4 Simple Ways to Plan Out Your Christmas Decor

Don’t know where to start with your Christmas decorating? Here are 4 simple ways to inspire your decor, get a fresh look and make it personal to you.

Every year, sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving, I start thinking about my Christmas decor. I look through Holiday magazines and try to remember what I’ve got in storage and what style I’m in the mood for this year. Each year is different at my house! Let me give you some ideas for 4 Simple Ways to Plan Out your Christmas Decor.

4 Simple Ways to Plan Out Your Christmas Decor

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Decide on a Color Scheme

Christmas can be so much more than traditional red and green. You could add black and white to the red and green. You could pastel-up the combo and use pink and lighter green. You could go all white and add gold, silver or clear. You may want to use just one color as a focus, a couple, or go with a color combo.

Whatever color combination you use, it will be more striking if you stick with it throughout a whole room, or group of adjoining rooms. If you like it all, like me, decorate with a different color palette in another part of your house-your family room, your bedroom, your kitchen.

Simply divide your decorations by the colors and send them to the part of your home where you’ll be highlighting that color/s. If you’re going warm and cozy in your family room, bring the red balls in there to combine with browns, blacks, warm creams. Bring the greens into your kitchen to combine with crisp white and classic black. Without spending a lot for new decor, you’ll have a whole new look!

Use Pattern as a Christmas Decorating Theme

Many years my themes come from a certain ribbon or fabric I’ve found. Plaid was very popular last year and could be found on stockings, throws, pillows. One year I centered my decorating on old fashioned ticking, ripping fabric into strips and incorporating them into all my greens and arrangements. You may find a certain ribbon at the crafts store that launches your theme.

If you love vintage, you could focus your theme on old Christmas tablecloths or vintage embroidery, like redware. Your color theme will be determined by the fabric or ribbon theme.

Decorate with Texture

Once you have your color and pattern choices, your textures may fall right in line. Do you want a little glitz and glamour, shiny and bright? Or do you want everything to be very natural and textural. Maybe you’re going for warm and cozy so knits and flannels will fit in perfectly. Or you want that Joanna Gaines farmhouse flair with some galvanized metal.

Think of how you can weave coordinating textures into the whole scheme.

Make a Special Accessory or Collection Your Muse

Is there a special vintage find that’s have been hiding in storage that could be the focus of your Christmas theme? It may be a handed down set of dishes, a thrift store find, a collection, or a special family memento. Use that special piece to be the theme of your Christmas decor. Then you can choose the color scheme and style of all the rest.

The holidays can be a stressful time and we all want to enjoy our family time and hospitality. Giving your home some extra sparkle just by arranging things in a new, unique way will be fun for yourself and trickle through to everyone else! You don’t have to spend a bunch of money on all new decorations. Just group them differently and put them in a room you’ve never had them in before.

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By planning ahead, you’ll have more fun when it comes time to decorate and will enjoy the process so much more! Hope these 4 Simple Ways to Plan Out your Christmas Decor got your wheels turning! You’ll be all ready for the after-Thanksgiving decorating!

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