A woman spent £250 and two days transforming her home into a "tacky Christmas" - with "dusty" foil garlands and bright bows. "

Melly May Lynch, 29, loves switching up her festive decorations every year and opted for the nostalgic TikTok trend this year.

She searched high and low for decorations in local shops and wholesalers to fit the right vibe, even hand making 50 bows to adorn her tree.

Melly May filled her living room with colourful lights, foil garlands and fun baubles and says it "rekindled" memories from Christmases gone by."

Melly May, a wedding decorator and Etsy shop owner, from Kinmel Bay, North Wales, said: "With tacky Christmas it brings back the nostalgic vibes of being back to my childhood and I remember as a child getting all the tinsel out and cello taping it around the TV and photo frames. "

"I just love decorating and love Christmas. "

"Just from social media scrolling there are constant videos of nostalgic cosy vibes. "

"I think even the supermarkets have clocked on this year. "

"Decorating wise it was over two days – mum, Mandy, 55, and dad, Tony, 60 came to help put up the big things and I finished all the decorating bits the next day. "

"From all the comments and things and peoples opinions they have a different take on tacky. "

"I found it funny people are more offended than others at ‘tacky'. "

"Certain people were commenting saying ‘mind your language'."



"Somebody said ‘this is real Christmas, it's not tacky at all'. "

"Whatever people want to call it it's fun, it makes people happy". "

Melly May has always changed her decorative theme every year, storing her festive collection in her shed.

This year she went on the hunt for all things 90s.

She said: "I was very keen to get foil garlands, it was one of the big things I was searching. "

"I found them in a local clearance shop in my hometown. "

"Bless the lady in there was so surprised I cared about them. "

"She went into the back and got them all out, they were a little dusty [...] nobody was buying them. "

"I was excited she had the old-style incandescent lights. "

"I'd gone on a rampage online trying to find them. "

"The main set of lights on the tree were actually bought from Amazon. "

"I put them up and linked them. "

"I had so many different comments from people ordering on Amazon to get particular ones that weren't cool tone. "

"It's just made the whole decor really."

Christmas lover Melly May puts three trees up in her house each with a different theme - tacky in the living room, traditional in the kitchen and pink and gold in her bedroom.

"It's such a trend for it to be called 90s tacky Christmas," she said. "

"As I was scrolling though TikTok memories were rekindled of when you used to go to Woolworths and buy decorations from there or get the Argos catalogue and circle what you wanted. "

"We had to go on the hunt for turquoise baubles as they were hard to find this year. "

"The only handmade bits were the pink bows on the tree – I made around 40 or 50 bows. "

"We'd actually gone to a giant warehouse, they have all of the charity shops combined and had a wholes section for Christmas. "

"I literally filled up a whole basket of all the baubles I could find. "

"I would say the most of the ones I love are the ones we collect every year when we go to Christmas markets. "

"To be fair all of the past trees they never matched but on this one – the tacky vibes – they matched"."