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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.

Here’s what Homebase has to say: “At Homebase we have everything you need to make your Christmas sparkle, from trees and baubles, to giant inflatables and twinkly lights. Click here to check out our Christmas range and please share your favourite decorations below.”

To get you in the mood, here's some tips on decorating your tree:

So whether you’re a tinsel and fairy light lover, prefer a real or a fake tree, or even fake snow!, please share how you are going to decorate your home this Christmas below. Everyone who posts on the thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

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We always decorate the house in the forst weekend of December. We will have two trees one that the children decorate and one that i decorate alone. Each year the children choose a nee xmas tree decoration so we have a lovely aray of tree ornaments that all have lovely memories. We hang lights outside the house and have a light up reindeer on the front lawn.
I always buy some christmas scent candles and scents to add to the atmosphere and lots of twinkly lights around the house too. Love how cosy and christmassy the house always feel once the trimmings are up.

Must wait for Grandma to arrive. Every year, it's my son and my mother who decorate the Christmas tree and the flat. They decide if new decorations are used. For my 10 year old son, this is one of the best Christmas memories!

Real tree. It absolutely must be tasteless and have no theme. The point of it is that it's covered with baubles made and bought by family members over the years. It has white lights wound round the trunk and mulitcoloured ones strewn over the branches and proper old fashioned bushy, lairy tinsel. Nothing tasteful.

The rest of the house is tasteful instead. mantelpiece of real greenery, with lots of white and gold candles in hurricane lamp vases, decorated with Victorian and edwardian style baubles. Underneath the mantelpiece, decoratd stocking are hung.

We have a door wreath loaded with cinnamon sticks and berries and tiny wooden decorations, loads of table greenery and candles, fairy lights winding all the way up the stairs and misteltoe in a bunch over the kitchen door.

What I covet next is some outdoor lights. Our neighbours have nets of lights that drape over bushes. They look gorgeous.

Forgot to say what I like from the Homebase site:
I love the Gold mercury baubles - they're exactly what I'd want draped on the mantelpiece. I love the porcelain polar bears and brush owls and hedgehogs, and love the coloured lights and the old fashioned tinsel. Very lovely, trad decorations this year in good gaudy reds, golds, proper Christmas colours.

We always give the kids a little tree each to decorate in their rooms, there is no theme to these, they just cram as much tinsel and decs as they can! Our main tree is decorated with beautiful silver, pink and turquoise glass decorations. The rest of the house we decorate with home made paper decorations.

We put the decs up fairly late. My old neighbour (who has now passed) gave us some very old Xmas Decs for the garden so we have santa and his sleigh on our porch and it looks a bit like National Lampoon (and it always makes me remember my lovely neighbour and brings a smile to my face). My son has started early this year though, covering our hall in self made paper snowflakes!

I've been living in a cold, damp, flat in a converted house for over a year whilst my money pit of a house house is being refurbished.

It will be painted a soft sheen or silk white at some stage, with heavy domestic, bleached wood effect laminate, white, light patterned commercial vinyl and heavy duty, heather effect, twisted pile grey carpet.

It'll look like I live in a fridge, but I don't care!

We have a artificial tree with lots of lights and handmade knitted garlands and decorations. We have lots of stickers and fake snow for the windows and lots more lights.

Proper tree, random selection of decorations we've accumulated over the years. No theme whatsoever! (I can't find the decorations on the HomeBase website to see whether there are any I like).

Real tree, multicoloured lights. Any offcut bits of tree to make a wreath for the door. I'm not likely to rush out and buy much unless my lights have packed up. As every year, my tree will be covered in all the tat beautiful things I've collected up since I was a child. The clothespeg angel in a silver doilly frock for instance.

loadsss of lights...... tacky but who cares, haha

I can't wait to start decorating the house for Christmas! We have a fake tree but it's lovely and snowy. We tend to just focus on the one room being the living room but I want to try and add little bits around the house this year too. I definitely want to get a wreath for the front door too!

Our tree is artificial and will be getting decorated with white lights, with gold and crystal baubles etc. We usually keep it simple, I hate the house looking bare in January

First Christmas with our newborn, so we’re going all out and buying a full size tree this year (to replace our sad looking table top tree) with new baubles and lights. Hoping to make some lovely personalised baubles too! We don’t normally bother with outdoor lights but I think one little window ornament or light will do!

We love a real tree full of tinsel

We’ve had a real tree for the last few years. I like lots and lots of lights and seem to have an accidental red and white theme. I buy a few new decorations each year, I could probably dress 10 trees with what I have in the loft!

My inspiration is the beautiful house at the end of miracle on 34th street. Huge, wide, plush tree (maybe Prelit, too) with lots of traditional colours and decorations. I'm not keen on tinsel and glitter but I do like luxurious velvet and satin in red, green and gold. I have lots of bits I have collected over the years including tree decorations from when I was a toddler!

This will be our first Christmas in our first bought house. So to mark the occasion we are going to try and make Christmas extra special this year.

We have a fake 7ft Christmas tree for the lounge which we will decorate with silver and red decorations as our lounge is red/silver/grey. We put a garland over the fire mantle. Then I have a few pieces like a Noel sign, stag figure, Santa, snowman to put around the room. We also have a large plain white wall in the lounge and we will be putting a silver Santa on his sleigh with the reindeer and scattered stars wall sticker on.

In the hallway we will hang baubles from the ceiling on varying lengths of string. There will be a merry Christmas door mat and a garland with lights going up the stair case. We also have festive pot pourri in a red bowl on the hallway stand.

The children's playroom will have various bits of tinsel and maybe a small tree.

The kitchen will have tinsel on the window sills and we put up all the Christmas crafts and art work our children have made throughout the years at nursery/school.

For the first time ever we will be having outdoor lights. We have bought icicle ones to hang from the top of the windows and the porch. We also bought a beautiful potted Christmas tree from sainsburys which will go outside and from a local business a hand made carved reindeer.

Fake tree here mainly because of the cats. Have a collection of gold and blue decorations that I've lovingly bought/collected over the years so each and every one has a 'story'. We do have a few extra decorations to add festive cheer but not too much available space for going OTT. I reckon the value of my decs (bought new) would possibly be nigh on £400.

DD seems to think that the decs we have look old-fashioned (granted some of them are over 20 years old but some are brand-new too) and asked for a silver themed tree this year - did remind her of the potential cost of the makeover (which would impact on present-buying budget)! Needless to say she backed down pronto!

I have a fancy for the Cox and Cox flat wall mounted Christmas Tree but not enough clear wall space for one .

We do have some tinsel but finding I've gone off it with the passage of time, so it's used less and less frequently. Did have my eye on the JL 'leaf' version in gold this year but further inspection didn't get my 'thumbs up'.

We usually put the Christmas tree up on the first Sunday of Advent so a bit disappointed that we will have to wait until 3 December this year - it's usually up last weekend in November.

Nothing arty farty or fancy just have a box of decorations and stick 'em up wherever there is a space to stick 'em really. We have a holly bush that appeared in the front garden one year that I chop down mercilessly - so I cut practically all of the branches off it to keep it under control. So lots of things involving holly...

Fake tree, kids Christmas decorations verging on taking over, gold and red otherwise. Bit of tinsel and lights, jobs a good'un

Loads of lights is the key for me, I love Christmas lights - on the tree, across the mirror in our hallway, on window sills - anywhere I can find to put them. I’m also thinking of getting some paper pinwheels or honeycomb balls to hang from the ceiling this year. Maybe white or gold. Can’t wait

The children have always been excited to dress the tree and house so it has become a free for all theme! Even scrappy bits of tinsel have to be put out in whichever corner looks left out. I don't like the look but I keep telling myself they wiil grow up all too quickly and no longer have time and I'll get to have the classic look I imagine having! Yes in my head it looks classic but it probably won't look that different! In the past I haven't really like wreaths but that's changing and I like the look of the Homebase forest fruits wreath and actually the bauble wreaths too.

We have a communal tree that everyone contributes that is gold and red. In our flat, it will be simple and homemade as the flat is being sold.

Fake 7ft tree, lots of lights.
We don't have a theme or colour scheme.
Every year me, dh and the kids go out and choose one individual decoration each that we like. They don't need to match or follow a theme.
We buy them, take them home and plonk them on the tree with the mix of decorations we've chosen over the years. All the while blasting out Christmas songs.
We also chuck on some homemade tat and chocolates.
Then last of all dh carefully plonks the star on top, which the dc take as a signal to make a mad dash for the chocolate.
It may not be to everyone's taste but we love it.