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The holiday decorating elf is ringing your doorbell to sprinkle some inspiration on you.
Bring on the jolly holiday cheer! We want to share a bevy of festive ideas for making your home a winter wonderland with tips to jazz up your interior and exterior with affordable unique decor. Discover eye catching front door design and beautiful tablescapes to make the most of holiday meals. Learn how to create easy DIY money savers to add to your existing decorations. Whatever options you select will delight your family and friends providing that holiday magic right from your welcoming front door. The best part is all of this eye swoon can be packed up and enjoyed for future holidays.
Festive Front Doors
Make a grand entrance with fun and festive presentations welcoming your friends and family into your home. Show your joy! We love that red front door. In addition to being festive, it denotes the warmth of hearth and home, in celebration of the season.
Many of these front door decorations are from Grandinroad. https://www.grandinroad.com/christmas-decor. Even if you do not select the exact item you can used these spectacular examples for inspiration to create your own work of holiday art.
Wow Factors
Light fixtures add character. You can easily elevate the style of a room, making it more casual or elegant with the design the fixture. Think of light fixtures as the jewelry that adds the special touch to attire. Light fixtures are the finishing touches in home decor, many add architectural interest. Have fun adding festive ribbon, ornaments and foliage to the lighting fixture. Chandeliers are ideal to decorate with the holiday theme of your choice, adding to the impact of the tablescape.
Cookie Swaps Bring Smiles
Make the Best Time of Year even better with party theme ideas:
Of course the ugly Christmas sweater contest is always a popular theme for a Christmas party, but if you want a gathering that is a bit more relaxed you can opt to hold a Christmas cookie swap, complete with a hot coco beverage bar. Nothing says you can’t also hold a contest for the ugliest Christmas sweater, too.
We’ve included party themes to inspire you. If your looking for some clever Holiday party themes, consider transforming the popular Christmas carol “The 12 Days of Christmas” into a fun scavenger hunt. Hide the items mentioned in the song and poem–like the golden rings–it’s OK to improvise. Look for a bird toy as a stand-in for the turtle doves. The dollar store is a cost effective resource to find the props. Hide the items throughout your house and yard. If you could ask Alexa to play the song while the hunt takes place that would be ideal. Feel free to leave written clues to help the players along. Pinterest has numerous pages with scavenger hunt clues that are printable. Everyone should count their presents at the end of the hunt and whoever has the most wins a gift! For help creating your own clues here is a link to the 12 days of Christmas poem. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42913/the-twelve-days-of-christmas
Special Touches at Little Expense
Do you visit thrift stores? On your next trip to one look for mismatched vintage spoons. When you collect your unique spoons add a dollop of melted chocolate, and perhaps some coconut flakes to turn a typical cup of coffee to a heavenly treat.
Do You Enjoy Craft Projects?
DIY centerpiece or candle holder made with tiny inexpensive ornaments. All you will need for the candle holder is a coaster or a tea cup plate for the base, a hot glue gun, or permanent glue like E6000 in a tube, and tiny ornaments. With no stead feast rules get creative by mixing in any type of small trinket that you desire.
Tablescapes
Create a set of matching candlesticks with gold spray paint. Add greenery and the end result will look like your hired a florist. It will be our secret, as no one will imagine that it took minimal effort. Gold and white color schemes can be used to achieve an elegant tablescape. Can you eye-spy the angel on the table? Place ornaments down the center of your table.
Think Vintage Yuletides of Yesteryear
Kid friendly unbreakable decorating. Perfect to hang from a mantle, or use as a swag above a window. Do you have six or more odd mittens around the house? Can you knit? This is a fun project that can become a conversation starter when guests visit your home. This clever up-cycled use for mittens is perfect in a cozy farmhouse style home.
Vintage brooches and jewelry can become elegant conversation pieces.
Re-purpose grandma’s mid-century jewelry to modern day masterpieces. Create jewelry collages in the shape of wreaths and trees, or just make a single ornament.
Additional popular vintage items to consider are table clothes, a collection of vintage Santa’s, the ceramic Christmas trees that light up. New or vintage snow globes remain a well loved item as do nostalgic plates, and vintage toys. Create a shelf displaying your favorite vintage collection. The charm of old fashioned items is making a major comeback. The Etsy.com site can be a resource for vintage treasures. Or hunt through thrift stores for festive decor when time allows. Fill vintage tea cups with candy and holiday ornaments or whatever you find appealing; such as flowers and berries.
Magnificent Mantles
Light up your evenings with a high and low (varied height) candlestick display. Mantels are the perfect place to showcase a variety of candle holders in different shapes and sizes, from lanterns, and votive’s in a holder, to tall sticks. You can mix sizes, colors and shapes, or select a monochromatic color scheme of winter white, silver, or gold. Many will add some greenery, a reindeer, a miniature tree, or a special ornament to the display, but that’s up to you.
From the Stress Free Corporate Housing family to yours, we wish you a memorable Holiday Season and a healthy, joy filled New Year!
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