Choose a Color Scheme

One way to make your outdoor decorating stylish is to choose a cohesive color scheme. Popular choices for the winter holidays include red and green or blue and silver. You also could choose a less-common combination such as red and gold or even gold and silver. The potential color combinations are endless.
When you limit your palate to just a few colors, you curate a look that will appear cohesive. 

This color scheme can create an understated elegance as you celebrate the holiday.

Add Lighting

Outdoor lighting is a seasonal staple for the winter. Decorating for and celebrating the holidays may have evolved over the centuries as a way to help us deal with the short winter days. Because the sun goes down much earlier, exterior lights can brighten up your home throughout the winter months.
Colored holiday lights remain popular, but many people prefer the soft twinkle of white lights. Whatever you choose, use lights sparingly to add an accent to your home design.

Use Restraint

Once you’ve selected the color scheme and lighting elements you want to add, it is time to do some editing. You may not need to put up every decoration you own. In fact, most design experts will suggest that there is wisdom in restraint.

First put out everything you want to add to your outdoor decorations. Determine which items are essential and take away a few pieces so that your home doesn’t appear cluttered.

Green Plants

The most obvious choice to bring the indoors in is to use potted plants. Anything from ivy to Ficus can be used to make your indoor living space look like it’s part of nature. Select plants based on your interest and experience in caring for them as well as the kind of environment and light you will have in the room

Natural Furniture

You can use more natural furniture to give your room an outdoor feel. Wicker or rattan doesn’t only have to be reserved for outside use. You can choose botanical prints to give your space a more lush, green outdoorsy look.

Texture and Color

Texture and the use of color also brings the outdoors in. For example, consider the landscape you want to emulate. Is it the lush greens and blues of the hillside? Or is it the deep terra cotta of a desert? Choose textures and colors that match the feel of what you love about the outside.

Ventilation

Did you know that air quality inside directly affects our health and well-being? If you want to bring the outdoors in, one of the first places to look is the ventilation. Is there a way to safely and comfortably bring fresh air into the space?

Lighting

You also should focus on natural light. If vast windows aren’t an option, choose lighting that emanates soft, natural light just like the sun. Harsh blue light can wash out a room, so look for tones that bring out the warmth of nature.