Christmas decor Au naturel!

Shivering under a layer of white snow, a dormant Mother Nature seems stripped of her most beautiful assets. But before slipping into this latent state, she left a few items to stimulate our imaginations to recreate magnificent décors.

Rustic decoration brings a whole new flavour to Christmas, new warmth and colours to our indoor landscape. Inspired from nature’s treasures and winter activities, we’re proposing four Christmas decoration schemes that will be of particular interest nature lovers. Adapt one to your home, your lifestyle and your personality. The originality and audacity of your decorative creation will certainly impress your guests and passers-by.
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An antique décor
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An antique décor

For those who have the chance to own an ancestral home that has kept its original cachet, here’s a Christmas décor that will take you back to those Christmas Eves of years ago. A spruce, preferably a natural, uncultivated tree, is set in a large, wooden flowerpot resting on jute and covered with pinecones. Sparsely lit, it uses “candle” style light sets. It’s decked with handmade, metal wire garlands filled with dried orange slices, pinecones and nuts. Antique Christmas decorations, if you have some, are placed among small bunches of string-tied branches, trios of dried apple slices held with a ribbon or raffia and a multitude of red velvet bows. To crown it all, an illuminated star stands twinkling from the topmost branch.
Since the area below the tree is already in use the village, or the manger, is set up on a table or an antique accessory. Thus, little houses, miniature spruce trees and figurines come alive on an old wooden ladder sprayed with a little imitation snow. Gifts, simply wrapped with craft paper and tied with ribbons, cinnamon sticks and dried apples, wait patiently for Christmas morning in an old trunk or a wooden chest.

The chimney mantle, dressed for the occasion with spruce branches, is the natural place to hang Christmas stockings made of jute, but also a trio of books tied with cord, ribbons or raffia; an old music box; pretty old pictures in frames or a bouquet of branches in a period vase. The stairway banister is an ideal location to show the Christmas cards that you receive. Pin them up using clothespins decorated with red ribbon or tie them with cord or raffia to a Christmas tree garland attached along the length of the banister. A warm, pleasant effect that’ll add to the atmosphere in the house.
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