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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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We have an artificial tree that is decorated by little Amelia (& it stays as she does it!) I have a selection of themed coloured decorations, silver, gold or glittery purple so she chooses a different coloured theme each year. We have a small optic lit Christmas tree for the kitchen window, a lit up village scene for the bow window, & a wreath for the front door. The nativity scene my Mum made many years ago sits on the hearth in the lounge. Only occasionally do we purchase new decorations like the snow globe as a gift for Amelia as most of the decorations have lots of memories attached to them.

We always have a real tree decorated with lots baubles and tinsel usually about a week before Christmas we purchase our tree

We go and get one new Christmas decoration each year. Nothing big or grand. It is our family tradition and we then add that to the stuff we bring out of the garden shed. Fairly traditional and not themed but is always fun to find things that the DC made from years ago and put them out again.

Fake tree because the cat inevitably ends up climbing inside and knocking off the needles otherwise! Lots of red and gold everywhere and twinkly lights all over.

Normally go over the top every year and then it looks too cluttered, going for the less is more look this year, bought a new beautiful tree and traditionally decorating it, and that is it, my children are older now though so don't feel the need to go as mad as other years!

Fake tree, fairy lights, personalised decorations :)

I like a real tree, though don't put it up until Christmas Eve. The tree decorations are traditional as I've been collecting them for years.

I usually have large bowls of nuts in their shells with gold chocolate coins mixed in, and a table centrepiece of large bowl or plate with baubles and more coins piled on.

I also have some jugs filled with holly and ivy here and there, and also a Christmas bunch of flowers, this year red amaryllis.

I love a real tree... with 'warm-white' lights. We decorate in quite a traditional style I suppose, lots of greenery and berries.
Over the years we've acquired decorations from places we've been on holiday, so they're always special to put on the tree- like decorating with memories.

Overall there's lots of red and gold on our tree, with handmade wooden decorations too. I'm not very trendy at all! But I just don't find pink feathers and sequins very festive

Real tree and lots of greenery, but other than that, just let my three year old create a Jackson Pollock esque masterpiece by letting him loose with years and years worth of mismatched baubles, glittery animals, London themed tat, bells of about a dozen different sizes, and tinsel that doesn't match anything. It will be magnificent

We have a real tree with white lights tastefully finished off with a selection of DD's homemade decorations which we have accumulated over the years!

Two Silver Tinsel Pop up pre-lit trees one in the lounge the other in my dining room we put some candy canes and mini crackers on it and were ready for Christmas a few subtle lights around the mirrors in each of the rooms and a nice Christmas reef on the door and a santa stop sign outside and that’s pretty much the extent of my Christmas decorations nice and simple

My decorating will be quite low key. We will have a medium sized tree and (if I can get my bum into gear) some knitted baubles!

Very traditional here, has to be a real tree and never up before the 12th of December...I do let my girls help though and we make an event of it with mince meat pies, candles and carols!!

Nothing particularly matching a collection of new and old decorations and lots that the girls had made when little.

We do always have a gingerbread man on top of our tree though... started when we 1st got married as my husband is a red head!!

We are going to decorate our artificial tree with purple and silver. Lots of decor in style to brighten up the house.

Christmas tree, fairy lights and lots of tinsel :)

we have a tree then stick tinsel on the roof

We have a fake tree but lots of lights, tinsel and baubles that we add to every year. We also have lots of ceiling decorations, lights down the stairs and in the window. The kids decide where everything goes, Christmas is their time :)

Last year we were in Spain where Xmas is not such a big thing as in the UK, so this year we are going for gold, have brought loads of Xmas decorations already and a new tree, basically if it doesn't move I am going to decorate, trim or tinsel it : D

I like lots of lights inside and out< my colour scheme is silver white with a touch of purple, we have a inflatable santa and a penguin that lights up for outside for my 2 year old grandson and he will be helping out.

We're having a fake Christmas tree again this year. It's so much easier than a real one, less mess, last longer!! I need to buy a new one though as our current one is about 15 years old and is a pre-lit one but half the lights have stopped working. Have tried replacing the bulbs but no luck. We also have some really lovely Disney Angels that I put in the window.

We have a fake tree with snow on it. My husband hates tinsel and the ceiling decorations, so we tend to go for a blue, white and silver theme on the tree and I do wall stickers of santa on the sleigh. It looks really good, but as the years have gone I have found it harder and harder to fit the tree in as the kids toys have taken over.

We have a real tree and decorate it with baubles we've collected over the last 12 years.
We've got ones with the kids handprints, some they made and my favourite, Sorrento Santa, from our honeymoon.

Hopefully pretty restrained this year - a tastefully decorated tree, a nativity scene, a couple of other decorations, and of course old Santa, who I've had since I was a child and we fill with sweets.

My mum still mentions it every year, how I made her have a real tree every year, and then after one year in my own house with a real tree, and still finding needles in July, I have had a fake tree ever since (and that was nearly 30 years ago now)! Dec's are total mismash, with some hideous things the kids have made, but gives us something to laugh about, especially as they are late teens now.

I used to always have a real tree because I just didn't feel like it would be Christmas without one but last year I decided that I was sick of the mess and went out to get a fake tree not expecting to like them. I actually got mine from Homebase and was thrilled with how it looked. The quality has improved so much in the last few years and they now look fantastic.
As for decorations I have a mix of cheap and cheerful decorations and also some really nice ones that have been handed down from my nana. I now always buy a beautiful expensive decoration or 2 every year as I think that they are going to be a lovely thing to hand down to my children.