A Non-Traditional Garland decoration with neckties…
Have you ever thought about using something non-traditional for your Christmas tree garland? Well, how about neckties for garland decoration?
There are many, many Christmas traditions that I would never, ever mess around with. In our house, that would be making kids wait at the top of the stairs on Christmas morning. Or our traditional Christmas Eve church service followed by a family party at Dave’s parents.
I’m sure in your family, there are some super fun, un-touchable traditions, too.
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That said, there are certain non-sacred Christmas cows that I have fun messing around with each holiday season. Things I like to change up and experiment with, just for the fun of it. Garland is one of those things.
Last year, we experimented using winter scarves as garland decoration, and I LOVED it. This year?
Necktie Garland Decoration
I wanted to use vintage neckties, originally. But those were pretty expensive, and it’s hard to find a slew of them that would “work” together, if you know what I mean.
Instead, I bought a couple dozen matching ties online.
We are using them on an artificial tree that’s in our foyer, and it is approximately 10′ tall, but pretty thin. For our tree, I purchased 20 neckties, and I think that was pretty much the perfect amount.
I played around with how to position them on the tree. My first inclination was to string them around the tree horizontally, like traditional garland.
After looking at the garland decoration hanging horizontally for a while, I wasn’t in love. So I turned them all on end, hanging them more or less vertically.
You’ll see in this time-lapse video how it looks both ways.
Necktie Garland Decoration in Time-Lapse
And the more vertical direction is where they’ve stayed. You can see from these pics that the ornaments haven’t even been put on the tree yet.
But even without the ornaments, I am loving how it looks so far.
Here’s what you’ll need for this garland project…
Sources for this garland decoration idea and other holiday decor shown:
- Our flocked artificial tree (ours is the 9′ version) Here is another similar tree
- staircase garland
- Bulk Ties (this is where we got ours…there are TONS of color combos/styles to pick from)
- chandelier
Michele Morin says
I did not expect to like this look, but it’s amazing!
Heather says
Totally unexpected! I was so happy with it…especially since I really had no idea how they’d look once I got them on there. So glad you like it Michele!
Allison|and Caffeinated says
I loved your scarf garland from last year, but the neck tie garland is fun too! So creative!
Heather says
Yeah! So glad you like it. I bought these ties back in January b/c I thought of this while I was taking down the scarves last year! I love both…this one is super fun though b/c there were SO many options for these ties in bulk…I’m kind of tempted to buy them in another color for next year, but I think I may get the evil eye from Dave if I tried it 😉