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Today’s topic is all about Christmas decorating hacks that will make your home look more expensive and elevated this year. No matter how much or how little you may spend on your Christmas decor this year, without these little hacks you will have a more difficult time achieving designer-level Christmas decor. But don’t worry, because I’m here to help.

If you have always wanted to decorate your home for Christmas and make it look like you hired a designer, then you’ll love these tips I’m about to share with you. So here are some Christmas decorating hacks that will elevate your decorations this year.

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Bundle your ornaments into small clusters or even short garlands with wire to elevate your Christmas tree to a designer-level look. This is life-changing and will not only make your tree look expensive but also any garland, tree branch or even wreath that you apply this technique on.

I also used a few red velvet ornaments with gold embellishments on them.

I found these ones on Amazon and they look and feel quite expensive and transform my space into a Christmas winter wonderland without huge Christmas trees. By the way, another way to transform your home into Christmas magic is by just framing free printables. This costs you nothing and is a quick way to decorate for the season.

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Ribbon is another quick and cost-effective way to elevate your home and introduce the Christmas spirit into your home. I absolutely love Royal Stuart Tartan for Christmas. I added it to my tree garland and even to a picture frame, and it elevates your home in such an elegant and tasteful way. The best part is you can do this with any ribbon you like to match your theme or color scheme.

Wrap your wreath in the same ribbon you are using throughout your space and it will look more expensive, just as if you had bought it like this. If you want, you can go a step further and layer some Christmas bells on top and voila, there you have a designer Christmas wreath.

And here are the bells if you want to recreate the same look as me:

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To really tie together your space, you can match your ornaments, ribbon, and throw pillows. This will make your home look like you hired a designer to decorate for Christmas. As you may have noticed, I went for red velvet again, which matches my tree and the ribbon throughout my space. This is such a quick and easy way to transform your space, and since these are just pillow covers you can use pillow inserts that you already have at home. Just make sure you get the right size.

Here are the red pillow covers, and a tartan pillow cover in a similar style to the khaki tartan one in my photo:

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