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Do you decorate your kitchen?

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just5morepeas · 10/09/2017 10:04

Just got my first Christmasy item the other day - I was in Tesco's and saw they had some xmas stuff out and got a gorgeous biscuit tin which had a lovely picture of a fox family in snowy woods on it.

I'll probably keep it and get it out every year. I also change my towels/oven gloves to a red set and decorate the cupboard doors with cards and things the kids have made in previous years.

Do you decorate your kitchen and if so how?

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 10/09/2017 10:51

Yes we have an "L" shaped kitchen/dining room/family room so I spend loads of time in these rooms (my laptop lives on the dining room table)

We have a gap above the kitchen cupboards that we put a fir swag on with tiny coloured lights .

I do the Christmas Teatowels too

Christmas oilcloth table cover goes on Dec 1st

Those snowflake window clings (Lakeland) on he window and french doors.

And a few votive candles on the windowsill (nothing flammable there)

I have a little The Snowman soft toy that sits on the cupboard all year (he's a bit dusty though, he's about 14 yo )

I tried to grow a potted ivy on top of the freezer but it didn't like it there , so now its happily in the bathroom.

Unicorn81 · 10/09/2017 10:55

I have a crimbo pudding teapot, jug and sugar bowl, towels, oven gloves, mugs, plates, glasses, a crimbo candle burning which is normally gingebread. Some fairy lights are nirmally in a vase or bowl too. Every bit of the house has some decor

Brittbugs80 · 10/09/2017 10:57

I change all the cups to Christmas ones, Christmas tea towels and oven gloves come out, a couple of poinsettia flowers go in, bunting on my wall shelves, fairy lights round the French doors and this year we are putting a tree in the kitchen where the presents for family and friends will live so save rooting round under the main tree.

We don't have a dining table and the end of our kitchen has two arm chairs and a round side table in between them so the pillowcases will be swapped for Christmas ones.

But then I have Spring/summer covers and autumn/winter/Christmas covers and the decor in the house changes. It turns to Autumn next weekend!

Bluntness100 · 10/09/2017 10:58

No, but I don't decorate the house either, I put a Xmas tree up in the living room, long wreaths over the fireplaces, with stockings hung up, and one wreath the front door and that's it. I'm too tight to buy a load of other Xmas crap to use once a year.

Tidypidy · 10/09/2017 10:59

I've collected some Christmas mugs over the years in the January sales so our normal cups all go away to make way for them. We put fairy lights above the wall cupboards and have our advent calendars up in the kitchen too. My kids like to make paper snowflakes so they go on the patio doors.

80sMum · 10/09/2017 11:02

No! I put a tree up in the dining room and display cards and have a mantelpiece green garland thingy in the sitting room. That's plenty! It's such a faff getting it all out and putting it all away again a few days later.

MrsPworkingmummy · 10/09/2017 11:57

No I don't, but I'm going to now as you've given me some great ideas. We have had a Christmas tea-towel and oven glove, but it hadn't always been brought out. Our kitchen is a good size, but doesn't have room for a table so it's used for cooking only - I've been worried about decorations surviving in steamy cooking conditions. I think I'll hang some bunting along the edge of our shelves, and pop some Christmas Flowers in the window this year.
In our lounge we put up a real tree, a garland over each mantlepiece (we have two fires in our lounge as the room is an old cow shed) and I stick cards around the window frames. We put an old fake tree up in our music room (sounds grand - it's not. A little room full of guitars and a piano) which DD predominantly decorates. We also add a smaller glittery tree on top of the piano. In our dining room, we put a small 3 foot fibre optic tree up in the window sill and bunting around the mantle piece of the range. Our wedding anniversary is 21/12 so we tend to put the cards from that up around the range too.
Exciting times ahead.

haggisaggis · 10/09/2017 12:23

The Christmas crockery (bought over a few years for a few quid mostly from Morrisons) comes out on 1st Dec along with Christmas tea towels and oven mitts. Later through the month will put up fairy lights and a poinsettia or 2. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen over Christmas so seems a shame if the decorations are all elsewhere.

NoWordForFluffy · 10/09/2017 12:35

Only insofar as I have Christmassy tea towels and hand towels in there (and hand towels in the bathroom too!).

I decorate the dining room a bit (and have another tree for this year to put in there!). The main focus is our lounge, however.

GreenTulips · 10/09/2017 12:37

I have a set of colour changing lights that sit on top of the cupboards which light up the ceiling, very low key really.

Other than that we have a tree and a few lights outside on the guttering

ConstantlyCooking · 10/09/2017 12:38

Christmas towels, tea towels, oven gloves , mugs and other assorted crockery and biscuit tins appear on 1st December (or more realistically the first weekend after 1st). I buy things in the sales after Christmas or get given them as presents. They get packed away in a box in the loft on 12th Night.

MuddlingThroughLife · 10/09/2017 16:05

In the kitchen we have a gorgeous Santa cookie jar. We have Christmas oven gloves and tea towels. All our mugs and glasses get replaced with Christmas ones and we have some Christmas fridge magnets.

The living/dining room is a through room. We have a huge 8ft tree that touches the ceiling. We replace all our "normal" ornaments with Christmas ones and decorate the fireplace.

I usually stick some window clings up by the front door as we have large windows either side of the door and this year is like to buy new/more and maybe some battery operated lights. Christmas mat by front door.

Kids have little Christmas trees in their bedrooms with battery operated lights.

All four beds including our king size bed had Christmas bedding.

Toilet and bathroom separate. Toilet has a Santa topper on the seat with Santa pedestal mat. Bathroom has a Santa bath mat and Christmas rubber duckies.

BrieAndChilli · 10/09/2017 16:14

I put coloured fairy lights around the top of the cupboards
We have some sting with pegs on that I normally hang kids certificates and pictures on so I put old xmas cards/pics the kids have made on there along with photos of them in past xmas plays etc
Then I have some small decorative square shelf things which I put on my angel collection (a couple of old angels from when I was a kid along with a couple of angel decorations I made with my nan and then DD has carried on the tradition and makes me an angle every year

Snausage · 10/09/2017 16:50

I have a teeny, tiny cupboard galley kitchen so there's no room for anything fun. I do put some LED lights up and have a candle and poinsettia on the windowsill, though, and a few Christmas mugs come out. I'm going to get some Christmassy tea towels this year.

Chottie · 10/09/2017 19:16

I have a large glass vase filled with silvery twigs and I hang a string of little star lights and just little glass, silver and white decorations on it which sits on the end of the work top.

On the window sill I have a furry robin Christmas card which DS gave me when he was about 6 (he is now 35 :) ). It comes out every year and I love it.

SunSeptember · 10/09/2017 19:19

Animal based things on window sill, squirrel, robin etc. Snowflakes from ceiling and pretty 🌟 light. Would do more if kitchen not separate.

Brittbugs80 · 10/09/2017 20:11

The hallway has large framed Christmas posters. They are double frames so the rest of the year they show our New York posters then they turn round on Dec 1st to Christmas ones, garland and bells on the Bannister and a candle arch on the window and a poinsettia on the telephone table.

The living room is ceiling garlands from the corner to the centre of the ceiling, tree fully decorated and fireplace with swags, stockings and Nativity scene. Daily advent candle on the fire place. Coffee table has Christmas runner on, Advent candles in a Holly filled tray and Christmas cushions on the sofa

Front of house is decorated too, so is undercover patio out the back. That is currently decorated with burnt orange Chrysanthemums, hay bales coming in a couple of weeks and some pumpkins!

I grew up in a season decorated house and loved it!

anyoldname76 · 10/09/2017 20:19

i do, i decorate the kitchen window, i put up some christmassy decorations on the walls, have Christmas tea towels and oven mitts, a Christmas tablecloth and some christmassy salt and pepper pots. one of my favourite things is an after 8 holder, its got a snowman at one end and rudolph at the other

DarthMaiden · 10/09/2017 20:27

Yes I do.

I put up a pretty silver wreath above the cooker hood and change the candles on the table for white/silver ones.

I have a beam across the ceiling and that gets decorated with white and silver baubles and fairy lights.

Finally I usually get white flowers and add in some silver decorations to make an arrangement for the table with the candles mentioned above on either side.

I also decorate the lounge, snug, dining room and hallway - in different colour schemes - I love the house looking festive

mmmmmchocolate · 10/09/2017 20:39

My kitchen is my favourite room at Christmas! There are far more decorations in there than the living room.

It's all food themed- think gingerbread, candy canes, Christmas puddings etc. I even have mince pie shaped tree decorations! I only have a 3 foot tree but my ornament collection has gotten so large that I'm hoping to get a 4 foot one this year. There are light up gingerbread houses and candle holders all along the window sills and hundreds of fairy lights twinkling around the room. I make sure that it's tasteful though I can't have anything tacky lol! TBH it always looks like a Christmas shop. DH always rolls his eyes at me but I think he'd be disappointed if I didn't put it all up.

tigercub50 · 10/09/2017 21:28

Feeling really Christmassy now! We'll be in our new house so I'll make more effort this year. I don't usually decorate the kitchen but our new house has a kitchen/diner so I will decorate it. I always get a bit panicky & think I have to make the house look like a property from Homes & Gardens or similar glossy magazines but in the end, I'm happy with what I do.

secondhoneymoon · 11/09/2017 15:30

We have Christmas mugs. I buy mini (real) Ponsettia for the kitchen windowsill and also have Christmas votive candle holders in between but that's it

Dinosauratemydaffodils · 11/09/2017 17:46

Yes. I have holly fairy lights around the big window and a little tree with mostly food related decorations in the other window. Christmas bunting runs along the top of the units and I put a wreath on the door. I also have an advent candle on the kitchen table. I also turn the backdoor into a Snowman as it's painted white.

QuimJongUn · 14/09/2017 08:12

Oh yes! I spend a good deal of Christmas Day in there so hell yeah, I make it festive

The rest of the house usually has a very green/rich red theme with lots of trailing ivy and greenery and the kitchen continues the theme. Lots and lots of warm white fairy lights (loads at the window especially), a small real tree which we've been growing in a pot since we bought him at a pound shop four Christmases ago, more greenery, candles on the windowsill and green or red oven mitts/tea towels/apron. And Christmas radio playing constantly from the first Sunday in advent

LadyTsunade · 16/09/2017 14:59

Yes! I attempt to decorate every room in house, though I struggle with kitchen for some reason. Where does everyone buy their Xmas tea towels from lol? I can never find them.

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