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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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Going big on candles

We've just wall mounted our TV so could do with brightening the wall it's on with some glam wallpaper ready for christmas. Specifically for xmas it will be a red and gold themed tree, lots of paperchains the kids have made and some decorative candles. Definitely no tinsel!

Real tree, I never feel I have enough lights so this year have bought a 1000 bulb set. We've just moved to the country so I'm also trying to bring some of the outdoors in and have been foraging likely looking branches from the woods for weeks. I'm in the process of spray painting them white with a bit of silvery glitter, and then intend to hang them (somehow!) from my beams, twine fairy lights through them and hang ornaments from them. In my head it looks like an enchanted Christmas forest has sprung up in the living room-in reality it will probably not quite look like that!

With my children, I want homemade decorations on my tree!

We all muck in on decorating the house. The kids make paper chains and other decorations with gold and silver foil. I love spending time with them crafting the decorations. Fake Tree with all the bits and pieces including lights. Outside we have a laser light show projecting on the house which looks awesome. Even better when its snowing. You get a great effect.

We will have a fake tree as the cat is still rather kittenish & would definitely attack the real thing Then a few decorations around the house, most given to us by relatives or made by the children, including our rather unusual Father Christmas on top of the tree (instead of a star or an angel).

All of this will go up the weekend before Christmas, as my eldest son's birthday is just before that & we don't want it to be overshadowed by Christmas.

Our cat died this year...the silver lining is that we can have a real tree and the baubles will be safe :) We have a glass and natural wood theme for our tree with a few glittery bits. I love it!

I love our artificial fake-snow covered tree. We have the same decorations every year but add to them with one special decoration bought somewhere special that year (e.g. a holiday) to remember the year by - kids will then get their decorations when they leave home.
Also add all their home-made decorations.

Difficult one really as we do not have any Homebase stores her anymore, all the dreaded Bunnings!

Our tree is up for quite a while so we have a fake tree as a real tree won't last the duration. We put tinsel, fairy lights, silver bead chains, baubles and little ornament decorations on the tree and we put tinsel around picture frames and mirrors. The Christmas cards are stuck to the stairs hand rail with bluetac.

The only thing I’ll be decorating this Christmas is my bathroom, hopefully with paint and poly filler , with luck not the porcelain !!!

We usually have a real tree, but with a one year old have opted for a lovely fake one from Homebase this year. All up and decorated, just need to get some outside lights now!

We have an artificial tree and decorate it with a myrriad of decorations we have gathered, including ones the children have made and others that have passed down from my family, including some treasured glass ones that we put nearer the top of the tree so the cats don't get injured by grabbing/breaking them. The tree doesn't match in terms of colour but it holds such lovely memories.

We can’t afford many decorations so the tree will be the focus: real and covered in tinsel and tat!

Tomorrow my husband will get the tree and decorations down from the loft. He and the kids will put it up and decorate it while I do something else. When the kids have gone to bed I will 'mend' the tree, spacing things out and making it look less rubbish. This way I don't have to hide my rage when they put 100% of the baubles on 5% of the tree.

Artificial pre lit tree here as I hate putting the lights on. I'm going to look at outside lights this year though.

It's our sons first Xmas so lots of tinsel, foil decorations and lights. He loves lights & shiny things.

We have a real tree with white and coloured lights, tinsel and sparkly baubles. As well as those standard decorations the tree also has lots of one off items, things dc have made or chosen over the years. It was lovely putting the tree up this year as the dc spent the time talking about each one before hanging it up.

I but dh a new fairy each year for the tree, which became a habit when we first moved in together, 17 years ago, and he was so fussy about finding the perfect fairy for the top. We now have the topper but I still but him one every year.

As well as the tree we have twinkly lights everywhere and a nativity set.

Buy not but! Twice!!

We use the same decorations year after year.
The only additions are tree decorations we've picked up on our travels. We find they're a great way to keep memories of our trips alive

Fake tree, no theme, we just have a mix of colourful old & new decorations. Multi-coloured fairy & berry lights on the tree but we've got warm white star led lights to hang in the window (yet to be put up!).

DD would have the house looking like the Blackpool illuminations! The reality is a lot more modest, with Christmas Tree decorations collected over the years which mean a lot and don't match at all.

Trees in the lounge and the girls bedrooms
Wreath on the door
Garland around the stairs
Tinsel around pictures
Various Christmas ornaments around the house
Stickers on window in girls bedrooms
Nativity scene out

Decorating our tree with ornaments from my childhood, my two children and now my grandchildren. A true family tree, very cluttered but every year it re-kindles so many happy memories. Also on the stairs I have a set of nursery rhyme shades left from a set of lights bought for my first Christmas many moons ago. New lights make them glow.I feel quite emotional each year whenever I look at them. So sorry Homebase, you have some gorgeous decorations but they are just not for me and mine.

I love decorating the house for Christmas and i probably went all out a bit more a few years ago but since finally getting furniture that we like rather than what we can afford etc our living room has since gotten even smaller than it was before because our daughter is much bigger now and we required more than one sofa so really only one side of the room is decked out Christmas like!

I've added a picture of it last year with the tv stand where the sofa is now so you can imagine how difficult it is to decorate when the living space is so diddy! But i still perverse because i bloody love Christmas! I love natural looking garlands that i can add baubles and beads to, i add cones and candles to suit. My tree is my favourite thing ever. I have teal, purple, silver and white baubles and purple and teal tinsel. I add cones to that too and icicles, and always with a star on top! I like soft cream lights as i think they look so Christmasy and warm. I'm really into the Nordic style decorations but i just couldn't do it in my house- one day but not anytime soon.

I also love making book advent calendars, i think they look super sweet!

The last few years i've dabbled in doing things to my window to compensate for the lack of space inside. Last year my daughter fell in love with the book Winter Magic so i tried to replicate the front cover for our window- she absolutely loved it and to be honest even if everybody else hated it, the fact that she loved it was all that mattered!