Christmas Bedroom Tour 2020

As I haven't finished putting up this year's decorations yet, and I never found time to blog about last year's, today I thought I'd share some photos of how my bedroom was decorated for Christmas 2020.

I like to put up decorations in my bedroom every Christmas because I spend a lot of time on bed rest because of chronic pain, and don't want to miss out on the fairy lights and pretty decorations when I can't get downstairs or out of the house. It means I can enjoy a little bit of the festivities while I'm resting, and like most people, having decorations up just makes me happy.

My bedroom always looks like Christmas threw up on it by the time the last decoration is hung, and last year was no exception. I put up a little tree, swamped it with presents, hung hoop art and cross stitches on the wall, and put decorations wherever I could. The funny thing is, I never managed to get all of my decorations up last year because I was flaring, so this is me being restrained!

I'm not very restrained.

I began by swapping my dressing table for a Christmas tree and presents. I'll admit the tree wasn't the prettiest. There seemed to be a shortage of small trees in my area due to Covid, and after nine days of searching, I had to settle on this scruffy little fir. We had to repot it, and it was dropping needles from day one, but I think it looked festive once it was decorated. To be honest, I was just grateful to have a tree at all. 

I'm sentimental all the way when it comes to Christmas, and use the same decorations every year, with a few new additions here and there. Theming my Christmas decor has never appealed to me at all- although, most of my personal ornaments are colourful and mid-century modern in style, as that's what I seem to be drawn to most these days. I also have a few vintage baubles on my tree (like the pink bell, and small hot pink bauble above it) from when my parents first set up home in the seventies, which I've borrowed because they fit in perfectly, and they've always been some of my favourites from our childhood tree.

Underneath the tree, I dotted some of my retro deer ornaments, which were all collected from Paperchase over the last few years, and added in my DIY Advent house, where I displayed some of my festive brooches, earrings, and pins for the holidays. I also included some jars of mini baubles, and a few glittery bottle-brush trees, just in case it wasn't festive enough already.

I went with a pastel pink and mint theme for my presents, which was the first time I've ever gone pink and pastely at Christmas. I usually go for something a little more traditional, but I fancied a change, and they turned out to be some of my favourite wraps ever. I loved the pink so much, I've gone with pink wrapping paper again this year. 

Besides the tree and presents, I also had other Christmas decorations on display, including some homemade Christmas hoop art on the chimney breast in my room. I made them a few years ago by framing festive fabrics in wooden embroidery hoops, and finishing the backs with a running stitch and felt.

I cross stitched the retro reindeer a few years ago. The pattern was from Mid Century Maude on Etsy. I changed a few of the colours to make it my own, and wrapped the hoop in red thread for an extra pop of colour.

The little cross stitch ornaments were little kits from The Make Arcade that I made over the last few Christmases. I never know what to do with them, so they began the holidays hanging with my necklaces, and were later moved to the jewellery hooks above my tree, to hang out with my hummingbird decorations and a few baubles.

There were more decorations in my bedroom, including Christmas bedding on my bed, festive tea lights, books, light-up ornaments, and Christmas novelty bags, but I didn't manage to take photos of them all before they got packed away in January. Hopefully I'll have better luck this year, and find time to share photos here or at least on Instagram before this Christmas is through. I'll keep you posted!

Do you decorate your bedroom for Christmas and have you got your decorations up yet?

You Might Also Like

Christmas Home Tours 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Christmas Bedroom Tours 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 

Christmas Bedroom Tour 2018

Last Christmas, in the chaos of the festive season, I never found the time to finish putting my Christmas Bedroom Tour post together to show you guys my Christmas decor. It seemed a shame to scrap a half-completed post, so I've kept it in my drafts all year to share this Christmas instead. I thought I'd kick off the festive season by looking back at how I decorated my bedroom for Christmas last December, and then I can get working on putting together this year's post- hopefully before next Christmas comes around!

I always decorate my bedroom for Christmas as I spend so much time on bed rest with my chronic pain, and don't often make it downstairs to enjoy the main decorations. I don't like to miss out on the festive cheer and pretty fairy lights just because I'm stuck in bed, so I always turn my bedroom in to a winter wonderland, too. My room may look like Christmas threw up on it, but the decorations make me happy each December, so I don't care.

Last year, I mostly decorated with colourful and kitsch decorations, and left the more traditional red, green, and white decorations packed away. I never actually decorate with a theme for Christmas; I just bring out my favourite ornaments year after year as I'm sentimental all the way when it comes to Christmas decor. It just so happens that most of my personal Christmas decorations are colourful, kitsch, and / or mid-century style as those are my favourites right now.

I bought a little tree and some white lights from Tesco last year, and dressed it with my favourite vintage-style ornaments, and a handful of vintage decorations my parents bought when they first set up home together in the seventies. They've always been some of my favourites from our family Christmas ornaments, so I borrowed a few to use last year. I still need to buy a tree topper and some kind of garland for my tree, but I never seem to get around to it.

Around the tree, I displayed tiny colourful baubles in glass jars, a few bottle brush trees from Hobbycraft, and a couple of my kitsch fifties-style Bambi deer from Paperchase, which I bought last year and absolutely love. I also sat the white wooden house I made beside it, which has festive backgrounds in some of the nooks, and housed my Christmas brooches and pins, along with a few little festive ornaments.

I wrapped last year's presents in mid-century style wrapping paper from Cath Kidston, a mix of baubles, robins, and snowmen, and embellished them with ribbons and jingle bells. I loved these designs, and I'm gutted Cath Kidston don't have Christmas wrapping paper this year.

My retro tea light holders were all from Cath Kidston several years ago. I bring them out each December, and feel all cosy as candles flicker from them while I'm watching a Christmas movie or reading a book.

Christmas decor isn't just confined to the tree in my house, I like to extend the festive cheer to my bedding as well. I have a few kitsch sets from George at ASDA from previous Christmases. This fifties deer set was new last year, and was so lovely to snuggle up under during December. I can't wait to dig this set out again this year; it's my favourite. ASDA have a similar set again this year here.

I displayed some of the Christmas hoop art I've made over the years on the old chimney breast in my room. I made them by framing festive fabrics in wooden embroidery hoops, and finishing the backs with circles of felt and a stitch. I never managed to get a decent photo of the entire display, so here's one from the year before when I began with less hoops.

On the back of my bedroom door, I hung up my Christmas novelty bags and festive patterned tote bags, and added in other bags in red and green. I then draped my The Snowmen fairy lights over the top.

Above my bookshelf, I hung paper snowflake decorations and a rainbow paper garland, and on my shelves I displayed Christmas books and movies, my little collection of light up decorations, some more kitsch fifties deer ornaments, and a selection of other Christmas decorations. I didn't get decent photos of this section as the daylight was terrible last December and this area of my room was too dark and shadowy, but I'll hopefully snap a few photos for this year's bedroom tour post instead. Here's another photo from the Christmas before.

There will have been a few other festive things dotted around my room that I've missed, but I think I'm going to leave it there.

You'll be able to see more of my decorations and what changes I've made to my Christmas bedroom decor this year in an up to date Christmas Bedroom Tour post really soon. (Hopefully before the month is through).

Do you decorate your bedroom for Christmas? Do you go for a theme or is it 'anything goes' in your house at Christmas?

You Might Also Like

Christmas Home Tours 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Christmas Bedroom Tours 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Christmas Bedroom Tour 2016

I know Christmas is over for another year, and you've all probably packed your decorations away and turned your thoughts to the new year, but I'm a little late to the party, and still have a couple of Christmas posts to blog.

Today, I'm going to share some photos of how I decorated my bedroom for Christmas this year. I had hoped to blog about it before Christmas, but the last few weeks have been so hectic that this is the first chance I've had to finish putting it together. Hopefully next Christmas I'll be much more organised!

So, I like to decorate my bedroom for Christmas every year because I spend so much time on bed rest thanks to chronic pain and chronic illness, and I don't like to miss out on the festive cheer and pretty decorations altogether just because I'm laid up in bed. This year I think I put up more decorations than ever before, and I have to say, I enjoyed having my very own Winter Wonderland during December!

I bought myself a little Christmas tree from Sainsburys again this year, and since I needed to raise it up away from Rosie (my dog), I decided to create a little Christmas display around it on my dressing table. I decorated the tree with white lights, some gorgeous vintage-style baubles, and colourful snowflakes, and filled in the gaps with Scandi pegs and some jingle bells because I ran out of energy and decorations that matched. I know the decorations don't exactly work together and the tree looked terrible but after a while I was in too much pain to care. I definitely need to get some garlands, tinsel or ribbon to fill in the gaps on next year's tree, though.

We didn't put the big tree up downstairs this year because Rosie would have destroyed it, so I put some of the presents I wrapped underneath my tree until Christmas morning. I then built it up with colourful perfume bottles, sweet jars filled with mini colourful baubles, jewelled make up brushes, hummingbird and frog queen decorations, my jewellery holders jazzed up with festive pins and decorations, and even added in my masquerade mask with a flower in its feathers. 

My little collection of festive tea light holders and a Christmas candle I was given last year returned to their spots beside my TV. I'd usually light them each night during December, but this time I only lit them a handful of times; I don't know why, but I really wasn't feeling Christmas at all last month.

I had my pretty red jingle bell heart-shaped wreath hanging from an old light fixture just above the candle holders. I've had it for about three years now and I still can't believe it was a supermarket find.

I decided to overhaul the bags on the back of my bedroom door for Christmas, taking a gazillion bags down and replacing them with my Christmas bags, as well as others in festive red, green, and gold, before draping my snowman fairy lights over them. I actually think this was one of my favourite areas of my bedroom during December! It was oddly satisfying to look at while propped up in bed on my laptop.

Above my bookshelves, I hung a couple of paper snowflake decorations below the rainbow paper garland that I've actually kept hanging up since last Christmas. I personally don't see it as a Christmas decoration, just an every day decoration because of how colourful it is- even if it is similar to those cheap foil Christmas ceiling decorations we always had growing up.

Of course, I also added decorations to my bookshelves, where I could, mixed in with my books, DVDs, trinkets, and a few novelty bags.

My L'Occitane Advent calendar, telephone novelty bag, a vase filled with the remaining mini baubles, and a little wooden Christmas tree took the tallest spot on the shelves.

My LED decorations made friends with my robot bag. Unfortunately, I ran out of batteries by the time I took these photos, so you can't see them in action, but the large tree twinkles quickly with a snowglobe-like effect, and the four small decorations fade in to different colours. 

And I also added in some of the hoop art that I recently made amongst my books and DVDs, along with my old nutcracker candles and a Tatty Teddy ornament. I had hoped to create a wall feature out of hoop art this Christmas, but I ran out of supplies to finish them off properly, so that will have to wait until next Christmas now. I've still enjoyed looking at them propped up on my bookcase, just beyond the laptop screen.

I would usually blog photos of how our living room is decorated for Christmas, but we didn't put the tree up or decorate the fire place this Christmas, because Rosie is still in her everything-is-a-toy phase, but if you're curious, you can see how it was decorated for previous Christmases via the links below.

How did you decorate your home for Christmas?

You might also like

Christmas Home Tours 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Christmas Bedroom Tours 2013, 2014, 2015