If you’re someone who delights in decking out your home with seasonal decor for each holiday, we ahve got you covered! With our handy holiday decorating schedule, you will know exactly when to switch up your decorations and what type of seasonal decor to embrace to infuse your home with the spirit of each season. From festive touches for Christmas to cozy accents for fall, we’ve got all the inspiration you need to make your home feel like a true reflection of the season.
Holiday decorations are fun and can add something to your home that makes you feel good and puts you in the holiday spirit. You want to bring fresh touches to your home and embrace the changing seasons throughout the year. Whether it’s switching up the art pieces, adding new flower vases, or investing in a stylish Samsung Frame TV, there are endless options to enhance your home’s decor. You might also consider updating curtains or refreshing the welcome mat at your doorstep. When it comes to home decorations, the sky is the limit!. You are allowed to express your creativity and celebrate each season in style.
For some, decorating is reserved for specific holidays like Christmas, Halloween, and Easter, which are staples in holiday decor. While these decorations are fantastic, some prefer to adorn their homes all year round. Spring and summer decorations, though not as elaborate as Christmas decor, can still make a significant impact.
When Are The Seasons?
To keep it as smooth as possible, instead of going from January to December, we will be starting from Spring (March to May), then onto Summer (June to August), transitioning into Fall (September to November), and finally landing on Winter (December to February).
Breaking it up like this can help as we will focus on the seasons and the months within them. Your 4th of July decor is safe, and that will be mentioned. Keep in mind that there are no hard and fast rules for how you decorate your home.
Change it How You Want
Sometimes before you start on new holiday decor you may want to see what previous holiday decor you can reuse for the new season. Mix and match it up, this is just a guide that you can base some of your styles on, but ultimately, whatever fall decor you want or spring decor you have your eye on, is up to you. Without further ado, let’s start decorating.
Spring Decor
Spring is here and do you have a spring in your step about your holiday decorations? Hopefully, you do, as Easter is part of this season, so you want to make your Easter decorations something you are happy with.
When Should You Start Decorating?
You should start to think about decorating your home towards the end of February and the start of March.
Bring in fresh flowers and light colors that compliment the warmth of the sun, and when it comes to Easter time, the seasonal touches of Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, tulips, and delicate flowers such as daisies would make a great touch to your home decor.
Spring is all about new beginnings and freshness, so colors that remind you of the outside would be a great touch here. Some people even add wreathes to their front door at this time with pastel colors, you could even look at nestling fake bunnies and carrots into the wreath too.
Core Decor Changes
If you want to change some of your furniture too at this point, but do not want to get rid of a sofa or table, you could look at the things you have on them that are interchangeable, for instance, your throw pillows can have their covers changed to light Easter colors, maybe with some Easter art on them or depictions of flowers?
This allows you to have your seasonal decorations without making a huge difference that you’ll need to change again.
St Patrick’s Day
Who could forget a day like St Patrick’s? Falling on the 17th of March, this day is a burst of emerald greens and fun decorative accents that are easy to add and remove.
You don’t have to change your Spring decor too much, just add in more greens and gold during the week, and if you have children ask them to make some art that you can put around your home. Make it fun and get into the holiday spirit.
Summer Decor
It’s getting hotter and the changing seasons are making you think about adding a bit more heat to your spring decorations. You don’t have to get rid of them completely as the fresh colors can complement the summer very well, but you may want to see what else you can do.
When Should You Start Decorating?
When it gets to the end of May, around Mother’s Day, now would be a good time to put your Summer decorations out. This season is all about hot weather and cooling down, so think pops of color and the temperatures start to rise.
Add sunflowers, watermelon, citrus decor, and beachy themes. If you have neutral colored furniture then you can change your throw pillows to something more vibrant, or put on nautical-themed covers. Yellows and blues are a big part of Summer, and you can find some great ideas online about what type of those colors will work for your space.
4th Of July
Who could forget one of the biggest holidays in America? Patriotic blues, whites, and reds are what you will see in July. Right after memorial day is when you should look at decorating for the 4th of July.
You don’t have to go overt with flags everywhere (unless you are throwing a party), you can add small changes to your home decor (those throw pillows again), or you could put it solely outside on your lawn amongst your flowers and greenery as the colors will look good mixed in with the vibrant summer flowers and exterior design.
Fall Decor
This season brings two major holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving. These types of holidays actually have big parties and events connected to them, from going trick or treating to having Thanksgiving dinner with family. Fall may be a bit chilly but it doesn’t stop the fun in and outside your home.
When Should You Start Decorating?
Labor day in September eases out Summer and ushers in Fall, so anytime in late September is when to decorate for Halloween, and when it comes to Thanksgiving, it may be best to put up these decorations just after you have finished Halloween as there is less than a month between both.
Halloween
Whilst the different seasons bring their own fun and events, Halloween is a holiday that kids and adults alike can enjoy with each other.
Filled with spooks and scares for all, you will want to add that element to your home by putting up cobwebs (fake of course, unless you decide to give up dusting for the month), you can add in ghosts and witches outside and in, also don’t forget your jack o lanterns on your front porch, they can be a fun activity to do with your family.
Be sure to fill up a bowl filled with Halloween candy for all the trick-or-treaters that come to your door. You may be someone who takes the entire year to plan for something like Halloween, so let your creativity run free as it is the perfect time to do that.
Thanksgiving
Don’t throw out the pumpkins just yet as you can use them for your Thanksgiving decor. Go for warm colors like reds and oranges for the inside of your home. Adding leaves with these colors will make your home look the part, and focus on making your home cozy with your fall decor.
You may want to decorate the outside of your home too by bringing back the wreaths, but this time use the autumn colors to make it more for this season. Think of crisp leaves on the floor, kids bundled up in scarves as an orange sun sets at the end of the day.
Winter Decor
Christmas decorations seem to be the main factor for Winter, however, this season also has the months of January and February, so between Christmas and New Year, you may want to look at cooler colors with a hint of sparkle too, that work for both of these events that lead on to the next holiday – Valentine’s day.
All of these holidays are filled with indulgent eating and drinking, so you may want to keep that in mind when decorating, adding fake pumpkin pies and turkeys to your decor can also make it fun, just don’t feel upset afterward when you are planning your New Year Resolution to eat healthier. The plastic decor made you do it.
When Should You Start Decorating?
For Christmas, the last week of November would be best for decorating. However, you may need to maintain those decorations if you live in a place where it snows a lot. This is because most people adorn their front yards as well, only to find that the snowfall has ruined some of these decorations. Hence, it might be a good idea to call an Oakville snow removal company (or similar providers elsewhere) a couple of days before Christmas to clear your front yard of unwanted snow, so that your dcor can shine through the way it was meant to. As New Year approaches, you can reduce some of the reindeer, snowmen, and Santas in your home, but still keep the Christmas lights as they will add that sparkle you need.
Once those two months are done, Valentine’s day is just over a month and a half afterward, so decorating the week of Valentine’s would be a good start, you can still keep the lights just add more love into the mix.
Christmas & New Year Decor
These two are lumped together because they are a week apart and a lot of decorations are the same, the only difference is toning down the Christmas decor and being a bit more celebration based.
Go for golds and silvers, or if you have your own color scheme for these two holidays, try and decorate your home within that theme, e.g. if pink is your color, pick up pink Sanatas, Pink snowmen, and pink string lights.
Valentine’s Day Decor
The day of love and togetherness. Not celebrated by all but still a big holiday for others to show their love. If this is a holiday for you and you do enjoy it, then why not go all out? Reds and pinks with sparkles and hearts all over.
Why not, it is a day of love and happiness, and even if it isn’t for you, it is for the other person in your life, so bear that in mind when you are plastering red hearts on your windows and wrapping up your gifts.
Don’t forget to plan for a romantic night. To create a special evening, consider lighting candles, playing romantic music, and enjoying a glass of wine. Alternatively, you and your partner could watch a movie together or explore an erotic film (available on websites like Tube v Sex) to make your night exciting.
Conclusion
Now you know what is happening in each season and what to decorate for, you may be able to make a good and solid holiday decorating schedule for when it is time.
If this has just made you exhausted looking at the changes you can do in your home but you still want to do it, there is no shame in roping in your family to share the load. It’s their home too, they can have fun with it as well!