{"id":220,"date":"2026-09-14T04:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/2026\/09\/14\/where-to-put-christmas-when-the-house-is-small\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:43:30","slug":"where-to-put-christmas-when-the-house-is-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/2026\/09\/14\/where-to-put-christmas-when-the-house-is-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Put Christmas When the House Is Small"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A small room does not need less decoration. It needs decoration that is not competing with the furniture for floor space, which is a different problem and an easier one to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Go Up, and Go to the Thresholds<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doorways, the tops of bookcases and the wall above a radiator are all surfaces nobody is using in December. A tall standing figure beside a door reads as generous where the same figure in the middle of a room reads as an obstacle, and anything at the top of a shelf is seen from every seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One Big Thing Beats Nine Small Ones<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Small rooms punish clutter and reward commitment. A single seventy-centimetre gnome by the front door, or one properly dressed tabletop fir, does more than nine scattered ornaments &#8211; and it leaves the surfaces you actually use still usable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Borrow the Window<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\t<li>A tabletop tree in the window decorates the room and the street at once.<\/li>\n\t<li>Glass and mirrored ornaments do most of their work on borrowed light.<\/li>\n\t<li>Nothing on the sill you have to move to open it, or it will be moved and not put back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small room does not need less decoration. It needs decoration that is not competing with the furniture for floor space, which is a different problem and an easier one to solve. Go Up, and Go to the Thresholds Doorways, the tops of bookcases and the wall above a radiator are all surfaces nobody is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_brandy_post_header_transparent":"inherit","_brandy_post_header_template":"inherit","_brandy_post_footer_template":"inherit","_brandy_post_header_blur_background":{"type":"inherit","value":3},"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[118,117],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decorating-ideas","tag-home-styling","tag-small-spaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/christmas-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}