C hristmas trees? Surprisingly divisive. From putting them up too early (um, November 1?) to having a tree in the bedroom — yes, the bedroom (Google reports a surge in searches for “third Christmas tree” for the first time this year) — what you do with your tree says a lot, it seems. So how are the design set doing theirs this year? The key is more is more — haphazard but make it haute.
Think branches packed with miniature, inedible Tunnock’s Tea Cakes, metallic robots, mushrooms, ribbons and bows. DIY and anything that hints at homemade is the humble brag — satsumas studded with cloves, for instance, paper decorations or salt-dough ornaments picked up at the local farmers’ market. Teetering on the edge of bad.
