Decorating the staircase

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I usually wind those long faux fir garlands round , they have wire in them which forms a hook at the end.

Had to be ruthless with the decorations last year , some past their best.

So this year I'm planning:
we have straight upright wooden strutts (cream) and some small glass tea-light holder baubles. I'll get some LED tealights, fishing wire (invisible ) and tie round the bannister, bit of Blu-tack then a fancy ribbon spiralled round to hide the tied bits.
Maybe ivy from the garden at the end post .
The DC are older now so glass not an issue.

In years gone by I've collected tiny teddy bears and tucked one in the corner of every step (stole the Teddy on every step idea from an article about a child friendly hotel)

What are you planning, inspire me .

Sounds lovely.

We will do our usual. Long length of led fairy lights that will wrap down and up the banister, topped with silvery tinsel over the lights (wrapped around the banister and between the spindles).

We’ve had the same decorations for our hall stairs for the past 13 years and the children would hate it if we did something different!

Op where is it your stair banister? I go mad decorating but never paid much attention to it, maybe I need to

If I'd paid more attention to Stephen Fry in QI , I'd remember which bit is which

The bannister is the balustrade or something ?

Any road up.
Hall , stairs on the right. We have a 90 degree angle at the top and 3 steps which are triangular so I put something at the top corner , usually polar bears.

I hang some icicle lights from the landing banister (there's a shelving unit in the hall so they hang in the drop area)

I used to twist a couple of faux garlands either round the base or the handrail , then small , non fragile decorations .

But I like to try something different each year so maybe pare down the hall. Though it is lovely to have the lights there.

Bums and more bums

I bought battery operated tealights- check
I bought invisible thread-check (which was no mean feat considering haberdasher deprs are like hens' teeth)
I got DH up in the attic to find the new glass tea-light holders ....^and the tealights don't bloody FIT through the hole .
Not the battery ones, not a flamed one either
I'll need to use the bigger ones (and buy more , I only have 2 ) and fill the small ones with something else.
Any ideas?

A sprig of foliage (Christmas tree if you have a real one?)

We got the tree today so I'll poach some of the branch and curl it up with some ivy (from the garden) that can trail.
Bit of red ribbon, job done

I use the big ones at Easter filled with tiny yellow chicks but these ones have just been unpacked so I didn't now how small they were.