Simple Living Room Christmas Decor, Cozy Ideas That Are Warm And Inviting

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Looking for simple living room Christmas decor ideas that feel cozy, warm, and real? Then this post will inspire you. My Christmas living room ideas focus on comfort, handmade touches, and familiar traditions

I love Christmas decorating especially coming up with simple living room Christmas decor that feels cozy, warm, and real. I am always looking for Christmas living room ideas that make my home inviting and genuine but that are simple and easy at the same time. Who needs more stress around Christmas time? Not me!

I love Christmas

I love the Christmas season…

I love the decorating, the twinkly lights, the trees, and everything that goes with it…

I love sharing my Christmas decorations with you all and visiting all my friends who are sharing their decorated Christmas home on their blogs.

Did you see my friend Kate’s home (Southern Home and Hospitality)? She does such a great job of decorating with plaid for Christmas. I am sharing all the links to my friends’ Christmas home tours that we are doing this week at the bottom of this post.

But as much as I love the whole Christmas hoopla. I kinda not love a lot about this season too.

Maybe you can relate, but I don’t like the stress put on us to do it all perfectly.

I don’t like the suggestion that you need a big budget or be a professional decorator to create a cozy Christmas living room. To me the beauty of simple Christmas decorations is how personal and relaxed they are, a reflection of real lives, real memories, and I love decorations with stories behind them.

And I definitely don’t like the idea that you have to reinvent Christmas every year. Don’t get me wrong, if you like to go all new every year that is totally ok in my book. But it is just not me.

I am a sentimental gal at heart. That’s why every year, I go back to my favorite simple Christmas decor, familiar textures, handmade ornaments, and natural details that make our living room Christmas decor feel warm and timeless.

This year more than ever.

This year has brought so many changes: a new home, in a new country, a new life with a whole new lifestyle attached. I am craving safe, and familiar and tried and tested.

And that set the theme for my Christmas decor this year. There is nothing new in this 250 year old home. And neither is there in my Christmas decor. All my Christmas decorations came from the same totes I packed them in last year. Some of my decorations have been with me for more than a decade. A lot of them are homemade.

Let me show you….

Simple Living Room Christmas Decor That Feels Cozy and Real

Decorating the Christmas Tree with a Neutral, Handmade Look

My Christmas tree has been showing off mostly white ornaments for many years now. This year I used just about every Christmas ornament I ever made. Some white and some in wood or neutral colors and all with natural textures. I was surprised myself how well they all work together, creating a neutral Christmas color scheme. It truly resulted in simple living room Christmas decor that feels cozy and elegant.

Many of my simple Christmas decorations are homemade and I’ve used them all often over the years.

There are the hand-sawn wooden Christmas stars, and my DIY doily ornaments, the vintage cards decorations from last year, the little Christmas puppet angels from many years ago and the burlap ornaments that are so old I can’t even remember in which year I made those.

Every handmade piece adds to that cozy Christmas living room feeling, because there is a memory attached to nearly over ornament in that tree. I have used them all over and over again. And yet I still love them all.

Instead of a store-bought base, I stacked old painted suitcases to create a rustic tree stand. It fits perfectly with my simple, rustic Christmas decor. It’s creative, cozy, and very me. There is a stack of books in the bottom one to make sure the top is sturdy enough for the weight. I put my gym bag over the tree stand inside the top suitcase for some extra counterweight and hid the bag and the cords with my chunky knit blanket.

Creating Cozy Christmas Vignettes with Everyday Items

This temporary living room is rather small and there is a lot of living going on there. My Christmas decorations can’t take up too much space or it will all become too cluttered and busy quickly.

I am also dearly missing a focal point like a mantel or a dresser or a sideboard. So instead of going for a showstopper kind of Christmas centerpiece, I went for a couple of quick and easy ones.

Like my mom’s baking tin filled with moss found in the woods around our house. The larger deer is a thrift store find, it was a brass deer that I painted white a long time ago. The tiny driftwood Christmas tree is also a project from many moons ago.

The glass hurricane light got a quick filling with faux snow, some bottle brush trees and a lighted car ornament. Took me all but five minutes to pull together.

Just as easy is my ‘centerpiece’ – if you can call it that- at our small dining table. Just a nice large bowl with a huge pillar candle and some faux greenery around it.

It’s a nice contained centerpiece that I can easily put aside if we need the table.

Of course, there had to be a bit of lantern decorating too. I changed up one of my fall lanterns and added some bottle brush trees and tiny fairy lights. The paper star on top was part of a whole pack I made for a wreath (how to fold a paper star). To hide the battery pack for the lights I placed the lantern on a tray and added lots of painted pinecones. Looks good and the battery pack is nicely hidden.

These easy vignettes add so much to my cozy Christmas living room. A thrifted deer, a driftwood tree, and a bowl filled with candles and greenery—simple Christmas decorating ideas that anyone can try.

Wall and Wreath Ideas for a Small Christmas Living Room

As I said before. This living room is kind of small and I don’t want to stumble over my decor. So when there is no floor space to use for decorating, go vertical! I hung a collection of wreaths on the wall to create a festive backdrop for our living room Christmas decor. The different textures make the room feel warm, layered, and cozy.

I gathered up all my old faux green Christmas wreaths and even whipped up an extra one with some leftover bits from my stash.

I love how the impact of each wreath is enhanced now that it is part of a collection.

I was pleasantly surprised myself with how good this wall of wreaths looks. This might become a new tradition…

Simple Christmas Decorating Ideas with Texture and Warmth

Swapping out pillow covers is one of my favorite simple Christmas decorating ideas. A few neutral Christmas pillows instantly make our cozy living room decor feel seasonal without clutter. It is the easiest thing ever to change a pillow case and it makes my soft furnishings look purposeful and perfect in season. The one with the deer head on the couch is my favorite.

Although the french Joyeux Noel pillow has never looked better than it does this year in the brown chair underneath my wreath collection. In case you are wondering that pillow is years old and came from the H&M home collection.

Why Simple Christmas Decor Makes a Home Feel Genuine and Inviting

Remember your simple Christmas decor doesn’t need to be picture-perfect to be beautiful. A cozy Christmas living room filled with handmade touches, natural textures, and family memories is more meaningful than anything you could buy new. If it feels right for you and your family it is the best Christmas home ever.

My Christmas decorations have always been easy, mostly handmade and incorporating lots of natural elements. It is simply my style that I keep gravitating to year after year.

If you like my style of Christmas decorating you will love the E-book I wrote about how to get the natural Christmas look on a shoestring budget.Check out my E-book here!

More Christmas Decorating Ideas

Next up on the tour is Kim from Shiplap and Shells with a beautiful rustic Christmas home tour! You’re going to be so inspired!

Be sure to visit all my friends who shared their Christmas home tours this week!

Sand Dollar Lane  //  2 Bees in a Pod  //  At Home with Kristy  //  Exquisitely Unremarkable
  Our Crafty Mom  //  Hearth and Vine

Zucchini Sisters  //  Postcards from the Ridge  //  Southern Crush at Home  //  Amy Sadler Designs
 Pasha is Home  //  Simple Nature Decor

Worthing Court  //  The Tattered Pew  //  Cottage in the Mitten  //  DIY Beautify
Thistle Key Lane  //  At Lane and High  //  Feet Under My Table

White Arrows Home // Aratari at Home // White Lilac Farmhouse
Cottage on Bunker Hill // Bricks ‘n Blooms

My Family Thyme  //  Southern Home and Hospitality  //  Songbird //  Shiplap and Shells
Chalking Up Success  //  Pure Happy Home

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