Green: The Perfect Popular Color to Refresh Red and White Christmas Decor

Inside: Red and green are classic Christmas, but with green being a hot trend this year, adding it to red and white is an easy way to refresh and invigorate holiday decor. Elegant red, green, and white Christmas ideas for the living room, dining room, and foyer!➡

Red, green, and white Christmas decor in living room

Gorgeous green. It’s always been one of my favorite colors. And it’s so in this year I’ve been decorating with green accents every chance I get.

So when I was pondering what to change up this Christmas season, adding green was the easiest way to spruce up the tree (pun intended) and same old holiday decor.

Even though red and green are the traditional Christmas colors, green still feels fresh. And it was so easy to add this “haute” shade to my existing classic red and white.

Entry of home with staircase decorated with garland for Christmas

I’m so excited that the calendar has finally caught up with my house, which has been decorated for Christmas for about a month now. Let’s take a little holiday house walk around the living room, dining room, and foyer, and I’ll show you around!

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Red, green, and white for the foyer and staircase.

The red and green color scheme starts right inside the front door. Our staircase is decked in boughs of garland:

Garland and red and green bows on curved staircase

I ran the garland on top of the banister rail for a different look this year instead of swagging it.

Red and green ribbon on Christmas garland

And paired the crimson red satin ribbon with olive velvet (you’ll see lots more of this pretty green ribbon around the whole area).

I tucked some faux pine picks like the ones in the garland and sprigs of white berries around the cherub on the foyer table.

You can see how I made this skinny staircase garland full and lush here.

Red, green, and white in the holiday dining room.

Dining table decorated with magnolia and pine Christmas garland

Walking across to the dining room, you’ll see more red, green, magnolia, and pine. (And a furry photo bomber peeking out of the kitchen. If you missed the comfy plaid Christmas tour of the kitchen and family room, you can see that here.)

Magnolia and pine garland dining table centerpiece

This garland usually decorates one of the fireplace mantels but was repurposed as a centerpiece on the dining table. It’s really two garlands, a long needle pine and a magnolia, wired together. I added a few magnolia picks that match the staircase garland and wound red velvet ribbon and white berries through it for a pop of red and white.

Magnolia and pine garland with red velvet ribbon on dining table

My favorite go-to brass candlesticks add drama, height, and candlelight to the dining table centerpiece.

Magnolia and pine centerpiece and Christmas berry wreath on sideboard mirror

And I’m a little obsessed with flameless candles. I can even set these tapers with moving flames to come on every evening (like the candle-lighting fairy comes without me lifting a finger).

Pine Christmas garland and brass candlesticks with flameless candles on dining table

The sideboard in the dining room is decorated with some gold mercury glass Christmas baubles, magnolia leaves, pine cones, and more green ribbon tied around a white and gold gift box.

Magnolia and pine garland with red velvet ribbon dining table decor

I brought out green and white throw pillows for the extra chairs. And tied a bow of green chiffon and velvet ribbon onto the red berry wreath.

Red berry wreath with green ribbon on dining table sideboard mirror

You can see the complete Christmas tablescape for this dining room on the blog Monday so come back and see me then!

Now let’s stroll over to the living room:

Christmas tree in living room with arch entry and columns

Red, green, and white Christmas decorating ideas for the living room.

It’s so simple to change the colors by season in this room with its neutral palette.

Green and white Christmas decor in living room

I brought back out the green velvet pillow covers (also used last summer in the blue and green living room).

Green velvet and red satin ribbon tied around a couple of mercury glass ornaments bring some holiday cheer to my grandmother’s end table:

Mercury glass finial ornaments table decor

And a minky white blanket adds a cozy feel and texture to the back of the sofa.

Living room mantel with Christmas garland, red and green velvet ribbon

Christmas coffee table decor.

My angel orchestra sits on the coffee table along with gold and white twig trees.

And traditional red velvet ribbon instantly transforms any decor like this boxwood topiary into a holiday decoration.

Christmas garland on the fireplace mantel.

Red, green, and white living room Christmas decor

Over on the fireplace mantel, I’ve layered three different faux garlands together and brought in more red, green, and white color with white berries.

Red, green, and white garland on fireplace mantel

And more red and green velvet ribbon tied at each end.

I love the simple elegance of velvet ribbon. And it was the easiest way to add green and red color throughout these rooms by tying a little here and there.

The angel on the shelves is also wearing a green velvet ribbon “stole”:

Red, green, and gold Christmas angel decor on shelves

And one of my favorite Santa photos stays on these shelves because it just brings me joy all year long:

Red and green Christmas garland and blue and white shelf decor

Red, green, and white Christmas tree decor.

Red, green, and white Christmas tree in living room

The best way to change the color scheme of the entire Christmas tree? With ribbon.

Red, green, and white Christmas tree with green and white gifts

Instead of the crimson red from last year, I added this luxe green satin.

It’s a beautiful, thick, good quality ribbon but sadly it’s not wired. But I made it work for tree decorating by layering it on top of a wide champagne glitter ribbon to make my own custom Christmas ribbon!

Green and champagne ribbon on a Christmas tree

I used just a tad of hot glue to keep it together. But I can pull it off to use the champagne ribbon again next year.

If I wanted to change this to a green and white tree, I’d really only have to remove the red ornaments.

To bring more of the Christmas color palette in, I loaded the tree with red, silver, and white ball ornaments and wrapped the bottom in a red and white tree skirt.

I didn’t look for any green christmas tree decorations to add, because I felt like they would disappear against my green artificial tree. If I had a flocked Christmas tree in here however, it would be game on green!

I’ve always had Christmas tree toppers, so this “naked” look is a big departure for me. It’s nice for a change, but you’ll probably see one again here next holiday season:

Wrapping paper is another perfect way to bring in a color theme too. I found these beautiful, thick papers at Target. And these olive green and white stripes ended up coordinating with my green ribbons flawlessly – score!

The rest of the living room tree is filled in with sentimental Christmas ornaments that my family has collected over the years. And I point them out and tell the same stories that begin with, “remember this?” Every. Single. Year.

Sentimental family ornaments on a Christmas tree

It’s so peaceful to sit here by the tree at night after everything is done for the day with the Christmas lights and a little holiday music on.

Red, green, and white Christmas tree at night with lights

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Thanks for spending a few minutes with me to take my “green” Christmas tour. I’ve enjoyed our virtual visit and our fleeting moment to relax by the tree. But there are so many other homes to visit (and so much decorating, shopping, and cooking awaiting).

It’s easier said than done, but let’s both make sure not to just decorate and shop til we drop, but to take some time to savor a few minutes here and there by the tree – agreed?

Happy Holidays,

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Green: The Perfect Popular Color to Refresh Red and White Christmas Decor

Red, green, and white for the foyer and staircase.

Red, green, and white in the holiday dining room.