When you're living in a small space and you want to add some holiday cheer without taking up precious floor space, look up! Hanging decorations from the ceiling puts them up high where they have a lot of impact without wasting space. Here are a few ideas:
- Make oversized paper ornaments for a pop art effect.
- Suspend a branch from which you can hang ornaments over a table.
- Hang a wreath on a ceiling-mount light fixture.
These ideas can work really well for apartments with small footprints but high ceilings. Use all of that vertical space to create a winter wonderland in your home without it getting in the way.
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My brother & I did #1 a few years back from leftover colored folders and cardstock from my office, we also used the brown tubes from paper towel and spray-painted them red and gold and hung those on the ceiling, as well as cut-outs from snowflakes. It was our first Christmas away from home so we wanted to do something festive but inexpensive, can't tell you what a difference it made :)
Those onion bulb ornaments could actually be fun year round if incorporated into a mobile. Things hanging is often so overlooked imho.
These looks great! I did something similar last night. I wanted to hang ornaments in our small space so I used a tension rod across the windows and hung ornaments from there. It looks very festive and was simple and inexpensive.
I love this idea, but how do you mount them securely to the ceiling without making holes?
Wow, it didn't take me long to get inspired... Thanks so much for this post!
BTW Gaidig, you could probably just use cute little tacks or even a festive tape (depending on how crafty you want it to look). Hang a piece of line/string across the area you want to display the ornaments in, and then tie the ornaments onto your string "rod". The ornaments are only made out of paper so they shouldn't have much weight at all.
re: hanging objects as an overlooked opportunity & gaidig's 'how do you mount them securely to the ceiling without making holes?' question, i'd LOVE to see a post on how to hang stuff from the ceiling. every time i try, the object is too heavy, and i'm usually trying to do it with a nail, which really isn't the best option. so, yeah ... a how-to post on hanging art from the ceiling, please?