As the festive season approaches, now is the perfect time to inject some Christmas cheer into your living room. Fortunately, if you’re wondering how to deck the halls in a way that is simultaneously joyful, peaceful and chic, we’ve got you covered. Impress your friends and family with the following cosy Christmas living room ideas.

Here are our 10 creative ideas when decorating your living room for Christmas! 

1. Give a biofire a go

Fend off chilly weather this winter by installing a stylish new biofire. Bioethanol fireplaces are a fantastic modern alternative to traditional fireplaces and are environmentally friendly, smoke-free, safe, and hugely festive.

A warm and calming biofire installation offers the perfect focal point for the family to gather around this Christmas. After all, there’s nothing better than cracking open a bottle of bubbly and opening those all-important Christmas presents next to a cosy flame! 

2. Drape your room with Christmas lights

Wondering how to decorate your living room with Christmas lights? These beautiful chains of light don’t have to be confined to the Christmas tree. A tasteful and carefully considered arrangement of Christmas lights in your living room can make the space feel like a haven of festivity and joy. What’s more, you can enjoy them all year round!

When draping your lights, try to place them in a way that will highlight the room’s best parts. Allowing them to tumble down your favourite bookshelf, for example, will look classy and attractive, as well as adding an element of edge to your room. Your mantelpiece or fireplace, equally, offer fantastic platforms on which to drape your lights.

3. Get cosy with blankets and cushions

The living room is designed to be a place of rest and relaxation, making it a particularly important place during the Christmas season. To ensure that the room feels as welcoming as possible, why not get some soft living room accessories that guests can snuggle down with during a long and chilly evening? Think knitted cushion covers, fluffy blankets and faux fur throws.  

If you’re a fan of overtly Christmassy items, don’t be afraid to show off your passion for the festive season with a reindeer cushion or a snowman blanket. Remember that these items can always be stored away in January ready to be enjoyed again in a year’s time. 

4. Spend time thinking about your Christmas tree ideas

Although it may only be up for a few weeks of the year, an attractive Christmas tree is vital when it comes to putting together the perfect festive living room.  

There are a wide variety of options available when it comes to choosing a Christmas tree, and there are no right or wrong options in regards to style. Artificial trees, for example, are a perfectly respectable alternative to real trees, and may even suit the overall style of a particular living room better than their pine-shedding counterparts. 

If you own a cutting-edge, wall-mounted biofire, for example, you may want to opt for a minimalist faux tree that adheres to your contemporary aesthetic. 

5. Display your Christmas cards in innovative ways 

Most of us love to receive beautiful Christmas cards from friends and family. It can be difficult to arrange them in a sleek and attractive way, however. One of the best ideas to decorate your living room for Christmas is to create your own special Christmas card holders. As well as tackling the problem of where to put your piles of mail during the festive season, it represents an opportunity to display your appreciation for those closest to you. 

6. Transform your unused fireplace 

Does your living room feature an unused fireplace crying out for some TLC? Fortunately, we’ve come up with the perfect way to decorate an unused fireplace (hint…with a biofire!).

A cold and unused fireplace can bring down the cheer of a living room during Christmas time, no matter how festive your décor. To combat this, try out a biofire to fill the space. As well as offering a clean and healthy alternative to a traditional wood-burning fire, it will add a sparkle of warm festive cheer to your living room.

7. Bring in some festive plants 

Your Christmas tree does not need to be the only plant in your living room this festive period. Indeed, arranging a beautiful bouquet of seasonal flowers is a great way to add cheer and sparkle to your living space. Think mistletoe, holly, azalea, and white chrysanthemums, and adorn them with sparkly Christmas twine, glitter, and even a few bells. Get creative!

8. Focus on your mantelpiece

If your living room features a mantelpiece, use this platform wisely during the festive season and add some mantelpiece Christmas decorations. It offers a great platform to display Christmas cards, candles, festive ornaments, fairy lights and tinsel. It is also a great way to accent the beauty of a bioethanol fire! 

 9. Try to keep to a coherent colour scheme

So far, we’ve offered up a range of exciting ideas explaining how to decorate your living room for Christmas. However, we are also keen to point out the importance of keeping your room décor sleek and coherent by sticking to a colour scheme, matching decorations to your current style, and ensuring that your room does not look too gaudy. Cheesy decorations are all too common during Christmas, after all.

If your living room already features traditional and rustic furniture, for example, you should aim to match this style with handmade and tasteful decorations. Those with a minimalist living room that features lots of white, on the other hand, may want to try creating a white winter wonderland.

10. Get the kids to help

If your home includes little ones or you will be welcoming children into your home over the festive season, why not get into the family spirit and allow them to help out with Christmas decoration ideas? This could include drawing some Christmassy pictures, for example, or cutting out some snowflakes. They may not be the next Picasso or Monet, but displaying children’s artwork will offer a great talking point for the family and will encourage the kids to keep up their creative endeavours.