Decorate Your Christmas Tree Like A Pro

Seeing festive Christmas trees in malls or living room windows that have been decorated with lights, garlands, and decorations is one of our favorite holiday activities. In many homes, decorating a Christmas tree is a time-honored custom. 

Nearly everyone is aware of the components that go into adorning a Christmas tree: lights, garland, tinsel, and ornaments. However, the possibilities are essentially endless when it comes to designing a holiday tree that reflects your taste, personality, heritage, and environment. The best Christmas trees are adorned with a thick layer of decorations, both handmade and store-bought, as well as memories and customs.

Want to learn how to properly decorate a Christmas tree? We’ll provide tips on how to make your Christmas tree look spectacular. Styling in layers is the key to creating a stunning Christmas tree! 

1. Invest In A High Quality Artificial Christmas Tree

Premium-quality artificial Christmas trees offer dependable and solid support for ornaments. You’ll discover that high-quality trees are typically more resilient and can withstand repeated use year after year while still maintaining their lovely appearance.

Choose a conventional tree rather than a trend-driven one so that it won’t go “out of date” after a few years. A traditional design also gives you the ideal foundation on which to build additional layers and decorations. Fluffing the branches is still very vital even if you have one of the best artificial Christmas trees since it will make your tree look fuller and natural. Don’t forget to add your tree skirt at the bottom to tie the whole thing together! 

2. Add your Christmas lights! 

Adding the lights is the first step in decorating a Christmas tree. Usually, tree lights are strung on green or white wire. To ensure that the wire is concealed, choose a strand color that complements your tree. Your Christmas tree will seem its most vibrant when lit from the inside out. Wrap lights around each significant branch, working your way up from the base of the trunk to the tip and back. You should fluff the branches as you circle the tree. 

The simplest method to do this is to turn them on first because doing so makes it much simpler to see where you’re setting them. To properly spread the lights, drape the light strand across the branches from top to bottom and from one side to the other.

Try with several lighting setups until you find one you like; you can combine different types of lighting. For instance, strands of colored lights wrapped around the tree’s exterior can stand out against a background of white or clear lights.

3. Drape Your Christmas Garlands

When it comes to putting garlands on a Christmas tree, there are no hard and fast rules. Start at the top of the tree and gradually increase the quantity of garlands between each wave as you work your way down the branches to prevent limbs from bulging between tightly tightened garland strands. For every vertical foot on the tree, aim to use around two strands of garland.

Decorate your Christmas tree with a variety of garlands, from simple to elaborate, to avoid having a cluttered appearance. Thicker paper, ribbon, or foil garlands look best freely wrapped around the entire tree, while thin, beaded garlands look best draped from branch to branch.

4. Tree Topper

Although most people believe that this should be the final touch, it can really be fairly challenging to secure the topper once a tree has been entirely decorated.

Pro-tip: It’s best to avoid setting anything on the very top of your tree, whether it be a star, angel, or other ornament. It can look very appealing to position it around a hand’s width below the tip-top, depending on what you’re using. It can be fastened with zip ties or floral wire. It should look more like it is buried into the branches if you connect it somewhat lower from the top than if it is floating on the ends of the branches. 

5. Hang Your Ornaments 

Whatever style of Christmas tree you choose this year, our best advice is to place the heaviest Christmas ornaments within the tree first so that the branches can sustain their weight. Fill up the area in the center of the tree with inexpensive accidental glitter or bright decorations, which are ideal for catching the light coming from the tree’s interior. 

We recommend grouping three ornaments of various sizes to provide flair and aesthetic appeal. Either use similar pieces or pick ones that contrast with one another. Put your favorite ornaments in the best spots on the tree to display them. To provide depth and interest, hang some decorations closer to the trunk. Your tree will glow from the inside out as a result of their light reflection. Add unique ornaments, such as handcrafted ornaments, clip-on ornaments, or icicles, to personalize the tree. Consider straining your eyes as you stand back and examine your tree from various angles to see if there are any spaces that need to be filled. 

Getting a beautiful Christmas tree doesn’t have to be difficult. It only requires a basic understanding of how the components interact with one another and a few simple instructions. We’ve demonstrated how to properly adorn a Christmas tree because we believe every holiday home’s centerpiece is their Christmas tree. Even though it’s perhaps one of the best aspects of getting your house ready for the holidays, knowing exactly how to decorate a Christmas tree can be very confusing. When it comes to decorating your tree, there are numerous decisions to be made, including what order to complete tasks in, where to place lights and ornaments, and whether to use fresh or artificial decorations.  

You’ve now mastered the art of decorating your Christmas tree like a pro. That’s your stunning Christmas tree done! One thing to check off your Christmas to-do list for the upcoming festive season. Stay tuned for more tips and trips for the merry season!