Christmas is just around the corner! There's still plenty of time to get festive and break out the decorations. Between preparing the food and buying your loved ones’ presents, transforming your home into a winter wonderland is a great way to embrace the holiday spirit. But it can feel like a lot of work! Here are some tips to make sure everything from your hallway to your living room is decorated with the perfect Christmas-y finishing touches.
Choose a color scheme
Choosing the right color scheme can be difficult, especially when you want different rooms to evoke different moods. While gold, red and green, or silver and white are classic choices that will look elegant in most homes, there recently has been an influx of new color trends, notably darker colors like black. You may use a mix of glossy and glittered black ornaments, which will reflect light so the colors don’t become lost among the dark green foliage of a Christmas tree. This year the popular color for decoration is cashmere brown. It works beautifully with other colors such as dull matte gold or pearl creams. It’s a very subtle, muted, timeless palette.
The Christmas Tree
The main attraction of any festive interior is the Christmas tree, the main focus when decorating your home for the Holidays. Whether the tree is artificial or not doesn’t matter as long as it matches your taste and suits your room proportions. When it comes to color schemes, it is preferable to make you coordinate between all the decorations in your room. That way, the tree looks like it has always been part of the home, rather than a temporary addition.
The Living Room
The living room is often at the center of the Holiday action, where you’ll be spending many chilly evenings huddled together for warmth. When it comes to Christmas decor, it should come as no surprise that your lounge area will be the highlight of the house. Use the right accessories to enhance the overall Christmas mood like hanging vases, brass candles, artificial Christmas flowers and various Christmas table and wall ornaments.
The Dining Room
When it comes to the dining room you’re going to want the table to be the main focal point and for this, candles are the best way to go. White table cloths come first then fill the space down the middle with greenery from the garden, flowers, berries and candles. You can put candles in jars or on candle sticks. Just don’t have anything too tall... remember that you have to reach across to grab those Christmas crackers!
The Hallway
The hallway is the first area that your guests will see as they enter your home, so it’s important not to forget to add a little festive cheer in it. Use garlands around the door from both sides to offer a real warm and welcoming impression as you enter and leave, creating a great visual impact during night and day. Your staircase can also be a great place to spruce up, especially by wrapping the balustrades with real or faux greenery full of hanging baubles and battery-operated fairy lights. If you have a console table, a vase with a simple branch, with baubles hanging from it and more fairy lights, can also be great welcome for your guests and will add to the whole ambiance.
The Bedroom
If you want to transform your bedroom or guest room into a relaxing and festive hideaway for the Christmas season, it is recommended to add a simple chain of twinkling fairy lights. The bedroom is also a great place to help children feel included in the festive fun. Good decoration to use over the bed is to hang paper stars and snowflakes; this will give the bedroom a magical Christmas feel.