Easy Ways to Decorate Kitchen Cabinets for Christmas

Add holiday spirit when you decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas!  You’ll love these easy Christmas kitchen decor ideas for kitchen cabinets, island, countertops, and table!

Most of us would easily say that the kitchen is the heart of the home!  There is no season that this is perhaps more true than the festive season of Christmas!  One of my favorite ways to make it festive is to use this easy way to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas.  I’ll show you a quick and easy hack that my husband figured out for me!  Plus, I’ll share some other simple ways to add festive touches to your kitchen Christmas decor!

Christmas decorating is one of my very favorite things.  I love going all out and add Christmas decorations to almost every room in our home!  However, that can take a lot of time.  I love finding creative and the easiest ways to add beautiful decor for a festive kitchen during the Christmas season that don’t take a lot of time or stressful planning!  Today, I’ll share these easy tips to help you add a festive look to your kitchen as you decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas!

If that sounds good to you, then this post is for you!  I hope you get some inspiration to add easy Christmas cheer to the heart of your home  and try to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas during this time of year!

Easy Ways to Decorate Kitchen Cabinets for Christmas

How to Hang Christmas Wreaths to Decorate Kitchen Cabinets for Christmas

One of my favorite ways to decorate my kitchen during this time of year is to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas. Each year, I hang festive wreaths on the cabinet doors of our white kitchen.  I love how the green pops off of the white cabinets and adds such a festive touch!  Whether you have a large or small kitchen, small wreaths hung with beautiful Christmas ribbon are an easy way to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas and they look so pretty on kitchen cabinet doors!

I’ll just be really honest and tell you that the first time I wanted to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas several years ago, I picked up supplies.  However, when, I went to hang the wreaths, I realized I wasn’t sure how to get them hung at the same height, centered, and looking amazing.  Thankfully, I married a super smart guy that quickly figured out an easy little system.  Now, we quickly add these festive decorations every year to our kitchen to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas!

Tip: You can sometimes find small, mini wreaths that have ribbon already attached.  However, I prefer the wreaths that are just a tad larger and enjoy adding my own ribbon instead of the “bulk style” ribbon that so many are manufactured with.

​Plus, adding my own ribbon allows me to change the color so I can decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas, matching the decor aesthetic of the rest of our home.  This year, I enjoyed adding this beautiful golden ribbon.  The frayed edges add to the vintage style of our Christmas decor.  Then, I added velvet ribbon bows (sold out this year!).

This was a fun addition to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas!  White cabinets are a great place for greenery and ribbons and I love how they really pop off the white accents.

Here are the supplies you need to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas:

• Holiday ribbon
• Scissors
• Mini wreaths (linked some favorites here)
• Duct tape (I use white duct tape for my white kitchen.)

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Here is how to easily hang mini wreaths to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas:

1. ​Measure cabinet from the top of the cabinet to the point where you want the top of the wreath to hang.  (I hang mine just a little above center).
2. Double the length (to loop through) and add two inches (to go over the edge of the cabinet
3. Cut ribbon to length
4. Loop ribbon through wreath and put the ends of the ribbon straight together
5. Put ends of ribbon on the inside of the cabinet door, centered as close as possible (I just eyeball this.)
6. Tape securely (I like the white duct tape because it just blends in with my white kitchen.)
7. Adjust wreath and ribbon  to hang straight and centered
8. Enjoy your festive kitchen holiday decorations!

It is so easy to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas with mini wreaths and they add such a festive feel too!

How to Decorate a Kitchen Range Hood for the Christmas Season

I love adding Christmas decorations to my kitchen range hood to help it tie in with how I decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas.  THIS wreath is my favorite because it looks so incredibly realistic. In fact, every season I have people come into our home and walk up to touch the pine wreath to see if it is real or not!  It’s that good and worth every penny.  I use THIS wreath in other places around our home too.

Of course, I love that I can use this wreath next year and many years to come to add a holiday feel in our home.  I love investing in decor that not only looks gorgeous but is also versatile, realistic, and can blend with many decor styles.

Since our range hood is wood with a more rustic style, I have an old nail that I hang seasonal wreaths on.  However, if you have a painted range hood or one that you don’t want to put a permanent hole in, command hooks are a great option!  I also use command hooks to hang this wreath on the mirrors in our dining room!

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Other Christmas Kitchen Decorations for the Holiday Season

There are so many other fun ways to add holiday cheer inside of your home and kitchen!  Here are some of our family’s favorite ways to enjoy a little festive cheer with Christmas kitchen decorations:

• I love adding a hot cocoa bar and coffee station to our kitchen during the holiday season.  Even though I don’t have a fancy coffee maker, I use what I have and we enjoy it so much!  (THIS espresso maker is on my wish list, though!) It is so fun to add some extra touches to make the hot cocoa station look festive.  I use my vintage Santa mugs (or find some other fun ones HERE).  Then, I add some ceramic houses, pretty stirring spoons, and glass jars of delicious things to add to a wonderful cup of hot cocoa!  Finally, I mix in some twinkling fairy lights.  It is one of my kids favorite parts of our holiday home!

How to decorate a kitchen countertop for Christmas?

Even though I want a festive feel in our kitchen to add to the Christmas spirit, the kitchen also needs to remain functional.  After all, it seems to get especially busy during the holiday season.  I’ve found that the kitchen really isn’t the best place for an extensive, festive makeover.  Instead, some key Christmas decor pieces added in a simple way to our everyday items are a great idea and is the easiest way to keep our kitchen from getting too cluttered.

• • Mini trees are perfect kitchen decor to add.  I like to tuck a mini Christmas tree into vignettes on the kitchen countertops and even onto the stand where I keep my dish soap and hand soap!
  • This year, I added a small, very realistic winter greenery tree to the vintage scale that sits in the middle of our large kitchen island.  It adds some nice natural elements with taking much time to decorate or style!
  • Christmas is the perfect time to add string lights or fairy lights to my hot chocolate bar to give the kitchen countertops a little festive sparkle in a fun way for the Christmas season!
  • You can’t go wrong with a bowl of candy canes!  I also like to hang them around the rim of a vase or jar for a cute and fun look!
  • Adding mini green wreaths to my kitchen cabinet doors is one of my favorite ways to add such a festive look to our kitchen!
  • Gingerbread houses or gingerbread men make the perfect kitchen holiday decorations!  I added THESE faux ones this year so they can last the whole season.

How do I make my kitchen look Christmassy?

• Even though I use a lot of THIS realistic faux greenery, I also enjoy adding some fresh greenery too.  It makes the kitchen smell so amazing!  You can even pick up free sprigs of fresh greenery at your local Christmas tree farm (ask permission first, of course) to sprinkle around your home.  Or, tie sprigs together to make a pretty swag!
• Open shelves or kitchen shelves are a perfect opportunity to display pretty Christmas dishes, glasses, Santa mugs, and gold flatware.  On the open shelving in our dining room, I love hanging big gold bells and adding festive touches with vintage brass and silver.
• In previous years, I have used a little piece of double sided tape to attach Christmas cards from friends and family to our pantry door.  Everyone loves looking at our loved ones and it definitely can add a really pretty and fun touch to make our kitchen extra welcoming!
• In the space where many kitchens would have a kitchen window, we. have an opening to our back dining room.  In this opening, I like to hang a festive garland and sometimes I hang a fresh garland.  Since it is a large window, it is the perfect place to feature a pretty ornament garland or bells.  This year, I added a large, gold jingle bell garland to my favorite realistic green Christmas garland.  For festive colors, you could add a large red bow (or whatever color matches your decor) to each end of the garland for a simple addition that makes a focal point!
• Add festive ribbon or pretty bows to small trees and wreaths.
• Add festive winter greenery garlands between pendant lighting over a large kitchen island.

How to decorate a kitchen island for the holidays?

• A kitchen island is a pretty spot for Christmas decorating too.  One great way to decorate a kitchen island is to add a small tree.  If your kitchen island allows for it, you may even want to add a small tree rather than a “mini” tree.  It’s a great statement piece and you can even hang ornaments on it if you want!  Don’t forget some battery operated lights, like THESE!
• I don’t buy a lot of kitchen-specific decor for holidays.  However, a pretty glass jar can serve you well for any season!  I usually add glass jars to the hot cocoa station.  You could also add a big jar with pretty Christmas cookies, ready for an after school snack or dinner time dessert.  Or…a treat just because it makes Christmas extra magical!
• A tiered tray is another great investment for kitchen decor and styling.  You can display it on a kitchen island or even as a centerpiece on a kitchen table.  I don’t keep mine out all of the time.  However, my tiered tray is perfect for holding a variety of homemade Christmas treats whenever we are expecting guests.  I also like to keep it out during Christmas week so everyone can just enjoy a little treat whenever they want.  (However, only for a few days because we don’t have great self-control.  Haha!!!)

​Are you ready to decorate?

Even though I haven’t started my kitchen Christmas decor yet this year, I am getting all of the fun and festive feelings as I remember all of the ways we’ve used our Christmas decorations in the past!  At the same time, I am definitely ready to add those magical Christmas decorations around our home again this year and I’m ready to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas to add a festive feel to our kitchen space!

Hopefully this post helps you start getting excited for the holiday season too!  No matter when you decorate, it is always so much fun and it is always a good time to save your favorite ideas and maybe even try to decorate kitchen cabinets for Christmas this year yourself!  Even if you don’t decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving, you can also be picking up decorating supplies while there are still a lot of options and things in stock, both online and in the stores too!

You can browse my curated Christmas collections HERE on my storefront for even more Christmas decorating ideas!

Happy decorating and planning for the most wonderful time of the year!  Merry Christmas!

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