What are 2 Purposes of Throw Pillows?: One Purpose is to Support Your Christmas Theme

With the Christmas season quickly approaching, it’s a splendid opportunity to add some festive touches to your living space with the traditional colours of Christmas. These colours can help create a warm atmosphere that gets you in the holiday spirit. Furthermore, throw pillows with Christmas colours are a budget-friendly way to create a festive Christmas vibe. So, I thought I would discuss how throw pillows with Christmas colours can add to your holiday decor. Next, I’ll discuss another use for throw pillows suitable for any season.

Although it might appear insignificant, adding throw pillows can significantly enhance the look and feel of your living space. These versatile items can make your house feel like a home, and their softness and comfort make them more than just decorative objects. Decorative pillows, like the icing on a cake, are the perfect finishing touch to any room in a home. If your space feels incomplete, a couple of curated throw pillows could create that polished look and bring the entire room together.

Read on to find out how you can use throw pillows:

1. to support your Christmas theme,

2. to provide back support and comfort for you and your family.

Throw Pillows Supports Seasonal Themes such as Christmas

Many holidays are associated with specific colours that have become their signature hues. It is because people have come to associate precise meanings and emotions with distinct colours, to the extent that the mere sight of the colour can evoke those feelings and thoughts without any need for explanation. Additionally, many symbols and colours associated with Christmas have deep Christian meaning and significance, making your decorations all the more meaningful and extra special.

A. Green: A Christmas Colour and  Its Meaning

What’s a better way to express your festive spirit than incorporating cozy throw pillows in shades of green, synonymous with the holiday season? Green is one of the quintessential and iconic Christmas colours that immediately instill the holiday spirit in people. To truly understand the symbolic meaning of colours, it helps to look at their religious roots.

For example, green is often associated with evergreen foliage, such as mistletoe and holly, because evergreens stay green throughout the year. They are a symbol of life. So green symbolizes eternal life and immortality, often associated with Jesus.

The colour green reminds us that because of Jesus Christ, we can enjoy eternal life. He came as a baby and died on the cross to give us eternal life here and in heaven. He offers us a life of hope, joy and peace here on earth and for eternity. So many of us, including me, associate green with the life and joy Jesus brings. So, it is part of my Christmas colour palette this year. This photo illustrates how I incorporated green and white pillows into the Christmas interior design of our great room.

B. White: A Christmas Colour and What it Represents

Another popular Christmas colour is white. It is another colour that makes up my Christmas colour scheme this year. So, one tip I would suggest is to choose throw pillows that are the same colour as your Christmas colour scheme, just like I did.

In Canada, historically, Christmas is the holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus and white aligns with the purity, hope and goodness that his life represents. Jesus is the epitome of the perfect man. He was morally and spiritually pure. Jesus was without moral flaw, just as white is often associated with purity and cleanliness. It is a comparison between the character of Jesus and the symbolic meaning of the colour white. The colour white reminds us of this truth about Jesus.

Furthermore, as the bible points out, those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as their saviour are washed of their moral imperfections and made whiter and purer than they are. So, white reminds us that Jesus made us white, too. Thinking about these truths brings joy in the hearts of believers and, therefore, adds to the festive spirit. So, I used green and white to subtly tell the story of my faith and to remind me of the reason for the season.

Purpose #2: Functionality: Throw Pillows Support Your Back too!

Throw pillows can also offer body support during Christmas festivities and, of course, throughout the year. For example, lumbar pillows help make your couch or armchair more comfortable for your back. Lumbar pillows are designed to support the lower back and can help alleviate lower back pain caused by poor posture or inadequate support. So, throw pillows have a function, too.

Lumbar pillows conform to the natural inward curve of your spine, encouraging sitting in an upright position for optimal spine alignment. Lumbar pillows provide lower back support in seated positions by evenly distributing your weight and removing key pain points, including your back, hips and spine, allowing for muscle relaxation and decreased tension and strain. They do indeed provide health benefits.

On the other hand, square-shaped throw pillows provide full-back support. They’re usually the go-to throw pillow shape and work well on chairs and sofas with uncomfortable backs.

Throw pillows in Christmas colours serve not only a decorative purpose but also a functional one. They complement your Christmas colour scheme, tell the story of your faith in Jesus, who was born at Christmas, and provide spine support. So, they have aesthetic, meaningful, and functional purposes. I hope you all have a joyous Christmas, and who knows, you may now have a different view about green and white throw pillows during Christmas!