Hang up Christmas decorations with magnets

There are a lot of people who don't know how Christmas decorations can be hung up with magnets at home. You certainly have several materials that are magnetic - and without knowing it (we're not thinking of your fridge here). We have decorated the office ourselves and would like to share our experience. We hope that you will be inspired to start using magnets for your elves, Christmas balls or whatever you have. We come here with 3 ideas where you can hang up Christmas decorations. 

Hang Christmas decorations on countersunk screws

Our Christmas decorations do not weigh very much (maximum 30 g), so we have not used very strong magnets. It may be a good idea to find out how much your Christmas decorations weigh, as this has a bearing on which magnets you can use. 

In the ceiling or on the wall, you may be lucky to have countersunk screws. You might see them. If the head of screws is 1-3 mm. you can actually hang your Christmas decorations from the wall or ceiling. The head of the screw is magnetic, but it requires the magnet to catch it. Therefore, the screw must not sit too far into the wall or ceiling. 

You can do this both with hook magnets and small strong power magnets. We have e.g. hung our fir cones from the ceiling with a Ø10 hook magnet. Hook magnets are the easiest to put up in the ceiling, so that is our recommendation here. In the pictures below, you can see how nicely our gold hearts are hung with power magnet 10x2 mm.

Put Christmas decorations on your lamps

Some lamps are made of metal - or parts of them can be made of e.g. metal. Metal is magnetic, which makes it an obvious possibility to hang Christmas decorations here. You can therefore also use either a hook magnet or power magnet for the purpose. You can see here how we hung a Christmas cone with a hook magnet: 

Hang Christmas decorations on the window frame

You can do more than put gnomes on the windowsill. Some windows have a magnetic frame, which means for you that your braided Christmas hearts can be attached with a magnet. Here both a hook magnet or a flat power magnet can do it. Just see what expression it gives with pine cones: