‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

Oh, bummer, don’t have a chimney in your home?

Well, you can still recreate the quaintness of that classic holiday poem. All you have to do is hang those Christmas stockings with care some other way. And there are a variety of options.

One of the easiest is hanging stockings on a nail on the wall. If you don’t want to hammer another hole in the wall, take down something you already have up and hang the stocking there.

Linda Huffman, owner of Interiors II-The Nesting Place, says you can put hooks on either side of a child’s room and run a wire taut between the hooks.

“You can hang some Christmas stockings up there,” she says, adding that once the holidays are over, you can swap out photos for the stockings.

“Hang the stockings from the children’s doorknobs,” says Lou Wyeth, owner of Stillwaters.

And if your child has a Christmas tree in his or her room, hang stockings from it, Ms. Wyeth says. To dress up a bedroom even more, Ms. Huffman says to hang Christmas stockings from the foot of the bed (perhaps that will help get them into the mood for the visions of sugarplums that will be dancing in their heads).

To dress up the rest of the house, our experts say to hang Christmas stockings from the backs of dining room chairs. Other furniture also makes a great display area. You can hang stockings from an armoires, bookcases and shelves. If the shelves have pegs, hang the stockings from those. Have a hall or coat tree? Well, display those stockings there.

Both Ms. Huffman and Ms. Wyeth say that you can hang stockings from the banister of your stairs.

“It’s kind of the first sight kids get to see when they race down the stairs,” Ms. Wyeth says.

Even a chandelier can become a display area for small stockings.

“I’ve done that,” Ms. Huffman says.

A pot rack in the kitchen also can be transformed into a stocking holder. Turn a small ladder into a stocking tree. Or you can log on to www.hgtv.com for directions to make your own.

Edoni Mozee and her co-workers at Michael’s craft store say that you can use suction cups and hang the stockings in the window.

Another idea from Michael’s is to create an arch on the wall above the Christmas tree with stockings and photos of the kids. Just place the photos in an arch and then hang a stocking below each photo.

Really, it doesn’t matter where the stockings are hung. Whether it’s fireplace or front door, chimney or child’s room, tree or table, Santa will know where to look.

Lifestyles reporter Cathy Woolridge can be reached at cathyw@npgco.com