How To Make RV Patio Lights

In the suburbs, or in urban apartment blocks, families are identified by their residence, and their residence is marked with a door number and / or doorbell. Your address includes your street, house number and zip code. But when you're out camping, you do not have any of those things. You may have an RV, but lots of people have these, and it's not easily identifiable at night. One way to get past this challenge, especially for people who regularly join a camping community, is to use tailor made RV patio lighting. These can serve as a fingerprint or DNA marker for your site and your family. And the best part is, it works at night. You can make your own lights at home, to give your RV a personal look and save some money for other camp equipment.

You can make the lights by modifying old Christmas lights. Decide which parts of the RV you want lit. The easiest way to light the RV patio is to line a string around the area, so you should begin by measuring the area. Buy or locate Christmas lights that run long enough to cover the whole area that you want to light up.

Next, count the number of bulbs on your Christmas light string, then buy an adequate number of colored plastic cups. Each bulb will correspond with a plastic cup, though if you prefer, you can have a cup on every other bulb, or every third bulb. The choice is part of your defining design, so make it carefully. Color matters too. You can use random colors, a single color, alternating colors, or warm colors. The choice will depend on your taste, availability, and chosen camp signature.

Make a hole at the bottom of each plastic cup. The hole should be just large enough for a single Christmas light to slip through. Now slip the individual Christmas lights into the hole. The bulb should end up on the inside of the cup while the Christmas light fixture remains on the outside.

Apply some glue on the inside of the cup, right at the base of the bulb, so that the bulb base and the cup are joined together. For easier joining, use hot glue, and hold the bulb and cup together until the glue dries. Do this with all the bulbs and cups.

Once everything has discharged, arrange the string of lights with the cups facing downwards.