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Styling with Christmas Stockings

Christmas stockings hanging on the mantle are an iconic image of Christmas and Christmas decorating. However, modern home design means that mantles and fireplaces are not necessarily a common feature in many homes. The good news is that the absence of a mantle or fireplace doesn’t have to mean that you and your family miss out on the beautiful tradition of hanging Christmas stockings in your home.

There are so many great ways that you can decorate and style with beautiful Christmas stockings, either with a mantle or without.

Hanging around with Stocking Hangers

Stocking hangers are perhaps the most obvious accessory to your Christmas stocking styling. There are so many options available to suit a wide range of Christmas decorating themes and styles. From elegant and stylish, to fun and festive, as well as classic, traditional or rustic.

Compliment your own unique style by opting for a simple stocking holder design and add your choice of ornament on top. Or leave the understated design to play it’s part and enhance the decorating by styling over and around the stocking holders with complimenting floral and décor pieces.

Stocking holders are perfect to be able to hang your Christmas stockings on any type of flat shelf area in your home. Mantles of course. But they also work equally as well on side tables or hall tables, kitchen benches, shelves or any other similar surface that exists (or you can create) in your home.

Hanging stockings without stocking holders

Stocking holders are certainly not the only way that you can display your Christmas stockings.

Step it up with a re-purposed ladder

Upcycling is a popular trend in home decorating at the moment. Experiment with re-purposing items as part of your Christmas decorating.

Wooden ladders are a great way to create an interesting and unique arrangement with your Christmas stockings. Attaching stockings to the ladder rungs is easy! Weave a piece of string or ribbon through the stocking loop and cut to the desired length, or attach with thumbtacks on the inner side of the loop.

Hang Christmas stockings any which way you like…

There really is no end to the number of ways that you can choose to hang your Christmas stockings. Don’t limit yourself with conventional stocking hanging solutions.

Some other ideas to consider include the trusty clothes peg. Beautiful wooden pegs are not only perfect for hanging (it’s exactly what they are designed for!)  but they are also great for creating a distinctive Christmas style.

Staircases also provide a great opportunity for Christmas decorating and that includes Christmas stockings. Adorn your staircase with gorgeous garlands and complete the look with beautiful stockings.

Really, you can hang stockings anywhere that is designed for “something” to hang. So think a little outside the box for some truly creative ideas.

Coat or bag hooks are a great option and even better if you already have these items already hung and ready to go in your home.

Complete the look with décor and florals

 Whether you have a traditional mantle display or something a little different, the key to styling a gorgeous Christmas stocking display is styling the area surrounding the stockings too, in order to really enhance the theme.

If you are lucky enough to have a striking mantlepiece that you can feature in your Christmas decorating, consider using luscious garland to fill the space behind and around the stocking hangers. Add texture and detail with decorative baubles and other beautiful tree decorations.

Vibrant flowers and feature pieces such as ornaments and framed FREE Christmas download posters help to really create a stunning feature in your home.

Make it personal

It’s true that having all the right décor pieces can definitely make for a stunning stocking display in your home. But the way to make it extra special and truly unique for your family and loved ones to treasure is with personalised stockings.

At The Christmas Cart, our entire range of Christmas stockings are able to be personalised in a wide range of colours using our exclusive style of glitter calligraphy. All of our stockings are personalised by hand in our Chelmsford-based studio. With a huge range of colours and styles available there is sure to be something to suit the unique Christmas style in every home.

Now that you have seen how many ways there are to hang Christmas stockings in your home, the fact that you don’t have a mantle is no longer an excuse. Choose your favourite stockings and order today. Make sure you grab some other beautiful décor pieces at the same to complete the look.