The Easiest Way To Put Up Christmas Lights Lets You Stay Warm Inside

Decorating for the holidays is a gift that you give your family and the entire neighborhood. Having beautiful lights, lawn decor, and boughs of pine on every house can usher in the yule season in such a lovely way. And this season, while you may know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, etc., did you also know you can put your Christmas lights up from the inside of your house?

Not only can this holiday hack save you from having to decorate in the cold, you can also potentially use it as a permanent lighting option. Innovative indoor lighting has become a popular trend in 2024; Gen Z and millennials coined the term "the big light," referring to the sometimes harsh overhead lighting in a room. The often fluorescent (or just overly bright) light from a pre-installed fixture can take away from a cozy, calm aesthetic, as bright lighting can feel jarring and unsettling. To counter this negative effect, people are pivoting to other lighting sources so that they no longer need to turn "the big light" on in the first place. That means that products like cordless wall lighting fixtures, floor and table lamps, and string lights are soaring in popularity, and have year-round presence in modern households. You can tie this trend into your holiday decor, resulting in seasonal lighting that can stay up long after January. 

Hanging Christmas lights in your house is relatively simple, once you get a grasp of how it could potentially look. Instagram creator Jess Davis posted a video of this effect coming to life in her home, wherein she framed the inside of her windows with simple, white string lights. You can buy some TW SHINE white Christmas lights and pair those with a simple hanging solution, like Art3d hook and loop stick tape or Command decorating clips. A pro tip: you can also use plant vine clips if you're an indoor plant connoisseur and have extra hooks from your houseplants.

To add your own flair to this trend, consider finding other unique lighting sources to sprinkle in and further illuminate your windows. The vintage-looking Tupkee Christmas window candles add more holiday festivity to the indoor scene, as do pine decor and indoor Christmas trees that can be framed in your windows and seen from the outside of your home. You could also (if you're willing to bring out a ladder and bare the cold air) set up wreaths and pine boughs in and along your doors and windows from the outside so that the scene is enhanced. Once Christmas ends, you can remove those extra pieces and keep the lights up for a neutral, vibrant home look, or pull them down and leave the hangers in place for next year.