If you are looking for a fabulously glamorous theme for your Christmas tree this year, why not decorate a peacock themed Christmas tree?
Peacocks are beautiful birds whose feathers are prized around the world.
Here are designer tips and tricks for how to decorate a peacock themed Christmas tree.
Color Scheme
Color is the most important aspect of decorating a peacock themed Christmas tree, so make sure to be intentional when selecting your color scheme.
Your color scheme will be the colors that you use for all of your Christmas tree decorative items, not just the ornaments. This includes your tree topper, tree skirt, ribbons, and anything else attached to your Christmas tree.
Make sure that the color scheme that you select complements the room where it is going.
Peacock feathers are green, brown, gold, light blue, and navy.
Some people like to also add a mint green, purple, burgundy, plum, orange, and gold colors.
Whatever colors you choose, they should be inspired by the bold rich colors of peacock feathers.
Those colors should be your color scheme (of course you can mix it up a bit to put your own spin on it).
Christmas Tree
You can use an artificial Christmas tree or a live Christmas tree to create your peacock theme.
Since green is one of the colors in a peacock feather, you should use a green tree for a more traditional look.
You can use a white, silver, gold, black or another colored tree for a more contemporary or modern look.
Whatever Christmas tree that you decide on, make sure to get the highest quality tree that is within your budget.
Fuller Christmas trees with many branches & tips and without big empty holes look much more luxe than a skimpy cheap Christmas tree that looks half dead.
Christmas Lights
You should use blue, green, white, or clear Christmas lights on your peacock Christmas tree.
Use 1 strand of 100 mini non-blinking lights for each foot height of your tree minimum (feel free to add more, even if you have a pre-lit tree).
If you have an 8 foot tall tree, you should use a minimum of 8 strands of 100 lights.
For a little twinkle effect, add one or two strands (no more) of blinking lights around the trunk of your tree - not towards the branches.
If you decide to mix colors, make sure to mix them throughout the tree, not have the top half be one color and the bottom half be another color.
You can also add one color of lights being mini lights and just a few strands of another color lights being slightly larger than the mini lights.
Christmas Ornaments and Trimmings
After the Christmas lights are added, you should add your ornaments and trimmings.
You can use ornaments that look like peacocks, ornaments that look like peacock feathers, real peacock feathers, or ornaments of any shape or size in the peacock color scheme that you selected.
Consider adding 5-7 extra large ornaments, about the size of a softball or cantaloupe, that will be your focal point ornaments.
You can also add natural items such as pine cones and tree branches.
Use ornaments in many textures, such as smooth, rough, glittered, shiny, soft, and spiked.
You can even try wiring several plain ornaments together to create a larger ornament cluster for a designer look.
Above and Below
Select an appropriate tree topper for your peacock Christmas tree, if you choose to have one.
If your design style is more eccentric, you might consider using a peacock statue covered in peacock feathers.
If your style is more conservative, a gold start or nothing on top might be more appropriate.
You might consider using many peacock feathers sticking out of the top of the tree as a topper.
Don't forget about decorating below your Christmas tree also.
For an added designer touch, wrap your Christmas gifts in color coordinating gift wrap. Consider selecting 3 different colors of gift wrap with 3 different colors of ribbons, then mix and match the gift wrap and ribbons to create several different combinations of gift wrapping.
