Give Your Home That Christmas Cottage Feel

Christmas cottage décor simply means a way of decorating that’s not formal. It’s for people who live a more laid back lifestyle and prefer comfort over glamour. You don’t have to own a cottage to decorate your home in Christmas cottage décor. You can own a five thousand square foot home in the mountains and still make this décor work for you.

You can change slipcovers on your furniture to match the Christmas colors you choose Nothing fancy. Remember you’re going for a simple, lived in look. You can find many of the decorations you’d like to use right from nature.

Natural materials help the décor to keep a pared down feeling. Look outdoors for such items as pinecones and bring them indoors. Don’t paint them or anything, you want them as is. Place them in a rustic bowl and set them in the middle of your coffee table on in the middle of your dining room table.

Cottage décor isn’t the type of décor where you have to run out and spend a lot of money and it’s not the kind where you must have it all at once or something won’t look right. That’s the beauty of cottage décor.

You can add to it a little at a time as you go along. Use a mixture of items old and new. For example, take a small stack of old books, preferably white and stack them haphazardly on top of one another.

Don’t use any more than three or four and don’t choose thick books. Once you stack the books, take a few sprigs of mistletoe and tie the ends with a plain ribbon. Lay the mistletoe on top of the books.

Throughout your home, you can place white Christmas balls in bowls, in jars or lie them on an end table tucked among pale ribbons. You can also use vintage ornaments instead of white balls to create the cottage décor.

Set out linens from your grandmother’s or better yet, your great grandmother’s time. Place them on the end of the bed or drape them over the footboard. Take postcards from days gone by and put them in a frame. Hang them on the walls above a simple twig type Christmas tree adorned only with Christmas balls.

When you’re setting the table, don’t worry about putting out any fine china. Dig out your china that’s missing a place setting or two. If you don’t have any mismatched china, you can find some at thrift stores.

Put sprigs of holly and berries on the table as decoration but be careful if there are small kids around. They might stick the holly or berries into their mouth.  When decorating Christmas cottage style take your time and build the selection that you want. Your home will turn out to be quite a relaxing place to be.