Cheap Christmas Ideas

Decorating your home can be fun, easy, and budget friendly with our cheap Christmas ideas for making your home a festive and beautiful place for the holidays.

Small and simple touches to any room instantly bring Christmas cheer and warmth to a space without adding a lot to your bottom line at the end of the month.

• Glass jars/vases/hurricanes/bowls filled with brightly colored Christmas ornaments and placed throughout the home
• Garland wrapped around the chandelier over the dining room table or in the bedroom
• Brightly colored flannel lap throws or quilts tossed over a rocker or couch instantly bring Christmas into a room
  
• Fruit along the mantel or on shelves in place of every day items nestled into pine boughs is a natural and easy way to decorate for the holidays
• Attach Christmas cards to a piece of festive ribbon and hang along the banister or frame a doorway, adding new ones as they arrive in the mail.
• Vintage glassware of varying heights and sizes are excellent containers for votive or medium size candles. Place these along the mantel in the living room. Or, create a quick and festive centerpiece for the dining room by grouping several on a silver platter and surround the lot with holly berries and greenery.
• Candy canes tied with green, red, and white ribbons and placed in a festive container or a simple glass vase - on the mantel, in the foyer, in bedrooms, or guest bathrooms
• Make paper snowflakes with your children. Suspend these beautiful wintery creations from the ceiling of your child's bedroom during the Christmas holiday. Or, suspend them in the windows.
• Wrap framed artwork and throw pillows with Christmas fabric to appear as gifts
• Fill empty glass bottles with cranberries or holly berries
• Make inexpensive luminaries using soup cans, a hammer and a nail (an adult project). Place candles inside and use them to line the porch or sidewalk or in groupings inside the house.
• Spray paint pine branches or wood twigs with silver or gold for a dramatic touch to fireplace mantels, centerpieces, windowsills, etc.

• Christmas mini lights - add sparkle and cheer to mirrors, fireplaces, mantels, dining room sideboards, holiday villages, above kitchen cabinets, and anywhere else in the house you'd like a bit of light.
• Hang a wreath on the front door to welcome family and friends. It can be as simple as green wreath with a bright red bow. Or, wrap an inexpensive grapevine wreath with Christmas ribbon and a bow. Simple, but effective.
• Silk flowers are easily placed into a vase, tucked into wreaths or pine branches, or used as a mantel accent - use Christmas colors of red and crème or your own choice of holiday colors
• Ribbon is inexpensive, but can add charm and whimsy to any space. Tie ribbons around the backs of dining room chairs, vases, or pillows. Ribbon can be used to suspend a single ornament in the middle of a window for instant Christmas decor. Use ribbon strung with sleigh bells to decorate your staircase banister or front porch.

Simplicity is the real key when it comes to cheap Christmas ideas for holiday decorating. Your home will be stunningly or simply beautiful and you'll be able to enjoy it because it didn't cost you a fortune.