Give your home the Retro Luxe look

This week we explore our Retro Luxe Christmas trend and offer top tips for creating a luxury look that will transform any home into a festive haven.

The perfect look for early decorators, our Retro Luxe Christmas trend offers a modern take on 70s colouring, with earthy tones offering a mellow atmosphere that’s perfect for dressing the home from Halloween to Christmas itself. The perfect complement to a neutral home, it features honeycomb trees and lit paper snowflakes that pop up in all sizes and shades of terracotta, cinnamon and cream. Our oversized paper decorations are both playful and luxurious, perfect for adding a sense of surprise and delight in this otherwise pared back scheme.

Atmospheric lighting is a must all year round to enhance stylish homes, but during the extended darkness of winter nights, the additional warmth of extra lighting comes into its own. We have enhanced this scheme with lit paper decorations, tree candles and string lights in glowing amber shades. The glass mushrooms and honeycomb strings will work as well for autumn and Halloween decorating as Christmas itself, so this is a look that can be built upon as the season extends. 

‌“Pre-lit accessories are a great investment for the festive decorator because they’re battery-powered so can be used pretty much anywhere regardless of where your sockets are”

Offering inspiration for a luxurious look which doesn’t rely on a backdrop of period features. Contemporary spaces can easily come alive with this scheme which features many pieces that can create quite an impact in their own right. You can for instance create a temporary focal point with an art installation-style collection of hanging lights and decorations. For those who don’t have the space for a large traditional tree or prefer a more contemporary look, the giant fold out honeycomb paper tree makes a great alternative Christmas tree, or why not try a faux light up olive tree that can be used indoors or out – so perfect for the terrace on a summer’s night as well as elevating the hallway through the festive season. 

While Christmas can be all about excess, it’s good to counterbalance it with some thought for mindful gifting. Our cream sugar cane wrapping paper ticks all the sustainable gift wrap boxes – it’s produced entirely from the waste leftover from sugar cane production, so is completely tree free. This upcycled paper is recyclable and compostable and is produced without bleaching agents or chemical dyes. It still has all the high-quality feel of luxury gift wrap and the rich cream with its delicate fleck is suitable for any occasion, all year round. Embellish with a flamboyant bow in any of our spice toned ribbons which can also be reused again and again. 

‌“Our sugar cane wrapping paper is tree free and compostable, making it the perfect sustainable gift wrap option.”