How to create an on-trend nostalgic festive look at home 

Deck the halls: Catherine Carton of Dainty Dress Diaries and interiors stylist Natasha Rocca Devine share their secrets 

Catherine Carton, the Dainty Dress Diaries’ DIYer and upcycler uses her Dublin home as the focus of her interiors projects. Her homemade garland of stockings and mittens is stitched from an old corduroy skirt.

Are you so enthusiastic for Christmas that the tree goes up immediately after Halloween and is taken down reluctantly in January?

Much as I love mine, I delay dragging one home trailing from the boot of the car until the second week of December when my decorations get their annual airing.