Top 25 Ideas For Cheery Christmas Decorations

Decorations for Christmas in every area of the house. Elegant Christmas trees, tables, and door wreaths are all available. Decorate your halls with these chic ideas.

The holiday season is quickly approaching, and at House & Garden, we naturally think of Christmas decorations and all the different ways to make our homes a little bit more joyful, especially in light of last year's unusual lack of festivity. With mince pies and hot cocoa in hand, we've been revisiting some of our all-time favorite Christmas decoration suggestions for living rooms, dining rooms, and other spaces, and we believe what we've found is rather unique.

Our collection of elegant Christmas wreaths, lavish table settings, and, of course, the cheeriest ornaments and tree trimmings are perfect for highlighting your thoughtfully chosen Christmas gifts. Our inspiration collection is guaranteed to feature something you can utilize in your own home, whether you're planning a conventional holiday season full of red, green, and gold or want something a little more contemporary (we do enjoy a tree full of kitsch ornaments). And if you really don't like this, we do have a very wonderful gallery of Christmas decorating ideas for minimalists that just could work.

Best Ideas for Christmas Decorations

A garland encircling the mirror, tall candles lining the mantelpiece, and stockings hung in front of the fire are just a few of the festive touches Amanda Brooks added to her Cotswold farmhouse.

In this cozy cabin, a pine garland is draped across the beam. Only the lit-up Christmas tree with its sparkling fairy lights and the roaring fire in the log burner provide lighting for the entire area.

Pomegranates are a quick and simple way to add color to the festive table.

Foraged Christmas ornaments and salvaged building materials at this old rectory in the West Country add to the impression of a home that has been made family-friendly while preserving its Victorian charm. This room at the front of the house, which has walls painted in Farrow & Ball's "Setting Plaster," is decorated for Christmas by the family with pine cones and old man's beard branches.

No need to install chandeliers; simply hang several candelabras from the ceiling with ribbon and add some (LED) candles for quick mood lighting.

You are welcome to drape garlands and foliage over the tops of cabinets, bookcases, and wardrobes.

The back office and studio are on the left as you enter printmaker Cameron Short's renovated Georgian home from the hallway. The room itself is diverse and filled with historical items, including the original "Bonfield" sign from the store that Cameron converted into a workshop. For vintage-inspired Christmas decorations, use the bunting that is strung over the hallway. Use a DIY punch, like this one from Woodware, to create your own.

The mantelpiece of Pedro da Costa Felgueiras' East London home is adorned with sparse holly branches. Pedro da Costa Felgueiras is a specialist in historical pigments.

With extra flora from TukTuk Flower Studio arranged in draperies and sparkling mushrooms snuggled below, the dining area is a swirl of color.

Farrow & Ball's "Lichen" gives a nice setting for subdued metallic accents like tin ornaments and a spoon garland. A candlestick holder from Jess Wheeler adds a touch of gold to the foreground.

Add some color to classic Christmas decorations. The swankiest decorations of the year are combined with patterned textiles to create a design concept by Gabby Deeming that is influenced by the Christmas season. The space is decorated with garlands made of origami stars.

In Jeremy Langmead and Simon Rayner's 17th-century farmhouse, walls painted in the color "Chocolate" by Edward Bulmer Natural Paint serve as a subdued backdrop for the natural greenery of a Christmas tree and mantlepiece foliage. While the vegetation above the fire is left unadorned and natural, the gold ornaments on the tree draw attention to the portrait's frame in the background.

In the oldest part of the home, where a 1715-dated oak spice cabinet is set into the strong stone wall, garlands of fresh seasonal greenery adorn the chimneypiece. There is a lot of greenery, with seasonal berries adding splashes of crimson.

When it comes to furnishing their Cotswold cottage, Duncan Campbell and Luke Edward Hall take the more-is-more stance. The mantelpiece received more foliage from Silka Rittson Thomas of TukTuk Flower Studio, along with two wreaths on either end. The couple added ornaments of different sizes and shapes that they had accumulated throughout their relationship to the foliage.

White paper stars come in three sizes: large, 60 cm in diameter, for £8.60; medium, 45 cm in diameter, for £6.13; and small, 12 cm in diameter, for £16.15 for a set of three. the House Doctor, all. At Smug, wrapping paper costs £2.50 a sheet. At MacCulloch & Wallis, velvet ribbon starts at £2 per metre. Large pressed-metal door swags cost £40 apiece, while little swags cost £18 each, both from RE. Caravane sells punched metal tea light holders for £30 apiece. Otago Design's soapstone reindeer candle holders cost £265 each (on chimneypiece).

Annabel Lewis, proprietor of specialized haberdasher's V V Rouleaux, has the ideal opportunity to showcase her skill for artistic ornamentation and brilliant decoration during Christmas at her restored farmhouse in Cumbria. The red-berry and faux-fruit garlands, both from VV Rouleaux, provide vivacious color to the entryway.

Carlos Garcia, an interior designer, argues that adding greenery to your Christmas decorations is a beautiful idea. "In order to ward off evil spirits, it is customary to decorate with foliage. You can do this by placing greenery over tapestries and paintings as well as on mantelpieces, staircases, and other surfaces. Create a festive atmosphere with branches from various conifers, holly, and long strands of ivy. For a realistic woods still life, add fern fronds and dead tree limbs. They are environmentally friendly, and after use, you can either put them to your compost pile or burn them in the fire, which emits a lovely aroma."

See Carlos' tips for Christmas decorating your home as well as the complete article about his Norfolk manor home.

Constance Spry's 1940s glazed Fulham Pottery vases are available at Quindry for a set of nine for $2,450. floating plinth shelves are available from The Good Shelf Company for £11.95 apiece. Achillea Flowers sells foliage garlands for as little as £82.50 per meter. poppy seed head garlands that House & Garden strung and painted with gold paint.

In this design by Gabby Deeming, a fully loaded drinks trolley decked out for Christmas serves as the festive centerpiece. Traditional crepe paper streamers add a splash of color right away.

In the Scottish Borders, Lulu Benson invites her extended family to Neidpath Castle in December, where they feast and revel in the holiday spirit in the lofty ancient hall. Huge candlesticks and hanging floral arrangements created in keeping with the expansive setting set the mood for dinner.

Christmas decor for the simple person. Nikki Tibbles of Wild at Heart, a floral designer, produced arrangements for this sitting area in Rose Uniacke's design to go with the space's understated aesthetic.

According to Nikki, "We included stunning statement arrangements that were clean and classy." We utilized a base of Scots pine, soft grey pine, soft grey eucalyptus, and asparagus fern for both arrangements. White euphorbia and flowering white jasmine have been put to the mantelpiece, while lichen branches and eucalyptus buds have been used to fill out the grey vases.

An inexpensive and efficient way to decorate walls and furniture for the holidays is using crepe-paper streamers. Here, decorative editor for House & Garden Gabby Deeming has wrapped them around the posts of this Spanish daybed from the eighteenth century. draping its canopy with fir boughs and ornaments in a variety of colors.

According to Ben Pentreath, "I have always preferred traditional yet simplified schemes that look natural, bright, and fresh." "Bringing greenery into the house is, in my opinion, the most significant thing. I don't think it's worth spending a lot of money on expensive imported goods that will just end up in the trash. Ivy and holly picked from neighboring woods are arranged on the chimneypiece of his Dorset home.

Annabel Lewis, proprietor of specialized haberdasher's V V Rouleaux, has the ideal opportunity to showcase her skill for artistic ornamentation and brilliant decoration during Christmas at her restored farmhouse in Cumbria.

The chair in front of the fireplace in the living room has been reupholstered in vintage ribbon fringe and millinery velvet. A collection of light bulbs that Annabel decorated with vivid color stripes and saved from Parsons Green station in the 1980s were used to make the garland above the fire. A variety of Mexican tin ornaments in dazzling colors decorate the mantle.

Simply add more foliage to your tree if it is a little sparser than you would like. In this instance, decorations from Selfridges were paired with eucalyptus and snowberries that were put between the trees. Jamie Aston's eucalyptus and pine banister garland is adorned with Lights4fun fairy lights as it snakes its way up the railing.

Source: HouseandGarden.co.uk

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