| Does your christmas tree look too old fashioned? | | | | forget the round glass balls and choose conical glass |
| When it comes to decorating christmas trees there | | | | balls and flat spheres only to decorate an entire tree. |
| are some style tips to follow so that they look more | | | | By the way the craze for slim artificial xmas trees is |
| up-to-date and stylish.STYLE TIP #1:The big fat round | | | | similar to the current craze for slim conical christmas |
| artificial christmas tree is out and the slim artificial tree | | | | decorations. Conical decorations are very much |
| is in. This is because when it comes to decorating | | | | identified with retro seventies styles.STYLE TIP |
| christmas tree the trends lately lean more towards tall | | | | #4:One of the first rules of fashion and also interior |
| and conical shapes rather than fat and round | | | | decorating is to break all the rules and the same |
| shapes.This style is more reminiscent of the modernist | | | | applies to Christmas trees. This means deliberately |
| trends from the seventies and strangely, the tall conical | | | | ignoring christmas traditions with the idea of putting a |
| trees that were in favor during the Victorian era. It was | | | | new spin on them. For instance instead of using the |
| Queen Victoria who insisted on the tallest tree possible | | | | classic angel or star as a tree topper you could try |
| for her living room and the narrow tree girth was also | | | | topping it with a spray of fibrous waving multicolored |
| necessary in order to fit these tall slender trees into | | | | diodes or a design that you have constructed using |
| Victorian homes. The same could be said of modern | | | | christmas rope lights. One interesting idea is to make a |
| day "cozy" condo lofts and apartments which often | | | | star out of red velvet and decorate it with peacock |
| have tall ceiling heights but less floor space and suit a | | | | feathers, faux gems and gold bows.Another way to |
| slim artificial christmas tree much better than a | | | | break a traditional rule is to decorate your tree with |
| chubbier version.Natural trees that tend to be tall and | | | | just one color. To be different you could also forget |
| slim are the spruces and firs. They just have a slimmer | | | | about putting largest decorations at the bottom and |
| girth than pines and cedars. When it comes to fake | | | | the tiny ones at the top, put the large ones on the top |
| xmas trees, more and more manufacturers are | | | | and the tiny ones on the bottom. Another idea is to |
| releasing slim artificial trees that can fit more easily into | | | | make all of your christmas tree decorations the same |
| our cramped urban lifestyle.STYLE TIP #2Artificial is in | | | | size.One big trend that has dominated Christmas style |
| and natural trees are out. Okay, so maybe real | | | | and design for the last few years is to hang your |
| christmas trees will never go out of fashion but if you | | | | Christmas tree anyway you can think of, as long as it |
| are a bit of style snob then the trend is towards an | | | | is not standing up. This includes hanging it upside down |
| artificial tree in the wildest color you can find. Basically | | | | from the ceiling, suspending it sideways from the ceiling |
| the idea is to find a tree that looks like it would go well | | | | and buttressing it against a wall.STYLE TIP #5One of |
| in Lieutenant O'Hura's bedroom on Star Trek.Every | | | | the secrets to decorating christmas trees is that the |
| year, artificial trees are looking more and more | | | | more personal it is the better. A good example is the |
| cartoonish. You can buy them in a spectrum of colors | | | | chef who decorates his tree using only plastic forks |
| and in many different materials including PVC, vinyl and | | | | and knives or the new mom who decorates her tree |
| tinsel. The slim artificial trees in wild colors are very | | | | with baby bottles and baby toys. If you celebrate the |
| popular with younger people. Some sites sell xmas | | | | Chinese New Year you might want to decorate your |
| trees that are nothing more than a coiled spiral of | | | | tree with Buddha figures and fortune cookies.Another |
| yellow pink and blue lights that are free standing and | | | | great way to personalize your christmas tree is to use |
| merely emulate the shape of a christmas | | | | baked goods. Tree ornaments made of pink and |
| tree.Probably the two most trendy colors for trees are | | | | yellow gumdrops and toothpicks look nice on an |
| the red and white. The red trees have an offbeat look | | | | artificial white christmas tree for example. Home made |
| to them that is reminiscent of a bad Kodachrome | | | | gingerbread men and short bread snowmen would go |
| photograph from the seventies. However that is part | | | | well with a red artificial prelit christmas tree.One place |
| of their appeal. The white artificial trees are just simply | | | | to get inspiration is the candy store. Choose your |
| gorgeous, especially the prelit artificial trees with | | | | favorite candies that you loved as a kid. A smaller tree |
| branches that have glowing fiber optic tips.STYLE TIP | | | | looks fantastic decorated in candies wrapped in foil. |
| #3One of the secrets to decorating christmas trees in | | | | However once again the key is to be minimalist. Don't |
| a stylish way is to be minimalist. To be truly | | | | decorate the tree with seven or eight kinds of candy. |
| fashionable, stick to decorating the tree in just one or | | | | Decorate it with two to three kinds to give it a kind of |
| two colors. For instance you could decorate a natural | | | | uniformity.If you haven't figured it out by now one of |
| evergreen with only gold bows and natural crystals. A | | | | the keys to decorating christmas trees is repetition on |
| white christmas tree looks great with uniformly sized | | | | a single theme. If you like teddy bears than decorate |
| christmas balls from top to bottom. A sky blue artificial | | | | the entire tree in teddy bears and one other design |
| tree could be decorated in monochrome with glass | | | | element, such as red glass balls. Keeping it simple yet |
| balls that are a deeper shade of blue.The minimalist | | | | elegant is the key to decorating christmas trees.For |
| approach also goes for the style of decorations that | | | | more information on Christmas trees, visit - a |
| you choose. Stick to one or two shapes to keep the | | | | year-round resource for all your christmas tree and |
| look of the tree uncluttered and sleek. For instance, | | | | decoration needs. |