Rental-friendly ways to hang decorations without damaging venue walls
Venues often enforce strict rules against wall damage, leaving decorators scrambling for safe ways to hang fabric, lights, and art. Without rental-friendly hanging solutions, planning events becomes stressful and risks security deposits.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using command strips
- 2Using blue tac
- 3Renting free-standing pipe and drape systems
- 4Placing fairy lights on horizontal surfaces instead of vertical walls
- 5heavy duty command picture hanging strips
- 6hang it from wood roof with clear fishing line
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Is there anything rental friendly I could use to help her hang a piece of metal art on the stucco.”source ↗
Alabamaworley412 · r/HomeImprovement · 2 upvotes
“We have rented a village hall for our venue and was wondering what would be the best way to hang up some fabric and fairy lights on the walls without damaging it.”source ↗
VoteReform12 · r/weddingplanning · 2 upvotes
Where this came up
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