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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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No theme, no style just glittery shiny mismatched mayhem with a tinsel monster tree as the main event. Get one new bauble or decoration each year together with all of DS's schoolmade creations.

The more the merrier. Bring it on!

Whoops, forgot to say, I'd use a mixture of the brightest glass baubles from Homebase to make a wreath

I go for a more modern look. Blue tree and everything matches. All decorations are blue and teal including lights baubles ceiling decs etc. Always get a fake tree because i put mine up early and no real trees on sale yet

I think the 2000 led lights might be just enough for my Christmas vision😊i love a mix of Christmas colours and a lot of lights!

We are going for a real tree..as you can't beat the smell of a real tree...decorated with fairy lights, baubles and popcorn tinsel.

Not a clue! Some years I follow a colour theme (blue and silver was my favourite), some years I follow a style theme, other years I just stick stufff up randomly. There's always a variety of older home-made, older shop-bought and newly shop-bought. Most years the dc make something new, which gets kept for future years. I never put lights up.

I’ll be putting up a tree as usual but for the first time it will be stood in a playpen to stop DS getting at it! I am going to possibly put some tinsel on the playpen to jazz it up a bit. Also will have some lovely fairy lights on the stairs

I use stuff I've had for years! Maybe this year I'll go out and buy a new lot of decs. I have mis matched baubles and lot of Christmas candle holders. Looks great when all done but a change would be nice!

I use stuff I've had for years! Maybe this year I'll go out and buy a new lot of decs. I have mis matched baubles and lot of Christmas candle holders. Looks great when all done but a change would be nice!

We are currently deciding what tree to get but I think it will be smaller than previous years and baubles more blue silver this year too

We have a real tree. This year we're looking for some lights to go up in the window. Some of the lights on the website look just the job!

I'm thinking of buying a prelit christmas tree this year as I hate trying to get the tree lights just right. I love everything else about decorating the tree, especially hanging the baubles collected over the years. I cannot resist buying more though!

I like masses of white lights and lots of greenery. Always a real tree and mini trees in my boys’ bedrooms, plus wreaths and garlands with pine cones. We buy our trees and wreaths from Homebase as it’s near us and we don’t have a car. We buy a big 7 footer and me and my boys carry it home!!!Love mistletoe ( and eucalyptus - tho I don’t know why that is supposed to be Christmassy...) I have baubles and decorations that come out every year but add some new bits every year. Got my eye on the twerking reindeer this year!

My favourite part of doing the Christmas decorations is decorating the fireplace to make it look all festive and cosy

After a deep clean next weekend, we will be putting up a real Christmas tree on December 1st. We decorate with coloured, twinkly lights and mismatched decorations, about 50% handmade by us.

We also hang the Christmas cards we receive and up fairy lights in the windows and patio doors.

There is various bric-à-brac as well, including the much coveted Christmas slug from the Woolly Hugs Christmas Craft sale a few years back. (FYI - the Woolly Hugs Christmas Craft Sale and auction is thus weekend! Some great items on offer)

We have a fake tree (well, 2 actually) as DH is a bit of a Grinch about the "mess" involved with real trees...
For a few years now I've done the one in the living room in only gold and brown decorations, and the "kids" tree in the dining room with an assortment of colours. But I'm beginning to feel that the themed tree is a little bit soulless and I'm finding myself longing for the gaudy multi-coloured lights and baubles of my childhood! So I'm thinking I might swop them back this year and have the "tasteful" one in the dining room and the "anything goes" one in the living room!

We will put fake snow on the windows with our 4 year old son. Put bright lights on the tree so our youngest can stare in awe. Our 4 year old will also help to decorate the tree. I don't care for a theme or colour scheme as it's quality family time and my son will feel proud knowing he did it with us

I have just brought a new wreath for the door and some nice garlands. Good place to start!

we have a wooden one made from collected sticks and shaped like a tree hangs flat against the wall , looks really preety, i love natural things and this brings nature inside .

I also like my decorations to match the colour of my living room..........So my living room is done out in shades of burgundy and gold!!
When I was buying a new sofa, My BF suggested changing the colour scheme of the living room and it took me a while to admit the real reason I wouldn't!!! (luckily he's mad about Christmas too)

It's really just the tree here, real one, 8ft (and almost as wide sometimes), With a really lovely velvet tree skirt!

They say the general rule of thumb is 100 lights per foot of tree, so I put 1500 just to be safe :)
Decorations are all shades of red, burgundy, gold and bronze, Each year the children pick a new ornament which I buy and put their initials and the year on, These will be given to them when they move out to start their own tree with!

Our artificial Christmas tree will be coming down from the loft at the weekend. We will decorate it with a mixture of decorations we have had for years, and things the children have made.

We are going to buy a garland for the mantelpiece and a nativity set for the bay window. We are also planning to buy some fairy lights to decorate one of the bushes in our front garden.

The children will be in charge of decorating the tree, and will probably be decorating random things around the house with tinsel, if last year is anything to go by!

we go for a theme, last year was Star Wars and we had a Darth Tree x This year it will be a 'Frozen' theme, with an Olaf tree (I am thinking big teeth and a nose coming out of the white tinsel entombed tree !

I have tried classy Pinterest style decorations but I just doesn’t work for us.
We go for a more is more style. Decorations from when we were young, when our children were young, we buy more every year and we get them as gifts and we found some from someone else in the loft when we moved once so we have them too.

Don't change the theme each year (too expensive, plus I'm not keen on weird colour schemes) so stick to fairly traditional decorations. Bought a new tree last year (had the previous one for 15 years but have wanted a bigger one for a while) so splashed out on new decorations for our larger tree in red, white and gold plus some traditional style wooden decorations too. White lights (but not the harsh bluey white, more the yellowy white lights) on the tree. Garlands with pinecones, berries and cinnamon sticks draped across the piano, and a few other handmade decorations such as wreaths and suchlike. Nativity scene on the mantelpiece and the other week DS2 and I each did a Christmassy themed painting in acrylics so they will go up somewhere too.

Oh and the kids do their own tree upstairs covered with as many gaudy decorations as it can possibly hold without falling over