Planning Your Color Scheme And Theme

Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle! Decorating your Christmas tree can be easy if you follow these guidelines.

1. Take stock of what garland, lights, and decorations you already have to help you create your color scheme and theme. You may need to purchase some additional ornaments, ribbons, and garland if there are not enough to make the color and theme statements you want.
2. Decide on your color scheme if you want your Christmas tree to be the focal point of the room. Will it be red, green, and gold, or blue and silver, or pink and white, or green and purple? Select your ornaments accordingly.
3. Consider a theme to make your tree even more outstanding. Will it be beachy, vintage, musical, sports-related, or nautical? Perhaps you have traveled frequently. If you have a lot of memorabilia that can be used as ornaments, create you very own international tree. The possibilities are endless.

Decorating Your Christmas Tree

1. Once you have your bare tree standing, start with the lights if your tree doesn’t come with them. Multiply the height of your tree by 10 to determine the number of lights you will need to decorate it. Before beginning, make sure all lights are working. Starting at the bottom of your tree, weave the lights over and under the branches from the trunk outwards. Make sure your lights are on the inside and outside of the tree which will add depth and interest. Tuck your cord it into the branches so it does not show. Leave room to showcase your tree topper.
2. Start adding your garland once the lights are on. Run it from the top of the tree down tucking the garland about every 2 feet going down. You can also run the garland in circles around the outside of the tree or in a circle around the trunk of the tree.
3. Next, place your ornaments evenly throughout the tree. Arrange your larger ornaments toward the bottom and inside of the tree and your smaller ornaments at the top and outside of it. Think about incorporating natural elements such as twigs, grapevine, dried flowers, pine cones, berries and feathers to fill out bare spots in your tree.
4. Finally, you may need an attractive eye-catching tree topper such as a star, angel, Santa, feather grouping, or bow. Place a color-coordinated skirt under your tree to hide the stand and complete the look. You can use a festive tablecloth, throw, or some silk scarves instead of purchasing a traditional tree skirt. Last but not least, add some nicely decorated packages under the tree to make it look like good old St. Nick has just come down the chimney!

Decorating your Christmas tree can be an enjoyable experience.  Turn on some holiday music to get yourself in the mood.  Do you have any tips on decorating your Christmas tree that you ‘d like to share?  Leave a comment and let us know.

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