Whether you're hosting festive gatherings or spending quiet nights with a warm drink and your favourite blanket, creating a cosy interior makes all the difference.
Below are thoughtful, practical, and beautifully simple ways to transform your home into a warm and inviting sanctuary throughout the festive period. These tips help to sprinkle a sense of seasonal charm into every room.
Embrace Warm Lighting
Lighting is one of the most essential aspects of a cosy home interior during the Christmas holidays. Opt for warm, soft, golden tones instead of bright whites to add that shimmering, warming glow to your living area.
A simple move is to replace your bright LEDs with warmer alternatives, but remember to switch them back after Christmas, as they tend to be significantly less energy-efficient. Then, make use of table and floor lamps, and add Christmas candles to your dining table to create a welcoming festive scene.
Use Seasonal Scents
So many people talk about the smell of Christmas - what is it to you? For many, it’s gingerbread and mulled wine; for others, it’s pine and spruce. Adding scents to your living areas can make all the difference to the festive season, particularly when you invite friends and family over.
The easy option is to buy scented candles or wax melts with your favourite scents. Alternatively, purchase fresh pine wreaths or garlands, or you can even simmer pots with citrus slices to release their scents throughout your home. Using a diffuser and essential oils can also work well.
Color Your Christmas World
Like scents, colors can make a huge difference to your home’s festive ambience. Whether you opt for a subtle Christmas palette or go big and bold, reds, greens, golds, and silvers all work well at this time of the year.
You don’t need to buy new furniture to wheel out at Christmas. Adding deep red throws and green cushions to your neutral sofa and using decorative bowls and vases can make a subtle festive statement to bring color and life to your living area at this time of the year.
Add Festive Thrones to the Dining Table
When setting the Christmas table, festive thrones can make all the difference, adding signature seating that serves as the focal point of your family’s dining area. Our Santa’s Royal Collection should be your starting point if you’re looking for festive thrones to place at the head of your Christmas table.
Be it Santa’s Reindeer Throne or our popular King Stephen Throne Chair, these signature seats will bring Christmas magic to the table. You can also use them for Santa Claus meet and greets and to regale your kids with tales on Christmas Eve.
Bring the Outside in
The natural world can play a defining role in festive interiors. Evergreen branches, eucalyptus, holly and pinecones can all bring beautiful scents and hues to your living area.
Add wreaths to your doors, garlands along the mantelpiece, and add fresh branches to vases, which you can place around your home. On Christmas morning, consider adding holly or sprigs to table settings to bring your table to life when you serve up your family’s feast.
Style your Fireplace
When the snow is falling outside and the fire is roaring inside, it’s the perfect contrast for a warm winter evening with loved ones. We encourage you to make your fireplace the center of all your Christmas decorations.
Line the mantel with greenery, add lanterns and ornaments, and hang stockings in the lead up to Christmas morning. Stack logs to one side and load up the fire when the night settles in. If you’ve got little ones, let them roast marshmallows over the open fire one evening as they wait for Santa to arrive.
Add a Personal Touch
Christmas is a time for family and friends, so don’t be afraid to personalize your decor. After all, you don’t want your living room to look like a carbon copy of a staged storefront window; it’s the personal touches that make festive interiors so special.
Bring family photos to the fore, display Christmas cards from family and friends, and let the children’s imagination run wild with little ornaments and artwork. While too many personal touches can look cluttered, a smattering of personal effects will make the world of difference to your Christmas decorations.
Bake and Brew with the Festive Season in Mind
Nothing says Christmas quite like a festive menu, so when you invite people over at this time of the year, make sure you have something warming and nourishing to serve them as you share stories and create new memories.
Mulled wine is a winner, as it adds a beautiful aroma to your home while warming the cockles, and freshly baked gingerbread will do exactly the same. Also, don’t forget to bake those Christmas cookies that your kids and neighbors love so much, and keep a batch ready for all those visitors who will join you throughout the festive season.
Get Your Home Ready for Christmas
At Throne Kingdom, we love the festive season as much as everyone else. It’s a wonderful time of the year, and there’s so much excitement and goodwill in the air.
By following the simple tips above, you can prepare your home for the festive season. These subtle touches will bring Christmas magic to your living space and ensure that all your visitors feel warm and welcome when they reach your home in December and over the New Year.