apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

We put the stocking holders that are intended for mantels on top of our expedit bookshelf, then hang our stockings from those. They're still visible, and our two-year old can't reach them to pull them down.

I co-opted the magnart magnets holding up some of our pictures. Still holding up pictures as well as the stockings attached at the loops, it kinda works.

We hang out stockings on the doors of our buffet cabinet. I tie the ribbon to heavy napkin rings and let the rings hang over to the inside of the door. The napkin rings act as a counter weight and hold the stockings in place with a minimal look. http://flickr.com/photos/mviamontes/3056371664/

When I was a kid and had a stocking to hang, we didn't have a fireplace, but we had a big stereo console (a large piece of furniture which housed speakers, a turntable, and an 8-track player), and later a buffet, and each had handles or knobs to loop the stocking on. Also you don't need to leave a window open, Santa has powers. Before you love on the swingin' console-that-is-no-more, it was chipboard covered in what appeared to be walnut wood grain contact paper. You couldn't even paint it cool! It was like a giant shoe box of music in the living room.

Handmade is one word.

We hang our stockings off a bookshelf on weighted stocking hangers.

Yours in the window look very cute! And I love the blue cone trees.

each stocking tied to its respective owner's bedpost, at the foot

Oh I love the bedpost idea!

Too bad we don't have bedposts. Or children. Cats are not always appreciative of our transferred affection. They will wear their antlers, but they will not like it.

But I digress. We hang ours from the two knobs on a china cabinet's doors. It works out well as there are only two of us.

I hung our fuzzy white stockings from the top of our Billy bookcases using beautiful snowflake stocking holders.

We have 2 Billy bookcases that flank 2 Bergsbo units. The stockings draw even more attention to the beauty that is Bergsbo!!

I bought the 3M removable wall hooks, hoping they work as advertised and don't rip the paint off my wall.

Fireplace.

Before I had one, I went without stockings.

Actually, I think I'm giving up having stockings now even though I do have a fireplace. Sort of tired of the idea...

We hang ours throughout the door knobs in our apartment. That way, it's festive all around and not just around the xmas tree