It is that magical time of the year again! Christmas is making its way toward us and we better get Christmas-ready. Christmas is the most beautiful season filled with gifts, warm family dinners, togetherness, and clicking lots of images. Home interiors are decorated in the best way with Santa stockings, Christmas trees, angel lights, stars, Christmas-themed accessories, and more. The options are endless when it comes to Christmas decorations because it is the only festive season that is celebrated around the world. Christmas is about the warmth and coziness we share with our family and loved ones.
This Christmas, let's not fill our home interiors with more plastic wraps, wrapping paper, and plastic wastage let's adopt sustainable ways to reduce our Christmas consumption. In keeping with the spirit of the season, we can try to adopt some sustainable ideas, and recycle or reuse decorative items so that Christmas gives more happiness and does not add to more landfill. Most of the decorationswe buy at home are made of plastic and toxic colors which are in no way good for us and the planet we live in. Try to make this shift towards decorating your home in a more natural way using plants, sticks, twigs, spices, leaves, fruits, etc.
Look around your house and you can find a number of decor options to utilize. As a first, you can try to reuse the old Christmas ornaments and refrain from buying new ones. Make sure to take proper care of them so that you may reuse them next year also. Here we at FabModula, one of the best interior designers in Bangalore will give you some ideas on how to decorate your homes during the Christmas season adopting some sustainable DIY options to give your home the much-needed Christmas vibe.
● Recycled paper star - Making an origami star using newspapers, upcycled paper or scrap paper from magazines, or wrapping paper is a fun Christmas activity. You can hang them on the Christmas tree or make a garland out of them. Making an origami star is also a family affair that includes the whole members of the family to take part in the spirit of Christmas.
● Handmade Wreaths - Wreaths are used at the front door of all homes during Christmas time. The best wreaths are made from natural leaves, twigs, branches, cork, etc. Look for anything from your environment and make a unique and beautiful handmade wreath to adorn your doors.
● Scented candle- Candles can add a lot of warmth to our homes. They are the best way to create a welcoming mood and ambiance to the whole Christmas vibe. Candles are a unique decor item too, to be placed on tables and other parts of the room. Reuse a glass jar and fill it with water and put in a tealight candle to make an impressive candle jar. You can also melt the wax into a jar and add orange slices, cinnamon sticks, pumpkin spice, pinewood, acorns, etc and add a wick to make scented candles spreading the aroma and scent within the entire room.
● Christmas Ornaments - You can add just about anything to your tree to make them look pretty. Using leftover fabric pieces and upcycling them to make Christmas tree ornaments is the best way to decorate a sustainable Christmas tree. You can also add sprigs of foliage, pine cones, dried flowers, stars made of twigs, Xmas trees, and heart-shaped ornaments and attach them with a loop to make the tree look natural and sustainably pretty.
● DIY Christmas cards - Christmas cards need not always be store-bought, you can always try your creativity at making a fun and interesting Christmas card with colorful papers, newspapers, maps, music sheets, wrapping papers, scrap fabric, strings, etc. Make a rustic and unique Christmas card for gifting to your friends and family.
● Fabric gift wrap -Wrapping papers are absolutely pretty but the wastage they create just adds to more landfill. While you can resort to using newspapers and reuse wrapping papers, another great idea is the Japanese art of furoshiki which means wrapping the gift in a piece of fabric rather than wrapping paper. You can check around your house for leftover fabric and then cut it into a square size, wrap the gift with it and voila, it’s ready with zero wastage. The fabric can be reused in any way or even rewrapped as a gift wrap.
Adopting a sustainable Christmas may just be the right thing to do this season, it is fun, lively, and adds to the minimal decoration. Embrace these DIY methods and get into the festive spirit to make Christmas eco-friendly and sustainable in the most eco-friendly and natural way.
