Decorating your home once for its year-round presentation is already a huge task. Decorating it all over again for one six-week season? That’s a daunting ask for even the most seasoned designer. Luckily, there’s plenty of tips out there to help you transform your home into a winter wonderland. We’ve compiled the best of them here, to make it even easier to make your Christmas decorating festive and beautiful.
Play Off What You Already Have
Just because every store is bursting with bright reds and greens this time of year doesn’t mean your home has to as well. You can still make your space feel like Christmas with the colors you already decorate with. Use wrapping paper, ribbons, tree skirt, ornaments, and more in the colors you’ve already chosen. Accentuate your collections of glassware, vases, trinkets, or other accessories with greenery, holly berries, and tinsel to bring them into the Christmas spirit.
Up Your Gift-Wrapping Game
The presents are already sitting under your tree for weeks, so you might as well use them as part of your Christmas decorating. This year, opt for color/pattern coordinating wrapping paper and ribbons. Make customized, hand-made gift tags for your loved ones, and add a little trinket or ornament to the bow for an extra festive touch. Not only will your home look beautiful with a pile of gorgeous presents, but your loved ones will feel extra special when they open their well-wrapped gifts.
Greenery Galore
One of the easiest ways to make your home feel festive is to cover it top-to-bottom in greenery. And it doesn’t have to be just evergreen boughs! Use a mix of magnolia leaves, eucalyptus, succulents, mistletoe, and traditional evergreen garland. Drape your dining table, mantel, windows, staircases, and more in your beautiful greenery mix to make it feel like your own personal magical forest!
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Find Alternative Uses for Decorations
If you’re tired of your old ornaments, try spray painting them in a monochromatic scheme to freshen up your tree. Place extra ornaments on presents, in vases, in baskets, or in your garland. Use tiny Nutcrackers as place card holders, or drape your tree with vertical hanging ribbons this year! Simply finding a new use for your existing decorations will make your space feel brand new.
Most of all, have fun when you’re decorating! If you love what you create, then others will as well.
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