Have you ever heard about Wunderkammer?
It literally means “room of wonders”. They appeared in Europe in the 16th century and displayed every possible relic gathered in explorations and voyages all over the world.
Natural finds of any types, astonishing artistic productions, scientific equipment, weird mechanical gadgets: you could find anything in the Wunderkammer. Every relic was spectacularly displayed, to provide thrilling emotions and…wonder.
Perhaps, when we think of our houses at Christmas, we imagine a house of wonders: a small “different world” which builds its magic on new ideas of decor and of interior design.
The protagonists are no longer artefacts or weird specimen of natural history, rather wonderful Christmas decorations. The care for details and the uniqueness of each piece prove refined taste and love for tradition, both reinterpreted according to a contemporary perspective.
In this article you can find 6 ideas of Christmas special home decorations. This way, you can begin your voyage into Christmas world and build a “Christmas Wunderkammer” where to create an enchanted microcosm where each thing is magic. Outside and inside you.
Standing Christmas home decorations: a voyage to an enchanted wood
Imagine yourself in a bewitched wood, where trees are covered with golden and silvery light, and where the magic of Christmas gives life to legendary creatures.
This year, among the most exclusive festive decorations there are elegant golden and silvery animals, majestic protagonists of this Christmas fairy tale.
Made with craftsmanship, these standing decorative elements depict fascinating creatures that seem to come from an enchanted world. Like the elegant deers with sparkling horns. Every detail: the decorations of their body, their bent paw, the clothes of the “personified” model, tells a story of wonder and magic which turns them into symbols of elegance and class.
If you put them in the right, key places, these objects turn your house into an enchanted wood, where every animal becomes the messenger of a dreamy atmosphere and invites you to explore the charm every decoration conceals.
Christmas decorations: a stop-over in the kingdom of sweetness
And what could be better than filling a journey into the magical world of Christmas with 'velvety sweetness'?
Classic tree balls turn into soft decorations of red velvet, whose green arabesques and golden particulars create a visual symphony of colours and shapes which captures the very essence of the festive season.
These beautiful ornaments look like hanging jewels, they are real works of art. They are so soft and delicate that whenever they move, you will feel as if a sweet festive perfume were spread in the air.
Elegant Christmas decorations: the enchanted world of snowballs
How much magic can snowballs contain? Their fairy-tale worlds have always been able to move our emotions and memories.
The most beautiful ornament to decorate our Christmas is a crystal ball where the snow falls on an enchanted landscape and where small details – a snowman, a snowy tree – seem to wake up from an enchanted sleep.
After all, every snowball is an invitation to stop, to contemplate, to daydream in the beauty of a world which is elsewhere. Outside, or perhaps inside, us.
Festive accessories to light up the road to Christmas
A true “Christmas Wunderkammer” needs the soft, charming lights of the standing decorations with leds. They are not a simple light source, rather a magic which reveals itself through enchanted shapes like animals, trees, gift boxes: small luminous treasures, witnesses of a Christmas atmosphere that goes far beyond the surface of things.
In this ballet of light and shape, Christmas decorations become emotional connections, bridges between reality and imagination. Both when they are soft lights outlining the silhouette of a sweet pet and a cascade of light enveloping a Christmas tree, these enchanting shapes turn the house into a place where light becomes art and art becomes a warm, magic embrace.
… all of a sudden, along the path of winter knights: the Christmas decorations which will shoot an arrow into your heart
Christmas toy soldiers are not simple decorations; they witness an era when the joy of Christmas could be found in the simplicity of handicraft toys. Every detail, from the light their metal reflects to the accuracy of their miniature, is a tribute to craftsmanship.
These little heroes seem to carry a baggage of stories and memories: their peaceful look, the way they fiercely stand onto shelves and tables convey both protection and excitement. They are the guardians of tradition, which remind us of the beauty of simplicity and of the true meaning of Christmas.
Toy soldiers are the Christmas ornaments which represent a bridge between past and present at best. And which remind us that the magic of Christmas can also be found in the smallest details.
How to decorate the front door at Christmas time
And here we are… every “room of wonders” has its door, a curtain ready to be opened onto a stage of emotions. Christmas wreaths therefore become more than a simple ornament: they are an invitation to surrender to a spectacle of emotions.
Made with handicraft care, every fir branch is an embrace of nature, while delicate light, reflected in little flares, creates an effect of warm brightness that invites everybody to happily cross the threshold.
When the door is decorated in this way, it becomes the heart of the house. It is as if every decoration were a note of the melody of the holidays, an invitation to share joys and laughters in a place where you feel at home.
6 ideas of Christmas decorations, 6 precious tiles in the mosaic of your Christmas Wunderkammer. We have just experienced a short voyage into the world of Christmas decorations, trying to focus on unique, original proposals.
We were guided by the idea that the strongest emotions arise where tradition meets the desire for beauty. Every decoration has to be conceived as a small element of a Christmas Wunderkammer where every object tells a story, every corner is full of emotions and every detail is designed to convey the magic of the festive season.
