Decorating our tree with deep moody hues, metallic sparkle and natural wood accents.
Decorating a Christmas tree in more subdued tones can be just as festive and beautiful as the classic holiday colors!
This year's jewel-toned Christmas tree is my favorite I've done…ever. It is just so PRETTY, and I often find myself just sitting there and staring at it.
Over the past few years I've been inching towards a bit of a more natural look for our Christmas tree. Well, as natural as it gets with gold ornaments and shiny garland. 😉
Last year I softened things up a bit with ribbon hanging from the branches, it was such a lovely touch!
This year I used mostly brown and gold ornaments, but ended up throwing in some jewel tones in dark blue and maroon as well.
It is my most beautiful tree, and I did it without buying any ornaments. I used a few tricks to use what we had to fill her up:
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The key to this game is my tried and true DIY makeover tool — spray paint! I never fails me. 🙂
I didn't want to use any bright red on the tree, only the deeper tones with some brighter metal colors to glam it up a bit.
We had plenty of this beaded garland I've used over the years, but it was red. Spray paint to the rescue!:
I used the bright and shiny gold Rus-toleum spray paint I shared in my top brass spray paints post for these.
It's not brassy at all, but a very bright and pretty gold color. I love it!
Trying to cover every bit of the red on these beads would take forever, so it's a good thing I was OK with some of the red peeking through here and there:
