To create a Christmas atmosphere in our homes, we usually decorate a Christmas tree, hang a garland above the fireplace or on the stairs railing or put a wreath of advent on a piece of furniture. Unfortunately, when preparing our homes for Christmas, we tend to forget the windows – an ideal setting for installing seasonal decorations. Decorated with Christmas wreaths, garlands or lights, they delight the eyes of your family members and passers-by from outside. How to embellish a window in the spirit of Christmas?
In some countries, it is common to come and decorate and dress your windows at Christmas time. Christmas wreaths, balls or garlands decorate the windows of houses in Scandinavian countries, Great Britain and the United States. There are tons of ways to spruce up your windows with Christmas colours. Check out some traditional, easy and creative decorating ideas that allow you to adorn windows without curtains or chrome curtain pole.
Among Christmas decorations, wreaths and garlands made from natural materials are the most popular for windows. To make them, we use sprigs of living conifers, for example, fir, pine or spruce, but more and more often, we resort to leafy sprigs of eucalyptus that we find, for example, at florists. To decorate wreaths or green garlands, you can use standard elements reminiscent of winter or Christmas. These are often golden or green fabric ribbons, balls, candy canes, pine cones, dried fruit, or even cinnamon bark.
How to dress the windows of a house for Christmas with wreaths or garlands made of living plants? American style – install a richly trimmed crown in the middle of each window, regardless of the number of its leaves. Highlight its richness by hanging a green garland around the upper frame. Those looking for more modest decorations can follow the example of the Scandinavians and put on the window leaves several small crowns decorated only with a ribbon. It is also possible to hang curtain poles long a garland of conifers without any decorative element or adorned with a thin light garland.
Where to install these classic window decorations? They will perfectly match windows and patio doors with elegant profiles in standard colours such as white, golden oak, Winchester or mahogany. Wreaths and garlands will suit classic interiors (e.g. English, French or glamorous style), but also windows with lattices (e.g. the classic Oknoplast Koncept model or the Oknoplast Pixel design model ).
A great advantage of this type of decoration is that it can be installed outside and inside the window. It’s up to you!
Do you want to surprise your loved ones with an original window dressing? Make a homemade Christmas wreath by recycling objects.
The quickest and most effective way to decorate a window in the spirit of Christmas is to use stencils or to trace some pretty drawings and Christmas symbols that you can pencil or spray with artificial snow. You can also hang three-dimensional cardboard stars in the Scandinavian style.
Folding them takes just a few minutes. If you need more time, opt for battery-operated Christmas garlands. Easy to use, you can put them wherever you want. In many shops, you will find simple ones in the shape of stars or snowflakes. Beautiful lanterns with candles can be placed on your window edges in addition.
How to decorate a window without curtains and short curtain poles with Christmas garlands? Arrange string lights around the window frames inside and outside the house. They can also be used around a conifer branch or a dry branch that you will come to suspend with a ribbon or a wire at the level of the window.
Among the most popular Christmas decorations are all the decorations that can be used in a tree. You can dress your windows with balls suspended by ribbons of different lengths, patterns or colours. Vintage, hand-decorated glass balls and models with transparent walls in which you can insert, for example, fine sequins, pine cones or cut eucalyptus sprigs are currently very popular. Garlands made from jute twine, cardboard snowflakes or pennants will easily beautify any window.
In short, you will understand that there is no shortage of solutions to decorate your windows for Christmas successfully. So it’s up to you! Whatever the style of your interior, you will easily find decorative ideas.
