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What's your Christmas home style?

14 replies

TheGhostILoveTheMost · 16/11/2023 09:59

Mine is colourful, pom poms, Christmas cushions, rainbow tree, fairy lights and felt garlands everywhere
Not traditional at all but I love it.
I add bits every year.

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AuntieStella · 16/11/2023 10:12

Messy, happy (I hope), multicoloured, same stuff out every year and Father Christmas brings a new bauble for each person in their stocking so the collection keeps growing.

I don't buy other new stuff these days - but we are gradually decluttering DMum's house, so I'm giving some stuff from my childhood a new lease of life at ours

Fluffyc1ouds · 16/11/2023 10:13

We just get a tree so no other decorations. But I love a more random, traditional looking tree - so the baubles and decorations are a bit old looking with a mix of gold, red, silver, green, etc. I don't try to make anything match and I don't buy sets of decs. I prefer to pick out individual ones that I like the look of.

It's how our tree was when I was a young child before my mum went a bit boring with one colour that had to match the wrapping paper, curtains, carpet, etc.

I'd love to get a big wreath for the front door but it's only really seen by the postman so I don't bother. I also love the idea of a garland above our wood burner but we don't have a mantelpiece to put it on, which is a shame. To be honest I'm never too sure about decorations beyond the tree! I've no idea where to put them.

TheGhostILoveTheMost · 16/11/2023 10:26

Yeah same here with the old stuff. I have things from 25+ years ago.
I don't go with trends as such, I buy things I like and add a few bits every year and the collection just grows bigger and bigger 😆
I love getting out the older things. I have some ones from the first Christmas that Dh and I were together over 25 years ago.
We also have a set of little wind up, wooden music boxes and a beautiful musical snowglobe that are family favourites.

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pacificoceanwhale · 16/11/2023 10:46

I invested (a small fortune...) in a 8ft tree and new decorations 2 years ago and went for traditional Green, Red & Gold.
Loved the idea of multi coloured tree and decorations especially as DC still quite young but the traditional colours worked out cheaper and I love them now.
So large tree and several matching garlands - stairs, mantle piece and 2 windowsills.

Mostly all very coordinated with a few of the kids bits scattered around here and there 🎄

housethatbuiltme · 16/11/2023 10:55

I would describe it as 'We have either been robbed or a small tornado hit only our house.'

3 children and 2 cats make an instagrammable xmas pretty impossible.

I use to have a pretty black fiber optic tree with dark red roses, silver birds and purple and teal glittery icicals but the tree got broke and now I have a cheap mangled green tree with whatever decor survived last year (getting less and less by the year) and the kids ones they make at school/clubs (getting more and more by the year) which are utterly random.

I use to have several mice holding little stockings dotted around and and little light up village ornaments. Now I have one glittery deer on the wall head as its the only thing the cats wont attack or the kids can't reach to break.

someonesdaughter · 16/11/2023 11:07

I remember from being a child, the most exiting thing was the nostalgia of the familiar Xmas decs coming down from the loft and remembering all the things from and where they go.
I have bought some ornaments and a large Santa and have the same tree decs each year so my dc hopefully remember it all each year. I also have a few ornaments that were my mums which I love to get out each year that remind me of the magic of Christmas as a child.

TheGhostILoveTheMost · 16/11/2023 15:40

someonesdaughter · 16/11/2023 11:07

I remember from being a child, the most exiting thing was the nostalgia of the familiar Xmas decs coming down from the loft and remembering all the things from and where they go.
I have bought some ornaments and a large Santa and have the same tree decs each year so my dc hopefully remember it all each year. I also have a few ornaments that were my mums which I love to get out each year that remind me of the magic of Christmas as a child.

I do think this is what my dc like best, besides the gifts.
The christmas nostalgia! It's magical

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JaneJeffer · 16/11/2023 15:42

Royle Family

GettingStuffed · 16/11/2023 16:35

Eclectic, tree is mainly red and silver but still has some sentimental ones that aren't.

Lights around the units and tinsel around the tops of units and the pictures. Then we have surfaces with figures, a wooden village on a side table.

This year I'm sure it will be slightly less as we're away the first week in December so need to do in just over a fortnight what normally takes double that.

reluctantbrit · 16/11/2023 17:11

Several Christmas pyramids
A wooden light up village scene for the living room window
The mantlepiece holds several small glass oranments, stars, snowman, snowglobes
a mobile of crows with santa hats (my In-laws got DD when she was tiny) goes into the hallway. It's silly, funny and cute
A wreath on the door, I love seeing it when I come home from work
An advent wreath, mainly in the dining room

The tree comes in on the 22nd and it's a mix of red, gold, silver baubles, wood and glass ornaments and some things my mum made when I was in Kindergarden. When she moved and decided not to have a tree anymore I got lots of small things I treasure now.

A nativity scene comes out on the 22nd/23rd as well.

frozendaisy · 16/11/2023 20:14

Full of scents.

We make from scratch with minimal baking talent a gingerbread house WITH boiled sweet glass windows. It's very touch and go!

Stick cloves in oranges

Burn cinnamon candles

Mulled wine

The decorations, apart from the fairy lights because I spend what I like on those, are homemade tatty!

Play games, music on, great crackers, attempt to play a carol or two on the keyboard.

So I don't know, home made. Nothing matches. No theme running through it. Red features most......I think.

Tulipvase · 16/11/2023 20:28

Traditional I guess.

Lots of fairy lights. 7ft real tree, log burner, mix match of decorations, quite a lot of glass. Lots and lots of candles.

GreenCereal · 16/11/2023 20:33

Mine is very much toddler inspired - so no decorations on the lower half of the tree, and finding various bits of the nativity in different parts of the house...

Pre children my theme was traditional red and green, so that's my base collection - now being added to yearly with things that are meaningful to the kids (and us!).

Foxrouge · 18/11/2023 21:45

Christmas explosion here. Ornaments everywhere!

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