Add festive touches to living room

• Christmas decorating ideas - 8 modern ideas
• Make your own Christmas cards
• Create a Christmas bauble display
• Wrap Christmas presents beautifully
• Add festive touches to living room
• Lay the perfect table setting
• Spruce up plain Christmas crackers
• Display your cards right
• Don't forget Santa...

An oversized glass candelabra will add glamour to a room. For a modern twist to your Christmas living room scheme, spell out festive words on your mantel, and add flashes of fuchsia and orange – try displaying tangerines on a white cake stand.

Looking for more modern decorating ideas from festive homes? Step inside our contemporary Christmas house with our video.

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