30 Blue and White Christmas Decor Ideas With Chinoiserie Charm
Blue and white never has to introduce itself — it lives in ginger jars, willow-pattern plates and delft tiles — and at Christmas it is the freshest alternative to red and gold, as these 30 blue and white christmas decor ideas for the porcelain tree, mantel, table and bedrooms show, warmed with greenery, velvet ribbon and candlelight.
The Blue and White Tree: Ginger Jars, Ribbon & Porcelain Ornaments
1. The Ginger Jar Tree: Porcelain Baubles on Deep Green
Porcelain on pine — the ginger jar pattern leaves the shelf and climbs the tree.
Dress a deep green tree with baubles painted in the classic blue-and-white porcelain patterns — willow scenes, floral scrolls, little pagodas — mixed with plain white and inky blue glass. The dark branches make the porcelain glow the way china glows in a cabinet, and the tree stops being a novelty and becomes a piece of blue-and-white furniture, the room's largest ornament. Keep every decoration inside the two colours and let pattern do all the variety.
Styling tip: hang the largest patterned baubles low and deep in the tree, smaller ones toward the tips. Porcelain patterns read best with dark green behind them, so push ornaments slightly into the branches rather than balancing them on the very ends.
2. Blue Velvet Ribbon: Waterfalls Down the Branches
Velvet the colour of midnight, falling through the branches like water.
Tuck long lengths of deep blue velvet ribbon into the top of the tree and let them fall in loose waterfalls to the floor, weaving white and porcelain baubles in and out of the folds. Ribbon gives the tree the movement and softness tinsel never could, and midnight blue against green is the whole colour story of this guide in a single gesture. The falls also fill a sparse tree beautifully, which makes this the budget decorator's best friend.
Styling tip: wire the top of each ribbon length firmly into the tree so the falls stay put, and vary the lengths slightly. Velvet looks expensive at any price in winter light — buy the widest roll you can find and let it do the work of a dozen baubles.
3. White Baubles and Icy Blue: The Two-Tone Balance
Two colours, endless finishes — white in matte and gloss, blue in ice and ink.
Hold the tree to whites and blues only, but vary the finish relentlessly: matte white, glossy white, frosted ice blue, deep ink blue, a few clear glass drops catching the lights. With colour held still, sheen and texture create the layers, and the tree looks deep and wintry rather than flat. This is also the easiest version of the scheme to shop for, because almost any bauble in either colour qualifies.
Styling tip: work to a rough ratio of two white baubles to one blue. White is the scheme's breathing space; a tree that is half blue can turn cold and heavy, while one that is mostly white with blue woven through stays fresh all month.
4. The Snowy Tree: Flocked Branches Under Blue Porcelain
A snow-covered tree changes the maths — blue porcelain on white reads like delft on a shelf.
On a flocked or heavily frosted tree, blue-and-white porcelain ornaments become the only colour in a field of white, and the effect is strikingly calm, like a winter garden seen through glass. Add white ribbon rather than blue, pale warm lights, and a few clear icicle drops. The flocking's soft, matte texture is what saves this coolest of schemes from feeling icy — everything blue sits on something that looks like snow, not steel.
Styling tip: flocked trees shed, so dress the tree where it stands and vacuum afterwards, not before. Keep the lights warm white; cool bulbs on white flocking turn the whole arrangement blue-grey and clinical.
5. Under the Tree: Ginger Jars and Parcels in Blue and White
The base is part of the tree — real ginger jars stand guard among the parcels.
Set two or three genuine blue-and-white ginger jars — the ones that live on your shelves all year — at the tree's base among the presents, and wrap the gifts in white and cream paper tied with blue ribbon. The jars anchor the colour story at floor level, give the tree a collected, furnished feeling, and answer the tree-skirt question without buying anything made for the job. It is the collector's tree base: nothing seasonal, everything loved.
Styling tip: wrap a few empty boxes early in December so the base looks composed all month. Match their ribbon to the ribbon in the tree and the pile reads as styling rather than storage.
6. The Chinoiserie Topper: A Porcelain Finial Finish
No angel, no tinsel star — a porcelain finial, like the lid of the tallest ginger jar.
Finish the tree with a chinoiserie flourish: a small blue-and-white porcelain finial, a painted star in the same two colours, or simply a generous bow of blue velvet with long tails streaming down the top branches. The topper is the tree's signature, seen from every seat in the room, and echoing the ginger jars there makes the whole design feel deliberate from floor to ceiling.
Styling tip: whatever you choose, repeat its exact blue once more at eye level — one bauble, one ribbon fall. Two touches of the strongest blue bookend the tree, and everything in the middle falls into place between them.
Mantel & Living Room in Blue and White
7. The Mantel of Ginger Jars: Porcelain Among the Greenery
The ginger jar collection comes down from the shelf and joins the garland.
Run a full, generous greenery garland along the mantel and set your blue-and-white porcelain through it: ginger jars in odd numbers along the line, a taller pair at the ends, white candles standing between. Porcelain pattern against deep green foliage is this scheme's signature image — crisp, classic and quietly luxurious — and it is built entirely from pieces the house already treasures the rest of the year.
Styling tip: vary the jar heights but keep the pattern family together. Several blue-and-white patterns together read as a collection; adding one red or gold patterned piece breaks the spell instantly.
8. Blue and White Stockings: Chinoiserie Print on the Mantel
Stockings in porcelain print — the mantel's pattern, made soft.
Hang stockings sewn from blue-and-white chinoiserie-print fabric, or white stockings cuffed in patterned cotton or blue ticking stripe. The row carries the porcelain pattern at fabric scale, softens the mantel's hard line of jars and candles, and gives the fireplace its Christmas costume without a single novelty shape or a flash of red. Among the greenery, the blue-and-white row looks tailored and calm.
Styling tip: keep every stocking the same length and shape, whatever its fabric. The disciplined silhouette is what lets mixed blue-and-white prints read as a set rather than a jumble sale.
9. Porcelain-Print Cushions: The Sofa Joins the Scheme
The tree's pattern, repeated on the sofa — the whole room becomes one scheme.
Swap the sofa's cushion covers for blue-and-white porcelain prints — floral scrolls, willow scenes, geometric fretwork — mixed with plain white and inky blue cushions and one white or cream throw over the arm. The sofa echoes the tree across the room, and the scheme suddenly feels designed at room scale rather than applied to one corner. Cushion covers store flat, so this is also the cheapest room-wide change in the guide.
Styling tip: use no more than two different prints on one sofa and separate them with plains. Pattern harmony comes from the shared palette, but too many competing scenes at once looks like a fabric shop, not a living room.
10. The Blue Ribbon Wreath: On the Mirror Above the Mantel
One green wreath, one midnight-blue bow — hung where the mirror doubles it.
Hang a plain, full greenery wreath on the mirror or artwork above the mantel and finish it with a single generous bow of deep blue velvet. The mirror doubles the green and the candlelight beneath it, and the one bow becomes the room's punctuation mark — the same blue as the ribbon in the tree, tying fireplace to tree with a single repeated note.
Styling tip: cut the bow from the same ribbon roll as the tree's ribbon falls. One ribbon used in three places across a room is the oldest designer trick there is, and it costs one roll.
11. White Candlesticks, Blue Candles: The Palette Turned Upside Down
Turn the palette upside down — white holders, blue candles, golden flames.
Set white ceramic, porcelain or painted-wood candlesticks along the mantel and side tables and dress them with deep blue taper candles. The reversal — blue above, white below — keeps the palette while changing its rhythm, and after dark the flames make the porcelain patterns around them flicker quietly alive. It is the scheme's evening look, and it takes five minutes to arrange.
Styling tip: blue candles drip blue wax, so stand each one in a holder with a proper drip cup or on a small porcelain saucer, and keep flames well clear of the garland. Beauty and the fire brigade can both be satisfied.
12. The Coffee Table Bowl: Baubles Resting at Hand Height
A bowl of baubles on the coffee table — the tree's palette, resting at hand height.
Fill your largest blue-and-white bowl, or a footed porcelain dish, with the spare baubles — porcelain-patterned, white, ice blue — and tuck a few sprigs of greenery in among them. On the coffee table the bowl catches the light from every seat, holds the palette at the centre of the conversation, and gives fragile heirloom ornaments a safer home than the tree's outer branches ever could.
Styling tip: raise the bowl on a small stack of white or cloth-bound books. A low bowl on a low table disappears; given a little height, it becomes the room's third focal point after tree and mantel.
The Chinoiserie Christmas Table
13. Blue and White China: The Festive Place Setting
The good china was always blue and white — Christmas is simply its excuse to come out.
Set the table with your blue-and-white china — plates in willow, floral or delft patterns — on white or cream linen, with plain cutlery and clear glassware. The patterns do all the festive work a coloured cloth would do, while the white ground keeps the table feeling fresh and wintry rather than heavy. Mixed patterns from the same blue family are not a compromise here; collected over years, they are exactly the look.
Styling tip: if the plates differ pattern to pattern, keep everything else identical — same napkin, same glass, same sprig of greenery. One repeated constant at every place makes a mixed service look inherited rather than improvised.
14. The Ginger Jar Centrepiece: Greenery Overflowing Porcelain
One ginger jar, filled like a vase — the centrepiece this scheme was born for.
Take the lid off a tall ginger jar and use it as the centrepiece vase: white roses or ranunculus, trailing greenery, a few stems of white berries or frosted foliage. Set two smaller jars or porcelain candlesticks either side and keep the arrangement low and loose. The jar's pattern against white flowers is chinoiserie Christmas at its most elegant, and it takes ten minutes — most of them spent finding the scissors.
Styling tip: build the arrangement wider than it is tall and keep it below seated eye level. A centrepiece guests can see over keeps both the conversation and the porcelain in view from every seat.
15. Blue Napkins on White Linen: The Folded Colour Note
White cloth, patterned plate, one fold of midnight blue — the smallest note carries the place.
On a white cloth with patterned china, fold deep blue or blue-and-white linen napkins at every place — across the plate, under the cutlery, or knotted loosely beside it. The napkin is each setting's single strong stroke of colour, and repeated down both sides of the table it gives the whole setting its rhythm. One small sprig of greenery on each napkin ties the places to the centrepiece jar.
Styling tip: choose napkins in the same blue as the tree ribbon and the mantel bow. By the time guests sit down, the colour has followed them through the house, and the scheme feels satisfyingly total.
16. Blue Glassware: Goblets the Colour of Winter Sky
Pale blue glass catches candlelight like frozen water standing on the table.
Set pale blue or smoky blue glassware — goblets, tumblers, one generous water jug — in among the china. Coloured glass is the table's jewellery: candlelight passes through it, the blue deepens and lightens from glass to glass, and the white linen stays calm underneath it all. Mix two shades of blue glass freely; glass harmonises far more easily than pattern does.
Styling tip: keep the colour to the drinking glasses and let serving dishes stay white or porcelain-patterned. When everything on the table is blue glass, elegance tips quietly into theme restaurant.
17. The Striped Runner: Blue Ticking Down a White Table
A runner in blue ticking stripe — the table's spine, drawn in one line.
Run a length of blue-and-white striped cotton, or a chinoiserie-print runner, down a bare wooden or white-clothed table, and build the decoration along it: small ginger jars, white candles, loose greenery laid head to tail. The stripe gives a long table its structure, the blue line leads the eye to the centrepiece, and the setting feels tailored rather than scattered. It is the relaxed end of the chinoiserie look — pattern, but in a straight line.
Styling tip: on bare wood, the runner-and-porcelain combination bridges formal and friendly beautifully. It is the smart choice for a Christmas lunch that starts at one and is still going at five.
18. Small Jars at Every Place: A Porcelain Favour
A tiny jar at every seat, holding a name and a sprig — place card and keepsake in one.
Set a miniature blue-and-white jar, a porcelain egg cup or a tiny ginger jar at each place, holding a handwritten name card and one small stem of greenery or a single white flower. Repeated down the table, the little jars make a rhythm you can almost hear, and guests take them home at the end of the night — the scheme literally leaves with them, remembered fondly.
Styling tip: write the names in blue ink. It costs nothing, it ties the cards into the palette, and it looks considered in a way black ink on white card never quite manages.
Bedrooms, Entryways & Quiet Corners
19. The Blue and White Bed: A Patterned Quilt and Festive Calm
In the bedroom the pattern is the decoration — a blue-and-white quilt does the whole job.
Dress the bed in white linen with a blue-and-white quilt or patterned throw across the foot — chinoiserie floral, indigo patchwork, classic ticking stripe — and hang one small plain wreath above the headboard. The bedroom joins the scheme through textiles alone, which keeps it restful: no baubles over the pillows, no tinsel to shed into the sheets, just pattern, white and green.
Styling tip: if the quilt's pattern is busy, keep everything else in the room defiantly plain — white bedding, one wreath, a clear nightstand. Pattern needs quiet around it if it is to read as calm.
20. The Bedside Porcelain: A Jar, a Candle, a Small Blue Note
One small jar on the nightstand — the scheme reaches the pillow without waking anyone.
Give the bedside table the miniature treatment: a small ginger jar or porcelain vase with a sprig of greenery, a white candle in glass, and perhaps a tiny tree dressed with three blue baubles and no more. It is the mantel composition shrunk to a square foot, and in a guest room it quietly signals that the whole house, not just the show rooms, has been thought about.
Styling tip: put a tiny tree's lights on a timer set to fade an hour after bedtime. Waking at three in the morning to a glowing nightstand tree is charming exactly once.
21. The Entryway Console: Ginger Jars and the First Wreath
The hall announces the house: porcelain, green and one blue bow at the door.
Style the hall console with the scheme in miniature: a pair of ginger jars, a slim greenery garland along the mirror's frame, one white candle, and a wreath tied with blue ribbon on the mirror or the door itself. Guests read the whole house's palette in the first ten seconds — porcelain, greenery, white, deep blue — and every room after it feels like a variation on a theme they already know.
Styling tip: use a flameless candle on a timer in the hall. The doorway glow should be lit when people come home, not when somebody finally remembers it at nine o'clock.
22. A Wreath on Every Interior Door: Blue Bows Down the Hall
A small wreath on every door, each tied in the same blue — the hall becomes a colonnade.
Hang small plain greenery wreaths on the interior doors along a hall or landing, each on a loop of the same blue ribbon with an identical bow. The repetition turns a passage everyone merely walks through into a small procession, costs very little per door, and carries the scheme into rooms that get no other decoration at all. Against pale doors, the green and blue read almost architectural.
Styling tip: cut every ribbon loop to the same length before you start and hang each wreath at the same height. The discipline of the row is the effect; one wandering wreath makes the whole line look accidental.
23. The Bathroom in Blue and White: Towels, Eucalyptus, Porcelain
The smallest room takes the scheme best — towels and one jug of green are the whole renovation.
Fold blue-and-white towels — patterned, striped or simply blue-edged — on the rail, stand eucalyptus or pine in a porcelain jug by the basin, and add a white candle in glass for whoever takes a bath. Bathrooms are so often white-tiled already that the palette slots in effortlessly, and steam from the shower releases the scent of the stems, so the room decorates the nose as well as the eye.
Styling tip: refresh the stems weekly and keep them standing in water. Bathroom greenery in heated air gives up quickly; a jug you can top up without thinking keeps the corner honest all month.
24. The Window Seat Corner: Cushions, Stars and Winter Light
The reading corner dressed in the scheme — pattern to sit on, stars to look at.
Layer a window seat or a favourite reading chair with blue-and-white cushions and a white wool throw, hang white paper stars in the window above it, and stand the smallest tree, or a porcelain jar of bare branches, alongside. Winter light does half the styling in this corner: it falls through the stars and across the patterns, and turns a seat into the room's quiet picture.
Styling tip: keep just one cushion in the strongest pattern and let the rest be plains and stripes in the same blues. A corner this small reads best with a single star performer.
Mixing Blue and White With the Rest of Christmas
25. Blue and White With Gold: The Warm Metal Truce
Gold is blue's warm opposite — a little of it makes the porcelain glow richer.
Introduce antique or brushed gold in small, confident doses: candlesticks on the mantel, a few ornaments deep in the tree, the frame of the mirror, the edge of a tray. Blue and gold are classical partners — the gold warms the porcelain's coolness while the blue keeps the gold from turning brassy — and together they are the palette of every grand hotel that ever did Christmas properly. Keep the gold matte and aged rather than mirror-bright.
Styling tip: ration gold to roughly one piece in ten. The moment it reaches parity with the blue, the scheme stops being blue-and-white-with-gold and becomes a different, louder Christmas altogether.
26. Blue and White With Silver: Frost Over Porcelain
Silver keeps the cool story going — frosted, icy and quietly sparkling.
Where gold warms the scheme, silver doubles down on winter: mercury-glass holders set among the ginger jars, silver and clear baubles in the tree, frosted tips on the garland. The result is the frostiest version of the palette — a frozen garden with porcelain statues — and by candlelight, when the silver turns liquid, it is devastatingly pretty. This is the version for houses that love a white Christmas most of all.
Styling tip: silver and blue together can tip clinical in flat daylight. Counter it with soft texture — flocking, velvet ribbon, knitted throws, linen — so the eye always has something warm to land on.
27. Greenery: The Green Thread That Warms Every Blue Room
Blue and white alone is a bathroom tile. Greenery is what makes it Christmas.
Treat fresh greenery as the scheme's unofficial third colour and use it at full strength: deep green garlands behind the porcelain, wreaths above the jars, branches in every vase and jug. The green mediates between cool blue and clean white, and it supplies the scent and the slight wildness that keep the palette feeling festive rather than sanitary. No styled surface in a blue-and-white Christmas should be left without something living on it.
Styling tip: mix two greens — a deep fir or pine with something softer, like eucalyptus — so the green layer has depth of its own. The porcelain then sits in a landscape, not on a shelf.
28. The Coastal Version: Shells, Rope and Sea-Glass Blue
In a coastal home the palette was already there — the sea supplied it years ago.
Lean the scheme seaside: pale sea-glass blues alongside the porcelain, shell and starfish ornaments among the baubles, a rope or driftwood garland through the tree, white-painted wood everywhere. The chinoiserie relaxes into beach-house classic, and the Christmas dressing feels like the house's natural state rather than an import — because blue and white was the coast's palette long before it was December's.
Styling tip: in the coastal version, keep the porcelain to one or two jars and let shells and natural textures carry the pattern instead. Seaside rooms curdle when they get too formal.
29. Parcels in Porcelain Colours: Wrapping as Decoration
Wrapped in the palette, the presents become the tree's widest garland.
Wrap the gifts in blue-and-white papers — porcelain patterns, neat stripes, plain inky blue, plain white — and tie them with blue ribbon, white twine and a sprig of greenery or a small patterned tag. Piled beneath the tree and stacked on the hall console, the parcels extend the scheme to floor level for weeks before Christmas morning, and nothing under the tree can clash because nothing off-palette was allowed in.
Styling tip: keep to three papers at most and one ribbon throughout. A disciplined wrapping palette makes even a mountain of presents look like a styled installation.
30. Keeping It Warm: Texture, Candlelight and the January Test
Cool colours, warm room — the secret is everything the palette does not mention.
Finish with the rule that makes the whole scheme liveable: for every cool surface, add a warm texture. Velvet ribbon against porcelain, a knit throw over the patterned sofa, beeswax and candlelight among the jars, warm white fairy lights in every garland. Blue and white supplies the look; texture and firelight supply the temperature. And in January, when the baubles are packed away, the porcelain, greenery and white textiles simply remain — winter decor that never needed a box.
Styling tip: light the room before you judge it. Blue-and-white schemes are designed for dusk; a room that looks fresh at noon may seem cool until the lamps and candles take over in the late afternoon.
Essential Decor Takeaways
- Two blues are enough: one deep — ink, midnight, navy — and one light — ice, delft, sky. White is the breathing space between them, and greenery is the third colour that makes the palette festive.
- Porcelain is the pattern engine. Ginger jars, chinoiserie china and porcelain-print fabrics carry all the detail, which is why everything else in the scheme can afford to stay plain.
- Repeat one ribbon everywhere: the same blue velvet on the tree, the mantel bow, the wreaths, the napkins and the parcels ties separate rooms into one scheme.
- Keep the tree ratio kind: roughly two white baubles to one blue stays fresh and wintry, while equal measures can turn the tree cold and heavy.
- Warm the cool palette with texture and light — velvet, knits, flocking, linen, beeswax, candlelight and warm white fairy lights. Never cool bulbs.
- Let metals pick a side: a little aged gold warms blue and white up; silver and mercury glass frost it down. A little is the operative word in both directions.
- Style from what the house owns — the ginger jar collection, the good china, the blue glass in the cupboard. This scheme rewards collectors, not shoppers, and improves the more of it was already yours.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best blue and white christmas decor ideas if I am starting from nothing?
Start with ribbon and textiles, not porcelain. A roll of deep blue velvet ribbon, a set of blue-and-white cushion covers, and white baubles mixed with blue ones will put the whole scheme on your tree and sofa in one afternoon, for very little money. Then add a single ginger jar — charity shops, auction sites and car boot sales are full of them — and grow the porcelain slowly. The palette is forgiving: almost anything blue, white or clear glass that you already own can join it.
Which shades of blue work best together at Christmas?
Pair one deep blue — ink, navy or midnight — with one light one — ice blue, delft or pale sky — and let white separate them. Two mid-blues side by side blur into each other and the scheme loses its crispness. Velvet and porcelain carry the deep blue best; glass, flocking and ribbon tails carry the light one.
How do I stop blue and white decor from looking cold?
Texture and warm light. Velvet ribbon, knitted throws, flocked branches and natural linen give the eye soft surfaces to rest on, while beeswax candles, lamps and warm white fairy lights give the room its temperature. Deep greenery helps most of all — green is a warm-hearted colour, and a blue-and-white room with generous garlands never reads as cold. Judge the room at dusk, with everything lit, before you change a thing.
Can blue and white Christmas decor mix with my traditional red decorations?
In small doses, yes — treat red as a guest, not a member. A few inherited red ornaments grouped in one bowl, or red berries tucked into a single wreath, can sit happily inside the scheme while the blue, white and green stay dominant around them. What breaks the look is parity: half red and half blue-and-white reads as two schemes arguing. Keep red to under one piece in ten and it reads as a cherished heirloom accent.
A blue-and-white Christmas is the collector's Christmas: the jars come down from their shelves, the good china comes out of its cupboard, and the whole house dresses in the colours it loved all along. Save your favourite blue and white christmas decor ideas from this list, begin with one roll of ribbon, one jar and one armful of greenery, and let the porcelain do the rest at its own stately pace. For more seasonal inspiration, follow TheStylingHub on Pinterest, where we pin fresh tree, mantel, table and colour-story ideas all season long.