Decorating your home for the holidays does not need to be stressful or expensive. Being one of the most popular times of the year to decorate, get your family complicated and have fun making your home gorgeous for the holiday season.
Here are 15 Christmas decorating ideas:
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1. Display your popular Christmas collections. If you don't have a collection, now is a great time to start! My son and I collect nutcrackers and every year we have a splendid time selecting just the right one. With a permanent marker, I write the year on the lowest of the nutcracker. Not only do we enjoy looking at the nutcrackers during the holidays, we also enjoy the fond memories of selecting them.
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2. Make simple bows out of Christmas ribbons and attach them to your curtains with pins. This is a very charming look.
3. Decorate your house plants by hanging small Christmas ornaments on them.
4. Place a collection of Christmas books on your coffee table.
5. Fill a glass bowl with pine cones and Christmas balls and place on a shelf or table.
6. Wrap your staircase banister with indoor Christmas lights, garland, and bows.
7. To add scent throughout your home, tie 5 or 6 cinnamon sticks together in a bundle using Christmas ribbon. Make as many bundles as you wish and place nearby your home in baskets or bowls.
8. To decorate your table, tie Christmas ribbon to the stems of glasses and/or handles of cutlery.
9. To dress up your chairs, tie Christmas bows nearby the chair so that the bow is on the back of the chair.
10. Using a small brush or q-tip, paint the edges of pine cones with glittery gold craft paint. After the pine cones dry, place them in a ornamental basket.
11. Add Christmas garland to door frames, window frames and mirrors. You can use tape to collect the garland to the surfaces.
12. Tie bows nearby door knobs using festive and colorful Christmas ribbon.
13. Attach garland and Christmas bows to your chandelier. You can also weave strings of red beads in the garland that will dangle down from your chandelier and reflect the light, which will add sparkle.
14. If you live in a milder climate, think decorating with Amaryllis plants. These gorgeous plants come in red and white, grow tall, and supply a very elegant look.
15. Don't forget to decorate your fireplace mantel and hang your Christmas stockings. A few fireplace mantel decorating ideas are adding garland, separate styles and sizes of Santas, teddy bears, and candles. You can also display your popular nativity scene if you have a large adequate mantel.
Be creative with your fireplace mantel because most mantels are the focal point during the holiday season. Someone else decorating idea for your mantel is to buy a bunch of miniature rosemary trees shaped like Christmas trees, add mini ornaments to them and line them up over your mantel. These miniature rosemary trees are facilely available during the holidays and come in festive containers.
Christmas decorating is a great time to originate traditions and spend ability time with your family. Get out some snacks and drinks and originate a miniature "decorating party" that your family will love and look forward to year after year.
Happy Holidays!
15 Fast, Fun and Easy Christmas Decorating IdeasManhattan Fruitier makes fruit basket on Martha Stewart Show Video Clips. Duration : 6.92 Mins.Martha Stewart visit Manhattan Fruitier for a demonstration of how to make a fruit basket.
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