How to Light a Christmas tree for Maximum TWINKLE! Easy and Beautiful--the Best Way to Add Lights!
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2022
- There are a few things I am particular about--having tight-fitting bedsheets, super hot coffee, and a well-lit Christmas tree :)
Really, this is the ONLY way I ever light my Christmas tree because I want it to have ALL the twinkle.
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Melanie!!!! U Christmas Angel Wizard miracle!!!! This is my MOST dreaded Xmas chore to do every year but thanks to you I now have the confidence and a fail safe strategy😊 Merry Xmas & Happy New Year, from ur newest viewer
I love it! That makes me so happy to hear. Merry Christmas!
i am here because of my wife...
Appreciate the honesty Andrew 😊
I am here to show my husband! 😂
I am here because I am the wife 😂
I’m here because i got high
@@ppbroed cuz I got high... cuz I got high...cuz I got higghhhh!
Thank you I’m just 8 years old I couldn’t decorate a tree till I saw your video thank you soo much 😊
You’re welcome 😊
SO SIMPLE BUT UNLESS YOU KNOW ! , sums up life this is zen and the art of tree lighting
I'm 20 years old and this is total advice for the rest of my life.
doing what I can to make a difference :)
My whole life ( I'm 70) I have been doing it the old fashion way. I have hated the dark center of the tree. Then I came across your video, I am going to do this on my tree this year. Thank you!
you're welcome!
It’s freakin awesome to see someone your age on UA-cam. You rock ma’am! You absolutely rock.
@@cirocobamaCheck out the search for “how to declutter your home” and you’ll find lots of women in their 40s and 50s rocking it here on UA-cam. 😊
I do it this way too..and my mom was also PSYCHO about our lights when I was a kid!! 😂😂😂 I ❤ your tree w the natural bark center! I’ve NEVER seen one like that before. Beautiful!!
Love it!!
Our mothers must have gone to the same tree-lighting school or something, my mom was also VERY PICKY about everything having to do with tree decorating as well and taught me the exact same method. It wasn't until I was fifteen she let me do the lights myself, I got to fluff the tree by myself at 16, and got to help with the ornaments my last year at home! Every year thereafter I made a point of helping her when I was home for Thanksgiving, it was for me the best day of the year because Mom and I would spend the whole day together, doing something we both loved doing with someone we loved. Sadly, she passed away when I was 28 years old. I'm now 58, and every year for the past 30 years I still put up the tree just like my mom did, and I even had a little helper myself for a precious time. Nowadays my home is quiet and dark for most of the year, just me and my memories. For those I'm deeply grateful, every day. And come Thanksgiving Day I'll brighten my home just like always, it's time well spent and for which I'm always thankful. Merry Christmas, Y'all. Now go spend some time with the ones you love.
Thank you for sharing that! I love how you have carried on her tradition and what you learned with her
Hugs!!!!
Love your story ❤
Your method is the one I've used for over 30 years. I have been a floral designer for almost 40 years, and was hired to set up trees for business as well as individuals. After I retired and moved down to NW Arkansas, It was a joy for me to participate in the Victorian Homes Christmas Tour in Eureka Springs in 2000.
Glad to hear it’s a tried and true method :) I love Eureka… I bet that home tour is amazing!!
That sounds awesome! I worked for a floral designer in Cleveland who also decorated for Victorian homes and the White house. He's in his 90's now and of course no longer does that but still works in his shop in Lakewood Ohio. Would love to see the homes you did❤️
WOW great job! I’m here in 2022 about to TRY THIS NOW! 🎄🎄🎄
very cool! I love victorian styles. Do you have any floral designs tips to make a victorian era arrangement?
Thank you !! I’m 57 and I finally put the lights on and they twinkle ! Thanks you you😊
Wonderful! That awesome, so glad :)
I also do my tree like this and if I might add another tip I’ve used the last 3 years and absolutely love it is to add one string of twinkle lights first deep in the tree. Since it’s in the middle near the trunk it’s not obnoxious but just the right amount of twinkle along with the regular lights.
Thank you! Great tip
Great idea!!
What a great tip!
Love that! Thank you!
I do this also. And I add bubble lights
This changed my Christmas decor for life!
Lol, I love it!
I like this style because it gives you plenty of slack to adjust those dark spots as needed. Thanks!
you're welcome!
Greetings, Melanie. I must say, this is the best tip I have ever received regarding Christmas tree lighting!!
It makes the tree absolutely sparkle. Your mom taught you very well. Thank you for sharing this with us and also thank you for all of the other invaluable advice you impart throughout your videos. God Bless you and your family.
Happy Tday!!
Awesome! I’m so glad it was helpful. Merry Christmas!
You’ve got the best way to do the lights on the tree
Thank you all so much 🎉
I’ve been looking at other videos on how to make my tree sparkle, this year, and you, by far, are the best teacher!! Thank you for that!! ❤️🎄❤️
Thanks so much! Glad it was helpful :) Merry Christmas!
I watched this video last year and did my tree lights accordingly. It was the prettiest tree we ever had. :)
That's awesome!
Right here….right now…I’m standing here with my OLD ASS prelit tree that is JUST like yours….about to UNWRAP my tree and try your method…Thank you Thank you Thank you!❤❤❤
I have been watch all the tutorials about x’maz light and you rmethod is the best one. Thank You for sharing ❤
Wow, thank you!
I'm a huge lights galore on the Christmas tree kind of person, and this tip is going on my Christmas tree! That was beautiful!
Wonderful! Hope it's great for you :)
Putting up my lights now. Thanks
Glad to help
This is the most dreaded Christmas chore and you really simplified it. Thank you, thank you. Have a wonderful holiday.
Thank you! You too!
I’m gonna say this has to be the most in-lightening amazing way I’ve seen lights out on thank you so much it’s amazing !
Ha ha…thanks Misti! Glad it was helpful!
I can’t believe I’ve never thought to do each branch. No wonder my tree never has that amazing extra twinkly look that I’ve always wanted. Thanks so much. I’m putting my lights on in just a few minutes!! I’m so excited to try this method!!!! Thanks again!!!!🎄🧑🏻🎄
You’re welcome! Merry Christmas 😊
Andrea, how did it turn out??
This method is the best!!! I used cluster lights. I have a 2,5 meter tree and it’s 1,5 meters wide. I had to use 160 meters of string lights, but its the best!! It’s really glowing! Love it ❤
I used the Martha Stewart method. I'm so glad to learn yours. Whew! And you're so right about pre-lit trees.
I love the idea of them, but I’ve been disappointed in reality 😂😂
Absolutely the BEST way to do the Christmas tree lights. My Christmas tree looks soooo much brighter and beautiful. Thank you to your mom and you for sharing it with us. Merry Christmas!!!
You're welcome. So glad to hear!
Love this method. I just unstrung the tree and did it using this method . Tree looks great. TFS
Awesome! So glad, and you’re welcome!
Well done….This is how I learned to light Xmas trees when I worked at a garden center years ago. Yes, it used a LOT of lights but I just LOVED the effect! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing
Melanie, I am amazed at what a difference this method makes in brightening the tree. Ease of removal is a big plus as well. I will surely be using this method for my tree(s) to save myself some work and annoyance. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome Ellen! Hope you love it :)
Gosh I needed your video decades ago! Going to use your method tonight on my tree. Can’t wait!
Let me know how it turns out!
I wish I'd seen this video yesterday! I struggled with the lights yesterday and this method is genius! Twinkling without the drama. Thanks, I know what to do for next year 😂
"without the drama", I like that!
This is the best tip ever. The first video I came up on for my search on how to string a tree. This makes so much sense and now I don’t have to search more videos. Can’t wait to try this today.
Glad it was helpful!
I’m 69 andI thank you so much! I’ve always been disappointed in how my lights looked on the tree. Your technique seems soooo much better. Easy peasy ! Much easier. I’m doing this right NOW!
You are so welcome!
Hi Melanie! I was googling the best way to put lights on a tree and YOU popped up! Thanks! Miss y’all!
Ha…love it Melissa! Good to hear from you :) Hope it helped!!!
Thank you for the video. I'm gonna put lights today for my 1st Christmas tree❤️🎄
I've been fighting with lighting my tree for TWO days 😡. I had enough and so did my husband (i growel louder than the Christmas music)! So I decided to give in to watch more UA-cam videos, despite all have failed and frustrated me in the past!
I wanted my tree to be a bright "light" in my living room! 💡YOU ❤❤❤ just made it happen! 😇
Will definitely try your method of putting lights on a christmas tree. Thanks! Helped a lot!🤩
I have done the Martha light style for YEARS! And I love the lights all the way through, but you are not kidding when taking the lights off if I use a real tree my needles are mostly on the floor!!! I definitely will try your way this year. Thanks Melanie
I’m curious to hear how it goes! I’ve never done a whole tree the Martha way, it just seemed like so much work taking them all off. The things we will do for a twinkly tree though! Merry Christmas!
Very helpful, I've been doing all wrong for years! I can see the difference between the top and bottom. So the bottom looks professional and easy to remove the lights. I've never seen MS doing this before but you save my time! thx!
Great! Give it a try!
Thank you for this! Literally saved my sanity.
Glad it helped!
Wow, thank you! I'm trying this out on our tree this year.
I love it!! Thank you for sharing, demonstrating, and explaining.
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching. Merry Christmas!
This is superb. Also lovely warm white lights, none of those dreadful coloured ones!!
Many thanks!
Love this! I’ve never been good at lights, can’t wait to try this! I usually have a hard time watching UA-cam video tutorials but you kept my attention! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I’ve absolutely hated lighting a tree because of how long it takes so I’ve left it to my husband , who does this half ass along the edge and inside. This technique I’ll try.
We use a fresh cut tree and I’m trying this method this year. Thanks for the tip
Omg this helped me a lot. My mom passed away 2 years ago and this year is the first year that i should decorate the tree by myself. I was worried about the lights but now i know how to do it. Thank you!❤
So glad! You’ve got this 💪🏼
Great method! I also light the inside of my tree, but this is a much better way of doing it.
Brilliant ! Amazing ! Fantastic !
Melanie!! Thank you for the sharing your method with us. I was about to spend extra to avoid the hassle . Once I saw the tree you bought with the lights no longer working that’s I needed to see. Great tip, and savings. Thanks so much!
🎄✨♥️
You are so welcome!
I watched five or six videos, and your method seems the easiest and actually seemed like it lit the tree the best!
Thank you! thank you! Merry Christmas!🎄
Merry Christmas to you as well :)
Thank you! Great way to hang flights . I’m trying your way this year . Usually takes me for ever to put them on and off. ❤
This method is AMAZING! My tree looks beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing!
You are so welcome!
Thank you! I used your method and it made a huge difference! My tree looks gorgeous!
That’s great! So glad to hear :)
New Sub here! That's an awesome tree and I'm with you, I wouldn't get rid of it for a pre lit tree. I have a $1,400 17 foot pre- lit monster and although I have a light fixer, it now has issues with those lights so..... I'm putting lights on it this year, but really my point is....I agree, a pre lit tree isn't all that lol. I was tempted to get a new one when I saw all the new fancy amazing trees at home depot and thought nope! I have this perfectly beautiful tree, so this year I'm just going to add lights and maybe fix it next year or take the old pre lit lights off all together. I'm glad you made this video because there are lots of young people with their first time "living on their own" trees and it's helpful to both young and people who want to learn a new way! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the Sub! I'm sorry about your tree :( Be sure to bring a pair of scissors and/or wire cutters when you go to remove the lights--they are almost impossible to get off without cutting!
Found you when I searched how to decorate a white tree and so glad I clicked on your video! I have just put the lights on my tree and nothing else yet because I do not like how it looks, this is exactly what I needed and am going to do your method, I'm very excited to try it! I loved this so much I subscribed and turned on notifications! Thank you!
Awesome! Merry Christmas :)
Thank you very much, had to adjust a bit but it is a game changer. Never thought about depth in regards to putting lights on a Christmas tree.
Glad it helped!
Thank you. I Ieft mine on from last year. They were so tangled around the branches I had to take them off. I needed this video.
Wonderful!
And very well-made! God bless you!
Merry Christmas!
Love you way of lighting the tree thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome!
I always disliked putting Christmas lights on the tree, but I am excited to try your method. It definitely makes a difference in the look of the tree. Thanks for the tip!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching :)
Thank you for this video! decorated my xmas tree following your method and everyone said it was beautiful!
Awesome!
I never knew this. My mom didn’t teach me this 😂. Thank you! I guess I need to buy more lights and take down the lights I just put on the tree.
You can do it!
I’ll give that a try. Looks beautiful!!
Thanks! Hope it works out
Great idea Melanie! Thanks!
I’ve always done it the Martha Stewart way but I’m so glad I found this video! Love your way so much better thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
I do this, too! It makes a huge difference! Well done on the demo!
Thanks! It really is a game changer.
What a great idea! I've used the Martha Stewart way but used it to make my tree pre-lit. I don't take the lights off. If I ever get another tree, I'm doing it your way. TFS!
Sounds great!
Helpful video! We had been just stringing them along until coming across this video, and wow what a difference! Thank you for this easy to follow tutorial!! We won’t be going back to the sad stringy way 😅
You’re so welcome!
Kangaroo Queen: LOL, "sad stringy way".
Beautiful. Going to start my tree tonight!!!😊
Good luck!!
Oh ive been lighting my tree the hard way all these years. Thank you for this, i will be trying this out this coming Christmas :-)
Wonderful!
I have learned something new today Melanie! Thank you so much I will use your method this year and I think it will be beautiful! Thanks so much :-)
You’re welcome Max!
Your tree is gorgeous! Thanks for the tip, looking forward to watching your other videos
Thanks so much! 😊. Glad it was helpfu!
Your mom is amazing ❣️
I love your tree! You said you inherited it? Love the bark! I haven’t seen any like it!
I did! And I asked my dad where he got it . . . can't remember, lol
Thank you for sharing. I'm going to try this method this holiday season.
Great! Hope you like it :)
Never knew that looks great pretty that way
Never used thus method before beautiful 😍 thank you.
So cool! Thanks! Will sure to try this now!
Thank you for sharing! I usually do the method where you just wrap it around once and it looks so naked. I'll try this method out!
I hope you do! Merry Christmas :)
Love this, thank you!❤
I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO ACHIVE THAT LOOK IN AN EASY WAY! THANK YOU!
You're welcome!!
My second year watching, I followed last year and it was perfect. Thank you so much, Merry Christmas!
Same to you!
I was looking online for a new tree this year because, as you showed, the prelit tree only stay nice a short time, when I found this video. I decided to keep my tree and buy new lights! Excited to try this out! Thanks!
Glad I could help!
Thank you!! This was so easy to follow and the difference is Amazing!!❤
You're so welcome!
I’ve been doing the MS method for years and each year I dread the effort placing and removing. This is so clever and beautiful! Thank you!
Oh Martha… we all have a love/hate relationship with her, right? 😂😂 Hope this works easier for you!
Thank you SO much for this tip! I’ve always put up trees with my family, but we didn’t do the lights like this. It’s my first year putting up my own tree so I’m super excited to put the lights on like this:)
Glad it was helpful!
Another great tip to illuminate a tree is to take a strand of white lights and run it down from the top to the bottom of the trunk. I do it every year and I love it, I get a real tree every year and I think next year I’m gonna try to do the lights this way
Great tip!! Thanks for sharing :)
That's how I do mine
I agree. I started doing that method years ago.
Awesome!
Thanks so much for this video! I followed your instructions and my tree looks amazing!
woohoo!
Girl! I love this but i don't think I'll use that many lights lol. But this is great and I never saw Martha's way. Thank you!
It does take a LOT of lights . . . I think I keep the christmas light folks in business, lol
My whole life (37y.o) I never knew put the lights on Christmas tree has a trick 😂
Thank you for the enlightenment 😊
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you (and your mom)🎄
Happy holidays!
I was looking for a new way to string my lights. I am guilty of the wrap around method! I almost gave up as most methods I found were complicated. I saw a post on the Martha Stewart method and didn't even read it. Ha. Your method is easy and looks so pretty. Thank you!
You’re welcome! Hope it helps :)
So so helpful! Thank you for this!
I think I may need more lights!! Or at least longer string of lights. This is brilliant thank you
It takes a lot!
This is so great. Yes I have done the Martha Stewart way and it was crazy hard to get them off. Getting ready to put my lights on right now. Hope I have enough lights.
Let me add a few tips: if you can fold each row at a time, bottom row up, it's helpful to do one row at a time while the other higher rows stay folded up out of the way.
Also, It's perfectly okay to cut corners on the bottom and middle rows of the sides that are against a wall not easily visable. On those rows, instead of going all the way up and down each branch, you can loosely go up one branch, and loosely go down the next. Just be mindful of which sides will be viewed from an observers vantage point. I promise, it is completely unnoticeable from the face sides. And, it not only saves time and effort, but also cuts out unnecessary light strings that cost money and can fail.
Great first tip 😊However, I have a rotating tree stand so the second one is out for me🤣 I’m so extra so I don’t mind the extra work.😊this year I’m adding 8 rotating ornaments and I have a black Christmas tree. So since you can’t use led string lights with the rotating motors and I wanted cool white. I brought iridescent string lights just for the rotating ornaments. So, I had to spray paint the string lights black so they don’t interfere with my cool white lights. Do you know anything about that? Or an easier way I could have done that?
@@zerlinawright7591 Excuse me to butt in, but I am very interested in that black rotating Christmas tree, do you have a picture or a short video of it fully decorated pretty please?
Thanks for sharing Drew :)
Thanks for confirming what I was thinking. I have a Balsam Hill tree that came with red cords to tie up each section. Usually, I release each section as I insert it into the main pole but, watching this video, I realized that I can string the lights one section at a time, while keeping the other sections neat, tied up and out of the way. Can't wait to add my lights this year!
I have already done my tree this year .. but dang! Next year this is what I will do!! THANK YOU!! I was hoping someone had a trick to make it easier!
You’re welcome!