Hanging a canopy from your ceiling doesn't mean you have to destroy your ceiling.
A canopy is a simple, cost-effective solution that can truly have a transformative effect on a room. While canopies are ideal ways to decorate banquet rooms, reception halls and even bedrooms, their initial function was purely protective: to shield debris from medieval ceilings from falling onto the heads of peaceful sleepers. However, if you want to install a canopy in your bedroom or even above your dining room table, this doesn't mean you have to start drilling holes into your ceiling. Rather, there is a simpler, more strategic way to hang a canopy, and one which does not require the use of power tools.
Instructions
1. Set up a step stool just under one of the corners of the area you wish to cover. Locate the place where you want your hook to go, and circle it with a piece of chalk. Repeat this step at the three remaining corners of your ceiling.
2. Saturate a soft cloth with rubbing alcohol. Wipe down the inner circle of each corner that you circled in chalk with rubbing alcohol to remove dust and grease. Allow them to air dry.
3. Peel off the adhesive backing from a self-adhesive hook. The maximum weight each self-adhesive hook can support is 5 lbs. Canopies generally weigh 5 lbs. to 10 lbs. Place the sticky side of the hook in the center of each circled corner. Press down hard for at least one minute. Repeat with three more hooks for each of the three corners. Allow them to set for one hour minimum.
4. Cut four pieces of 12-inch-long canvas cord (1/4 inch thick) in a color that matches your canopy with a utility knife. Make a tiny slit through each corner of the canopy and slide your piece of cord through halfway.
5. Tie each piece of cord to a respective hook using a tight double knot.
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