Creating the Perfect Outdoor Christmas Display

Christmas decorations don’t have to be reserved for inside your property. If you have a garden, balcony, an exterior stainless steel staircase or other outdoor area, you can utilise these over the festive period. Outdoor Christmas decorations don’t have to be loud and brash; there are many sophisticated and stylish ways in which you can decorate the outside of your home this Christmas.

Plan your theme

Just as it’s nice to have a theme running across your interior decorations, this also helps bring all your exterior decorations together. You should choose something that blends in with your existing decor, whether that’s the colour of the paintwork, a feature plant or your outdoor furniture. It might be that the traditional Christmas colours will work best, including shades of red, green, silver and blue. Alternatively, you could base your theme on an individual item that you want to create a feature out of. This could include snowflakes, angels or The Nutcracker. Whatever you decide to use for your theme, it’s best to have this sorted before you start buying any items. This will ensure that everything complements one another and that you don’t waste any money.

The right lighting

It’s quick and simple to brighten up the outside of your home with some beautiful string lights. They can easily be draped across the top of balcony handrails, down a staircase or wrapped in the branches of a bare tree. This will create the perfect atmosphere if you’re intending to entertain over the holidays, enabling you to use the outside area after dark. There is plenty of variety available with modern lighting, so you can create a unique look that matches the style of your property. You can choose between plain white or coloured lights, different shapes and sizes, as well as small or large bulbs.

Create the natural look

An exterior space is the ideal location to bring some natural inspiration to your decorations. The traditional wreaths don’t have to be reserved for doors or the front of properties. They will also bring a festive flavour to a back garden and they can be attached to the walls of the house or along the edges of a balcony.

If you don’t have an appropriate tree in your garden that you can decorate, there are small ornamental Christmas trees that can be placed in pots and positioned on a patio or balcony. You can add lights to these or maybe oversized decorations.

For home owners with a bit of creative flair, it’s simple enough to create your own Christmas decorations utilising elements from your own garden. You can bring together evergreens, holly and ivy twisted around twine, which will look perfect intertwined through the balustrades of a stainless steel staircase or the fencing around your decked area.

Often when people imagine outdoor Christmas decorations, they have visions of bright and powerful lights with inflatable figures. However, with a little bit of imagination you can create the perfect display for your property.