How are you decorating your home for Christmas this year?
It is not necessary that you have to decorate it in the traditional bright colours which are associated with Christmas. If you prefer, you can try a Victorian Christmas theme in your home year-round and you can also keep that style in your holiday decorating. When you use Victorian decorations to dress your home for Christmas, it adds an air of subdued glamour and quiet elegance.
Victorian Christmas Decorations Style
If you are going for a Victorian style, the first step is to choose your main colour. Most of the main colours in Victorian-style decorating are softer colours. They are colours that would remind you of stately old mansions.
The most popular main colours are cranberry, light blue, pale pink or a beautiful sage green. Once you have chosen what your main colour will be, just like you choose accent colours for the decorations in your home, you will need to select an accent colour.
The accent colour will keep the main colour from being too overwhelming. You don’t want an entirely pink Victorian theme or one that’s all sage green and nothing else, right? Otherwise, the results will end up gaudy instead of grand.
The Colours Of Christmas
Accent colours work with the main colours and are usually soft silver or muted gold. They are never the brassy gold or bright silver. Remember the Victorian Christmas look has a misty feel to it, like a soft, very faint fog rolling in off the mountains on a cool autumn morning.
Any type of Christmas tree can be turned into a Victorian theme with the right decorations so don’t worry about the kind of tree you have or plan to buy. In keeping with the Victorian theme, for your tree skirt, you are going to want to use a lace or crocheted one. You can find either material in the colours to match either your main or your accent colour.
One of the loveliest decorations on any Victorian tree are the Christmas balls covered in lace or the crocheted ones. Along the width of the Christmas balls, use wire ribbon threaded from the bottom to the top of the Christmas tree.
Many of the decorations used in Victorian times featured paper decorations trimmed in soft gold and hung by fine gold string. You can find those same paper decorations today in the form of carousel rocking horses and other designs.
The Victorian Christmas theme was also big on the use of tassels so use tassels in your decorating theme. Use table runners with tassels, use thin rope tassels to tie around your holiday napkins or use them to hold back your drapes.
For the wall decorations, you can use shadow boxes filled with bits of Victorian decorating such as old photos, scraps of lace, and old letters. You can find the material to make Victorian shadow boxes at most craft or online stores.
So, let the Victorian Christmas Decorations bring a new look to your home. It will be fun in welcoming your guests as well. They will be surprised about how amazingly you have decorated your home.
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