What will be your christmas aesthetic this year?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

I dont think i want to go full on 90s this year

I quite like this gold and brown look 🤔

Please, do not judge me for thinking about this in april xoxo

Our theme is "multi-coloured 80s childhood" and consists of last years decorations +1.

OP, if you really cannot bear the sight of last year's decorations, please box them up and pass them on to e.g. a women's refuge or something.

Well this is it, i do have a loft but I think its full already - i dont actually go up there, just use the ladder and push things in 🙈

And then i have a tiny storage cupboard. I reckon I can properly organise it, and stick boxes of decs in there 🤔

That is the dream - perfect and cosy, as christmas should be! 😍 - its just me, dd and dcat here. Dd is autistic so will have French fries and some of the christmas meat. Dcat will have some meat and an expensive cat dinner. And I'll have a full roast 😄😄😄

I feel like white and gold is the colour this year!

Yes thats what i'm thinking, its the whole room that counts towards the christmas theme - i feel like wreath making will be too hard for me, but i'd buy a wreath for the main door to the flat - would like gold twinkling lights in the window as well

Its alright, I thought it was a really nice idea - sounds so good, especially the ed sheeran one! 😄😍 - would it be too outing to upload a photo? No worries if so

I still haven't bought them, thank you - indoors today so will have a browse online 😍

😄🙈 people are annoyed with me for changing theme every year so I plan to buy good quality, lifetime ornaments for the tree - i'll still be spending on temu though as well

😄😄😩😩😩😩😩 i'm on the thread but this is hilarious 😂

I love that 🥰

Traditional and low key in every aspect this year, I feel Christmas is over commercialised now and I love Christmas usually 😂

My general Christmas aesthetic doesn’t change, but we are hosting family for Christmas lunch so I’m pondering the table and dining room theme.

I'm thinking gingerbread house and candy canes or holly green and berry red

I love it 😄 - christmas is for the kids as well, why not

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With what colour lights? 🥰

😄😄 but it'll look so pretty

I can imagine dcat having opinions on this

Whats your typical aesthetic? Would you go big with the candy canes & gingerbread house decor?

Ahh will you change your mind closer to christmas do you think?

Agree its commercialised but theres still fun to be had!

Our usual aesthetic is a bit of a mixed bag. Lots of reds and golds, wooden decorations.
almost every bauble on our tree is different, I collect them. The children are bought a bauble every year to go on the tree and DH buys me a Halcyon Days every year since the year we got engaged. I also have ones passed down from my grandparents and my mum.

we did have our front door decorated last year to something similar to this, which I’ll be repeating this year as the kids and I love it!

for the dining table I like the idea of a gingerbread house centre piece, with the colours of the table tying in with the house (golden browns, white of the icing, etc)

or if I go with the green and red, lots of foliage down the centre of the table with red charger plates, napkins, etc

@MsSquiz we have similar - main decs stay the same and we just chuck a red cloth on the table as we haven’t had dinner at home for years but we’re hosting my mum this year.

I stumbled on a red and white candy cane style table runner in Dunelm a month or so ago so have that as a starting point. I’m thinking cream/red everything basically, and we’ll be using the Spode Christmas tree dinner set so that will add in green. Hopefully it’ll be vaguely cohesive and not my usual ‘she threw anything sort of Christmas looking on there’

I like this kind of set up too

This year will be our first year of hosting his family (or anyone) in 3 years so I’m hoping DH agrees to a new dining set.

I also like the idea of whatever decorates the table this year can be reused the following year so I don’t want to go too “out there” with my plans, or it will just sit in a box in the garage collecting dust!

The problem is that pets can sometimes eat it, and you end up having to pay for an emergency vet over the Christmas holiday.

Oh my god should not have opened this thread 🤣

Oh 😳😳

That didnt occur to me - noted x

Will definitely do this x

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My dcat was good last year, and dd was so hopefully i will be okay, fingers crossed

I once found a tree bauble underneath our cooker in about July. Can't imagine how it got there... 😸

This is perfect 🙌🙌

I bet your place feels very christmassy 🥰

I will buy some stacking boxes and stack the tree and three boxes vertically in the airing cupboard, fingers crossed.

Gonna look online tonight for some nice ones 😍