Tips on Getting Your Living Space Ready for The Festive Season

Styling your home to get it ready for Christmas can be tricky. Getting the house ready for friends and family can be a big pressure and people often think they need to go crazy with the decorations, which isn’t always the case. Here are our top tips on how to make your home feel festive and cosy ready for the holidays.

Lighting

Lighting is crucial to making your home feel warm and festive. Bright lights around your doorway will welcome guests inside with an inviting ambience. Fairy lights draped around your home on bannisters, fireplaces and other surfaces will bring the spirit of the holidays into every room. Making sure your windows are not blocked by anything is also important, as utilising natural light will brighten up your space. Candles can also be very effective, as the cosy atmosphere that they create will really add to the Christmassy feeling of any room.

Go all out with aromatherapy

While on the topic of candles, it’s important to note the impact that scented ones can have. Adding to the look of your home with warm and indulgent scents will level up the festive feeling of your home. Placing them in corridors and hallways creates an aromatic sensation for guests, and a variety of coloured candles also adds another element to the feel of the space. The scents you pick should be ones that remind you of the Christmas period and bring back fond memories for you and your guests.

Placement is key

Deciding where all the decorations you have will go can be one of the hardest parts of planning your interior during the Christmas season. We expect most people already know where their big decorations will go. However, it is so important not to forget the little details!
Once you have the main things in place, stake a step back and fill the small places that are looking empty. The arrangement of your sofas, as the main attraction of most living spaces, is very important. Switching up cushions for the Christmas period is a fantastic way to adapt your interior, which can be as simple as a singular square cushion on your armchair. The cushion must be festive, of course, but bear in mind you need to make sure they match your existing décor. A fantastic example of this is adding a dark green or red to a classy grey armchair.

Our Jumbo Cord Armchair in grey can be utilised to add to the Christmassy feel of your home, simply by adding a festive cushion that matches the theme of your home.

It doesn’t take much to turn your home into an inviting and cosy space for the festive period, and it can be done effectively on any budget!