Christmas Living Room Makeover | How to Decorate on a Budget

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Decorating the house for Christmas has been a must in our family since I was a kid. Finding the right decorations for the right price, however, wasn’t always that easy. So, today, I’ll show you how I decked my halls for a Christmas Living Room Makeover using some simple DIY skills and tricks.

Posters for Christmas Living Room Makeover

Christmas posters or banners are available in abundance this time of the year, but the good ones can be quite pricey.

A very easy hack to get around it is to draw or print your own Christmas message and stick in a photo frame.

Since my hand-drawing skills are a little rusty, I used Canva to draw my holiday posters this year. This is not a sponsored video, but I have to applaud Canva for its amazing readymade templates that makes improvising such pictures very easy.

Using some of the elements here, I put together very minimalistic posters for Christmas and New Year and printed them out on A4 photo paper.

How much you spend on these posters will depend on what size and sort of paper you use. I printed mine on glossy material, so they cost me around Rs 60.

Check out the video to see how these look on the wall.

DIY holiday-themed cushion covers

Another Christmas décor item that has become quite a trend these days is holiday-themed cushion covers. Last Christmas, I took this old shirt of mine and fashioned it into a cushion cover. This year, to save me some cash, I’ll add a simple, lace Christmas tree to it and make it holiday-themed.

To start off, I’ll cut three equal sized strips from this lace. Then, I will turn in the edges in a triangular fashion and hem.

The end result will look something like this.

Next, use some fabric-friendly glue to stick each of these strips to the cushion cover. This will ensure that the strips don’t move around when stitching.

Make sure to start with the bottom row first, so that you can overlap the next row’s skirt over its top. This will give your lacey Christmas tree a 3-D look.

I’m finishing up by adding this gorgeous pearl button at the top as a tree topper and a piece of the lace as the trunk. Honestly, guys, this project cost me 0 bucks.

DIY Christmas wreath

Christmas wreaths may not be very common here, but making an artificial one is sure easy. First, you will need some sort of a flat and sturdy frame. I’m using a bit of the edge banding tape I have spare and making a ring out of it.

Next, I will affix a strand of a Christmas garland on the outside edge of the frame with some wire. These garlands come for about Rs 30 to 50 apiece at most local markets. And this coil of wire I got for Rs 100 for 5 meters. I’ll repeat the same process on the inner side of the frame.

To decorate the wreath, I’ll do something quite interesting, so pay attention.

Take a coil of bendable wire and cut some 2-inch long strips. Then, take a handful of themacol balls, stick them on the wire strips one-on-one, and paint them red. I’m mixing in some gold to give it a shine. And there you go. You have a bunch of holly berries to decorate your wreaths and garlands with. Buying a handful of these from Amazon, the decent ones at least, can cost you north of Rs 400.

To attach them to the wreath, just bend the wire around the frame with the foams balls facing out. I’ll also make a bow out of some ribbon and attach it to the wreath with some holly berries and bells.

Now hang her up.

DIY Christmas-themed center piece

I always like having a themed center piece for festival, and for Christmas, I want something with mountains and a cozy house.

First, I’m cutting a few branches from an old Christmas tree and banding them together with some wire so that they can stand upright. In this entire décor project, this coil of wire has been my best pal. Once I have a few trees, I move on to building a tiny house out of some card board. You can obviously also use a readymade one from a game or snow globe or something.

Now, I’m taking my beloved fish bowl, the base of so many of my creations, and setting the trees in it with some transparent tape. I’m thinking of a white Christmas, so I need snow.

I’m tearing up some white cotton carefully placing it around the trees at the base of the bowl. Press the cotton down properly so that the roots of the trees are hidden. Once that’s done, I’m placing in the house and some string lights to give it the whole firefly effect. Make sure to stuff some of the bulbs inside the house to light it up.

Let me also quickly tell you about some bonus hacks to deck your home for Christmas.

Instead of overpopulating your home with Santa Clauses and snow men, rely on the power of suggestion. You can use varying shades of red, white and green to give your home a holiday feeling.

If drawing or printing out your own posters seem too daunting a task, stick a Christmassy wrapping paper in a photo frame. You will have a holiday décor piece that’s just as good and inexpensive.

Speaking of wrapping papers, the same can be done with Christmas cards and smaller photo frames.

You can always switch up streamers and garlands for a nice string of lace or pompoms. In fact, this can help make your home feel less busy and more serene.

And if you have one of those paper stars that you hang over bulbs and it’s been scorched due to overuse, you can always cut it up to make a DIY Christmas tree out of it.

Since this video is already running long, I’ll show you how I turned my fake Christmas tree into a fluffy, expensive-looking one in the next video, which will be coming up soon.

Stick around for that. And have a Merry little Christmas.