Luxe Go Boho This Christmas

This year Christmas is going to be different. No more gaudy, plastic ornamentation. No more perfect, featureless, fake tree. No more high vis, hyper colour wrapping paper, and ribbons. What you want this year is elegance and a touch of coastal boho.

Here’s how.

Natural Elements

There’s no better way to say goodbye to plastic this Christmas than to fill your home with celebrations of nature. 

For starters, get a real tree. A real-life, growing, living, breathing tree - well it won’t be living once you have it at home. But at least it has contributed to absorbing greenhouse gases and gifting us with oxygen. Real trees are also renewable, recyclable and, as a kicker, they infuse your home with genuine forest fragrance. But you don’t have to go down the traditional fir tree path. Chuck the tree out altogether and get creative with a natural alternative like a bean pole teepee or a drooping willow branch. 

Pine cones have traditionally been used as natural Christmas decorations. They can be made into ornaments for the tree or as table setting decorations. Dried wildflowers are perfect natural Christmas elements to give that Australian summer feel. Callistemon, gum nuts, billy buttons, paper daisies, and coastal grasses work perfectly. Throw into the mix some organic textures like cotton, linen, or jute and natural or whitewashed timber accessories and your set.

Boho Ornaments

If you take the real tree option then you're going to want to decorate it. But steer clear of flashy splashy tinsel and mirror ball ornaments. Instead, take your cue from other cultures around the world - make a long garland, marigold or other and adorn you tree generously with it or string up some shell necklace decor. Hanging lanterns like these rustic ones are the perfect alternative to those garishly shiny baubles or replace them with blush cotton tassels with stone and silver beads. To get real boho, dangle some dream catchers or macrame from those oh so piney branches.  

Now that your tree is sorted. It’s time to set and style the table. Seagrass table runners are the perfect place to start, establishing a foundation for all that natural texture layering. Add some macrame on top for a genuine boho centerpiece and beach it all up with fringed, undyed raffia placemats. 

Lights

It’s just not Christmas without lights - the softer and warmer and shimmerier the better. 

Take some boho Christmas cheer to every nook of your living spaces with votive candles. Group together with different styles and sizes for that caroling choir feeling. Warm-up your table setting and buck the religious trend at the same time with golden lotus tealights. On top of it all, go all out with a luxe, uber elegant macrame chandelier like this one.

Stringing up some solar-powered fairy lights will create just the right amount of Christmas eye candy attention from passersby. 

Printed Cushions and Rugs

Say no to Santa and reindeer sacks and stockings and yes to woolen rugs, tribal print cushions, and vintage eastern kilims. 

Get a large coastal Polynesian fringed rug to place under your tree to establish its place of prominence amongst your furniture and homewares. Invite friends and family to sit and relax during gift-giving times with byzantine bolster pillows and tufted throws. Or have them ready to take to the beach for a bohemian take on the quintessential Australian x-mas day jaunt. 

And to top it all off Luxe Coastal boho style - crown that Chrissy tree with a Juju hat - because why not. Yep, this Christmas sure is going to be different