Choosing Your Holiday Color Scheme

Decorating your home for winter, your goal is decking the halls with cheer, right? Some hang tinsel, some decorate the tree with ornaments and twinkling lights. However, many today are aware that not everyone who enjoys their décor will share the same holiday traditions. Decorating in your own personal style can be challenging, but thankfully celebration has a universal language: color.

The holiday season can be represented by several breathtaking color schemes that can be used to create a sense of joy and festivities without having the same exact design as your neighbor. By choosing the right combination of colors and bright baubles, you can deck the halls in a way that will be welcoming to all your guests. Let’s dive into six beautiful color schemes for the holiday season that will be perfectly in-tune with your décor needs!

Red and Gold: Warm

Red and gold make up a color scheme that is regal and luxurious. While a favorite of those who celebrate Christmas, red is a color of celebration and good luck in many cultures. The color gold symbolizes wealth and good fortune worldwide and reminds us that the holidays are a time to enjoy the good things in life with the people we love. Especially in the depths of winter, the warmth of gratitude and appreciation for what we have in our lives is especially important.

Drape luxurious red fabric over your side-tables or line your floating shelves with golden tinsel and soft lights. This color scheme is also a great solution to matching a gold chandelier light fixture or gold metal detail on your furniture to the rest of your space. If you want to create a holiday decoration in a way that makes your guests feel like they just stepped into a palace of holiday cheer, or to inspire high energy and a magnanimous attitude in who you invite over, then red and gold is the perfect choice of color scheme for you.

Red, Green, and Sapphire Blue: Festive Celebration

One of the most festive (and perhaps the most recognized) color schemes of the holidays is a mixture of brilliant red, green, and sapphire blue. Red and green create a familiar Christmas favorite, but when combined with a blue hue to brighten the range of the other two, you are left with a pallet that encompasses the holiday spirit. Many public and commercial holiday displays have favored this color scheme over the years, ranging in style from light and playful to sumptuously elegant.

This color scheme is often used to mirror both baubles and gifts, on and off the tree. Cover side tables or mantles in garland, draped with red, green, and blue twinkling lights. Choose blue stockings to hang among your greens and reds or add a handful of sapphire ornaments to your already-green tree to add a hazy, nostalgic feel to your décor.

Silver, White and Blue: Icicle Elegant

One of the most elegant and graceful holiday décor styles is silver and blue, with shades of white and clear crystal sprinkled in. This style prioritizes a winter theme over a holiday one, glorifying the pristine and icy nature of the season, along with the elegance of luxurious celebration. Your go-to décor pieces for this theme would be silver icicles, sapphire glass ornaments, delicate snowflakes, and glittering blue-and-white lights. There are endless ways to combine these colors into new decorations throughout your home.

White and silver as a décor theme also has further advantages – the best party favors for your guests are those that can be used in their own homes! If your party favors align with your silver and white winter theme, those are two colors that are simplistic enough to mesh well with whatever theme your guests have in their own spaces; your gifts will be guaranteed to fit right in.

Green, Brown, and White: Lodge Holiday

This next theme proves that you don’t need very many traditional holiday colors to make a breathtaking holiday decoration style. With a warm, chocolate brown as one of your central chosen colors, your home can take on a rustic holiday feel with ease. If you live in a cabin or lodge-style home, with wooden furniture or exposed beams, this color scheme will be your best friend this holiday season.

Combining a rich pallet of natural winter greens with warm wood, creamy chocolate, and snow white will give your holiday décor a gentle and cozy atmosphere that will feel welcoming to anyone who comes through your front door. Pair these colors with brass, bronze, or wrought iron light fixtures, a stained wooden trim, dark bookcases, or coffee tables... and you’ve got the perfect setup for a lodge holiday theme. For party favors, you can consider using flannel blankets, hot cocoa mugs, plaid scarves, or spiced pinecones.

Multi-Color: A Vibrant Holiday

For anyone too indecisive to pick a specific theme, don’t worry – the holidays can also be represented by a complete and vivid rainbow of colors. Like the red, green, and blue color scheme, using the entire rainbow on a dark green or white base layer gives the impression of a diverse mixture of ornamentation and gifts. In addition, this can be a great style for someone looking to personalize gifts by matching a specific color to a specific person. Use those colors for your wrapping, leaving a section for each color under the tree, and then mingle them together when choosing ornaments and other decoration. If you want a color scheme with no limits, or if you maybe like a little bit of chaos to keep your holiday season exciting, then this is the right theme (or lack of theme) for you!

Silver and Gold: Metallic Simplicity

If you are a fan of the classics but want a little more edge than the traditional red and green combination will give you, then sticking to metallic might be the way you want to go. Silver and gold are two colors that are guaranteed to mesh well with your existing décor and furniture, well-represented by gleaming icicles, shining strands of metallic tinsel, and ornaments in the same range of colors. Additionally, a metallic theme is the perfect choice for anyone who likes to transition their holiday décor into a different theme for the new year... nothing says Happy New Year like silver and gold streamers!

Decorating for a Colorful Holiday the Decorsify Way

During the holidays, the best way to decorate a home for hosting or to sell the home in the winter is with holiday décor. But you can’t use just any holiday décor, you must choose the perfect theme to make sure you and your guests can experience the holiday within your four walls. Here at Decorsify we have furniture and décor that can accompany any holiday color scheme of your choosing, so make sure to look through our options for colorful rugs, shelves, tables, and other furniture if you’re still doing some last-minute holiday shopping!