Bahamas Real Estate Holiday Tips

Decorating our Bahamas home for the holidays is one of the highlights of the year.
It's an opportunity to showcase our real estate.
We like using as much natural material as possible, whether shells and driftwood washed up on our beaches, or tree related matter.
Of course, what you achieve depends on the amount of time and effort you put into sprucing up your real estate.
Some of us start on the outside of our homes. Young palm trees and coconut trees present a wonderful opportunity to create a breathtaking focal point after dark.
We like to wrap strands of fairy lights around the trunk with the star shaped blinking lights in the branches. Whether you just use white lights, white and green or go all out with multi colours, the effect is enchanting.
Next, plant a red poinsettia, or mix red and white poinsettias in a clay pot on your front door step and add a wreath to your front door.
Some of us still use native pines for Christmas trees. Most of us prefer the easier-to- decorate, more shapely imported Christmas trees, available at local nurseries and from roadside stalls.
Our local artisans make gorgeous tree ornaments from local palm thatch (straw). We also make pretty ornaments using sand dollars and shells. Simply paint with glitter glue. Use super glue to secure a thin loop of red ribbon at the top for hanging.
We like to put sea biscuits (the whole sand dollar), or native pine cones in a tall glass jar with a sprig of holly at the top.
And it's fun to decorate an interesting piece of driftwood with tree ornaments and red bows.
What could be more Christmas-like than a silver bowl full of bright red hibiscus?
These are the special touches that dress our homes in the Bahamas for Christmas.