10 Home Makeover Ideas for Christmas

Sneha Samtani

Interior Designer

Anchor: Relin Hedly
Photograph: Shutterstock

Spruce up your home to get into the festive mood. Interior designer Sneha Samtani lists creative ways to decorate your house and get into the Christmas mood.

You can start with the red and white theme. Use red and white colour in different forms like red and white candles. A red rug in your living room is another option. Put red petals or a candle in a square glass jar, and place this in the corridor or the centre table. This can also be used to organize a candle light dinner during this festival with guests and family. Hang red and white Santa stockings on the window. This gives a Christmas feel to the kids. The bed can also be done up in a red and white theme. For example, you can have white bed sheet, a red runner and cushions in red and white.
Glass bottles painted in Christmas colours (red, white and green) can be hung in the verandah or courtyard. To give it a distinct look, tie a bow on the bottle cap. Chairs in your courtyard can be dressed in green and white to get the Christmas feel.
Deck up the refrigerator with colourful covers and fridge magnets with a Christmas theme.
Of course, there's nothing like a Chritmas tree to get the spirit going. Very good faux varieties are available in the market, and so are a slew of tree ornaments.
Put a candle diffuser on the floor to enliven the washroom. Place red and white candles for a good feel.
If you have organized a party, you can have fortune cookies with message or Christmas wishes for everyone with red and white wrappers.
Fabric streamers with colourful patchwork will look great when hung on the main entryway and across archways of doorways.
String up Christmas greeting cards and hang them up in any room.
Decorate your house with wreaths and lights on the doors or the windows and add some artificial snow flakes along with your white lace curtains which can help you fake a white Christmas theme.
Hang a star at your balcony. This gives a soft glow to the balcony and illuminates the space at night.

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Sneha Samtani

Interior Designer

Sneha Samtani is the design director of Sneha Samtani Interior Design & Consultancy, a Mumbai-based design studio specialized in interior design. Sneha has always had a keen eye for detail with a fine visual sense which she has cultivated right from her childhood. To follow her passion she eventually took her education to another level to include interior design in her studies. Elegant luxurious designs are her forte. Her genre lies in creating a wide variety of interiors, which ranges from traditional to contemporary. With an ingrained talent in visualization and creative arts, Sneha has created a legacy of designs and accomplishments in a relatively short career span.

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