Natural Christmas Decor Ideas for Any Home Style

Do you enjoy organic textures and natural decor options? A simple way to make homemade Christmas decorations? A natural look that works when the holiday decorations are taken down and are free! Welcome to our home this holiday season decorated with natural Christmas decor ideas for any home style.

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Natural Christmas Decor Ideas for Any Home Style

Natural Christmas decorations are a great way to bring a little bit of the outdoors into your home and these easy ideas are often free! I will share creative ideas and the perfect place to add simple Christmas decorations. There will be simple ideas
 will include Christmas wreaths for the front door and fresh greenery for a festive touch for the front porch. 

Cozy Up Your Home with Nature-Inspired Christmas Decor

When decorating for Christmas, I fill our space with nature-inspired Christmas decor
that feels warm and inviting. Whether your home is modern, rustic, or somewhere in between, natural Christmas decor options work in any home style. Natural elements
are an easy way to create a cozy atmosphere for the Christmas season and beyond.  

Simple and Budget-Friendly Christmas Wreath Ideas

In this blog post, I will share simple ideas for decorating Christmas wreaths for the front door and in the home. Fresh greenery for a festive touch for the front porch and how natural decor options add simple beauty with natural decor ideas for any home style. The best part is it’s budget-friendly and can be used year after year. 

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Amazing Creators Merry & Bright Holiday Tours

Let us get inspired and bring the beauty of natural elements and natural items indoors for this festive season! Today, I’m excited to be joining my blogging friends for Merry & Bright Holiday Home Tours. I will be sharing links at the bottom of my blog post. These ladies are talented and will be opening their homes. Please click each link and look inside to see beautiful Christmas decor!

A Festive Front Porch with Natural Charm

Our front porch has natural elements. Urns, a thrift store basket and a copper boiler pot is filled with fresh greenery, evergreen branches, red berries, birch logs, and pine cones. This year I added a fresh wreath to the base of the basket to add more organic textures. What do you think? The best part is that these natural materials work beyond the Christmas season. My childhood sled leans on a tree with a fresh wreath and vintage ice skates. I purchased these at the thrift store for $3. A great deal, right!

Cindy’s Note: Sadly, in our we lost our garden centers, however, our grocery stores sell fresh greenery. Can you believe the greens in my copper boiler post are fresh garland?  I cut it into sections and pushed them into leftover soil from our summer flowers. This is a great way to stay on budget. Fresh greenery can get expensive if you don’t have access to it in your yard. Be sure to water them to look their best.

A Warm Welcome with Rustic Holiday Elegance

A fresh wreath with burgundy velvet ribbon and bells hangs on our front door and welcomes family and friends. It’s a great way to set the stage for the rustic accents used in our home for the holiday season.

Cindy’s Tip: I store the pinecones, red berries, and birch logs to use by our front door and porch the next Christmas season. Using natural Christmas decorations is a great way to be eco-friendly and stay on budget each year!

Natural Decor Options

Natural items that are the best ways to add natural elements into your holiday decorations are:

• Fresh garland
• Evergreen branches – Here
• Small trees
• Natural wreaths
• Birch logs – Here
• Pieces of grapevine
• Red berries – Here
• Pinecones (a step-by-step-tutorial to clean and preserve these for crafts and home decor)
• Cinnamon Sticks
• Fresh fruit
• Nuts 
• Star Anise
• Seed Pods – Here
• Natural Christmas ornaments – Here

Adding natural decor options like fresh garland, evergreen branches, and Christmas wreaths are the best ways to incorporate nature and festive cheer. These items, make stunning table centerpieces or accents for homemade Christmas decorations. Whether your Christmas table, entryway table, or dining area calls for classic or different styles like rustic or modern, natural touches are the perfect place to begin. Pair them with real trees or mini evergreen trees, and don’t forget details from grocery stores like fresh fruit, nuts, or cinnamon sticks for a cozy atmosphere and earthy vibe for any color scheme. Many of these items can be found in any craft store.

A Festive Olive Bucket for Holiday Cheer

An olive bucket filled with bottle brush trees, small nutcrackers, and bells for the festive season. The basket is an easy DIY filled with small trees as the family arrives to celebrate the holiday season.  

Cindy’s Tip:  Add citrus fruit for a festive touch. If you use fresh garland or small real trees mist it every day and keep them away from direct sunlight to keep looking its best.

A Naturally Elegant Entryway for the Holidays

The entryway table continues with a natural look. I enjoy finding a beautiful way
 to add natural wreaths wherever I can, especially during the holiday season. This is the perfect place for this wreath made from a wire wreath frame, lamb ears, and walnuts. Wood slices and pieces of grapevine garland add texture to natural decor ideas for any home style. A white birch candle adds simple beauty with a warm glow in the evenings.

Rustic Elegance with a French Crate Display

An antique French crate filled with rustic touches and natural decorations. Cleaned and preserved pine cones, orange slices, cinnamon sticks, pomegranates, walnuts, brass bells, rusty bells, and a seedling. A wreath from Balsam Hill hangs with a burgundy velvet ribbon.

Cindy’s Easy DIY Note: The bells are so much fun to make and beautiful Christmas decor. This amazing DIY is a simple way to add rustic accents with a little bit of spice found in grocery stores or your pantry! 

Creative Hazelnut Wreath for a Natural Festive Touch

One of the small wreaths I made with bags of hazelnuts is a beautiful way to add a natural look with votive candles. I added organic textures using my hot glue gun, Spanish moss, and hazelnuts in their shell. This is why I love adding natural wreaths
throughout our home for the Christmas season. These creative ideas are a great way
to add festive cheer for multiple seasons and work with different styles and any color scheme.

Link to Lantern

Create a Nature-Inspired Christmas Look with Rustic Touches

When arranging nature-inspired Christmas decor, arrange items together to create a truly natural look. For example, in our dining room on our Christmas table, I added different styles of faux evergreen branches. Mixing textures and a variety of faux greenery adds a more natural look. It’s a good idea to continue the theme of natural materials, especially since our home has a semi-open floor plan. I added natural items such as dried pomegranates, pheasant feathers, birch logs, and pine cones. These rustic accents will be seen in our living room and other table centerpieces with nature-inspired Christmas decor. Glass vases with walnuts and faux greens, votive candles, and large wood slices add to the cozy atmosphere.

Cindy’s Natural Greenery Tip: High-quality faux greenery can be expensive. However, I have purchased my greenery over time. The best part of this blog post is that I share tips about the easy way to plan for Christmas so Pin or bookmark this for next year. As an example, I purchased natural greenery for table centerpieces around this time on sale and Christmas in July. I cut the garlands into sections and fill it in with branches which is a good idea for staying on a budget. 

Quick and Simple Nature-Inspired Wreaths for a Festive Look

The natural wreaths I made last year hang on our dining chairs and smell amazing. This amazing DIY can be made in a couple of hours with a hot glue gun, and a wire wreath frame. These small wreaths are a simple way to add natural decorations and work when the holiday decorations are taken down and put away.

More bottle brush trees and a white chunky yarn wreath I made at the end of last year is an easy DIY. This wreath is so much fun and can be made in 20 minutes. This year I hung my wreaths an easy way and I love it! I tie my ribbon first leave it longer and hang the wreaths with floral wire attached to the back.

Cindy’s Note: creating natural wreaths is a passion. The best part about using natural items when creating is they add organic textures, are budget-friendly, and work multiple seasons. So, if you are looking for step-by-step tutorials and creative ideas for a beautiful way to incorporate rustic touches to your home you are in the perfect place. 

Simple and Elegant Accents for a Festive Dining Area

This bust has more natural items and creative ideas that add festive cheer to our dining area. A star anise garland I made last year on a satin ribbon is a simple way to add elegant rustic accents. An orange garland is also a good idea for an easy DIY and would add a natural festive touch. This is an easy DIY to add to your nature-inspired Christmas decor. Additional beautiful Christmas decor is rusty bells, an antique postcard that is dated 1942, and my bronze baby shoe with a bottle brush tree. These simple ideas can be made in minutes. It makes beautiful Christmas decor.

Link to Bust

Cindy’s Note: Bottle brush trees are a favorite way to add festive cheer to our home for Christmas. Every Christmas season I find creative ideas to display them. When the holiday decorations are put away, I replace them with dried oranges, nuts, and pine cones. This is the reason natural Christmas decorations are a simple way to decorate any home style.

Let’s look at the living room decorated with natural decorations. Here I will share simple ideas on how I change these simple Christmas decorations for winter. 

Fake Trees Evolved: To Realistic Beauty

Fake evergreen trees have come a long way. I remember how fake these trees were when I was young. Do you remember when evergreen branches of fake trees were fat and looked like toilet bowl brushes? I’m aging myself a little bit here, however, I remember. No trunk had bark on it. Our tree has natural materials, to resemble bark and it looks like a real tree. We love it so much, we have two! Friends have asked if they are real trees, however this year we only decorated one. How about the older flocked Christmas tree? The flocking went everywhere. 

Link to Trees

DIY Natural Ornaments for a Rustic Holiday Look

As someone who loves natural decor, I enjoy making my own ornaments for the holiday season. DIY natural ornaments are not only eco-friendly, but they also add a touch of rustic charm to your Christmas tree. Here are a few easy ideas for homemade ornaments using natural materials. I love natural elements and natural decorations. Visit my fall home tours and previous Christmas tours, I love adding nature to our home! Our beautiful evergreen tree is filled with natural Christmas ornaments. The best part is that these handmade ornaments are easy ideas and will add to a cozy atmosphere through winter.

Cindy’s Tip: Add dried citrus fruit with cinnamon sticks to bowls, trays, or table centerpieces to add simple beauty for winter. 

Natural Christmas Tree Ornaments and Tree Toppers

These natural ornaments are easy ideas and are made from wood slices, star anise, flower pinecones, a hot glue gun, copper Rub N Buff, dried orange slices, and salt dough. I share a step-by-step tutorial to make these handmade ornaments with wood molds. Tree candles, dark purple velvet ribbon, and one of three easy tree toppers. I share easy steps to make these tree toppers. I love vintage items but not the price tag. These are incredibly budget-friendly. I even shared how to make the stand!

How to Dry Fruit for Natural Christmas Ornaments

To make your own dried orange slices:

• Set the oven to a low temperature of 200 degrees
• Slice oranges 1/4 inch thick
• Remove excess moisture with a paper towel
• Arrange orange slices in a single layer, not touching on an oven-safe cooling rack over a large baking sheet.
• Baking until dry approximately 2-3 hours. After the first hour flip the slices and rotate the baking sheet. Keep a close eye on them to avoid burning.
• Store the orange slices in a paper bag or cardboard box in a dry and dark place.

Add citrus fruit to your Christmas table as place cards with a sprig of natural greenery. Add these to centerpieces on an entryway table, coffe table, or dining area. Make homemade Christmas ornaments with cinnamon sticks, acorn caps, or star anise.

Natural Decor Ideas for the Living Room: DIY’s and Rustic Touches

Our bookcase is filled with bottle brush trees, walnuts, pine cones, citrus fruit, sweet gum balls, small crowns, pheasant feathers, and candles. The walnut garland is an amazing DIY and takes minutes and three craft supplies. Here is my step-by-step tutorial for a stunning sweet gum ball wreath. This amazing DIY works from fall through winter. Also, when displaying wreaths add them as table centerpieces as I did on our coffee table. The wood sign is easy and works with any decor style. I added a rusty appearance with the same spice! Candles are a must, not just for the Christmas table. As you have seen they are throughout our home with our natural decor ideas for any home style!

Old Fashioned Christmas Tour

Simple Christmas Decorations for the Living Room

Our living room coffee table has a natural wreath that adds simple beauty from fall through winter. This is why my wreaths are extremely budget-friendly. Small grapevine wreaths with batter-operated candles and tiny pinecones add texture and warmth to this festive season. A chunky knit throw is a must to snuggle, drink hot chocolate, and watch Christmas movies.

Cindy’s Wreath Tip: Wreaths aren’t just for hanging. They make beautiful centerpieces with a battery-operated candle or a vase with flowers or greens.

These are my favorite battery-operated candles

Natural Greenery for the Buffet

Lastly, our buffet is filled with assorted faux greenery and pheasant feathers. Pillar candles are burned down. I scooped the wax out and added battery-operated tealights. I wrapped jute around the candles and used my hot glue gun to add star anise and mini boxwood wreaths. These simple ideas add extra organic textures. This pinecone wreath I made in 2021 looks as good as the day I created this wreath. I use it in our home in different places fall through winter.

Cindy’s Tip: When I remove the bottle brush trees, the natural ornaments such as the wood slices and citrus fruit will take their place. This is why decorating with nature beautifully adds simple beauty to any home style.

Easy Ways to Add Natural Christmas Decor Ideas for Any Home Style

Consider other natural decor options, rustic accents, and natural decorations to incorporate in your home are small wreaths, an orange garland, red berries, cinnamon sticks, star anise, dried pomegranates, seed pods, birch logs from the craft store, fresh fruit from grocery stores. Add these natural materials to Christmas wreaths, natural Christmas ornaments, or a fresh garland. Natural Christmas decor ideas for any home style are an easy way to add natural Christmas decorations and I shared the best ways to bring nature into your home during this festive season. I hope I have encouraged you to create your own natural wreath, wooden ornaments, or salt dough. Have a very Merry Christmas!

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