Friday 27 December 2013

Top tips for making your house ready for Christmas

Christmas is just round the corner, and you can never be too early with your Christmas decoration plans. However, before you start taking out the ornaments and making plans about how to decorate the whole place, you need to prepare your house for the festive season. Christmas is the time when the clutter increases and when the decorations make hard for the proper maintenance of the house, still this doesn’t mean that you can wait for the decoration time with a house that is improperly prepared.
Repaint the living room area
Decorating your house for the festive season is one of the many joys throughout the year, however sometimes the sparkling of the ornaments may accentuate certain décor flaws that we successfully hide during the year. If you think that your living room paint needs refreshing, the time is now to do that. In this manner, when the decorations start ornamenting the room, you can enjoy them, rather than being frustrated about the wallpapers or the scraped paint on the walls. Only one coat of paint can deliver some dramatic difference.
Clean the furnishings
Even though your entire house may be packed with people over for Christmas, this doesn’t mean that you need to redecorate the whole living room area. Buy or rent a steam cleaner and watch your old living room furnishings turn into new, completely different pieces of furniture. The old colours will burst into new vivid colours and the wood parts will return its old splendour once again. All you will need to do is devote a few hours on their cleaning, and you will bring back the life into the old furniture pieces. You can do the same with your carpets, but if you want, you can make a significant change by buying a new carpet that will match the entire decoration theme.
Reorganize the décor
The reorganization of the entire living room area will not only freshen up the room, but it will also create an additional place for the Christmas decorations. If you are tired from looking at the same decorations every Christmas season, then this additional space is the perfect opportunity to renew your decorations. To do this, you do not have to roam the shops looking for the perfect Christmas pick. The internet is the biggest shop ever, and all you will need is to compare prices and envision the ornaments fitting in your existing décor. 
Get rid of the unneeded possessions
Christmas is all about decorations, so instead of making some Christmas decorations redundant, you need to make certain things from the living room redundant. Make a list of the things that won’t be needed during the festive season and store them temporarily. You can never go overboard with Christmas ornaments, and the more you fill your room with them, the more festive the whole season will be.
Clean the floors
Pick one place for the Christmas tree and make sure you clean the floor nice, as you should know that this place will be with a limited access for the next few weeks. And if you want to change the look of the entire room, buy a whole new set of tree ornaments. Make sure that you buy them in the same colour as your existing room décor colours, as this is the best stylish way of Christmas decorations.


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