Aluminum trees suit midcentury-style homes but look best with minimal decor. Use an evergreen as your main ornament tree for a warmer, fuller look. Many avoid aluminum trees due to safety concerns ...

Holiday decorating trends come and go with the same quick pace of the season. Bows were trending last year. This year we all can’t get enough of paper chain garlands. And yes, yes, we know—everyone ...

Ah, yes, we remember the Christmases when presents were piled ’neath the aluminum tree, when homemade fruitcake was a serious gift requiring weeks of preparation, and when kids excitedly opened Sears’ ...

When television’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” special took aim at the holiday’s creeping commercialism a half-century ago, it targeted one particularly clanging symbol. So why is the Vermont Country ...