Purchasing holiday decor for each season can get expensive, so I love it when I come across cute, inexpensive decor items. We recently moved from Phoenix to Chicago and I had zero Christmas decorations in tow. I wanted our bedroom to scream “Happy Holidays!” when you walked into it, but I didn’t want to scream when I saw my credit card bill. That’s why I was so excited when I came across some cute Christmas decor from Target.
Christmas Decor – Wood Signs
Target has a vast selection of holiday wood signs available through their Wondershop for only $5 each! Yeah, you read that right, $5. They are a nice size, good quality and light weight, making them easy to store after the holidays.
I purchased 6 wooden signs from the Wondershop collection (the wiener sign is something I made and is not from Target) and hung them on either side of our bed. Target has far more than these 6 designs available, these were just my personal favorites.
Christmas Bedding
For my bedding, I already had the white furry comforter. I purchased the red quilt/pillow sham from Amazon for $29 and the flannel sheets from Target on sale for $28 (normally $35 – still a good price). We have a king sized bed, but a twin size quilt (folded over) is plenty big to cover the foot of the bed.
When decorating your bedroom, my first recommendation is to buy a white comforter. White comforters make it really easy, and more importantly less expensive, to change out your look for the holidays. A white comforter gives you a blank canvas to work with each season. All you have to do is purchase an inexpensive blanket to update your decor.
Inexpensive Blanket
I like purchasing twin size quilts as my blanket, because they come with a sham which you can use on one of your throw pillows. The sham fits a standard size pillow, but if you want to use an 18×18 size pillow (that’s what I did), all you have to do is fold the excess fabric behind it. You can even add a stitch or two to the back with a needle and thread if you want it to be a little more secure. After the holidays, simply snip the stitch to remove the pillow and store your cover.
For my fall bedding I purchased a rust colored quilt/sham from Amazon (only $17 Woowhoo!) and again, flannel sheets from Target. The leaf pillow cover is from a set of 4 pillow covers I ordered from Amazon for $11. I used the other 3 from the set to decorate our living room. The pillow covers were 18×18 in size, so for the small lumbar pillow on my bed I once again simply folded the excess fabric behind.
Pillow Covers vs. Pillows
My second recommendation is to purchase pillow covers rather than actual pillows.
- Pillows are bulky and take up a lot of space when storing between seasons
- Pillow COVERS take up virtually no space
- Generally you can get a set of 2 or even 4 pillow COVERS for the price of a single seasonal pillow.
DIY Christmas Decor
If you’re wondering about the pine trees over our bed, those are removable wall decals that I created using removable wallpaper and my Cricut machine.
While they tend to look black in the photo, they are actually a dark evergreen color. I made the trees and the trunk using removable wallpaper from Amazon for about $5 a roll. If you don’t have a Cricut, no problem! Simply find some pine tree clipart online, print it out and trace it onto the backside of the wallpaper and cut it out by hand.
So, for $100 I was able to purchase all the Christmas decor and bedding needed to transform my bedroom into a winter wonderland.
Author: Nicole Bolin