How to Decorate Your Bedroom With Tinsel at Christmas

Color Blocking With Tinsel

• Tinsel is manufactured primarily in silver and gold, but it’s also available in other colors ideal for matching with your bedroom linens and accessories. Use your ordinary bedroom furniture and structural elements as the backdrop for shiny treatments by hanging color-blocked strands of tinsel from them in varying lengths. Update a headboard with ribbon garland embellished with multi-colored tinsel. You can staple or hand-sew the tinsel to a thick piece of fabric ribbon; then tie the ends of the ribbon from each bedpost. Or, if you have a metal headboard, weave the garland through the wrought iron. Dress up bolder, modern bedrooms with floor-length tinsel garlands hung from the ceiling. Secure the tinsel from monofilament fishing line attached to wall hooks or tape.

Tinsel Garland Accessories

• Wrap tinsel garlands around any-size Christmas tree, object or bedroom accessory. Use a section of tinsel garland to display Christmas cards or holiday photos along a wall or bookshelf. Punch a hole in the corner of the card or photo; then tie it to the garland with thin ribbon or wire. Enhance the look of a Victorian or shabby chic-style bedroom by framing a window with a long section of garland, or shape the garland in a triangle above a mirrored vanity. Layer ordinary curtain tiebacks with thin tinsel garlands at the mid-section of the fabric and tuck the ends of garland behind the tieback. You can also tie a tinsel garland around a rope-style tieback and let the ends flow alongside the tails.

Ornaments and Christmas Trimmings

• Combine tinsel with your Christmas ornaments and they will have a brighter shimmer. Cover a large globe ornament with strands of tinsel; then hang them around your bedroom. Take a handful of tinsel and tie it in a knot at the middle. Place the ornament’s hook through the knot, letting the ends of the tinsel drape the ornament. You can attach the tinsel-trimmed ornaments to hooks from the ceiling or nails on shelves. Create patterns with the ornaments and hang additional pieces of tinsel from the hooks as added accents. Hang the tinsel from yards of Christmas beading, sequined roping or fabric trimmed with buttons.

Tinsel Trees, Wreaths and Swizzle Sticks

• Place a few white tree branches or sprigs of pine in sap buckets or clear vases. Dress each branch with bits of tinsel, creating a glittering piece that you can display on a dresser or the floor. Position medium-sized cocktail shakers or other glass containers; place tinsel topped swizzle sticks inside them. Trim the sticks at different heights so the tinsel balls can be easily seen. Use a variety of colors for your tinsel sticks and fill the clear jars with streamers of loose tinsel. Decorate foam-based cones and wreaths with tinsel garland attached with floral pins. Embellish the tinseled foam by gluing small holiday ornaments or bunches of additional tinsel onto them. Sit the Christmas trees on end tables or create a wreath display above an armoire or bureau.