Small Space Holiday Decorating Tips
When you live in a one bedroom 725 square foot apartment, you must come up with small space holiday decorating tips. I’m going to share mine with you.
Small Space Holiday Decorating Tip #1:
Utilize your vertical space.
You’ll be amazed at what you can fit in your home when you start arranging things vertically.
There is a lot more real estate on your walls, so you have to take advantage of that precious vertical space. Hang shelves on the wall, for instance. That will give you more vertical decorating space instantly.
Be creative with what you hang on your walls as storage. Repurpose something once used as something else.
Small Space Holiday Decorating Tip #2:
Be cohesive with your color theme. Choose up to 3 colors for your holiday space.
Use this color theme and carry it from one room to another to create a cohesive look.
I found the green vintage-inspired mailbox a few months ago at my local grocery store. Then I added picks of red berries to signify the holiday.
I’m looking forward to finding all kinds of things I can fit into that mailbox that hangs on the wall! For different holidays and seasons.
I added a small tree to the hanging tray on the wall that says “Market.” The fruit is on one side, and the red berries say it’s Christmastime!
Small Space Holiday Decorating Tip #3:
Corral your small holiday decor into a vignette on a tray or platter or wood cutting board. These elements of your holiday decorating won’t look as cluttered if you gather them together into a vignette.
Below you can see that I gathered various types of decorative Christmas trees into a dough bowl. I think it looks better to corral them together rather than dotting them around my apartment.
I added two sheep to the little red truck on my dining table, for no other reason than they fit in the truck quite well!
That is my blue hutch with some of my white pitcher collection I’ve been steadily adding to over the years.
So this is my dining room decorated for the Christmas holidays. I hope you found some inspiration here to decorate your own home.
I really like your Christmas decorations. Your space looks very festive!
Can't get enough of those bottle brush trees!
Take care
Your little dining room is very pretty and festive looking! I love red, white and green at Christmas time. I've tried other things but I keep coming back to red, white and green. Those are all great tips, thank you!
Cindy
Very charming Brenda! I love your decorating ideas!
I love it too. It’s so spare and clean lined , a bit of Swedish cottage vibe too, maybe. It could easily go throughout the winter. A big difference from the lush decor of the little blue house but I think I like it even more. It can stay up during those dreary winter months rather than just a few weeks.
It looks wonderful and I love the theme!
That truck painting is seriously fabulous, Brenda. I'm so glad you decided to decorate for the holidays, even with the hassle of waiting for new electrical outlets. I always look forward to what you do.
Thank you for so generously sharing your life with all of us. I once read 10 or more blogs a day but in the last year or so I'm down to yours and one or two others. You are so honest and real….I admire how you do it all your way and it's unique and beautiful and simple and easy to relate to. Sending lots of good wishes for health and happiness to you and your babies this holiday season.
It looks really cute. Love the lambs in the truck.
Great tips! Your dining room looks lovely – enjoy the season!
Your dining space looks so pretty! Love the collection of trees in the dough bowl.
looks fabulous!! I agree with all those tips, too!
You have such a unique way of decorating, you never cease to amaze me. I love it all.
Oh,my gosh, I love that old toy truck! One of my other blogger friends, Kathy, at Sharing Shadymont has two old trucks and an old red toy tractor that she's decorating for Christmas with and I am so jealous! I've gotta find one of those old trucks!
I like the dining area vignette a lot. The truck painting is very nice. Especially combined with the other simple things on the wall and the little faux pine trees on the table. Grouping them together makes a nice addition to the decorated wall. Did you find the truck painting at Wayfair? If I remember correctly it was there that you found the yellow rose canvases. Wonder whether the truck paintings are still available. I have a family member that drives a red pickup. Was thinking of the painting for him for Christmas.
Thanks for sharing your Christmas decor. It always helps to see how others do things. Especially in small spaces. My house isn't as small as your apartment but I have some pieces of furniture that take up a lot of room–antiques from my family that I just can't get rid of. They do cut down on the space for a lot of decor though. In fact, I'm not sure where the Christmas tree is going this year! Maybe on top of the old upright piano! We'll see. (It is a small tree!)
Hope your ankle's not giving you too much grief and that Charlie has gotten over his fixation on the dot on the ceiling!
I love it!
How lovely! Thank you for your tips! Perfect ideas, all.
Brenda, that looks lovely! I adore the little red truck things. Really cute! I just drool whenever I see the little blue hutch, too! Have a WONDERful day!
You are one amazingly talented lady! What you've done is just perfect!!!!
Sandy in California
It looks perfect Brenda! I love the truck painting there. You are right the lighting is just right for it over the table. And of course your antique truck and small trees complete the look! I wish I had your talent at arranging things. I put Christmas items out but they never have the "look" that you get with your decorating. You are blessed with an eye for decorating!
I never put Santa's out only snowmen and holly and berries and angels. Its a winter scene and I leave it out till March.
Linda decoração. Amei o armário azul.
Feliz Natal.
great tips for any space, and I love the little trees in the doughbowl! your red/white dishes are perfect for Christmas!
I love your red and white, but what sets it apart is the lovely blue hutch. I really like the way it softens the red. Your Christmas decor is perfect!
This year I put up a little 24" lighted tree. I am doing a woodland theme. Then I added little miniature pine cones, deer antlers and red and gold and brown snow flakes.
I put it on my breakfast bar and added my Santa dressed in woodsman clothing sitting in his sleigh, two bronze reindeer and a fir tree. It is just enough for me for this year.
Oh yes, I forgot my door wreath embellished with pine cones, red berries, a burlap bow and some jingle bells tied with ribbon.
I am calling it my country rustic look LOL!
I like this Brenda, love the trees in the dough bowl, and the mail box is soooo Kool. it all goes together so perfectly, like everything you are able to do, without a "how to book" so to speak…Thanks for sharing some great ideas.
Brenda, I love the truck painting in it's new location. Add the red truck on the table, trees and you have the perfect vignette! I'm taking a big box of Christmas stuff to the thrift this year and big tote full of ornaments and other things to my church. It feels good to downsize.
Great tips, Brenda. I think what you have done in your dining room is just right. Very cozy and festive without an overload of stuff.
Perfect !!! Red and white is still my favorite for Christmas decor !!!!
It is just perfect for your small space, Brenda. I love that painting of the truck!!! And, because you didn't overdo "Christmas" you could probably keep it up well into the winter months. Love it and hope you are having a good week. xo Diana
Loved it Brenda, Always enjoy reading your blog.
I like your simple decorating. It shows a nice statement for Christmas decorating. Once again you have done a great job. Take care!
Love it Brenda. This decor will be able to stay up way past Christmas too. Awesome!
Kris
Looks so nice, Brenda!! Warm,cozy and festive!! Always enjoy reading your blog.
Merry Christmas, Janie
I love how the truck in the painting is off-center. It makes it seem like the truck is moving!
Your tips are good. I see you have a variety of items in the vignettes, but also two or three of the same item to make a kind of story, such as the Santas in the living room vignette and the trucks in the dining room. Then you have some similar colors in both vignettes, and similar items such as the red berries and the baskets. It's very pleasing and on a scale that is good for small dwellings.
Oh my, I love it! Even after Christmas it will look festive for wintertime!
Love your polka dot plates and that red and white combination is really cute. You have a good eye for interior design. And you are right, the simpler the better. Carol