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How can I make my room cozy for Christmas?

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Angelica Savard is a Home Stager, Realtor, and Interior Designer based in Long Beach, California. She is also the Co-owner of Elegant Domain Interiors LLC, a business that offers design consulting, home staging, and window treatments. She has over 15 years of interior design and consulting experience. She earned a BA from California State University Long Beach with an emphasis on Interior Architectural Design.

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Less is more. It is easy to get carried away and over-decorate. If your room starts to look garish and cluttered, you might need to put some decorations away.

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How can I decorate for Christmas in a subtle way?

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Simple things like a Christmas tablescape or items on the mantel can go a long way. Whatever decorations you use, make sure they conform to the color scheme of the house.

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I have purple on my walls, so what color scheme should I go for when decorating for Christmas?

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Christmas is almost always about red and green colors, but a winter wonderland theme can be beautiful as well. You can decorate in colors of white, silver, and blue to coordinate with your decor.

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What can I do when my entire room (including floor) in orange?

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Twinkle lights always look festive.

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What if I share a room with someone?

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You could ask them to help you pick out the decorations for the room and set them up. That will help them feel involved, and maybe even get them in the Christmas spirit. If they don't want you to decorate the whole room, then you could just decorate a small area of it.

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How do I work with blue walls?

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You could make white snowflake and snowman crafts to put on your walls to give it the appearance of a winter landscape.

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What should I do if I don't have a lot of money?

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You can get decorations at your local dollar store, or wait for a sale to arise. You can also try to make homemade decorations as well.

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Aren't lights a fire hazard?

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If kept on for too long, yes they could be. Don't leave them on for more than 12 hours a day, and if they seem to be getting very hot, turn them off. If you are worried, invest in LED lights that will not get hot.

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What if my parents don't let me decorate my room, but I really want to and all I have is paper snowflakes?

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Tell your parents your plan before you do anything. They probably don't want you to because they have no idea how big or small you want to go. For the paper snowflakes, you could make a garland by stringing them together. You could also simply scatter the snowflakes on top of shelves or dressers.

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What do I do if my room is pink?

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My room is pink also. Use silver and purple decorations. Or if you want more traditional colors, use gold, silver, and white.

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I am 11 years old, how should I decorate?

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You can decorate with lights, wreaths, garlands, candy canes, anything you like! It's all up to you!

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My walls are painted green. How can I decorate for Christmas without using too much of one color?

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Green is a natural choice for Christmas, but red, gold, and silver are also very popular choices! You could also use Christmas lights as decorations beyond the Christmas tree to create a festive look while keeping it interesting. If you're open to less traditional decorating ideas, remember you can also get artificial Christmas trees and greenery in other colors.

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Can I get good decorations at the Dollar Store?

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Yes, you can find lots of miniature decorations, lights, and festive toys that you can use to decorate your room for Christmas.

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How do I know if I have too many decorations?

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If you look around your room and it looks cluttered, or you have a feeling that it may be too much, it might be. You can choose to take out the decorations, or keep it in. After all, it is your own room.

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My room is turquoise and hot pink. What color schemes should I use?

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Go with the flow and keep the colors how they are. You could put pink crafts on the turquoise and turquoise on the pink. You could put white crafts on both colors. Not everything has to be red or green for Christmas. Just make it look winter wonderland-themed for your room.

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Should I go with a "winter wonderland" theme, or focus more on reindeer and other animals?

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Do both! You can incorporate both themes into your room, either mixed together or in separate areas.

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Should I put away my existing ornaments and replace them with Christmas ones?

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It's up to you, but that sounds like a very festive idea!

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What can I do if I have a very low budget, but do not want to make my own decorations?

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Find out how much you're willing to spend. Go to the dollar store and browse, there will be tons of stuff to choose from. Just the colors red and green are Christmasy! Find the items that cost the least and would be the most useful (to be able to be reused next year). Candles, candy canes and many more 'normal' items could also be shown as Xmas-related.

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My room is lavender and white. Is there any other theme I could do besides a winter wonderland?

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You could do any theme, since lavender can often be mistaken as white under certain lights. If the lavender color is more prominent, you could do an animal or White Christmas theme.

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Where do you get all the supplies?

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It depends on what you want to do. Michaels and other craft stores are great places to get craft supplies, as are discount and dollar stores. If you want to get big supplies such as wood or metal, then you might want to check out a hardware or home improvement store.

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What color decorations should I use if my room is black and white?

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You can do red and gold sparkles, or whatever colors you would prefer because any colors would match your room decorations.

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My room is mainly beige with blue bedsheets and oak furniture. What would be the best color scheme for it?

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Maybe white, blue and gold, and then do snowflakes and so on.

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My curtains can't be removed. What should I do to make them festive?

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Hang lights in front of them to light them up and add more depth. A little garland across the top will look nice. You could also tie them back and use the frost for the window.

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Should I take down my posters? I really like them but they don't exactly scream Christmas.

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It's really up to you. There's no need to change the decor of your room for a holiday.

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What do I do when my room is orange?

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Twinkle lights always look festive, but if you are in need of more decorations you could try painting pine cones or other decorations orange, or make red-themed Christmas decorations to go with the flow of your room.

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What if I dont want to go out to get supplies?

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If money is the issue, then I recommend the dollar store, as they can have some very classy decorations for cheap. If you are not physically able to leave the house, you could try taping paper snowflake chains on the walls, or ribbons, or anything that you already have at home.

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What decorations can I use when my room is blue and yellow?

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Fairy lights always look festive, no matter the color. Go with neutral colors for decorations because of your bright colored room. Try whites and silvers, and use only the tiniest bit of blue so as not to clash too much with the colors you already have.

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How do I decorate the living room with garlands?

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Cover any windows in the room with garlands. If you are feeling especially festive, you can cover the doorway too. Just leave a little draping down over the sides of the frame and you're good to go.

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My walls are a light/medium grey. I don't want to use blue, so what other colours could I use to coordinate with the walls?

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Red goes well with grey, and some white. And add some throw blankets and cushions to help brighten things up.

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What could you do if your room is blue and you don’t want to use a lot a money?

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If you want to decorate your room for Christmas, have your blue wall for the sky, and you could cut out snowflakes, and make other snowflake decorations and put them all over the blue wall.

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