Adding a little Christmas to your furniture!

Not only can you carry Christmas throughout the house using wreaths, mantels, and stairways, you can decorate your furniture with Christmas. Antique furniture looks beautiful when decorated for Christmas. The secret is to leave room so that you can still use the piece of furniture the way it was meant to be used. If it's a piece of furniture that sits up against the wall even better. Then you can add lights. Nothing looks more sparkling and elegant than a room lit up in the evening with Christmas lights. Turn off those lamps and plug in the Christmas lights, and savor an entirely different atmosphere.

This piece of furniture was located in a bedroom of a bed and breakfast. There were not enough pieces of furniture to have surface areas for use so I kept the decorations at a minimum. Here I used blue spruce with sprays of tiny pink roses for decoration. Some feathered bird ornaments add a natural look, and a white and gold santa (to match the gold candlesticks) is present for the holiday. Tall pink candles the exact shade of the roses are in the candle holders. Simple but elegant look that still leaves the furniture functional.

This is an old study...this piece of furniture didn't really serve a purpose so it had more elaborate decorations. This piece of furniture was located in one of the dining rooms. The decorations used were the same as those on the tree. Victorian sants and doves are used along with matching pink balls. A variety of silk and dried flowers were used in this arrangement adding to the victorian look.

 

This is the same piece of furniture decorated another year. This year was one of my favorites. I used a variety of blue, green, and very dark (almost purple) blue grapes and berry sprays. To give it glitter and glitz... lots of blue glass balls are added. Again, notice the matching shade of candles in the candle holders. 

This is an antique buffet used in a dining room of a bed and breakfast. This was kept simple because the top was used to hold dinner rolls and water glasses during the evening meal. I just used a beautiful pink crinkled ribbon. I placed a pre-made flower corsage in the center and place some greenery around and under to hold the flowers and ribbons and create a contrast. Again simple, elegant, and neat.

So, there are many ways of celebrating Christmas and sprucing up your living area without necessarily having a Christmas tree. Don't forget Christmas flower arrangements in baskets and pots that can be placed around the room at to the festivity of the season.