Brooklyn Beckham's smart Christmas lights look refreshingly modern with white ornaments – they're the simplest way to customize your tree this year

As trends have moved towards personalized Christmas decor, everyone is seeking the next level of unique tree. Luckily, Brooklyn Beckham has figured out a hack to decorate your tree in 16 different ways with just one item: app-controlled Christmas lights.

The designer took to Instagram to share his modern Christmas decor idea. On the surface, it's fairly simple. His tree has colorful, rainbow lights with opaque white ornaments and a silver star. It's a fun, contemporary, almost disco-like style. However, the Instagram reel reveals that there's more than meets the eye to Beckham's design. His lights are controlled by an app, that allows him to create myriad lighting designs depending on the mood of the evening.

His brilliant smart home idea taps into the Christmas decor trends of the year. First, it allows for limitless personalization. Megan Slack, Head of Celebrity Style at Homes & Gardens states: 'Over the past two years or so, we've seen a shift away from Christmas decorating for guests towards decorating for oneself. We've seen Christmas trees in a huge range of colors appear across celebrity homes. Brooklyn Beckham's idea takes the shift to the next level. Rather than offering only one way to personalize, it allows him to repersonalize every day.'

Luckily, Beckham's Christmas tree idea is easy to recreate in any space with just three items: app-controlled Christmas lights, white ornaments, and a silver star. Beckham swears by the Twinkly brand lights available at Amazon. Though these lights offer endless options for personalization, they are more expensive than the majority of Christmas lights on the market. For a more affordable option, you can choose a remote-controlled variety of lights, although this lends fewer color combinations.

Next, for Christmas ornaments and decorations, you want to go with something very neutral, so that the lights themselves can shine. I love how Beckham has chosen white opaque ornaments for a mod, primary colored look, but the same effect could be accomplished with clear, silver or gold ornaments depending on the look you are going for. It’s a wonderful budget idea because if you don’t like the color of your ornaments with the lights, you just need to change the light color. A simple topper, like Beckhams star ties it all together.

As innovations in the home space grow, so do the things you can do with your Christmas decor. Brooklyn Beckham's twinkly lights are just the start.