There are many gorgeous and
creative ways to use lighting in your home, and tiny lights are no exception. There’s a wide variety on offer in the shops and online. If you’re feeling especially creative, you could always buy a simple string of tiny white lights and make your own mini shades from fabric or tissue paper. Or display them in unusual ways — stuffed into a vase or in a fireplace, for example. From fairy lights to small Chinese lanterns to fabric balls to stars, use of tiny lights in your home is only limited by your imagination. Pretty fairy lights are not just for entwining around a Christmas tree. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
Tiny lights can be used to great effect in conservatories or rooms with lots of windows, as they bounce back light and make the area even brighter. They can look particularly striking as a backdrop to strings of lights displayed in a darker room. These “green leaf” lights draped across a metal display unit contrast with the string of red “ball” lights around the entrance to the conservatory. The artificial “leaves” also look very effective in front of the actual plants and greenery outside.
This beautiful lamp makes use of lots of tiny lights arranged within lacy “petals.” The overall effect is winsome and atmospheric, and this is emphasized by the bouquet of dried roses and the beeswax candles on the window sill.
A string of multicolored stars looks pretty around a living room door. Using tiny lights around entrances is very welcoming and gives your home a warm glow.
The same star lights you used around the door could also be employed to fabulous effect stuffed inside a vase and used as a central table display. Any string of tiny lights can be used like this, as long as it’s small and flexible enough to fit inside the vase. This vase is amber glass; clear glass vases would also be ideal, or if you use a stronger color like a holiday red, white lights can look more attractive than multicolored ones. Vase “lights” can also be used as lamps wherever you want ambient lighting.
These lovely, full-blown roses are the perfect lights for wrapping around a curtain rod. Use them in an area where you do not close the curtains — in front of voile panels, for example. Otherwise, attach them above the curtains.
This nighttime shot of the conservatory displays all the many colored tiny lights to glorious effect.
