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So what is it that makes your house your home this Christmas? Is it that roaring fire you and your family gather around on those cold winter evenings? Perhaps it’s the Christmas tree standing proud in the living room that you all helped to decorate?

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The people in it! My parents, my brother from America, my little nor yes and their noisy dog as well as all the presents and cards. I love Christmas!

Our DC - and their fab smiley faces when they realise Santa has been!

Once the Christmas tree is up with its fairy lights on & pressies wrapped underneath, that makes it our festive home.

This year we have to take Christmas 100 miles to the rented flat in the city where DD2 lives ,as she is working for 3 nights over the holiday . DD 1 will travel 200 miles to join us . They are all I want, all I need .
It will be an artificial tree (I don't like them ) and mismatched plates , cutlery and glasses , but we will open our presents with drinks at 11 ,as always, and play games after lunch . And celebrate being together.

The madness that is coming home from the school run with the kids nagging for food, bickering about who's uses the toilet first. Moaning about what's for tea. Who gets to go on the iPad first,.,..I wouldn't change it for the world

I love having lots of candles and fairy lights, the smell of cinnamon from scented candles and Christmas baking and traditional decorations in red and green, like the felt angel garlands I hang in the windows.

I dislike blue fairy lights or even the bright white led ones, preferring warm white ones.

My family are what makes it a home, love spending time at home with Decs up and relaxing.

Christmas lights. There's something magical about sitting in a room with the main lights off and the Christmas lights twinkling away

The Christmas cakes and all the 'tester' fruit cakes we have before hand... Next will be the 'tester' gingerbread house we will make

The Christmas tree covered in all the random little decorations we've made and chosen over the years, and all the baking the DDs do!

Making our annual traditional gingerbread house, putting it on the dining table and gradually demolishing it over a week or so!
That, or bringing home the christingles on Christmas Eve, eating a takeaway together and settling down to read "the night before Christmas" together (the DCs are 11 and 14, and still not too old for this!).

Walking into a full living room with the fire lit and friendly faces waiting to ask how your day was - all the stress of work just slips away

Putting up the Christmas decorations all together, finding the holes from the previous years where the drawing pin goes, everyone has their favourite decoration that they get to put up. Some of our decs are getting old and tatty but they are like part of the family now and no one is willing to change them. I love my reindeer that go above the kitchen door - they are on the 3rd kitchen door now (moved house) but that is still where they belong.

The Christmas tree, all the sparkle and glitter from decorations and cards, my chocolate yule log, chrisrmas mucus on repeat, and our daughter's excitement.

Love christmas!

Family is what makes a house a home, reminders of people I love, mementos tucked away in random places which bring a smile and a memory when I rediscover them whilst looking for the sellotape. Pictures we have chosen, rooms we have designed.

And of course, snuggling in front of the woodburner on our ridiculously comfy sofa.

My cats - all year round. I love decorating the hall so you walk in to somewhere warm and festive and scented.
A steady stream of both:
-traditional and new/experimental baking and cooking
-family and friends visiting.
Music, heating (am quite strict the rest of the year) and time - to read, play, talk.

a big log fire, toasting marshmallows, tree up and decorations, smell of home christmas food cooking, excited children!

Chaos and mess makes me feel at home... Just doesn't seem right when everything is away and tidy (not that it is away and tidy often!) :)

The people in it, anywhere can feel like home if my family are there.

I have stayed in hotels on my own and been homesick and the room has just felt cold and lonely, yet staying in the same place with my family it feels like home! Totally settled, warm and cosy and full of love. It's amazing the difference the right people can make

Our decorations. We bought one every year that we were married and I and the kids still buy one each. They all have very special memories

Having family and friends round over the festive period. I love to entertain and with the tree up, party food and a good supply of drinks my home is a lovely place to be.

Always make pomanders; the whole house sits down together one evening (the DC bribed with chocolate sometimes!) and each make 2 or 3 pomanders.

Makes the house beautifully scented with orangey-clove-y-ness AND has the added bonus of family time

We always finish the evening by putting them in different places round the house and having the first glass of the year of eggnog

It's one of my favourite nights

A log fire with pine logs seasoned all year from last year's Christmas tree, and apple wood logs cut from our trees, with stocking hung up either side of the mantelpiece and the cat snoozing on the rug.

DS practising carols on the piano.

Home made mince pies baking and the pudding steaming, filling the house with spicy smells.

Fairy lights wrapped round the banisters all the way up to the attic bedrooms.

A home made wreath on the front door.

Well stocked bird feeders, so DH and I can drink our morning coffee and look out over all the birds and squirrels having breakfast despite the frost.

Cinnamon candles.

My entire extended family piling in from all corners of UK and catching up over a crowded kitchen table. We only do this about three times a year so we all get on well!

A warm cosy lounge with kid-made decorations and the tree with twinkly lights. And us playing games/ watching Christmassy things together on the telly...

I would say fairy lights but we tend to have those up all year round! I love a real tree, I love coming into the lounge and smelling it. Our house is small but that just makes it seem warm and cosy in the winter with the tree up and the decorations.

Seeing all the Christmas decorations up is a big part of it, especially ones we have had for years and years. The smell of the tree too. And the chaos definitely makes it our home!