Christmas: tips to decorate the house

Ideas for Christmas decorations

Twinkling lights, gifts, decorations and courtesies to guests. Set apart sobriety and minimalism, Christmas is the festivity that sings in a blaze of decorations.



For those who are always in a hurry or for those last hours, if you have not set your house for the Christmas celebrations, here are some tips on how to decorate the table and space in view of Christmas.

An original Christmas tree

We start from the tree, the main element of any Christmas decoration.

If you really are not in the mood to take out from the attic the lights, the tree and frills, the eco-style alternative of this year is the One Two Tree, a Scandinavian style wooden tree consisting in over 26 branches rotating on a trunk.
Minimal design, structure in Australian pine plywood, this eco proposal frees creativity in choosing the decorations.
You can buy with the structure a kit of DIY decoration, comprising everything necessary for the realization of decorations in pyramidal shape and in different shades of color.
Interesting and certainly new is the outdoor solution that Loetizia Censi sign for SlideSrl, Christmas tree light, Lightree.
It is a floor lamp whose stylized shape strongly reminds a Christmas tree.
When lighted, it spreads an atmospheric light that in addition to the classic natural green you can have also in red Christmas or in white snow. A third alternative to the classic pine is the Christmas tree by Collection Reno, made of 100% recycled cardboard, FSC certified, brand guarantor the origin of the fibers used from forests managed according to specific environmental rules.
Sizes range from 130 to 60 cm, in the Classic, Modern and Small size. Easy to assemble and very practical to be retained, the cardboard trees leave space to creativity in decorative.

Decorate the Christmas tree

Natural or synthetic, wood or recycled cardboard, the important thing is that there is room for customization, with the art of decoration. Always iconic symbol of Christmas and now testing ground of our personal taste and creativity in reinventing home during the holidays, the tree should be decorated according to a theme.
Some people collect balls from the world, some others create decorative DIY, others who point to the latest design.
A DIY job, simple and funny, perfect for engaging children in their preparation, are the decorations made in cloth lenci.
It is some mices made in lenci cloth with the tail in candy cane.
Just draw on a sheet of paper a shape with simple and stylized shape of a mouse, then use it as a pattern for the scraps of lenci cloth.
Once you have made all the pieces you just have to assemble them together with glue and insert the candy cane.
By the same principle can be implemented different forms, create a real mini zoo on your funny Christmas tree.
From the animal world to the natural frame with The workshop which reinvents the traditional Christmas balls replacing them with artificial horticultural elements: eggplant, carrots and onions, glass beads shaped like peppers and radishes.
A glittery version of the plants ornaments is proposed by Old World Christmas that brings to the tree sparkling cobs, lemons and pearly dried fruit.
Finally, for lovers of Hi-Tech, House takes care of you, with pellets containing an internal LED lights that turn on and off with a ultraslim mini remote control.
They are beautiful, they have a simple elegance but they create a great atmosphere, especially if combined with festoon lights of the same line, consisting of small white pierced houses.

A nice Christmas Nativity

Another symbol indispensable to our Christmas is the Nativity scene, to be kept in plain sight in a strategic place of the living room. Yet it is not always easy to match its forms extremely classical to other more minimal or vintage.



Alessi makes us a proposal that marries tradition and contemporary design. The result are stylized, cheerful multicolor nativity figurines, signed by Massimo Giacon and thought for a youthful, contemporary design, which does not want to give up the Christmas must-have.

Garlands for the house at Christmas

To hang on the door, pull over to the wall in the yard or in the middle of the table, the wreath among many others is undoubtedly the most characteristic of the Christmas decorations.
Sometimes it is expensive to buy good and ready one, a wreath is actually a decorative object of simple making.
It is enough to start from a circular base, possibly in moldable wire, on which to apply pine branches real or synthetic, coiled around the rim and fixed at the ends with hot glue.
We then move on to the application of the decorations: golden twigs, bells, flowers and bows; finally the colored ribbon at the top to hang our garland.
By the same principle can be made some fantasy wreaths, using buttons in bulk, corks, scraps of felt, crochet decorations.

A creative solution, simple and effective is the use of alternate oranges and lemons slices dried in the oven, cut into slices of medium thickness and juxtaposed with acanthus leaves and roots of cinnamon, so as to obtain a garland of fruit.

Finally, lovely and the easiest to make is the outdoor ice garland of ice.
It starts by gathering berries, pine cones and twigs inserting them in a classic cake pan with hole in the center, filled with water and put in the freezer for a few hours.
Once it is hard, just add some fresh sprigs and a ribbon to proudly hang our ice garland!

Christmas stockings

Linked to the Epiphany, the stockings are part of the Christmas decoration and their entry into the house takes place together with the rest of the preparations for the holidays.
To achieve a DIY stocking you need to purchase the raw fabric, some felt of the same color and some white feathers, sequins and glue.
Once you have made a paper template and cut out the fabric following the shapes of the pattern you just have to join the two lines that make up the stocking adorning them with feathers and sequins.

Home furnishings for the Holidays

Christmas can be a valuable opportunity to renew, even slightly, the decor of the house, with additions that will integrate seamlessly with the surrounding environment and beautify our homes in view of the festivities.



Splendid is the blast from the past of Opinion Ciatti, with the collection FollowYourRoots which takes the classic suspended chandelier with chains support. Made of aluminum, with a range of finishing, in the version in gold or silver foil style evokes the shape of a Christmas decoration.

Set the table for Christmas

A table finely laden can't be missing to complement the courtesies to guests and to infuse to our house an enchanting festive atmosphere. It starts from the tablecloth, possibly white or light shade and neutral, so as to let the color come to the table with additional accessories.
An elegant proposal comes from Zara Home; it is a tablecloth white snow, in linen 55% cotton and 45%.
Both the tablecloth and the runner are decorated with delicate snowflakes embroidered in silver and hemstitching around the edge.
It then enters into the heart of the decoration on the table with the positioning of the napkins that can be coordinated or do color contrast with the tablecloth.
In addition to the usual arrangement on the side of the plate, there are a number of creative variants as the fan shape decoration inside the glass or placed before the plate and tight around jewel napkin holders.
For the selection of the plates, an essential and refined proposal comes from Tognana Porcelains with Margot line, composed of resistant stoneware plates with relief decorations. For a table cheerful and youthful, Henriette by Desart offers a range of accessories for the preparation of the centerpiece in bright red and white snow.
Each piece is closely related to the theme of Christmas: from the bell cake in porcelain and silk-screened glass, the candle holder cup red with pretty trees, reindeers and Santa Claus in decorum.
The traditional Christmas decorations alternating with classic, banquet preciosity, should not be missing: pine needles, poinsettias, scented candles, flowers.

At each diner his placeholder Christmas

For more picky, lovers of detail that makes the difference in the table can not miss the custom placeholder.
And there are variations in profusion. A variant green and DIY can be made ??with colored cardboard and decorated with the bracts of the cones.
Just shaping pieces of heavy cardboard in the shape you want and clothing them in colored cardboard that will be the basis on which to write the names of the guests.
Finally adorn the cards unplugging the bracts from pine cones and composing the flowers that will be glued with hot glue.
And then there is the alternative greedy, to mark the places with tasty treats, like the colorful macarons or small cup cake and finally candy cane or chocolates naked, wrapped in tulle bags transparent and closed with ribbon in pendant with remaining decorations.