Decorating my apartment for Christmas is quite a simple one. Our apartment isn’t huge and although I told myself that I’d get more christmas decorations for the rest of the rooms, I ended up just getting two lots of fairy lights. However, I have to save the pennies because the next two years are going to be a money splurge-athon with a honeymoon to plan and pay for, plus a wedding to save for PLUS Sam’s 30th. I mean, it’s really true that when you reach adulthood, you’re always spending money.
I loved getting all the little bits of decor out from under our bed. It’s still weird to own a home of our own and to know that every piece of furniture is ours. I can’t really remember where I got all these christmas decorations from but I’m going to hazard a guess and say most of the decor was from Dunelm or Matalan. The decorations for the tree were all from a local homeware store in my local shopping centre.
The Christmas wreath is something I want to sort out properly next year because I want to get some ribbon so that I can fit it on our front door. It doesn’t work with the wreath hook because our doors are too thick, so it doesn’t shut properly. However, the wreath sits on our door to the living room so that’s just as effective I suppose.
I decided to hang the acorn garland thing over the soundbar of our television because before I just laid it awkwardly across the table and it didn’t look as nice. When we’re putting up the Christmas Tree, we move the television over to the left hand-side as it usually sits in the center. I actually love it being off to one-side and I’m kind of thinking that I want to keep it that way but if we did that, I know I’d get a book shelf or something for that free space where the tree would normally go and then we’d have nowhere to put the tree.
The Noel sign is something I love and is such a cute little touch to add onto our big windowsill. As for the little golden reindeer that sits at the foot of the tree, I want to start to create a little family of reindeers that possible signals to our own family that we’ll have in a few years.
The most recent addition to the Christmas decorations and one I think I’ll be keeping all year round is the fairy lights. Now I’ve had these glass dome things from IKEA for the past year and not managed to get around to filling them with something. Putting the lights in was such a simple idea but so effective.
The fairy lights are from Amazon and they can be found here. Such a good bargain and they came with remotes so you can time when they come on and control the type of movement it does whether that’s a slow fade or flashing intensly. A slow fade is much more up my street than all the other settings.
Decorations are a great part of Christmas and I look forward to the day when I have a whole house to decorate. Now that will be fun! What have you used for your decorations this year in the home? Let me know in the comments below.
