Decorating a Tiny Nook? Richard E. Grant's Tiny Christmas Tree in a Cloche Is the Elevated, Replicable Technique Every Home Needs

A charming detail brightens an unexpected corner of Richard E. Grant's living room with a nod to the holiday season – and it's highly replicable

Richard E. Grant
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Space is not a requirement to create Christmas magic. With a bit of creativity and an eye for design, any surface can be transformed into a showstopping celebration of the holiday season. Or at least, Richard E. Grant's home indicates so.

The actor transforms a forgotten corner of his Richmond, London home into an ode to the holidays with a tiny Christmas tree frozen inside a glass cloche. Richard positions the bauble-covered decoration amongst a grouping of framed photographs on his side table, creating a celebration in the midst of the mundane. It instantly looks elevated and luxurious.

Recreate Richard's Look at Home

If you are looking for quietly luxurious Christmas decorating ideas, there's no better place to start than with Richard E. Grant's technique. It's perfect because it fits easily into a small space, but creates an impact that will not be soon forgotten.

For those who hope to recreate Richard's look, the most important consideration is scale. Glass cloches and miniature Christmas trees both come in infinite sizes, so be sure to choose a tree that will fit inside your cloche and vice versa.

Though Richard selected a tiny tree covered in ornaments, you can also try a more traditional mini tree, one covered in lights, or a bottle brush tree to put a personalized spin on the idea. Better yet, after Christmas, the cloche can be used to store candles or any other beautiful design-let object.


Creating luxurious decor doesn't have to mean going 'big.' With carefully chosen pieces that fit well into your current decor, you can't go wrong.


Sophie Edwards
News Editor

Sophie is a writer and News Editor on the Celebrity Style team at Homes & Gardens. She is fascinated by the intersection of design and popular culture and is particularly passionate about researching trends and interior history. She is an avid pop culture fan and has interviewed Martha Stewart and Hillary Duff.

In her free time, Sophie freelances on design news for Westport Magazine and Livingetc. She also has a newsletter, My Friend's Art, in which she covers music, culture, and fine art through a personal lens. Her fiction has appeared in Love & Squalor and The Isis Magazine.

Before joining Future, Sophie worked in editorial at Fig Linens and Home, a boutique luxury linens brand. She has an MSc from Oxford University and a BA in Creative Writing and Sociology from Sarah Lawrence College.