How to Hang String Lights on Your Patio

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Installing Strings Lights

Once upon a time, we installed string lights on our covered back patio. We wanted a casual look, so we swagged the string lights so they would hang down and drape above our heads. We loved the glow of our new lights and how they illuminated our yard ever so slightly.

Things were great until one day we noticed that a hummingbird had built a nest around the casing of a light! No big deal except for the fact that she built it on the strand of lights closest to our back patio’s door. We were worried that she was going to fly into our house every time we opened the door so we waited until her babies were old enough to flee the nest before taking the string lights down. When we noticed that the babies were gone, we waited another week just to make sure that she wasn’t going to come back. When she had officially moved out, we took the string lights down so no other birds could make their homes on them.

Long story short, we added string lights to our back patio again, but we opted for a tighter look this time!