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This week on the DesignCoach: Keeping Your Holidays Real
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I had such positive response from yesterday’s reader question having to do with Holiday Decorations. Our 5 Steps to Beautiful-Holiday-Design helps tackle this task and it seemed important to many so I decided to return to the topic today. And since we’re taking a look at “real” decorating I would like to invite you to join me as I put up my holiday decorations.
Here’s the back-story: I’ve just moved into a new house. I’ve just moved into a new community and it’s just me and my digital camera. No cast and crew on this project gang; it’s just me. I did a round of tag sales (yard sale, garage sale…here in New England they seem to call them tag sales) back in September and struck a small holiday gold mine when I came across 3 large storage bins filled with holiday ornaments. I am still taking inventory, learning what I have and what I need.
I knew what I wanted to do with the front door. Just like a warm handshake or a welcoming embrace the front door sets the tone for what is to come. I went local for help with this trekking off to a local library’s fundraiser to buy 2 wreaths (main door and mudroom door). Cream ribbon, turkey feather and shelf-mushroom (a local fungus that grows like a shelf on dead tree trunks) caught my interest and the place of honor for the front door. The same cream ribbon with pinecones holds court on the mud room door.
The Front Door
The mudroom door
Enjoy the pictures and join me tomorrow as I add yards and yards of pine garland to the pediment above the front door and the staircase inside.
Please send pictures of your holiday decorating projects in process. Your idea may be just what another reader needs to spark them into holiday action.
