Apartment Christmas Decor

Living in an 800 square foot apartment can be challenging for many reasons. That is no exception when it comes to Christmas decorating. We don't have a fireplace mantel to hang our stockings with care. Furniture usually has to be adjusted quite a bit to make room for the tree. Adding touches like garland can be difficult without a stair banister to wrap it around (like my mom did). In addition to finding places around our apartment to add holiday touches, there is also the challenge of storing the holiday decorations. Fortunately our current apartment has a little storage unit on our porch that is just the right size for our two large tupperware containers filled with decorations.

Since we have both lived in apartments since college, we have had plenty of experience decorating for the holidays but each new apartment has its challenges. Since this is our first year in this apartment, I thought I would share a few pictures of how we have decorated. Hope you enjoy or maybe even get inspired!

Last year I picked up this cloth garland from Target for $3. This year I hung it across the large window in our living/dining room and using small clothespin, we are using it to display Christmas cards.

Without a fireplace, we have to get creative with where we hang our stockings. The past few years the stockings hung off a window ledge in our old apartment, this year they fit perfecly on our new bookcase.

Patrick and I pick up our Christmas tree from the same greenhouse in Alexandria. This may be the biggest one we have gotten yet but I love it because there is plenty of room to hang all of our ornaments. Each year we pick out an ornament to commemorate a memory, this year's ornament is the maple leaf in the center of the tree from Quebec!

Our Christmas corner with the tree, Christmas card garland, and bookcase with stockings (sorry it's so dark)

I also like to add a little garland to our half round table. It's a nice added touch of green with lights. I wrap the garland in a string of cranberries and in the back you can see a vase fillede with fake cranberries sticking out.