How to make a Christmas light holder at home

Christmas is just around the corner and the main focus of people is to decorate their houses

with festive lights and colorful trees. Displaying Christmas lights inside and around houses is

something that everybody looks forward for the festival especially lights on the roof line.

Although these lights looks beautiful on the roof line of a house, they take up lot of time and

hard work to set up.

If you are looking for an easier and much less time consuming way to decorate your roof

line with Christmas lights without using clips, here is a step by step instruction on how to

make a light-weight Christmas light holder all by yourself.

Things you’ll need

To create a Christmas light holder at home, the basic supplies you’ll need are a Coroboard

4x8 sheet, sharp knife, Drill with bit, C7 lights in any color and Zip ties.

Step 1

Start the building process by cutting strips of the coroboard of about 5.5 inches wide and 8

feet long (this is the size we have tried, you can have your own choice). After that, cut one

side of the board at 2 inches and again at 3.5 inches. However, be cautious not to cut all the

way through, although just enough so that it can be folded to form a triangular shape.

Step 2

Make use of the drill to make holes at equal distance from one another and as per the

diameter of the sockets that you are using.

Step 3

Take out the light bulbs from each socket and fix them into the coroboard. However, be sure

to plug in the strand while working so you can figure out if something is wrong and fix it

during the building process only.

Step 4

Fold up the board, once all the sockets are attached. Use zip ties every few feet so as to

hold the board together. If you are looking to build longer length Christmas light holder,

used some metal pieces and duct tape to attach the right amount of strips together.

Step 5

Once completed, you can fix the light strips with one nail at each end. This will allow you to

take them down very easily and will save your time and energy which is the basic idea

behind this simple to make Christmas light holder.

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