5 DIY Home Decor Ideas for the Holidays
The most meaningful home decor is often the kind you make yourself, which is why so many crafters seem to go into overdrive during the holidays!
But DIY holiday decorations have to strike a delicate balance—simple enough to be easy and non-stressful, but complex enough that they’re attractive and express your personality. This is especially true if you’re getting your home ready to sell this winter, as you’ll want it to be as attractive to potential buyers as possible.
If you’re on the search for DIY holiday decor, here are a few ideas!
Decorate a black paper tablecloth
However big or small your gathering will be this year, try opting out of the fancy cloth tablecloth and use black paper instead. You can decorate it yourself with some nice white artists’ pens, and add names directly to the paper instead of using place cards.
Match your wrapping paper to your overall design
Instead of using wrapping paper covered in dogs in Santa hats or penguins and snowmen—all of which can be fun, of course!—upgrade your wrapping paper to a more sophisticated design in line with the other decor in your home. If your holiday style trends toward silver and blue, find wrapping paper that uses those tones in a simple, elegant design.
If you take the traditional red-and-green approach, you might want to use solid wrapping paper in those colors, alternating which ones you use.
Once you’ve chosen your designs, make sure to wrap your presents and place them under the tree as soon as you can!
Create-your-own Advent calendar with old sweaters
Want to create a unique Advent calendar that you can use year-after-year? Gather any old sweaters you don’t wear anymore and repurpose them into cute little winter-themed shapes—mini-mittens, small scarves, and sleds or toboggans. Then decorate them as you like—the only requirement is that you number each one, so kids can count down until the big day!
Greenery door decor
With just some ribbon, burlap, and greenery, you can create a beautiful and festive door decoration. Feel free to get creative with how you put it all together—you can either make a mistletoe-type hanging, with ribbon at the top allowing the greenery to hang down, or attach some to a wooden or metal wreath frame to create a full holiday wreath.
“Snowball” wreath using styrofoam balls
Styrofoam isn’t typically something you might think of as decor, but when you hot glue them together into a wreath shape, add some glitter, and finish it off with a festive ribbon, they make for a cheerful and unique holiday wreath!
No matter how you choose to decorate this year, one thing that will make any design look even better is a decluttered home. Before you break out the trees, wreaths, throw pillows, and other signs of the season, get your home ship-shape by doing a full decluttering of your central spaces. Not only will it make your home look better, it will also make it feel better—not to mention, it’s one of the home improvement projects with the highest ROI, according to top agents.
Happy decorating!
