If you have been too busy all this time and haven’t gotten around to sprucing up your home for the holidays, you are not alone!

Here are some fast and fabulous ways to put an instant sparkle to your Christmas in Dubai.

And when your loved ones arrive, it would seem that you actually spent a lot of time and effort to bring home the festive spirit.

Ask any interior designer: Light is one of – if not the – most important consideration in the layout of a home.

Quite apart from being essential (cooking in the dark is not advised), light provides the framework for a home’s aesthetic, and the foundation for its – to use a technical term – ambience.

It doesn’t matter how well you’ve feng shui-ed your cellar – if it’s lit by a single, flickering bulb, it’s still going to feel like the set of a horror movie.

Invite the essence of spring into your décor with faux floral arrangements that could include orchids, roses or pink peonies, to create a botanical haven that looks just like the real thing. Spring is the best time of year to re-decorate and spruce up your home, as we have the perfect way to bring nature indoors and give your space a fresh feeling.

The new year is almost knocking on the door but don't just panic yet!

There’s still time to transform your home into a New Year’s Eve venue your family or housemates will rave about.

To help you celebrate safely and remotely, we have some easy to implement theme ideas that won't stress you out while you create the perfect place to welcome the new year in style.

If you want to go chic on the Christmas wreath front this year, consider succulents – they’ll last through the festive season and may even transfer to your garden later on.

Living wreaths give a great natural look indoors and out, but you’ll need different plants for different places – so indoors, you can experiment with echeveria and haworthia, while for an outdoor wreath, you can use succulent alpine plants such as sedum or sempervivum.

The essentials in a winter living room are comfort and warmth.

Since winter in Dubai is so short - it may not make sense to make huge changes like installing a fireplace. However, with these 5 simple and cost-effective tips, you can bring a winter-esque feel to your living room instantly.

In the heart of the urban jungle, space is a fiercely contested commodity.

In Dubai, a one bedroom apartment can cost on average around AED 90,000 per year in areas like Jumeirah Lake Towers, but that rises to more than AED 110,000 in Dubai Marina. And while rents are dropping across the emirate, prices are still high for the amount of space offered.

Small wonder many of the city's expats and residents try to squeeze every drop of use out of nook, corner and cranny when decorating and arranging their homes.

If you love your home, you want to show it off – which these days, of course, means posting fab shots on Instagram.

Some of us are apparently so keen to win those likes that we’ll even cheat with ‘fake’ posts! In a survey for the Ideal Home Show, one in six people confessed to having posted an image of someone else’s home and pretended it was theirs. Plus, 18% of the 18-24-year-olds quizzed said they wouldn’t buy a house if they didn’t think it would impress on social media.

Rather than bung your festive poinsettia in a boring pot and wait for it to wilt, why not add the colourful bracts to Christmas table decorations, place settings and hanging ornaments?

Celebrate throughout the festive season by doing something different with them.

More colours are now available, from the traditional red to salmon pink and cool white, meaning the number one houseplant over the festive season is more versatile than it used to be.

Marie Kondo, aka the Queen of Tidying Up and pioneer of the decluttering movement, has a new venture; her own e-commerce site.

Through her books and Netflix show, Kondo has taught us to throw out anything that doesn’t ‘spark joy’, and now she appears to have some ideas on what to buy to fill that space.

The irony of this hasn’t been lost on people on Twitter…