I love decorating our Christmas tree. After so many years of collecting ornaments and arranging them on our tree, I think I have this ritual down to a science. In today’s post, I’d love to share 7 Tips on Decorating Your Tree and Making it Unique and Beauteeful!
1) Start with a tree that you love.
In a previous post, I mentioned about my quest to find a perfect replacement for my old Pre-lit tree. Well, I recently purchased this G.E. 700 LED count Pre-lit tree from Lowes {link here for similar tree} and absolutely love it. Not only does this tree look realistic, the LED lights can change from clear to colored lights in a touch of a button. S-W-E-E-T.
2. Make your own rules about what goes on the treetop.
Just because everyone has a big old star or angel on top of their tree doesn’t mean that you should. I never liked the look of an oversized item on top of a tree. Picture a big angel doll smushed into the ceiling. Not a good look. š
When I saw this little angel ornament from Pier 1 Imports years ago, I knew it would suit our tree top perfectly. Like our elf boot and crystal ball in this photo?
3. Add ornaments with varying textures and colors.
The more textures, the more interesting your tree looks! In this photo, there’s feather, tulle, paper, capiz shell, and shimmering glitter. Regarding color, I understand there are trees with monochromatic color schemes. They are very pretty but it’s hard for me to limit myself on ornaments based on color. My favorite ornaments come in a rainbow of colors. I’m okay with that. š
4. Add fun ornaments.
Stuffed animals are not just for cuddling. They make great ornaments and always seem to steal the show. Speaking of stealing, you may find a few “sticky-fingered” bandits (aka: kids) snatching these ornaments off the tree.
5. Add an ornament that is meaningful to you.
Whenever I see Mrs. Potato Head’s purse in my box of ornaments, I always smile. It brings me back to my oldest at 2 years old. This was a purse from Ellie’s Mrs. Potato Head kit. When we put up our tree that year, she placed this purse on tree and proclaimed it as a fitting ornament. Since then, I’ve kept this “ornament” on our tree. It will always remain meaningful to me.
6. Add ornaments that “Crack You Up.”
I don’t like wearing ugly sweaters for the holidays. I prefer them hung on my tree for giggles all month long!
7. Add a family ornament to be used as a time stamp.
Our family has expanded since we first started getting these types of ornaments. What was first just Chris and me has turned into 4 other additions (2 kids + 2 dogs). Since having our own tree, we’ve gone through 5 of these time stamp ornaments. š
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I hope you’ve enjoyed this tour of our holiday tree and found these tips helpful. Did you have a favorite tip from this list? I’d love hear your comments! Facebook like, pin, or share this post to show your support. Thanks!
P.S. Stay tuned for another holiday decor-related post later this week. š
Oh my gosh! You have one beautiful Christmas Tree. I can’t wait to decorate our tree again when we go back to our other house for the Christmas Break. Love everything about the tree. And those cute sweaters, are adorable. hehehehe.. Thanks for sharing your tips!
so gorgeous. love it.
Thanks, Giselle š
I love this tree!! I love this tips they are helpful, thank you.
That tree is so cool! I would love to have one that changed colors! I love all of your ornaments, so fun and whimsical!
These are some great tips. I love the one about putting what you want at the top of the tree. We actually have a gorgeous silver peace sign on ours!
Both of the trees are so beautiful. The lights and decorations are gorgeous. I’ve bought real and artificial trees, and like the real ones for the small. Great job
What a lovely tree! Those lights sound pretty fantastic, but I love the smell of a real tree! I love throwing in some nice vintage ornaments that have been around for a couple generations.
Your tree totally made me smile – it’s so bright and fun š
I love when people trees that are meaningful and tell a story – I’ll take a tree with mismatched ornaments that tell a story over a “designer” tree any day!
Stuffed animals do make cute ornaments! Whoda’thunkit! You’ve got great tips here.
I love the colored lights, it really makes such a big difference to the tree.
I’ve never seen one where it switches from white lights to colored lights. I so want that option!
Your tree is gorgeous! I much prefer an eclectic mix of ornaments to a matchy set style. All my ornaments are currently on the botton 2 feet of the tree, but I’m hoping as my kids get taller the upper regions will start to fill out too š
Thanks, Sarah! Aww, that’s so cute that most of your ornaments are at the bottom. I’m guessing your little ones help you decorate your tree š
That is so neat that you can change the colors of the lights with a touch of a button. We change our tree theme every year. So every year we buy new ornaments and lights. If the tree is colorful then we use all of our old ornaments to but this year we are doing Frozen so we decided not to use our old ones.
We have decided to buy rosemary bushes that are shaped like Christmas trees this year to add variety.
Our tree always looks the same- and I love it that way! These are great tips- we might get two trees next year & I will definitely come back to this post!
This is such a great post! I love #5! That so sweet about the potato head purse! It really does look like an ornament though. =)
Thanks, Jessica! Yes, #5 is an important one š
Love your tree. Reminds me a lot of mine except we have a star on top.
I love it! Great ideas š
Love your tree! We have similar styles for our tree. LOTS of colour, texture, nothing really matches. But in the end it all comes together and looks like a toy store on a tree! Thanks for sharing!
I love your tree! We’ve had an animal theme the past two years and nothing makes me happier than the little stuffed animal ornaments.
The color lights look so much more brighter and beautiful!
What a beautiful tree! We always just put whatever we want and not really have a theme. It’s so much fun that way!
Thanks, Maggie! There really aren’t any set rules to decorating a tree. It is fun to just see your favorite ornaments on the tree.
Perfect timimg just decorated our first
Official tree and did many things according to your tips! Joy
Yay for your 1st official tree! Lexi must be loving it. Glad you found this post helpful. Thanks for letting me know :). Enjoy the holidays! xoxo
Your tree is similar to ours, we have a lot of different types of ornaments, that are all specail to us. Beautiful tree!
Most of the ornaments we have were made by my kids, so all those go right up front. And we ONLY used colored lights.
Great ideas!! I can’t wait to add some of these to my tree š
I love your tree! These are some great tips. We always get a new ornament every year, trying to find one that is relevant to what is going on in our life at that time. I am all about going to get a real tree, but the idea that the lights are already on it. And can change from color to white is very tempting!
Thanks, Emily! It’s funny because I love “real” trees too and the thought of having one around (one of these years) is very tempting too. I always collect a few new ornaments each holiday season š