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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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As my youngest is 5 we love to get creative and make lots of our own decorations combined with the traditional tinsel and lights its a time we treasure so much as a family and each decoration tells its own story

We are moving home and will have a lot more space so we are going to an explosion of Christmas. As much as we can every where, the only theme will be Christmas infact the more mismatched the better. The theme will be”leave no space uncovered”

We just bought a house with a huge fireplace and woodburner. I will be draping it with a fir garland with dried oranges and cinnamon. Also, lots of fairy lights around the room and plenty of blankets and sheepskin throws

I like minumal but the DC prefer heavily decorated. We have a new tree this year which is exciting.

The baubles on the Homebase site look OK (there - I fulfilled the terms and conditions and looked).

I'm not going to decorate, because I can't be bothered. It's all right - I don't have children, so I'm not depriving anyone.

One day, if I keep answering these threads, I shall win one of the vouchers ...

Last year I wasn't feeling very good and our artificial tree only had white fairy lights on as I didn't have the time to decorate and didn't feel in the mood.

This year the same artificial tree will be up for its third year but with more white lights and traditional style decorations. No tinsel, although I may get a couple of strands for the cats...

I've also acquired some second hand coloured fairy lights that I may put in the kitchen or my stepson's bedroom.

I love real trees, from picking them out to the gorgeous smell. It's not in our budget at the moment, I'm hoping to get a few more years out of the artificial one. I've treated myself to a lovely room spray from M&S to make it "smell more Christmassy"

DH and children go to the local Christmas Tree Farm, choose a tree, saw it down and drag it back to the car. This usually involves tales of falling in ditches, getting a lift on the farmer's quad bike, etc. Tree arrives home wet, muddy and full of insects - but very fresh and with very excited children! We have a different car this year - bit smaller than previous. I anticipate a crisis of fitting tree in car!

Tree goes in big front window - lovely to come home to. While we are putting it up, fastidious opposite neighbour, who we probably bumped in to at same farm and who neatly asked the quad bike guy to please fell his tree for him, puts his up and has to lop a foot off the top as he's been over ambitious on height. This happens every year!

Decoration is lots of white lights, kids putting on every decoration they find - red, purple, wooden as a rough theme but it's a fairly mix & match collection. Star on the top was given by my DSis from a Christmas market in Switzerland, and I hope will become a family heirloom. Slight tussle over tinsel - attempted compromise will be none on the tree but 'wow why don't you use it to decorate your bed', if I get my way.

Sitting room turns in to sauna as tree dries out. Neighbour's tree looks fantastic, making for great Christmas views when we look across street :-)

Plug for homebase - I have a fab sparkly pinecone Christmas wreath from them that's been going about 10 years, and (as tradition now dictates) will be put on the door while kids are out at the Christmas tree farm.

Lots of lights, celebrations, chocolate on the tree and christmas music playing..............

Real tree, fake snow, real presents!, window decorations, tinsel, paper-chains, lights, camera, action!

Spent a small fortune on a sparkly reindeer army one year....never again ...they ended up Antlerless after having a battle with zombies :P
We go with fake tree...chuck everything on and lots of pretty lights!!! Getting festive now reading these :D

Fake tree. Lots of lights. Our Dec's baubles & then the same hand made Dec's thar the kids have made over the years.
We all love Christmas so tinsel, paperchains, santa chair covers, everything goes.

Had a real tree once but it didn't last long before it started smelling of rotten banana so we stick with a fake one. Once the lights, baubles and tinsel are on it's just as good and fits perfectly in the corner of our living room. Love decorating the house.

I love silver and turquoises and have a room full of it with as many white lights as I can fit in!

We have a few homemade that go up yearly... but my fave this year is our tree topper!

Lots of lights, lots of tinsel. Real tree decorated by the kids. Giant Santa with extendable legs. That's about it.

I want a big, bushy, pre-lit flocked christmas tree this year. I've had the same tree for a few years now and its looking a bit skinny, so on the search for a new one. I don't like real tree's, paranoid about fire.

Probably just the usual. Red, gold and green as the main decorations on our game tree but then all the additional decorations that we've gained over the years. DS chooses a new one every year too. Thinking about buying a wreath for the front door this year but that's probably about it. We don't go over board with decorations normally.

Plenty of twinkly lights hung outside and a real tree in the lounge covered in colourful strings of lights, I also like to decorate the kitchen/diner with a smaller tree and more lights ... Yes you've guessed it, my favourite decorations are lights

I have some lovely red 'cherry' lights which I put all round the mirror above the mantlepiece. They give a cozy glow to the room, without being glaring, so I can turn the main lights out and still see. I have a small tree, because our living room isn't very big, and I make my own wooden ornaments. I just need to complete 'the look' with a new green wreath.

Has to be a real tree. Then quite traditional red and white themed decorations. Things like little knitted gingerbread men or tin soldiers.
DD's have their own small fake trees in their rooms.

Real tree, home made decorations and pine cones and lights. Garlands around the roof beams and icicle lights outside.

Going for the lilac theme this year, just put it up

I absolutely love Christmas & can't wait to get decorating with my LO this year! It's always a real tree for us - you can't beat that smell :)
Loads of twinkly lights - bells, fircones & all kinds of weird & wonderful baubles!
The mantelpiece gets cleared off & replaced with more lights, festive figures - snowmen, santa, robins & angels..
The cards are hung around the room & string & an ornament is hung off every available doorhandle, hook or lampshade!
My son chooses a new ornament each year so our collection feels really special now :)

It's so lovely reading all of these and everyone's traditions!
Bit crap here I can't decorate much, last year was probably the worst as we have our tree downstairs but as I'm disabled I'm stuck on the floor above and had nothing festive to look at!
Kids want to put a tree on the floor I'm on for this year so I can see it, so I'm going to let them chose what they want and they can decorate it for me! It will probably only be decorated to the height they can reach but I'm looking forward to having a laugh while they try!

Fake tree with lights built in so she can't pull them off! Unfortunately it's all Disney baubles these days....looks terrible but Christmas is for kids