Small or large, glittering or rather simple: Christmas tree decorations are available in many variations to suit every taste. We present you the latest trends and show you the most beautiful Christmas trees for 2019. Find out how you can decorate your Christmas tree with sweets, natural materials, bows, cotton wool and artificial snow. No matter whether it's puristic in the hygge style or fun with pom-poms or nostalgic with a vintage touch: we'll tell you how you can make the Christmas tree shine with the right Christmas decorations and transform it into a real eye-catcher. Be inspired and choose your favorite decoration. These are the trends for this winter!
Wooden Christmas tree in Hygge style
The first trend for Christmas decorations for 2019 is simple and elegant. More and more people are foregoing a Christmas tree in favor of a purist Christmas treeCozy Style. The wooden Christmas tree offers numerous advantages for purists: It can be decorated as desired with modern pendants made of metal, paper, fabric or feathers, takes up little space and fits harmoniously into the modern interior design. Together with a Christmas tree blanket made of faux fur, it becomes a real eye-catcher in modern country house style interiors.
The wooden Christmas tree can also be effectively displayed in retro-style facilities. Paper Christmas tree decorations bring a touch of the 80s into your own four walls. Fans of Scandinavian interiors can opt for a charming oneChristmas decorations made from natural materialsdecide and decorate the Christmas tree with felt pendants. There are no limits to creativity; the tree can be redecorated every year.
Decorating the Christmas tree in an American way: The trends for 2019
If you are looking for colorful, glittering and imaginative decoration ideas, then you should take inspiration from the Americans. There, the Christmas trees are so lavishly decorated with garlands and pendants that the tree itself is barely visible. In just a few steps you can have your Christmas treedecorate American:
1. Choose the color scheme. In the USA, white and green form a neutral background, leaving the stage for accents of blue, pink, black or purple. Shimmering accents in gold or silver add the finishing touches to the tree decorations and make the Christmas tree look particularly glamorous.
2. Boldly combine different materials. Fabric garlands, real flowers and crystal Christmas tree decorations enhance the look and give the tree that certain something.
3. The more Christmas tree decorations, the better. Americans decorate their Christmas trees as lavishly as possible, creating a glittering magical world.
Nostalgic decoration ideas in a classic style
Christmas decorations in red, gold and white have long been considered a real classic. The color scheme harmonizes perfectly with the green pine branches and brown pine cones, looks cheerful and creates the Christmas spirit. Here's how to conjure up a classic Christmas decoration that will bring a nostalgic touch from the past into your own four walls:
1. Only combine classic decorative elements. Stylish ones can be made from elements such as red Christmas balls, candy canes and snowflakestraditional arrangementsput together. Many of the motifs are borrowed from the Bible: angels, the three kings and Saint Nicholas create a festive atmosphere. Homemade stars made from music paper also find a place on the Christmas tree.
2. Drape a plaid fabric garland around the Christmas tree.
3. Make the tree light up with LED candles, lanterns and small lanterns.
3. Decorate the Christmas tree with toys from your childhood or vintage snow globes.
4. Complete the classic look of the Christmas tree with natural materials.
Trends for 2019: Decoration with bows
This year, decorations in which one element comes to the fore are very trendy. Bows, for example, are very popular. There are two options to choose from: You can either use a large bow as a tree topper or you can attach several smaller bows to the Christmas tree. The trend comes from England, where Christmas trees are traditionally decorated with bows and fabric garlands with checked patterns. The rest of the Christmas tree decorations are also kept traditional in Great Britain. Flowers made of fabric, a chain of lights and numerous red Christmas balls forma stylish ensemble. The colors of the bow can be found in the other design elements. This creates a harmonious overall picture.
Create a decoration in the “Winter Wonderland” style with cotton wool or artificial snow
The next Christmas trend is inspired by the song “Winter Wonderland” and conveys peace and security. The Christmas tree decorated with cotton wool or artificial snow has a romantic appearance. How to recreate the vintage look:
1. Spray the pine branches with artificial snow.
2. Decorate the Christmas tree with tone-on-tone tree decorations. Pendants made of music paper, shimmering Christmas balls in soft pink shades and a chain of lights are part of a playful vintage Christmas decoration. You can also find finds from the flea market here, for exampleold ballswith chipped paint. It is precisely their old look that creates the charm of the vintage style. If desired, you can also attach other decorative elements such as deer antlers or crystal pendants.
3. Drape white garland around the Christmas tree or scatter cotton on the tree branches.
Another variant is to simulate the vintage look. You can lightly sand the surface of the gold ball with fine sandpaper and cut out ornaments yourself from cardboard and spray them with gold spray. Birds, butterflies, flowers and deer silhouettes play in oneShabby ChicEnsemble takes the lead role, while the traditional golden Christmas tree baubles discreetly fade into the background.
Decorate the Christmas tree in 2019 with natural materials
In contrast to the classic and vintage Christmas decorations, the purist Christmas tree decorations are kept more sober. If you want to decorate your Christmas tree with natural materials, then you don't need to look for inexpensive Christmas balls and pendants in stores. You can simply take a walk in the forest and collect natural treasures. Pine cones, laurel and mistletoe branches, and moss create a natural look. There are no limits to your imagination, as long as the Christmas decorations look as subtle and close to nature as possible.
How to decorate your Christmas tree in a purist style:
1. A real Christmas tree offers the perfect background for puristic decoration with natural materials.
2. Make a garland out of willow branches, pine cones, and evergreen tree leaves and wrap it around the tree.
3. Decorate the Christmas tree with other natural materials such as nuts, driftwood and seasonal flowers such as poinsettias. If you wish, you can also attach green apples or limes to the Christmas tree and add accents with feathers.
Decorate the Christmas tree with real flowers
The next trend comes from Australia, where Christmas trees are decorated with flowers. If you want to create a happy atmosphere, you can make a flower garland and decorate the Christmas tree with it. The rule of thumb applies: the more colorful, the better. You can completely do without other Christmas decorations. A stylish floral decoration is completely sufficient and makes you look forward to the soon-coming spring even greater. Pom-pom garlands in accent colors can brighten up the windows and mantel.
Decorate with sweets: these are the trends for 2019
Candies, lollipops, donuts and even colorful piñatas: sweets can't just be seen on Christmas trees in the USA and Mexico this year. The trend is now also very popular in Europe. The children especially love the sweet decorations. Matching: Homemade garlands made of paper and pendants made of cardboard. Our tip: Use cookie cutters as a template and cut out various Christmas motifs such as stars, Christmas trees and Santa Clauses from cardboard. Decorate them with glitter spray and the colorful Christmas decorations in strong colors such as purple, pink, orange and blue are ready.
If you have a small artificial Christmas tree, you can decorate it festively with sweets. Wrap several Christmas balls in paper and tie the two ends with a narrow decorative ribbon so that they look like candy. Fill transparent glass balls with colorful sugar sprinkles. Complete the Christmas tree decorations with homemade decorations made of felt or pom-poms.
Funny Christmas decorations with pom-poms
Colorful Christmas decorations are guaranteed to put you in a good mood. This year, the Christmas trees will be decorated for Christmas with colorful pom-poms in bright colors and garlands made of knitting yarn. Even complete craft beginners can easily make these magical Christmas tree decorations at home. Simply cut two rings out of cardboard, place them on top of each other and wrap wool threads evenly around them. Continue wrapping the thread around the cardboard ring until the hole becomes very small. Then cut out the wool at the edge of the ring and pass a wool thread between the two cardboard rings and tie the ends of the wool thread together. At the end, simply remove the cardboard rings carefully. Complete!
If you combine wool yarns in several colors, you can create colorful pom-poms. This can be used to embellish not only real Christmas trees, but also artificial white Christmas trees. The pom-poms can also be combined with other decorations such as fairy lights and LED candles. Origami paper stars can be used to create a particularly effective display.
Romantic in a maritime style
Are you tired of the bad weather and dreaming of sunny summer days again? Then the next decoration trend is just right for you. Decorate your Christmas tree with shells, starfish and sea glass balls and bring a maritime touch into your own four walls. This decoration is particularly popular in the USA. You can of course find nautical winter decorations in stores, but if you collected seashells during your last vacation, you can paint them with watercolors, spray them with glitter spray and attach them to the Christmas tree.
Purists and minimalists have something in common: They live by the motto “Less is more”. In contrast to the purists who decorate their homes with natural materials, the minimalists rely on metal, glass and ultra-modern plastics. The next trend is also in line with modern trends. The tree decorations made of brass or copper are a real all-rounder: In winter they decorate the Christmas tree together with LED candles and Christmas balls made of feathers, then the decorative pendants with diamond shapes decorate the side tables and can be combined with vases and statues as desired.
The trendy metal pendants have established themselves as the most popular accessory for the past year. No wonder that even classic elements such as the poinsettia are now made from brass. A particularly harmonious overall picture is created when the pendants are combined with black and white decorative ribbons and Christmas baubles in metallic colors.
Nostalgic with garland with family photos
We like to look through old photo albums, especially at Christmas. But now there is an opportunity to reflect on the past year with a creative Christmas decoration. Make a fabric garland and attach family pictures to it with clothespins. This way the whole family can enjoy being together and remember the good times.
Retro look in rainbow colors
Bold colors, kitschy arrangements: the retro style is not for everyone. Fans of furnishings inspired by the living trends of the 80s can look forward to particularly colorful Christmas decorations. The so-called rainbow color trend, in which the tree lights up in red, green, blue, orange, purple, yellow and pink, is guaranteed to put you in a good mood.
Whether colorful in the style of the 80s or reserved, purist, with a romantic touch from the past or prefer modern: If you want to decorate your Christmas tree, you can choose between different trends. In the photo series below you will find more interesting examples of trendy Christmas decorations. Let the suggestions inspire you!
Decoration with citrus fruits
Festive garland made of exotic flowers and palm leaves decorates the Christmas tree
Tree decorations in blue with a maritime touch
Puristic Christmas decorations with vintage tree balls
Modern with artificial tree and decoration in pink and gold
Decorate with artificial snow
Real flowers and natural materials decorate the Christmas tree
Fabric tree decorations
Festive decoration idea with bows
Christmas decorations with golden bows
Decorate the Christmas tree with natural materials
