Zahid Hussain from Birmingham, who filled a device with 1.6 kg of shrapnel and made "improvised igniters" from the festive decorations to create the so-called "pressure cooker bomb", was convicted of preparing for an act of terrorism and jailed for at least 15 years by the Winchester Crown Court.
"You are a dangerous offender and in the view of the level of the danger that you pose and the impossibility of predicting when it will come to an end, this is an appropriate case in which to impose a sentence of life imprisonment," said Justice Sweeney during sentencing.
Jurors at Hussains trial were told that he became radicalised while viewing hundreds of ISIS images and videos of the war in Syria.
He used a bedroom in his parents' home in Birmingham as his "base of operations and improvised laboratory" where he researched and attempted to assemble explosives.
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He was arrested in August 2015 after reports of a man "patrolling" the streets carrying a hammer and crowbar near the house.
The judge told Hussain it was clear he had been "strongly committed" to carrying out multiple bombings.
He described Hussains "culpability" as extremely high due to being "deeply radicalised" and concluded that based on the evidence and reports of several expert psychiatric reports he also suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
However, he still deemed a life sentence "appropriate" in view of the level of the danger he posed, and the "impossibility of predicting when it will come to an end".
Hussain has been directed to serve a minimum of 15 years before being considered for parole.