Do not overlook your kitchen windows when decorating your home for the winter holidays. A Christmas-themed kitchen window display brightens your home inside and out. Spend a couple hours creating a thematic holiday tableau for the window sill, or invest more time and money in updating your entire kitchen window with a seasonal theme. Either way, personalize your Christmas window decor by incorporating a cherished ornament, a holiday-themed collectible or natural items from your garden.
Instructions
1. Update your kitchen window frame with a fresh coat of paint. A crisp, blue-based white in a semi-gloss or gloss finish adds wintry glow to kitchen window woodwork. For a weathered, vintage look, consider stone gray or warmer rosy gray.
2. Frost your kitchen windows. A temporary frosting spray gives your kitchen window a seasonal look without blocking the valuable natural light that you seek in the short days of winter. You can give frosted windows a pop of pattern by using stiff doilies or paper snowflakes as stencils. Gently affix them to the window with small pieces of tape before spraying the frost over them and then remove.
3. Outfit your window with Christmas-themed window treatments. A valance printed with wreaths, holly, snowflakes, candy canes or pine trees frames your kitchen window with Christmas spirit. For a lighter touch, use glossy gossamer sheer panels in hues of blue and white or red and green.
4. Decorate the window sill or window well. Save some of those ornaments from the tree and place them on the window sill. Glass, crystal, mirrored, metal and glittery ornaments pick up the natural light entering through your kitchen window and cast a festive glow about the room.
5. Incorporate nature into your Christmas window decor. Pine boughs, pine cones, holly, holly berries and mistletoe may sit directly on the kitchen window sill or in vases, glasses, teacups, buckets or baskets around the window. Frame the window with evergreen branches and string the branches with cranberries and popcorn.
