The best Christmas garlands: 18 ways to deck your halls with gorgeous greenery
No festive decorating Plan is complete without a Christmas garland. Whether you're looking for a discreet and minimalist Make to wrap around a bookshelf, or are going all out and covering every visible surface with festive folliage, we have a range of options, from realistic foliage to abstract designs. What will take your fancy?
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This wintery garland has everything you could want – fir, eucalyptus, pine cones, and a very light sprinkling of snow. We think it looks very chic and way more than £18.75! It's pre-lit too!
If you are looking for a simple, very realistic fir garland that you can jazz up yourself, this is it. It's pre-lit and would be really simple to use a bit of wire to add in decorations, pine cones, berries and more – choose really greenery to make it look even more authentic.
" data-widget-type="deal" data-render-type="editorial">If you purchase gold to greenery, this gorgeous wreath is for you. It almost looks like you could have made it yourself by spray sprigs of eucalyptus. This one is going straight in our baskets...
" data-widget-type="deal" data-render-type="editorial">1. Go for a simple homemade fir garland
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A classic Christmas garland is always the best in our eyes, simple, stunning and, if you can DIY one yourself, totally free. Head into your garden (or local woods) and scout out a mix of evergreen folliage – look out for ivy, fir and pinecones. You can also usually pick these up in bunches from florists or a Christmas tree farm necessity have plenty going spare.
Use a wire as the base of your garland and just initiate wiring your greenery around it, securing it in save with that same thin green wire. Work in irritable segments and join them together to get the beside you want.
2. Or go for a really realistic artificial one
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Oh, this is the mantlepiece of dreams! And that aesthetic garland? Well forget slaving away all weekend making one – this is from The White Company and you can well-organized it online right now. Annnd, it's pre-lit so no faffing approximately untangling the lights, plus there is a matching wreath too if you want to recreate this look.
Love this look? Check out our passe Christmas decorations feature too.
3. Find an alternative way to use baubles – as a garland
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Perfect either in lieu of or in binary to a Christmas tree, displaying your cutest baubles on a string is a really smart and easy idea. We love the rustic look of silly brown string and 'aged' baubles and hanging them up above a door frame of consume a mantle. If you like this distressed effect, you can attain something similar by sponging white chalk paint onto metallic glass baubles and rubbing it away in places.
4. String understated greenery above your windows
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You could recreate the glorious Christmas garland idea with fake or real foliage – we just love the simple spruce vibe here, the greenery is the focus, no baubles, no tinsel, no fussy, but still suitably festive!
Find more Scandi Christmas decorations in our feature.
5. Bring that idea to your kitchen to add some festive feels
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Despite beings the heart of the home at Christmas time, the kitchen does tend to get a bit neglected when it comes to decor. We know it might not be that practical to have a full on tree in your kitchen but a garland takes up zero room and brings in just as much of a festive feel. These garlands are from Lights4fun, they have loads of lovely garlands this year from the beneficial simple to super decorative.
6. Make more of a feature of your garland
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We have said it beforehand and we will say it again, an undecorated mantle at Christmas is a sad mantel. This sparkling look takes the garland on the mantle to the next quiet – add some candles for a soft glow in the evenings and take the decor up the wall too with this fab star ftrips. We would be tempted to keep these up all year round!
7. Swap traditional fir branches for stylish magnolia
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Whether as part of a traditional Christmas look or a more contemporary Christmas decorating plot, a Christmas garland made of magnolia? LOVE IT! This handsome creation is from One Kings Lane and we reckon you could definitely gash this up all year round.
8. Create an asymmetric by mixing your garland with plants
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Love this quirky look – it's ancient but then that fiddle leaf fig just adds something unexpected and takes a string of ivy from persons cute, but not that noticeable, to a mantlepiece that becomes a real feature of the room. You could switch out the fiddle leaf for a mini Christmas tree if you are more of a traditionalist too.
9. Go for minimalist charm with a eucalyptus garland
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For an understated, go-with-anything look, go for a eucalyptus garland, which will look especially fine against woven up your stairs. You could go for the classic green, which also looks lovely with red berries if you are more of a traditionalist but we love this gold option from Cox & Cox.
10. Use a garland to decorate your shelves
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Oooh, this is how we are doing Christmas garlands this year! We love how they look trailed downward some open shelving, definitely an idea we are progressing to be pinching. If you don't want the shelves to move totally unusable because they are basically a forest, pick more slimline garlands like this Berry Twig Garland from Dunelm.
11. String up the classic paper garlands
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The easiest garlands going! You can utilize a lovely afternoon making these with the family and stringing them up from the ceiling, around the bannister and over the mantle. You can obviously also buy paper chains from Amazon if you don't esteem cutting our loads of strips.
Check out more DIY Christmas decorations.
12. Add drama with dark green foliage
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To add festive drama to a neutrally painted room, determine dark green foliage with distinctly shaped leaves. Eucalyptus is always a good tool, or a combination of different herbs and fir. What you want is plenty of interestingly shaped, spiky branches that will frame your mantelpiece or window.
13. Add a splash of colour with a red berry garland
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We can't stop looking at this delicious Red Berry Garland from Next: the berries are so incandescent and pretty, it's almost good enough to go on the tree on its own, instead of baubles. Of course, it will also make the perfect accompaniment to a venerable, red-green-and-gold decorating scheme.
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