With Christmas around the corner, the home decoration market has started to warm up. This Wednesday, an ideal home show opened at London's Earls Court. Let's hear what the designers and sellers think about the must-haves for the coming holiday.

With Christmas around the corner, the home decoration market has started to warm up.

No Christmas would be complete without a Christmas tree.

Towering over the Ideal Home Show is the UK's largest real indoor Christmas tree, some 15 meters high.

But with an annual estimated demand of six million trees, it's time to think about sustainability. The Little Christmas Tree Company has come up with a rental scheme.

Graham Willet, CEO of Little Christmas Tree Company, said, "It's delivered to your door and it's picked up after Christmas. With that your offsetting ten percent of your carbon footprint and creating British woodlands."

Also on show are the latest seasonal interior designs. Celebrity interior designer, Laurence Llewelyn Bowen offers the trendiest tips.

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, interior designer, said, "The inspiration for the color scheme is based on fashion. Black and gold is very commercially fashionable at the moment in interior decoration. I think it says a lot about people's psychology, that they want things to be much more rich, much more opulent, much more expressive then they have been before."

Also important is having fun. In the technology zone, visitors are allowed to test drive and play with the latest must-have gadgets. Lower prices have put 3-D TV back on the Christmas list.

Connie Abbey, 3D expert of Technology Show, said, "There's certain retailers you can get it for just under six hundred - UK sterling and they are also HD ready so you can watch normal content and 3D content, It's something really different and fun. The whole family will love it, and it's a lot cheaper now."

The Ideal Home Show at Christmas will end on Sunday. With over 500 stalls, it is expected to attract over 250,000 visitors.

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