How to Style Fairy Lights for Your Garden This Summer
Written by: Ben Naughton
Known for their delicate charm and magical quality, fairy lights are an ever-popular choice for brightening up your home. But on top of adorning mirror frames and staircase rails, they’re also capable of transforming your garden into a homely woodland haven.
Whether you’re decorating for a garden party or are making a permanent addition to your patio, fairy lights in the garden are guaranteed to help your outside space glow. In this guide, Lights4fun will offer inspiration on where to put fairy lights in the garden. Take a look now.
What are the newest outdoor light trends?
A favourite of Pinterest users, outdoor fairy lights leave plenty of room for creativity. Linkable fairy lights allow for intricate designs that line fences and border marquees – the perfect summer garden party decorations. Others enjoy wrapping fairy lights around trees and shrubbery in their garden, putting the spotlight on garden displays deep into the evening.
Let’s get into a little more detail and discuss our favourite places to put fairy lights around your garden.
Where to put fairy lights in a garden?
Wrapped Around Trees
When it comes to tree lights, you might as well go big or go home. After all, our sparkling LEDs in a rainbow of colours just weren’t designed for subtlety. You want your tree to be the best-dressed on the street, and the only way to do that is to really amp up the bulbage.
Starting from the base, begin to wrap the lights around the trunk. Leave some clearance from the ground so the lights are above ground level, and secure with a cable tie or garden twine. Keep the lights taught, and wrap upwards, securing at the top with another cable tie. Make sure your lights are evenly spread and enjoy your tree’s shimmering new look.
Draped Across Pergolas and Gezebos
Create a starry sky above your pergola or gazebo with fairy lights. Whether you’re enjoying outdoor celebrations or are keen to create a cosy nook for evenings in the garden, you’ll love this idea. Weave your lights around the beams of your pergola or gazebo in a pattern of your choice. Make sure your lights hang directly above your seating area so you’re constantly coated in the glow of your very own starry sky.
Woven Through Garden Arches
As if garden arches weren’t romantic enough, enhance the magic of your garden’s décor with fairy lights. Garden arches evoke images of romantic tales from years gone by, so create your own special moments under a twinkling arch when you adorn your structure with fairy lights.
Lining Fences
Illuminate every last corner of your garden by lining your fences with fairy lights. Both functional and stylish, this answer for where to put fairy lights in a garden offers your space all-encompassing warmth. Our collection of fence lights offers a collection of glistening fairy lights that transform your garden into a homely space that invites you outside night after night.
Is It Safe to Put Fairy Lights Outside?
Whilst Lights4fun offers a stunning selection of indoor fairy lights, we also provide outdoor fairy lights designed to withstand the elements outside. Many of our fairy lights have an IP44 or IP67 rating, making them showerproof and perfect for the unpredictable UK weather.
We even offer a selection of solar fairy lights – an excellent choice for low-fuss, convenient, and stylish outdoor lighting.
Where not to put fairy lights?
Before hanging your fairy lights, we’d recommend considering the following health and safety factors that should inform your decision:
- Avoid open water
- Avoid fire pits and BBQs
- Be wary of creating trip hazards on pathways
- Do not pinch cords between doors and windows
- Don’t wrap them too tightly around growing trees.
Shop Fairy Lights at Lights4fun
Now that we’ve provided some inspiration for dressing your garden with fairy lights, browse our versatile collection at Lights4fun. Find battery-operated fairy lights, Core Connect fairy lights, plug-in fairy lights, and more in our collection. Explore today and look forward to illuminating your outside space with the magic of fairy lights.
