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My first apartment was a tiny one bedroom without enough room for a full sized tree so I got a little tabletop tree and decorated it with some lights and ornaments. I also got twinkle lights and taped them up around one of my windowsills for a festive look.
We now have the space for a full sized tree, but some other small decorations I have out are things like an apothecary jar filled with pinecones and a vase with glittery ornaments inside of it.
They make these cool looking wall decals/stickers of Christmas trees. I think that would look really cute in a small apartment!
Twinkle lights are great and add so much to a room!
Also, you can get fun window stickies that are holiday themed. Our grocery store has them, but I'm sure they can be found at Walmart, Target, etc.
If you wanted to get really adventurous/creative, you could get some tissue paper in blues, ivories and golds and cut out your own snowflakes then hang them from the ceiling (high enough so nobody bumps them).
Our "Christmas Tree" is a Norfolk Pine potted plant from Home Depot. I think they cost about $17? I got a ton of the tiny ornaments that they have at grocery stores (along with some bigger ones at various other places) and a string of lights and it looks really cute.
I took a picture just for you. :)
We also have a small fiber optic tree sitting outside our front door. It was our Christmas tree last year but it's too cold for the pine to be outside so the fiber optic tree is now the outside decoration.
We have space for a tiny tree, but I decorated our bookshelf with a bunch of candles, too. I went to Target's dollar spot and got a centerpiece for the table and some wrapping paper that I used for a table runner. We used it for a dinner party, but we've kept it up since.
I also bought some festive kitchen towels to loop over the oven's handle to brighten up the kitchen.
(The places and such are gone now, but I left the runner, the centerpiece and the candles up.)
We have a small X-mas tree and wreaths on our door (one inside and one outside). We hung our X-mas cards we've received from a ribbon on the front of our kitchen cabinets. If you have a balcony, you could put lights out there.
I still have the teeny tiny Charlie Brown looking table top tree from my apartment. It's so small that I would actually put it in the closet fully decorated each year. The day after Thanksgiving, I pull it out of the closet & set it on the table. Voila! Christmas spirit!
I also got those little adhesive hook things & strung up lights & garland around my living room. The hooks don't mess up the cheap apartment paint!
Ooooh- and my mom got me some really cute snowman hand towels for the kitchen & bathroom.
Cedar or pine boughs and pine cones are great for dressing up shelves, windowsills, counters, etc. And they smell great!
When we couldn't have a tree I did lit garlands on something like a sideboard, hutch, or TV stand, or above windows like a pp mentioned. I also like to put out ornaments in a large glass vase/bowl on the dining/coffee table. We have a passthrough from out kitchen to living room now and I've hung an oddnumbered assortment of large (like novelty large) ornaments of different colors/shapes that looks cute. I also have a number of accessories I put out like mercury glass trees, pinecones and other misc. Christmas decor.
When I had small apartments I did this:
Small fiber optic tree
Christmas colored cloth placemats on my endtables w/ christmasy candy dishes filled with mini candy canes/chocolates
A wreath on the outside of my door
Jinglebells over the inside doorknob
Lights around the windows
Jelly window clings- they look like suncatchers and you can get them at grocery stores and target/wal-mart. You can put them on windows or on mirrors
Spatulas for the kitchen that are gingerbread man and christmas tree shaped. I stick them in with my wooden spoons.
Handtowels in the kitchen and bathroom
Lot of other stuff...Can you tell christmas is my favorite?
Apartment dweller too! I made a wreath out of ornaments for our front door, made a centerpiece out of a glass hurricaine, ornaments, and an LED battery powered strand of lights. I made another wreath for inside... and another wreath for our balcony... :D We did have room for a tree, though. It's small, but I'm glad we have one.
I have no idea where to put our stockings though - thinking about stringing twine and hanging up somewhere. thoughts?
@eliwhit: I bought stockings and I'm having issues deciding where to put them, too. I'm thinking of hanging them off of a desk we have in the living room. Honestly, even a table or an end table might work.
we have a real 7ft tree in our apt. we had to push the dining room table against the wall and put 2 chairs in the guest bedroom but it works and looks lovely. We also put lights around our back door (on the inside) and i put LED lights on our balcony. i finally got around to wrapping present last night and put them under the tree. i really wish we had a fireplace and could hang stockings. i also have a lot of little thing aruond the house - snowflake candle holders - snowman candle holders - a little snowman snowglobe and this miniture nativity scene :)
When I lived in a tiny apartment I strung garland around on the walls close to the ceiling (Command Hooks work great!). Then I hung ornaments from that. I worked out great and it really made it feel like Christmas. Man now that I think about it, I miss that apartment :(
Here is a picture that kind of illustrates it.
Don't mind the ugly Christmas sweaters, we were going to a theme party, lol.
Also, go to Pinterest, your bound to find tons of great inspiration there, like this...
@eliwhit: I use to hang my stockings from the the top of the blinds, it would work also with a rod for curtains.
@moonadea: Well, we have cedar trees in abundance here so I just get my boughs with a pair of scissors ;)
If you have a Michaels near you, they have bags of pine cones on sale right now, and your local florist or public market might have seasonal boughs and branches.
A friend and I made these a few weeks ago, they're about a foot tall, and cost less than $20 each to make! All you need is garland, lights, mini ornaments, twist ties or fuzzy sticks, and metal coat hangers :-)
@moonadea: Thank you! :)
@tranquility: I actually found it at the VW dealership! I had to bring my Jetta in for an oil change in October and I saw it in the showroom. It was only $4, I couldn't leave it there!
@linguo42: Darn! Oh well, I'll have to go on a hike this weekend and see what I can find.
What about Christmas lights in windows? Christmas lights always make me feel festive! And you can burn pine scented candles so that your house smells like Christmas (I just got back from Yankee Candle, so candles are on my mind!)
One of my girlfriends had a couple of different sized mason jars with epsom salt (it looks like snow!) with red candles in it on her coffee tables. She put pinecones around them and it looks adorable!
So far I have some garlands, ornaments, tea candles + lantern, and some bows. I want to go out and find some pine cones, something green, twinkle lights, and some more scented candles. I'm pretty excited!
We have a fairy small apartment, but we have a real 6.5' tree. We just had to do some, uh, reorganization of furniture. We have it in a corner in the living room where our Ikea folding table usually goes.
I also did a little village along the window sill, stockings over the TV, garland over the DVD case, and other random snowmen/knicknacks through the place. Just to give you an idea, here are some pics (uh, yeah we have a LOT of movies. Nevermind how crowded our DVD case is...)
Some more pics, just because I went all out this year:
Stockings hung over the TV with care (yes, the one in the middle is the cat's...)
Two little snowmen pictures (the painted slate is from my aunt, the needlepoint is from FI's stepmom). We hung them over our end table.
I used to fill all of my glass vases and a cake plate with ornaments and put them around my apartment when I didn't have a tree. :)
I live in a condo now and while we can have a tree, I also tie ornaments and bows around some of my pottery and I hang an ornament wreath on my main mirror.
My Jonathan Adler squirrel with his bow:
This is an old photo, but you get the idea...
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I'd like to get into the Christmas spirit and surprise my FI with some Christmas decorations, but we live in a tiny apartment and I don't know what to do. We have no space for a Christmas tree, and I like wreaths but I'd like more suggestions/pictures of things for inside.
Maybe some garlands over the windows?