How to Decorate a Fireplace for Christmas

The Christmas fireplace is the focal point of your room all year round, but during the festive season, it really comes into its own. Whether you have a

crackling log fire, a stylish wood burner, or a traditional gas fire in your home, there are lots of ways to set the scene for Father Christmas’ big entrance.

Fireplace Christmas decorations are a great way to add even more of a festive feel to your home. When you’ve already trimmed the tree, placed the Christmas tea towels in the bedroom and put the Santa-themed duvet sets on the beds, there’s always room for a little more decor, and the fireplace at Christmas is the best place to put it.

Read on for lots of ideas about how to add a little fun to your fireplace with Christmas decor.

Garlands are strings of foliage, greenery and decorations that can be hung around your home in different areas. They’re very popular along stairwells and banisters, as well as around door frames, mirrors, pictures and even wrapped around the eaves if your home has exposed beams and a cottage style. Fireplace Christmas garlands are another great way of adding lush greenery to your home, because they can be strung beneath the mantelpiece, leaving plenty of room above for candles, lights or even a beautiful wreath hanging above to take centre stage. If you’ve chosen a theme for your tree, you can take the same look and feel to the fireplace, with garlands adorned with different coloured baubles, pine cones, bells or holly. There’s a huge range to choose from, so there’s one to suit your style of Christmas fireplace decor.

Garlands are strings of foliage, greenery and decorations that can be hung around your home in different areas. They’re very popular along stairwells and banisters, as well as around door frames, mirrors, pictures and even wrapped around the eaves if your home has exposed beams and a cottage style. Fireplace Christmas garlands are another great way of adding lush greenery to your home, because they can be strung beneath the mantelpiece, leaving plenty of room above for candles, lights or even a beautiful wreath hanging above to take centre stage. If you’ve chosen a theme for your tree, you can take the same look and feel to the fireplace, with garlands adorned with different coloured baubles, pine cones, bells or holly. There’s a huge range to choose from, so there’s one to suit your style of Christmas fireplace decor.

No festive fireplace is complete without stockings for the whole family. You don’t have to wait until Christmas Eve to hang them out either, you can add them to your display as soon as the decorations start to go out, whether that’s on the first of December, or the traditional twelve days before Christmas. You can choose Christmas stockings to suit your colour scheme, or have them personalised with your initials or names for a personal touch. A beautiful fireplace ornament with personalised stockings is the perfect way to create a bespoke fireplace backdrop that you can use for your family photos this year. And if you’re organised early enough, you could get the photos printed as your Christmas cards. And don’t forget the Christmas sacks to hold all the presents from Father Christmas! You can choose sacks to match your stockings to bring a harmonious festive feel to your home.

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without strings of fairy lights and glowing candles in every corner of your home. And your fireplace is the perfect focal point for adding even more sparkle to the room. You can weave strings of fairy lights around your garland and wreath to add a twinkling effect around the fireplace. Then layer in some real or LED candles along the mantelpiece to add a little glow and a festive scent to your evenings.

Choose from our huge range of Christmas fireplace ornaments to add more detail to your display. Opt for mini Christmas trees, pine cones or holly branches for a natural look, or go all-out festive with Santa ornaments, baubles and stars for a traditional but fun finish. But don’t forget the star of the show for this year, your fireplace is not complete without a Christmas gnome, or gonk as they’re sometimes known. These little characters come in all different sizes and colours, so you can add a little character to your home all season long.

One way to incorporate elegant christmas fireplace decorations to your home, is to add a stack of decorative books to your mantlepiece. If your home is decorated in a traditional festive style this year, decorative books will fit right in with your decor.

You could choose books with spines in traditional red and green, or stock up on historical festive classics like A Christmas Carol or The Night Before Christmas in case you’d like to add a little literature to your Christmas traditions

When it comes to decorating your home for Christmas, there are endless choices you can make. If you’ve spent years building up a collection of sentimental and traditional decorations, your theme might just be cobbled together items that you love and treasure year after year. But if interior design and aesthetics are more your style, you can choose a theme or colour scheme to tie everything together in an elegant way. To bring your Christmas fireplace theme to life, start with the tree, garlands, wreaths and foliage, get all the greenery in the right position, then add your lights. Then you can choose decorations in your choice of colours, or opt for a theme like toys, or food, before adding baubles and decorations to suit. At Christmas, anything goes, so let your creative side run wild and make your home into a winter wonderland this Christmas.