25 Outdoor String Lights

Outdoor string lights are an easy way to add a little ambience to your outdoor spaces. They work great with pergolas, around fire pits, and patios.

Update more outdoor areas with these ideas: Hide outdoor eyesores, build a pergola with swings, and build a pallet deck.

Add an extra dose of ambience and light to outdoor spaces with these unique strings of lights. Some are plugin, battery operated, or even solar powered.

There are so many cute options in a variety of styles. Let’s take a look.

25 Outdoor String Lights

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1. Better Homes And Garden Globe Lights – Walmart
2. Vintage Garden Lights – Walmart
3. Colorful Drop Solar Lights – Walmart
4. Curtain String Lights – Walmart
5. Twinkle Star Lights – Walmart
6. Lantern String Lights – Walmart
7. Patterned Globe Lights – Wayfair
8. Mason Jar Lights – Wayfair
9. Warrington Bulb Lights – Wayfair
10. Shaded Bulb Lights – Wayfair
11. Summer Globe Lights – Wayfair
12. Gold Globe Solar Lights – Wayfair
13. Brown Edison String Lights – Wayfair
14. Light Bulb Lights – Wayfair
15. Decorative Lights – Wayfair
16. Copper Bulb Shaded Lights – Wayfair
17. Solar Droplet Lanterns – Anthropologie
18. Solar Cylinder Lantern Lights – Anthropologie
19. Metal Frame Fairy Lights – Target
20. White Lanterns – Target
21. Tube Lights – Target
22. Silver Round Hood Lights – Target
23. Cage Lantern Lights – Home Depot
24. Globe and Cage Lights – Home Depot
25. Black Vintage Candelabra Lights – Home Depot
26. Black Hood and Cage Lights – Home Depot

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Outdoor String Light Design Inspiration

Found some lights you love, but not sure how to hang them in your outdoor living spaces? We have a few ideas of real life spaces to give you ideas.

With a large patio, string lights around a pergola and around all deck or patio areas. The great thing about using lots of lights, it ensures that you can have lighting in all areas.

A different pergola, but it still looks great. Add hooks to the bottom of a pergola to hang lights. This can also work under a patio covering.

Here is another look at how to add those the hooks and lights to a modern pergola.

Pergolas can also add lights through the slats at the tops. Again using hooks or weaving within the slats, matching this DIY shade sail.

No pergola? Use posts in the ground or even in pots to add lighting wherever you need it. Then string up the lights on the poles like this.

And for a hardcore big project: build this amazing pergola for swings, around a firepit! A few extra string lights are the perfect touch!

Which is your favorite set of lights? We love that there is so much variety to fit all of the styles.

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