How to decorate window panes at Christmas

How to decorate windows for Christmas

Give it to him decorations to hang (festoons, Christmas baubles, dried fruit) to those to place (snowballs, winter houses, toy soldiers nutcracker), give it window stickers which depict typical symbols and characters of the period to the lights: ways to decorate windows a Natale they are truly infinite.

Not just the inevitable fir or the creche: every corner of the home lends itself to being embellished to welcome the end of year holidays with a pinch of magic, including fixtures.

Decorating windows for Christmas is a custom that dates back to Northern Europe.

Just walk through the streets and alleys to see the windows of the houses dressed up for the holidays.
It is impossible not to turn to look at them and be enchanted by them.

Christmas decorations on the windowsill, photo by Lucy Call

Take the family decorations out of the boxes, buy new ones or make them with do it yourselfinvolving the whole family, and give space to imagination.

Decorate the windows with the Christmas tree

You have large windows and a Christmas tree big enough that it can cover them, at least partially? Place it near the window.

It will be beautiful to see both inside and outside the house, especially at sunset when you turn on its colored lights. Passers-by can’t help but look at it.

Christmas tree near window, photo by Ray Kachatorian, from Getty Images

Alternatively, get a couple of branches of different lengthspaint them white and hang them in the window, reproducing the shape of a fir tree.

A solution widely used in Northern European countries that you can keep throughout the winter, even after the end of the Christmas holidays.

Do you have a spacious windowsill? Use it to place gods small Christmas trees from support.

Jars with small Christmas trees, photo by Westend61, from Getty Images

How about recycling glass jars and inserting small snow-covered fir trees, illuminated with LED lights. The Wow effect will be guaranteed!

How to decorate a window for Christmas with plants

Do you prefer something more unusual than the classic Christmas tree? Bet on typical plants of the Christmas period.

You will be original, without having to give up bringing a touch of green into your home.

Green compositions to decorate windows at Christmas, photo by Nassima Rothacker, from countryliving.com

Have fun creating potted compositions with holly, butcher’s broom, la Christmas star or rose.

Enrich them with berries, pine cones, small balls or gift packages that refer to the colors selected for the other decorations and which, at first glance, are associated with the end-of-year holidays (red, green, gold, silver).

Christmas wreath around the window, from themerrythought.com

Try your hand at making one garlandwith fresh fir and pine branches, and arrange it around the window frame, inside or outside the window.

DIY Christmas window decorations

You can realize Christmas decorations on the windows on DIY dates, with balls, hearts, bows, reindeer, gnomes, flakes or snowmen, Santa Claus silhouettes in different materials (tissue paper, felt, crochet), attached directly to the glass or distributed on a string to glue to the edges.

Decorations to decorate windows at Christmas, photo by Jag_cz

To avoid damaging the glass, use special glues or glue paper tape which can be colored, camouflaging with the fixtures.

Alternatively, hook the threads onto a classic curtain rod or on glass curtain rods.

Those with a sweet tooth can opt for candy canes or cookie cutters gingerbread.

Cookies for decorating windows at Christmas, photo by Anjelika Gretskaia

A pleasant smell will spread, thanks to the addition of slices of dried fruitdecorated with gold or silver sprays. Bring out your imagination!

Use the windowsill to set up a small nativity scene, the little houses of a winter villagetall and capacious transparent glass vases, decorated with Christmas baubles and strings of LED lights to be turned on at sunset, will be very suggestive to see both from inside and outside the house.

Christmas window stickers

How about using window glass as if it were canvas?

Use the stencil to reproduce the typical symbols of the Christmas holidays with colors or a snow effect spray can (Santa Claus, fir trees, reindeer, snowmen, sticks).

Alternatively, draw them on sheets of paper which will serve as models to place and then outline on the glass.

DIY Christmas window decorations, from Getty Images

If you have a good hand, draw city profiles or profiles directly on the glass snowy forestscreating an enchanted atmosphere between plays of light and shapes.

All you need is a soft dry cloth and a little patience to remove them.

Do you prefer something more immediate?

Trust the themed window decalswithout glue.
They have a static charge stored in tiny air bubbles inside the film which allow them to adhere to the glass surface safely.

How to light up windows at Christmas

To decorate windows at Christmas, you cannot miss the LED lights.

Single-coloured or multi-coloured, secure them with paper tape around the frame to create a suggestive frame effect.

Curtain rods or glass rods are perfect for hanging, recreating a magical cascade of lights.

Alternatively, use lights to reproduce fir trees, snowmen or glowing angels.

Fir tree made with lights, from thebudgetdecorator.com

Choose good quality lights to avoid short circuits or more serious damage.

The most romantic can’t do without them scented candles with aromas reminiscent of Christmas sweets or the smells of the forest.

Don’t place them too close to the window.

The heat of the flame could blacken the frame, deteriorate the seals and glues that secure the glass surface to the frame, and cause small thermal shocks to the glass.

Candles to decorate windows at Christmas, photo by Anna Blazhuk, from Getty Images

They do not require any particular precautions if inserted inside lantern.

With a little forethought and a lot of imagination, you will dress up the windows of your home to enjoy the Christmas atmosphere to the fullest, feeling like a child again.