Christmas Decoration Guide 2024

On this page you will find all the important info and inspiring ideas for your next Christmas decoration.

Below we've compiled some tips to help you make your interior beautiful for Christmas!

Anticipation of Christmas with lights and ornaments

At the beginning of December, people around the world in Christian oriented regions decorate their apartments, houses and gardens with lots of sparkle and glitter.

This visually expresses the anticipation of the birth of Jesus Christ and Christmas. According to Christian customs, various Christmas decorations are an integral part of Christmas decorations.

Christmas tree and Christmas angel

When choosing Christmas decorations, there are almost no limits to versatility. But at least the Christmas tree with its Christmas decorations should match the other decor in the room. Traditional Christmas colors are purple, white, red, gold and green. However, a brightly colored Christmas angel would look like a foreign body in front of an otherwise pastel-colored interior. Conversely, a modestly decorated Christmas tree literally disappears in rooms with brightly colored furnishings.

The Christmas decorations should also be distributed in a purist manner to match the purist furnishing style. In rustic furnishings such as country style or shabby chic, Christmas angels and Christmas tree may also stand out pompously as in earlier times. The basic idea of each composition is to transform the decorated room into a symbolic banquet hall for Christmas Eve and Christmas with a lot of light and shine.

Lighting on the Christmas tree and windowsill

In the past, Christmas tree lighting consisted of candles. With the invention of electricity, they were replaced by electric candles. This also made decorating and lighting the Christmas tree safer. Real, burning candles are now only very rarely used on the Christmas tree. Instead, the seasonal Christmas trade now offers Christmas tree lighting with LED bulbs either in white or in bright Christmas colors. Even with this selection, too strong color contrasts should be avoided in favor of a coherent image.

Multicolored Christmas tree lighting can better accentuate a discreet Christmas tree ornament - colorful tree ornaments, on the other hand, make it look overly colorful. White light goes well with any ornament, but makes the Christmas tree look plain. The electric light for the candle arch at the window, on the other hand, is still white. The purpose of this lighting is rather to emphasize the fine fretwork representations of the arch light bright.

Christmas decorations also for public places

Christmas decorations have been a firm tradition in public places for centuries. Giant nutcrackers or sensational multi-level Christmas pyramids form parts of Christmas markets or simply the Christmas decoration of a locality.
For a human-sized nativity scene, it was even customary at times to place real oxen and donkeys alongside the otherwise carved Christmas figures. For animal welfare reasons, these are now also replaced by handcrafted animal figurines.

On a small scale, the Christmas pyramid with its miniature representations remains a popular Christmas decoration next to the Christmas tree. Incidentally, decorating interiors and exteriors is by no means limited to Christian families or organizations.

Many motifs such as the Christmas angel, Christmas tree or Schwibbogen also serve the purpose in people without religious orientation to embellish the dark winter time with light and shine. However, only families with a Christian orientation put up a nativity scene.