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Vases. You can fill them with disposable seasonal candy or other items and leave the vases out year round. I also love to use wreaths.

@LindsayInNY: Acorns, pine corns for fall. I do jelly beans around a candle for Easter.

@LindsayInNY: For Halloween, I use Candy Corn (I put a paper towel roll in the middle so I use less candy). For Easter, you could put paper mâché eggs or Easter grass in them.

@LindsayInNY: I fill vases (reused from my wedding) with ornaments. I do gold at Christmas time but you could do other colors for other holidays. I used the round ornaments and got them cheap at target (like $5) so it wouldn't be a big deal if they broke, or I couldn't store them. Pinecones would be cool! Flowers during the spring .... You could make tissue poms or some other crafty thing?

I think I have like 1 storage bin for Christmas. Maybe not even that much. But I don't do a tree because of cats. I hang my ornaments in my window instead and it looks magical enough. And then I decorate my record player and the wall behind it. I also do have green glass vases all throughout the house that I sometimes fill with pinecones. Sometimes....

ETA: I know I need to get 2 more stockings. I will get to it. Oh and we have lots of vintage Christmas records around.

@LindsayInNY: One year I cut out bats from black card stock and taped a flock of them to the front door* of our apartment. I also hot glued some to an embroidery hoop wrapped in black ribbon and hung it from the ceiling.

*The bats on the door were a last minute addition since some punks decided to draw a penis on our door and we had small children living across the hall. The little girls across the hall adored the camouflage and they didn't see what we were trying to cover up. .

@LindsayInNY: we hang a wreath anyways! I don't care who else sees it. And, it's easy to store...we just hung a hook high up in one of the closets, and we hang the wreath there during off-seasonal times. We also put out a festive doormat. Again, it makes me happy, so I don't care who else sees it!

We also have a mini Christmas tree that we put on the kitchen table that we store in a Rubbermaid container. We decorate it with mini ornaments and garland. You could even put mini lights on it! I also love the vases idea. And we string twinkle lights across the windows so you can see them outside. I really like doing that, too. It's fun to see them coming home!

What about doing an outline of a tree on the wall in lights? That's all over the place and really easy to do.

I personally haven't had a tree in about 10 years, so I am looking forward to having it again this year!. Another idea is an ornament tree, they're made from metal and you can put them on a table.

There are some amazing ideas on this thread! I agree with the idea of repurposing certain things throughout the year like filling vases or trays with various seasonal items. What about swapping out a few of your framed pictures with more seasonal prints? I have seen some great vintage ones on Pinterest.

If you coat dried fall leaves in modge podge the color will re-intensify. You could spread them on a table or shelf for a pretty fall decoration that would work through Thanksgiving and they are cheap enough that you could pitch them or flat enough that you could save them.

I also like having placemats or runners for the holidays-- although I tend to pick things that work at multiple times so cute red placemats that work for Valentine's Day or 4th of July or Christmas. Sometimes I grab single ones for plants too, I will gather a few potted plants together and put them all on a cute placemat and then add bows around the pots or candles etc.

Pillow covers for the couch might be good too, they would change the space a lot but not take up much room storage wise.

@LindsayInNY: What about apothecary jars? I have those on my mantle and I change what is in them based on the season. So, right now I have mini pumpkins. I also dress up our table for the season. I'll post pics as an example.

I love these ideas! No reason a small apartment can't be festive

@LindsayInNY: Electric candles were really popular where I grew up, because there were a lot of Colonial-style houses around and the windows on them practically begged for candles! Go for it! They look pretty from the inside too, especially behind a sheer/not-so-opaque curtain.

The other thing I do is seasonal cloth napkins. They don't take up much room to store and they change the look of the table without requiring you to store dishes or decorations. I have some red ones that I put out for Valentine's Day/Christmas, some spring-y colored ones for Easter, and some multicolored ones for fun (mostly birthdays and dinner parties).

@LindsayInNY: yep, that's my house