The best part of winter? For many of us, it’s the chance to decorate our homes for the holidays! Christmas trees, colorful lights, and festive ornaments on the dining room table make this season fun for the entire family, even if it’s very chilly outside.
Your home’s windows are the perfect places to showcase your holiday spirit, especially if you have your eye on the unofficial “Best Decorated Home on the Block” award. To help get you started, here are some of our favorite holiday window decorating ideas.
Hang a Christmas garland
You can’t go wrong with garland as a winter window decoration. Fun fact: you can hang garlands on your windows and your front door, not just the latter.
Best situated in the middle of windows with space to spare, like Window World 6000 Series Windows or the center panes of bay or bow windows, garlands are easy, effective ways to start your home’s in-season facelift.
Or make a dried citrus garland of your own
Traditional garlands are classic window and door décor for the holidays, but they’re also not the most original ideas. Why not flex your creativity with a DIY garland?
To add even more imagination to the mix, craft a garland with greenery and dried orange slices. Dried citrus is seasonal for winter, so it looks particularly fitting around kitchen windows. Plus, orange compliments green very well – it’s a thematically appropriate andaesthetically pleasing holiday decorating idea for your window.
Light a few candles
As the days grow shorter and the evening comes quicker and quicker, you might be tempted to light a few candles throughout the house. That light might look amazing in your windows, too.
So, why not set up some candles along your windowsills? It’s a great way to bring the illumination of holiday cheer to anyone who walks by and give your home that soft, warm ambiance we all appreciate at the same time. Or use flameless electric candles for a similar effect with the convenience of automatic timers and no need to monitor for fire safety.
A little greenery never goes amiss
Winter has its own natural splendor you might want to display in your home’s windows. In addition to your other holiday window decorations, we recommend putting sprigs of rosemary or pine here and there. These simple green touches bring a bit of winter inside without making things chilly, and they’ll give your home a nice, fresh, seasonal scent – what’s not to like?
Create a winter window box
If you dare to go outside in the middle of the Asheville winter, you can dress up your window boxes. Your yearly blooms might look less than stellar, but you don’t have to wait ‘till spring to spruce the box up.
For example, you can plant winter-friendly species like Gaultheria procumbens or Erica carnea, both of which do well in cold temperatures. Aside from that, think about filling your window box with small seasonal blooms, little Santas and elves, or any other decorative baubles you might want to display.