OUR PRODUCTS How to hang our lanterns ? To decorate a party venue, we recommend you use fishing line or ribbons to hang your lanterns to the ceiling's structure. To decorate your home, the easiest way is to use a picture hook that you will nail into the wall. You can then hang the lanterns at different heights using fishing line or ribbons. You can also use self-adhesive hooks (we recommend TESA Powerstrip), with which you can easily hang 5 or 6 lanterns, and which can be removed without leaving marks. For a slightly bigger cluster of lanterns, we recommend you use two hooks placed a few centimeters apart. If you want to hang lanterns to the ceiling, the best option would be a hook screwed into the ceiling, but you can also use self-adhesive Tesa Powerstrips Ceiling Hook (for a weight less than 400 grams) specially made to hang easily decorations. The Tesa powestrips hooks can easily be found in hardware shops and on the Internet. Are the products sold with hanging accessories ? Honeycomb balls, diamonds, drops, as well as paper fans, pompoms and star lanterns, have a little string that can be used for hanging. For paper lanterns, accordion lanterns and balloons, you need to get fishing line or ribbons. How many lanterns/decorations should I get to decorate my party venue, marquee etc? Most important for a great wedding set-up is accumulation. According to your budget and your vision, you can decide to decorate the entire space or just selected parts of your venue (the dancefloor, a dessert table or the bride and groom's table for example). To decorate the entire venue ceiling using some lanterns here and there as touches of color, we recommend 9 paper lanterns or other decorations for every 18 square meters of space (190 square feet). You can of course adjust to what you feel is right for your wedding and your budget. For a fuller look, go ahead for 9 paper lanterns or other decoration for 8 square meters (85 square feet). Check out our paper lantern sets for turnkey venue decorations! You can also draw your event space with its main features like tables or dance floor, and draw a circle wherever you want a lantern. This will give you an idea of how many lanterns you would like to have. For a specific and more limited space to decorate, you should concentrate the lanterns a bit more so that the final effect is quite dense. For 1 square meter of ceiling, use approx. 3 paper lanterns 35cm, 2 accordion paper lanterns 30cm, 3 accordion paper lanterns 20cm, 1 pompom 40cm, 2 pompoms 20cm. As far as how to organise the lanterns, there a several options: - you can organise several clusters of lanterns at various points of the ceiling, like chandeliers - or you can scatter them all over the ceiling We give you tons of ideas on our blog ! Are lanterns sold with lighting accessories ? Our lanterns are sold without lighting accessories. Can I illuminate the lanterns ? Well you know what, we are firm believers that our lanterns are pretty even without light ! Most of our clients use them as simple decoration items... but if you really care about it ! For the product "paper lantern" in sizes 35cm and 50cm, you can use a bulb of 40W max, making sure you center the bulb right in the middle of the lantern, using the little "C" hook on top of the lantern to fix the electrical cord. You can also use LED bulb of maximum 40W. For baby lanterns (15cm) and accordion lanterns you can only use mini battery-operated LED lights. These LED lights are also recommend if you want to light up individually each lantern, for an event for instance. We strongly recommend the BUTTONLITE LED lights that are, according us, the best lighting system for our products (available on this site)
Can I use a candle to light up the lanterns ? OUR PRODUCTS CANNOT BE USED WITH A CANDLE OR NEAR OPEN FLAMES. I would like to see and touch your products, do you have a store or a showroom ? We do not sell our products in a store and all our products are available on our website www.hkhlantern.com and www.hkhcrafts.com en which stands as our catalog. I am looking for very specific colors; are your pictures close to reality ? We try our best to feature pictures that are showing colors as close to reality as possible. But please note that colors can vary according to your computer screen and settings. Also most of our products being in paper, the color rendering can slightly change according to the luminosity of the room. Also, many of our products are handmade, hence the slight difference of shades you can find from one product to another. If you have a question about colors, please contact us. How to fluff pompoms and assemble other products ? We send you the pompoms and other products flat, so that they don't get damaged during delivery. But they are super easy to assemble and most of them even don't need instructions. For pompoms, LOVE balloons and star lanterns, you can watch Do you have other sizes of lanterns or other colors apart from the ones featured on the site ? All sizes, products and colors available are featured on our website
