How Decorate Your Christmas Tree Like a Pro

Decorating your Christmas tree should feel like you’re making art. Not the stiff kind that feels staged or precious, but the kind that lives with you. The piece you picked up on a trip. The one you made on a whim. The odd little treasure you found and kept because it made you smile. The piece that carries a story even if the colors don’t match anything else in the room.

Elegance doesn’t require chaos. Or 300 identical silver balls marching in formation. I’ll happily admire a polished, Pinterest-perfect tree—uniform can be gorgeous when it’s intentional. But real elegance comes from harmony. From a tree that feels connected to the rest of the home, like the same person who chose the light fixture and the rug also tucked meaning into these branches. It doesn’t need to match. It just needs to make sense.

A tree isn’t meant to be perfect. It’s meant to feel alive. A little wild. A little nostalgic. Like it naturally grew into the room instead of being pulled out of a plastic bin and snapped into place.

Sometimes that spirit shows up as ribbon—layers of it—cascading like old opera gowns having their moment.

Sometimes it shows up with no ribbon at all, just glass ornaments catching the lights and tossing them back like tiny disco balls. Either way works. But if ribbon is on the table, I’m choosing ribbon every time.

Let the Room (or the Owner) Speak

There are two ways to decorate a tree. Both are right.

You can match the room. The color palette. The vibe. The textures. Your tree becomes an extension of the space—like it belongs there, always has.

You match yourself. Mismatched ornaments, paper snowflakes from 1997, an old velvet bow someone once called ugly and you called perfect. No rules.

The best trees do one or the other.

The forgettable ones? They try to do both.

Want Elegance? Stop Copying Pinterest. Create your masterpiece.

A truly elegant tree doesn’t shout.

It just belongs.

One Last Thing: Face It Toward Joy. When you enter the room your tree should be fhe first thing you see.

When you put your tree up, think about how you walk through the room. Which angle catches your eye first. Where the light hits. How you live in the space.

Then—turn it.

Face it toward the spot you’ll see most. Where it can surprise you.

Because the best part of decorating a tree is catching it out of the corner of your eye and feeling that tiny flicker of joy.

Every single time.

Need help styling your tree to feel more like you (or your home)?

Let’s make something beautiful—not perfect. Just right.