There’s something ultra cosy about a living room at Christmas, and whether it’s a roaring log fire or twinkly lights on the tree, it’s the place we gather, relax and laugh in during the festive period.
Prepare to be inspired for your decorating efforts these year with some trending Christmas decor ideas for your living room that will suit every interior style.
23 Christmas Decor Ideas For Living Room For A Cozy, Festive Touch
1.Farmhouse Inspired
There’s nothing cosier than a farmhouse interior at Christmas.
Lean into the traditional festive colours – reds, whites and greens. Do swap your cushions and throws out for the season ahead and opt for ticking stripe in red or a classic gingham print for instant farmhouse cosiness.
2. Cozy Wreaths & Tree
If you’re adding a large Christmas tree anywhere this year, make it your living room. It’s one of the most used rooms throughout the holidays and a tree just brings an extra bit of magic and warmth to the space.
Elevate those windows for the holidays and add tasteful wreaths to the centre of each window.
3. Candlelit Coffee Table
Switch up your all year round styling for Christmas and see how different it can make the room feel.
Elevate your coffee table with a large festive scented candle to last you the holiday season. Candlelight should be considered as part of your layered lighting scheme, it brings such warmth and beautiful ambience.
4. Thoughtful Shelf Styling For The Holidays
Those shelves are no different. Swap out and swap in festive ornaments or trinkets for an easy refresh.
These gold Christmas trees create the perfect focal point on these shelves as the different heights create beautiful visual interest.
5. Cedar Garland Display
If you’re looking for a faux garland for your fireplace that looks the real deal, look for a cedar garland. They carry that authentic, draped look and can be used year after year.
If you want your display to look slightly fuller, wrap two around one another for a bushier look. Add stockings, tapered candles and a garland to complete the look.
6. Lean Into Gold & Green
Sticking to a consistent colour scheme for your Christmas decor will create a much more stylish and intentional look in your living room.
Gold and green are classic Christmas colours. Carry these colours through your tree decorations to what you display on your mantle.
7. Stunning Faux Mantle Garland Display
Your fireplace is generally the focal feature of a living room, so give it the spruce up it deserves for Christmas!
Have a go at creating a structured fireplace garland for the festive season. Use faux or dried stems to create a sustainable look that looks amazing. Add fairy lights into the structure for extra warmth as the evenings draw in.
8. Light It Up
Christmas tree lights are one of the most magical, ambience setting elements when it comes to decorating for the holidays, and more is more!
If you want to create that perfect Christmas image, add more lights onto your tree for a really full, layered look.
9. Layered Centrepiece
How stunning is this handmade centrepiece for the coffee table? Recreate this look by choosing a shallow bowl or vase, fill with moss and dried cuttings and add tapered candles into the structure.
10. Rustic Warmth
If you have an exposed brick hearth, lean into the rustic quality of it and create a really warm and earthy scheme for Christmas.
Pair with luscious greenery on a garland and intersperse with bits of foliage and fairy lights.
11. Dried Foliage Tree
Create little festive moments in every corner of your living room. Take inspiration from the below and create your own dried foliage tree.
Choose your favourite large pot and add some long stems or twigs for the structure. Finish by hanging dried orange slices from the branches and wrapping fairy lights around them. An easy, and super affordable update to your living room.
12. Red Ribbons
From hair and clothes to our interiors, the popularity of ribbons have no sign of slowing down this year, and they make pretty gorgeous Christmas decorations too!
If you’re opting for a minimally dressed tree this Christmas, just add lights and finish with red bows for a laidback and luxurious look.
13. Candlelit Hearth.
How beautiful? Add as many different lighting options to your living room as you can during the holidays, they bring moments of warmth and magic to each surface.
If you have an empty fireplace hearth, fill with either real or battery operated chunky candles like the below.
14. Earthy Christmas Living Room
If you like earthy inspired interiors, take note of the below. This beautifully rustic and warm living room creates the cosiest setting for Christmas.
Update vases with real green foliage for that natural feel. Combine reds, greens, browns and sumptuous textiles across your cushions and throws for the cosiest place to relax during the festivities.
15. Neutral Christmas Decor
Neutral inspired Christmas decor is perfect if you have a neutral interior.
Instead of leaning into your most traditional Christmas colours, use whites, creams, golds and muted greens in your scheme.
16. All The Lights
Don’t just stop at tree lights, if you have floor length curtains, add some hanging LED lights behind them for extra magic. Is this not the cosiest living room?!
17. Scale Up
This rule applies to any kind of interior design, scale up! Often going for something small in a space, especially a tree can make the room feel even smaller and inferior. A larger Christmas tree like this completely elevates the room, draws the eye up and gives the illusion of a bigger space.
So, if in doubt, go larger, as long as it doesn’t restrict traffic flow in the room.
18. Keep It Traditional
There’s so many different ways you can decorate for the holidays, but you can’t go wrong with a traditional red and green colour scheme.
It doesn’t need to look gaudy or tacky, take inspiration from the below on how to incorporate these colours into your scheme.
19. White Frosted Tree
White frosted trees have often received a bit of a rap over the last few years, but they can work really well in boho, minimal and neutral inspired schemes.
Tie the tree into the rooms scheme by using other white decor accessories throughout.
20. Thanksgiving Christmas
Combine two of the greatest holidays into one in your living room. A thanksgiving Christmas incorporates those gorgeous rusty tones into a scheme, and it can bring some surprising warmth to a cooler colour scheme.
21. Simple & Tasteful
Decorating a tree can be a minefield, but if you want to decorate beautifully without it looking OTT, take a look at the living room below.
Combine a well put together colour scheme with simple, tasteful decorations for a stylish look.
22. Deck The Windows
Elevate each and every window in your living room for a cosy, hugging feel in your space.
Hang a wreath on each window so it falls on the centre, if you have a double door entryway like this, drape a garland across the top for a continuation of the feel.
23. Handmade Foraged Wreath For The Mantle
Garlands can be really expensive, so why not forage materials to create your own one?
This was from our living room last Christmas, and the foraged pieces lasted the whole festive period, and it smelt amazing!
We started with a couple of oasis bricks, gradually layering the pieces of foliage on either side. You can layer this and edit it as much as you need. Finish with fairy lights and a red bow in the centre for the feel and look of a present, ready to unwrap!
These cosy living room ideas will have your space feeling festive in no time!
