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Everyone has different styles when it comes to decorating the house for Christmas; some of us have our go-to decorations while others like to mix it up with different themes each year. Homebase would like to know what your plans are for decorating your home this year and what decorations you like from their website.

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I love transforming my little living room into a grotto! I have a tree with built in lights and I buy one new decoration for it each year and so everything on it is totally unique. I have lots of little china ornaments as well from nativity scenes to white reindeer. On my living room table I have a Christmas plate and bowl and always make sure I have nuts, mince pies and satsumas in for any Christmas visitors. I love doing the room up and I always feel flat when it's all packed away.

A real tree, but this is just our 2nd year back in the uk after being away for many many years. Will add to the baubles and buy a few better pieces to keep, but will bulk up with lots of holly

I put a Christmas tree up in every room, whether it's big or small. Also, I love all the fairy lights, they're everywhere. :)

Warm white icicle lights across top of porch, two mini lit trees either side of front door, silver rattan lit star instead of wreath. Fake tree ( like to put it up 1st Dec real one wouldnt last!) white, silver winter wonderland theme with glittery snowflakes hung from lights on ceiling in lounge. Fairy lights everywhere!!! Love decorating the house for Christmas!!!

Lots of outside lights this year. My son is nearly 2 and will love them!

Tasteful and traditional inside. We have a real look tree (would have cost a bomb but got it in the sale!). I go with traditional colours on the tree and a few tasteful bits here and there. Let DH loose outside and he goes crazy with lights and lasers and goodness knows what else this year!

We’ve just decorated recently and I’m worried my Christmas decs won’t match anymore! My decs are mainly quite rustic, reds, greens, wooden bits and bobs. I love them even tho my poor artificial pre lit tree is starting to give up, think we’ll need some extra add lights on it this year! I love adding a few new special tree decs every year too. Can’t wait!

everything. i add some new stuff each year but I have cushions, tea towels, towels, and a full china service among other things. I love it.

We have the usual mix of tacky stuff, more classy ( I think) scandi bits and a growing amount of homemade stuff. I'm going to attempt to make a 'tree' wall hanging with branches, brown string and baubles. I like the look of little star lights from Homebase to string around this....

i would love to spend a fortune on classy decorations but i dont have the money and its much more fun letting the kids go wild with the tinsel and paper chains

Same as every year.

A real, c10 foot tree. make a trip across Glasgow to West of Scotland Rugby Club where we know we will get a really fresh tree and we will find a suitably bushy one to fill our bay window.

White fairy lights (lots of them), red decorations collected over the years, (including 18 Father Christmas tree decorations, one for every Christmas since we had ds and which he will get when he has his own tree in his own home), red beaded strings draped on the tee along with thin red ribbons tied as bows and gold tinsel (dh insists on it - but I have to get at it first to put it on round/in the tree rather than vertically down the sides )

Artificial pine garland for the mantelpiece, lots of red candles in tall brass candlesticks on the mantelpiece, platters of red, gold and cream candles on the hearth, gold candles and tea lights on the coffee table, along with a White Company triple candle in their winter scent.

Dining room has white and silver decorations and lots of white candles and tea lights.

Hall has another Winter White Company candle (a small one) and a Danish cross stitch Christmas hanging that I made about 30 years ago. Bannisters down to the entrance door have tinsel wound round them. Every step of the stairs (2 flights and a half landing) has a Christmas soft toy. Most of the upper flight are "dancing/singing ones" (eg a singing reindeer, a dancing penguin or a Scottie dog singing Slade's Merry Christmas ). I get a new one every year to add to the collection.

Colour, colour and more colour!

Very loosely inspired by The Nutcracker we have dozens of toy, animal and sweetie shaped decorations which are scattered liberally through the branches of the (always real) tree. Then the tips are festooned with a rainbow of baubles tied in place with bunches of ribbons. We are huge fans of clashing colours and comforting smells so there are spruce branches on the mantel too with more bunches of ribbon tied baubles and some little toy trains.

Two beloved candelabra sit on the mantel and in the hearth. One is an angel and the other a reindeer, affectionately known as The Christmoose. 'More is more' is something of a theme here and we've been slowly adding to our lovely/lairy decorations for years. A beautiful harlequin patterned teardrop pair from Homebase are among our favourite treasures. Although anything goes as long as one of us loves it and the colours can hold their own...

But the tree lights must always be warm white

Last year.

Agree with coffeeandennui - fairy lights have to be warm white . I hate blue-white lights.

The usual tree and trimmings. We've not gone all out on the decorations this year and some of last years got damaged in storage and can't afford to replace them this close to Christmas.

I have a snowflake outdoor Christmas projector which is plugged into a timer switch, so when we all come home it is always 'snowing' and making our home look to christmassy. It was only £30 and looks amazing. Inside we have a lovely fibre optic, with more lights around the windows and door frame. So its lights lights lights and excitement all round.

We always have a real tree in the sitting-room, festooned with a mix of tasteful red and gold decorations, supplemented with ones made by our two children when they were younger. The angel on the top doesn't get put on until both children are here (DD has her own place). We have an artificial tree in the dining room and lots of other decorations like a lit-up star, quirky reindeer, polar bears, candles, nativity scene, and various things we've accumulated over the years from visits to Christmas markets, etc. This year I am going to bring in lots of holly and ivy from outside to put around our pictures and mirrors, stair banisters, etc. The one rule is that no tinsel is allowed as I hate it :)

This year, our DD is bringing two Canadian friends to stay for Christmas, as they aren't going home to be with their families, so I am planning to go all out to make it a traditional (and over-the-top) Christmas.

A bad taste 70s Christmas. Too much tinsel in varied colours. The only baubles on my tree are feathered or glitter. The tree is fake. Multicoloured lights. The tree in the hall is fibre optic and is covered in glitter icicles and butterflies. The white fake tree in the kitchen has white lights and purple glitter ornaments. Nothing about this is meant to go together. All pictures must have tinsel draped over them. Actually I do hang felt shapes on the kitchen cupboards, which I guess go together.

Big very nice fake tree we bought 80% off in January last year, covered in purple and silver plastic baubles as I know my kids will pull some off at some point. I plan on decorating with DD's help at the start of December. Can't wait

We have to have a fake tree now as my son is allergic to real ones; otherwise would definitely be real one. That said the fake ones now look much nicer than they used to.

We go for lights along the front of the house, and then in all the trees in the back garden.

Inside the house, as well as the tree we’ll have lots of fairy lights and some lovely Christmassy bunting, combined with paper chains made by the children and usually some fairly dreadful decorations that they bring home from school and insist we put up!

We have an anything goes approach. I try to keep the cheap tat to yeh kids bedrooms but it sometimes spreads. We have a black tree as it matches our decor. Tree ornaments are mainly silver/white (anything else goes round the back). We always make paper chains, paper snowflakes and orange pomanders. Nothing that makes a noise (dh's rule)
I would love to have things in the garden but I'm worried they would get stolen.

Small tree but a real one. Then lights, candles, cushions....and more lights. I love a bit of twinkle.

Love traditional Christmas decorations and so do we all. On the Homebase website I'd go for the traditional, old fashioned decorative items and an artificial tree - maybe the Balmoral - but always lots of sparkle and tons of little lights :)

Will be getting an artificial tree this year as just moved into a small upstairs flat! Last years real tree remains in our previous garden. So, when we moved i threw out all the old decos except for ones kids had made and any with sentimental value. So we have a clean slate this year. Just me and ds here at Christmas so we will probably go for simple understated with a bit of crazy thrown in. I like artificial robins for example! Ds will go for something large and frogs probably , or gnomes !

My DD2 is 1 on Boxing Day, and as she is on the move and into everything, we’re scaling it down this year. The tree is going on the kitchen (large kitchen/diner so won’t look too out of place at least)