Do your walls feel bare as you pack up the Christmas lights, take down the tree, and put your Christmas wall art away in the attic until next year? Does it make your whole house feel a bit sad and uninspiring?
At Cherie Kay, we understand that the post-Christmas winter season can be a challenging time to decorate. At the same time, as the cold, wet weather keeps you increasingly indoors, it’s more crucial than ever that your home decor feels cozy and welcoming!
That’s why today, we’d like to walk you through a specific design challenge: choosing wall art for the post-Christmas season that evokes “cozy” rather than “festive.”
Table of Contents
- Transitioning Your Wall Art from Christmas to Winter
- Selecting Inspiring Word Art
- Choosing Winter Landscape Art
- Finding Vintage Prints that Match Your Style
- General Tips for Winter Decor
TL;DR—Winter-Themed Wall Art
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Some of your Christmas decor can stay up as winter decor—just keep in mind that red accents and twinkly lights paired with greenery still read “Christmas.”
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Update your Christmas word art for inspirational word art that reminds you of your New Year goals.
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Switch out Christmas landscape prints for winter-themed ones; alternatively, choose landscape art that can work year-round.
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Replace Christmas art with homey vintage prints that match your personal style
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Fill your home with cozy accents for that winter feel
Transitioning Your Decor from Christmas to Winter
After the New Year rolls around, it’s time to pack up the Christmas tree, the nativity, and other holiday decorations. But some of your decor can stay—after all, there’s nothing explicitly “Christmas” about evergreen boughs.
Still, some decor reads “Christmas” even if it’s more of a winter thing. After you’ve put away the obviously Christmas decor, here are some tips for transitioning the rest of it into more of a winter theme.
Remove the red
Over Christmas, it’s common to decorate with red accents—buffalo plaid, holly berries, and scarlet ribbons scream “Christmas.” Try swapping the red out for different colors, such as blues, grays, or browns.
Ditch the lights
Another Christmas staple is string lights adorning evergreen boughs. Keep the boughs if you wish, but pack up the string lights. If you miss the soft glow, try adding small lamps and candlelight.
Add non-Christmas accents
In addition to evergreen boughs and pine cones, consider purchasing or foraging for bare branches, random greenery, dried flowers, or small white flowers such as baby’s breath. This will give your decorative foliage a winter feel without screaming “Christmas.”
Update your wall art
The last step is to take down any explicitly Christmas-themed wall art and replace it with either winter-themed art or art that can work for multiple seasons. The next few sections will focus on specific ways to update your wall art for the season!
Selecting Inspiring Winter Word Art
Over the holidays, you may have hung up inspiring word art with Christmas-themed verses or lines from hymns. Now that the holidays are over, what should you hang there instead?
The easiest way to make this transition is to swap it for another piece of word art of a similar size and color composition. But where can you find winter word art that’s not Christmas themed? Even something simple like “Let it Snow” subtly evokes Christmas!
Instead of specifically focusing on winter, use your word art to focus your attention on your goals for the new year.
Did you select a word of the year? Consider getting it on a word art print.
Do you have a verse of the year? That would make a lovely piece of word art. In fact, we’ve written a whole blog post about Bible verse art!
Use your word art to focus forward, and let it inspire and bless you as you move into the new year.
Choosing Winter Landscape Art
Landscape art is one of the most timeless, inspiring things you can use to adorn your space. Often featuring dense forests, flowering meadows, vast oceans, or towering mountains, landscape art gives a sense of beauty and awe.
Let’s look at a few types of landscape art and how you might work with them seasonally.
Christmas-Themed Landscape Art
Although most landscape art isn’t explicitly Christmas-themed, things like twinkling lights in windows, red cardinals against the snow, or old-fashioned churches can give winter art a Christmas feel.
If you enjoy frequently swapping out your art, it’s fun to have Christmas pieces to work with. But if that sounds like too much bother, focus your Christmas decor elsewhere, and save your wall art for pieces that can work seasonally or even year-round.
Winter-Themed Landscape Art
Tall evergreen trees, dripping with snow. A hushed forest. A solitary cottage blanketed in white. These winter landscapes look gorgeous on your wall, and while they fit right in with your Christmas decor, they look just as splendid after the holidays, when the tinsel is back in the attic and you’re settling back in your cozy chair with that new book you got for Christmas.
Winter Art that Works Year-Round
If you want your home to have a cozy winter feel but don’t necessarily want to swap out your wall art every three months, you can accomplish it with a rugged landscape that’s not explicitly seasonal. For example:
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A stormy ocean
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An evergreen forest (without snow)
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A mountain peak or range
As long as there isn’t anything explicitly seasonal in the print, like a meadow of flowers or snowy trees, it can stay on your wall year-round yet still help evoke the current season. That gives you the option to swap it out if you wish, but you don’t have to feel obligated to do so!
Finding Vintage Prints that Match Your Style
Finally, if you hung up vintage Christmas prints over the holidays, there are endless non-holiday-related vintage prints available to swap them out with! Some cozy winter-themed print ideas include:
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Cottages
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Birds
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Other animals
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People reading
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People crafting or cooking
The key is to prioritize scenes that give you that cozy, hygge feeling. For the most wintry feel, choose seasonal pictures that feature snow—just make sure they don’t lean too “Christmas” if you want to keep them up all winter!
General Tips for Winter Decor
Hopefully, this blog gave you plenty of ideas on how to select winter wall art. But since decorating seasonally involves a lot more than just wall art, let’s look at a few additional decorating tips to consider as you think about how to evoke that feel of coziness, warmth, and a welcoming haven from the terrible weather.
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Firelight is inherently cozy, so don’t shy away from lighting lots of candles if you can do so safely!
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Rich textures such as velvet, corduroy, and knits add warmth and comfort. Adding some throw pillows and an extra blanket draped over the back of the sofa adds a lot.
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Books are a winter staple! As a bonus, they can work as both decor and entertainment.
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Warm lighting is a must. Use warm-toned bulbs, and if you can get by with it, see if you can light your room with multiple lamps or sconces instead of one jarring overhead light.
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Pick up a wicker basket at the thrift store and use it to store your latest crochet piece, macrame project, art supplies, or whatever handicrafts you’re enjoying at the moment.
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Finally, consider setting up a beverage bar with your coffee maker or espresso machine, electric kettle, and a selection of tea and hot chocolate. Add your coziest mugs, and you’re ready to hunker down with a friend for a good chat!
In general, fill your home with whatever makes you feel cozy, happy, and hospitable, ready to welcome friends and family into your warm haven from the cold outside.
Where to Buy Winter Wall Art
At Cherie Kay, we believe your home is a sacred place where the most important moments of your life unfold. Whether that’s spending time with your family, hosting friends, or relaxing alone after a long week, you want a space that’s visually appealing and inviting.
We know it can be difficult to find seasonal wall art that’s beautiful, affordable, and ethically made. That’s why we curate a collection of handcrafted winter wall art so that you can find that touch of charm you’ve been searching for.
In addition to winter wall art, we offer many other types of art, including:
Browse for your new favorite piece, or contact us today if you have any questions about our products!
