You can keep your holiday furnishings tasteful by applying just a handful of concepts: white lights, silver or gold trimmings, no blinking or musical décor, no blow-up Santas doing improbable things on your lawn. Christmas trees are the focal point of a house when they’re up, so pay special attention to their decoration and the many themes you can employ therein.

For inspiration, we present the following ornaments:

Antique - Papier Mâché Globe, Pottery Barn

Classic - Finial Ornaments, Crate and Barrel

Playful - Felt and Wire Ornaments, MoMa Store

Modern - Porcelain Origami Cranes, The Well Dressed Home

If you’re good with DIY projects or would rather use the cash towards the vice of your choice, you can also try your hand at making some of your own decorations. Paper cranes and snowflakes look great on trees and in windows, and these modern paper ornaments just need scissors and glue. With large jingle bells and some ribbon, you can make these easy ornaments for a fraction of Pottery Barn’s price.

If you own plain ball ornaments, you can spruce them up by painting them or gluing any number of things to them, such as paper punch outs, antique buttons, strips of ribbon, jewels or even a bit of glitter. Just be careful and keep in mind that a bad DIY job looks like an elementary school art project. So: details, details, details.