does anyone have an idea how to keep christmas decorations up on the ceiling?

Question

i can't use drawing pins as i have concrete and they just bend, i won't use sellotape as when they come down they just rip the paintwork off, i can't use bluetack as they keep falling down, especially when the room is warm. any other ideas?

Answer 1

I used to have this problem until I started leaving my decorations in the box. Now I don't have any problems. No, seriously now - I erect scaffolding to fix my Christmas decorations. Alternatively, do something different! Lay them out on the floor and walk on the ceiling. All your problems solved in one hit.

Answer 2

Ceiling Decorations

Answer 3

You could always drill holes and screw a few cup hooks into the ceiling. However it will look a little weird for the rest of the year!

Try using a bigger bit of blutack - wrap a large blob around the string of the decoration if you can so that it totally encircles it - it stops the decoration dropping off the blutack - the whole piece has to come off which takes longer.

Also you can try having more places where you stick it to the ceiling as this will spread the weight of the decoration so it is less likely to fall.

Lastly you could try "White Tack" by UHU - it seems to be stickier than blutack, but not as bad at taking paint off - a good combination!

Answer 4

Use high furniture as a place to run strings from one side of the room to the other, and attatch the decorations to these. You can keep the string up with sellotape if the furniture is made of wood (or just tie it to the end of your curtain rail) and then wrap tinsel around it or hang things off it.

The other option of course is to drill through the concrete with a fine drill bit, and then fill the hole and paint it but leave a slight mark to be able to find it again. Then the drawing pins will go into the wall and not bend!

Answer 5

Get Sloshed (common at this time of year), When the room stops spinning and turns upside down, hang the decorations on what appears to be the floor. When sober next morning all the decorations are back on the ceiling.

Answer 6

Use LOADS of bluetac and really push it onto the ceiling. Maybe even clean the area on the ceiling first in case there is any grease etc. Otherwise, give up. Or you could hammer a tiny tack into the ceiling and then bend it and hang your decs off that. You probably wont see the hole when you pull the nail out at the end of Christmas.

Answer 7

If you are a serious serial Christmas decorator, you need to invest a little effort by getting some small screw-in hooks from your local hardware store, drilling holes in your ceiling where you want to hang things, and installing the hooks, using suitable plastic plugs. You won't notice the hooks the rest of the year, especially if you daub them with a little paint of the same colour as the ceiling, but if they bother you unscrew them and you really won't notice the holes, which will be ready for next year. When you come to move on, a few minutes work with some filler will erase all trace of the holes.

Answer 8

Thanks for this, after giving up after decorating one half of the ceiling, this discussion has given me the motivation to have one more go (using half a roll of extra strong clear scotch tape) and Christmas has officially landed on my ceiling: it's just not Christmas without decorations on your ceiling!!! My other half normally does it but that wasn't an option this year....

Answer 9

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Answer 10

You can put up a nativity scene; place (electric) candles in windows (to share the light of God's love with others); put up stars (to represent the star that guided the Wise Men) or doves (the symbol of peace). Also, you can use secular items to represent religious themes; your faith is what gives them meaning. Even if you don't like the commercialism of Santa, you can still enjoy the generosity of the Christian saint known as Saint Nicholas. Don't let other people determine what has meaning for you; apply your own interpretation and celebrate that.

Answer 11

i used to have concrete ceilings and never found anything that worked properly. White-tac would hold some smaller decorations up, but in the end i gave up and just decorated the walls instead.