ties.

If you have a stucco roof, you know how hard it can be to hang lights on your roof. Never glue to the stucco on your home, Hunsaker said, because if you try to tear them off, "you will lose an ...

Christmas lights 2024: Use our Phoenix-area holiday map to find the best displays in town Make your driveway look like Santa's runway You may see a driveway or roadway and think there's no real ...