Have you bought a real tree this year? Unless you are lucky enough to have one of those gorgeous wispy Scandinavian Christmas trees that you see in magazines and which tend to come with a high price tag, you probably have a standard Norman spruce with its significant circumference. Read More
Christmas gives you a special licence to be a bit naff, a bit bold, or a bit twee in the style stakes, right?! I was born in 1981 so I’m a true child of the eighties. This means that trees with coloured lights, coloured tinsel and boiled wool or pink plastic are all things that press my Christmas buttons (though you can keep the hanging swathes of cards as decorations). There’s a byline quote on designer Jonathan Adler’s Twitter account which I think suits my approach to Christmas rather well –“build a timelessly chic foundation and accessorize with abandon”! Absolutely.