nope. only a tree, a wreath, and some stockings. I'm not into all encompassing holiday decor. It's too much for my personal taste.

Seasonal change includes area rug, drapes, pillows, some tchotchkes (but it's a seasonal change for Autumn/Winter vs. Spring/Summer). For the holidays I add the tree, garland, ornaments and replace some images in frames with holiday pictures from throughout the years.

I add decorations, but any swapping out is really limited to putting away a few vases and candles that would simply make everything look cluttered, rather than decorated.

If the in-laws are coming, I'll concede to a little wreath or something, but honestly as little as possible. I hate the kitsch of it all. Anything else, the only centerpieces I want are food and friends.

I change out some vases and candle holders.

I love seasonal changes and have a spring/summer and a fall/winter change of accessories/artwork/rugs/bedding.
For the holidays I have seasonal artwork, a shower curtain with slogans such as HoHoHo and Season's Greetings, holiday dishes and glassware, and a collection of snowmen placed around my apartment. I also have a collection of Christmans and New Years postcards which get clipped to "lines" strung around. I put my tree on the deck and decorate for the birds with strings of popcorn and cranberries. All the lights indoors and out are white and I don't use any holiday scents except cedar. Because everything except the postcards are not
specifically Christmas designs, I usually leave them all up until the end of January.

Every year we put up a tree, stockings, and a wreath or two. Sometimes I swap out rugs, a couple of pillows (not to be replaced by themey pillows, but just cozier looking pillows), and add throws to the furniture and some serving pieces to the table. It's just too much work to go into more than that. Not that I would mind if someone else came to my house and did it...

Oh, and I can't abide any sort of Santa decorations. Call me Scrooge, but I guess it's just because I don't want to perpetuate the Santa tradition in my home.

I add the usual holiday decor like atree, garland, a wreath, "winter" tablecloth, etc. But swapping decor for the holidays I don't do. No special plates or glasses, figurines, or artwork.

I have seasonal changes like blankets, pillow covers, doormat, and bedding. I think this year I may leave the frosted garland up a little longer into January. I'm more of a winter frosted decor kind of person.

The only thing I ever switch is the rug in our living room and some candles. The rug changes over to a red and gold Charles Rennie MacIntosh looking thing- not really to accomidate the holiday, but rather to hide the dirt and snow that people track in. It is pretty festive nonetheless.

My mom goes so crazy with the Christmas decorating that it is inevitable that it would trickle into my home too. But on a much smaller scale, of course; we do the tree and the stockings and a couple of decorative items, and we swap out some vases and candles for more festive ones. I think it makes my apartment feel warmer.

But no Christmas village, not yet (hopefully never - but I bet its a part of my inheritance!)

AT reader, Bill, I really like your place! Your Christmas decor is awesome...very different. I used to really go all out with the decorations. At one time, I had a 6' artificial tree that was a pain to assemble and an even bigger pain to take down a try to store. I gave it away. Every year, I get less enthused about the process...so I put up a small table top tree or two and buy a beautiful wreath for the outside door. I might put a couple of Santa figures out here and there. Over the years I've collected a lot of ornaments and most are packed away. I guess the thrill of Christmas has worn off a little, but it's still a nice time of year. I just don't want to work too hard at it anymore.

Oh I totally have a Christmas village! I mentioned it ONCE to my mom that I thought they were cute and like magic the little damn things just appeared for every birthday and christmas for about 3 years. Thankfully she stopped, I don't put it out every year since it takes up SO MUCH ROOM! But kids seem to love it, so yeah I have kids playing with 200 dollar useless light-up houses!

No way! I started out that way, because my mom pretty much packs away the entire house to decorate everything in Santa's & Snowmen. She used to have Santa art, if you can call it that, on the walls year round, but she also has tons of sea shell stuff, so my husband and I used to kid about it being like an oceanfront tourist shop!

I got rid of almost all of my xmas decorations other than what goes on the tree and some lights I put around my plants, but I keep my surfaces clean enough that I could pop a little more festive decor in without making loads of work for myself. I do fresh flowers and conjure up table settings in colors that seem to celebrate the holiday for xmas dinner, but don't really change anything out.

I don't have to...I have enough red and metallic decor that all I have to do is light some candles and set out some gingerbread cookies!

I love Christmas, but I only want a tree, maybe a wreath, and maybe a centerpiece, but no throw pillows, towels, rugs, curtains, sheets or photos of Santa. But I do love my vintage Christmas china, but that's different. And I like Christmas kitsch. Why not?

My living room really sings at Christmas because it's already olive green and red (by happy accident I got compliments so I kept it.) Other than the tree, stockings and a few choice pieces I don't do much other put out for use a set of holiday cloth napkins and a couple of Christmas kitchen towels. I have the linens packed away with the Christmas decorations because it really bugs me when people use Chrismas themed linens in July.

Christmas tea towel and hand towels, tinsel on all the walls, christmas knick knacks on shelves, and Xmas photos in frames. I love Christmas and for 20 odd days I want my house to look like Santa threw up in here.

More a seasonal change in decor - more candles, throws, deeper colored accessories as the weather gets chilly. For Christmas, I put up a large tree plus a small lighted tree- both decorated w/ ornaments we've collected over the years, orphan earrings, souvenirs, etc. Have a pine cone wreath on the mantle as well as lots of candles.

I pack away some accessories during the Christmas season. I don't put out Christmas linens and don't have Christmas dishes. I refuse to put out any Christmas stuff until the day after Thanksgiving but I like to keep it out until Epiphany (January 6th).

Junklover: Thank you for the compliment!

amandaPlease: I'm not a maniac for Santa, but I love this decoration as it's a 1955 Popular Mechanics "Full-Size Pattern Santa Claus No. 121" my grandfather bought. The majority of my paper stuff is vintage. I have "Flinch Card Co." cards from 1913 clipped to the tree branches, and letter stencils my mother made. Upstairs I have shiny brite bulbs and boxes, and tin icicles.

Overall, I figure if you're going to put up holiday decorations for at least a month or more, you might as well take the time to make them mesh with the rest of your environment. If you don't love it, it's just more to dust and there's no fun.

I don't swap out, but I do festoon. Last night the Christmas tree went up and got decorated, a couple of major doorways got garlanded, and the nativity was placed on the entry table (under the framed poster for a 1960 William Shatner movie - talk about the sublime and the ridiculous). There's a pile of leftover tinsel so I guess I'll put that somewhere.

The last time I was in the US for Christmas I was amazed at the COMPLETE OVERHAUL of the decor in some houses. No wonder you people need huge basements.

My home decor has always been minimal however when it comes to the holidays, I really love to go all out. Like golokidesign I have a lot of vintage ephemera as well as ornaments and nutcrackers that have been handed down over the year.

Its fun to unpack all the boxes with family and friends and recall the memories associated with the various holiday trinkets and treasures. It's also a great excuse to drink hot beverages with liquor.

We don't have any santa stuff out, but we do have Creches from all over the world. There are at least 40 (most are really small)

I sort of do the opposite. I buy Christmas stuff that matches my decor. Traditional Christmas colors aren't really my thing so I buy Christmas stuff in retro or bright colors. My downstairs is mostly a bit of contemporary mixed with mid-century modern and I have a Tiki stuff all over the house.

I have a large and colorful Nucracker collection that goes on the round table in my double height foyer so it's really a very festive greeting right at the front door! My husband does an amazing tree (literally hundreds) of tiny white lights and ornaments collected over the years - we always buy one wherever we go! It's so much fun to revisit all the places we've been as we unwrap them. And lots of wreaths and accent pieces and more...although no china. Just a couple of mugs for the mornings. We only decorate for one holiday a year - and it's NOW!

I don't go as far as swap pictures and curtains and the like...I do swap out home decorations for the ones for the holidays. So where my set of pretty vases were are a beautiful small church house that was painted by his grandmother.

Yes yes and yes! I love getting into the holiday spirit. I change seasonally. I have winter spring/summer and fall decor. My shower curtain changes three times a year...my bedding changes as well. I switched out a picture on my wall for a Gil Elvgreen pinup in holiday wear. I'm all about it! I'll put up photos soon!

I don't follow the traditional Christmas colors as I love what was once popular back during the mid century era, purples, reds, seafoam green, pinks, golds etc as I find that quite festive and that's what a lot of my ornaments are anyway as many of them date back to the 40's-50's and into the 60's and later as well.

As for decorating, it's largely the tree and the balcony (with lights) a metal Mexican Angel that's been anodized in a colorful way hangs on my front door to my unit and I may add red candles, some Christmas linens in the kitchen (they look quite retro but were bought 3 years ago I think at TJ Maxx) and I DO prefer the looks of the past or current items that evoke the past n a modern, kitschy way.

As far as a total redecorating, I don't do that (one, not enough stuff and two, no need and 3, no room to store more than what I have already) but I like adding stuff to the pre-existing decor to bring in the holiday mood and add Christmas music, but not your traditional carols per se, but a lot of Christmas rock, Blues, R&B and of course, Jazz stuff to play.

Just a tree and some string lights is all for me. I also like a less cluttered look so I usually remove more things than I add in or replace.