Room-by-room explanations and photos
Let me show you all of my rooms on the main floor of our house and how I converted my Christmas decorations into winter decorations. The upper floor remains mostly the same. I don’t have much space since all the plants live upstairs in our bedrooms during the winter until they are moved back outside in late spring. The plants help keep the air clean and make our bedrooms cozy in a different way.
In the living room: icicle branches, disco balls, oranges, fairy lights and salt lamps with cozy layers
As mentioned, I planned ahead this year and kept my tree-lit branches instead of removing them after the fall decorations to make room for a small Christmas tree. I knew I could turn these branches into winter decorations. For Halloween and fall I added my DIY paper leaves, DIY paper moths and corn husk bats. For Christmas I added my foldable paper stars and icicles. If you’re looking for something to use to transition between seasons, branches are definitely the way to go. They can even be used for Easter after winter. Below you can see them with my white foldable paper stars.
My goal was to keep a warm glow and layers but remove the Christmas greenery and ornaments. I’ve seen others remove the lights and Christmas decorations but leave the greenery, but to me that doesn’t really feel like winter, more like Christmas. Cozy lighting and light reflection are the most important things to me all year round.
These illuminated icicle branches are perfect for winter decoration, don’t you think? And they look cozy even though they represent ice formations.
That said, I kept my disco balls and disco ball pillows because they aren’t Christmas specific. I actually always have them on my coffee table.
You can also easily make these lighted branches. Simply bring a few branches outside, stick them in a flower pot filled with floral foam, and wrap them in fairy lights. (You can see how I do this in my blog post video about making a paper sheet that I mentioned earlier.
Walter still looks good in his bow tie.
