It’s the most wonderful time of the year
Hi! It’s me, Jess and yes this is my first blog post! It also turns out to be December 1st aka the most wonderful time of the year because it’s (almost) Christmas! Now why am I writing today? Let’s talk holiday decor.
Decorating for the holidays doesn’t have to feel cluttered or cheap, it all depends how the individual pieces are styled within a group. You can buy decorations at the dollar store but style them as expensive pieces. My personal favourite is to use vintage pieces I've found while thrifting and repurpose them for holiday decor.
How do I do this the right way you’re probably asking yourself? Trial and error my friends, put things together, take them apart and switch them around. Explore to see what looks good together and what doesn't. Sometimes that cute decoration you bought looks great in your living room but just doesn't go in the dining room. Another trick to having coherency throughout the space is to stay within the same colour palette, but play around with shapes and textures. If you want to accentuate with red, go for it. But stick with that throughout the space with pops of green and gold instead of going back and forth between red, blue, purple, etc.
Let’s practice! A typical place we decorate (other than the tree of course) is the dining room table. To start off, the first thing I do is; remove all the current decor pieces. Start fresh, eliminate pieces that don’t go with the holiday decor. Less pieces means less clutter. Then, you want to start off with a good base piece; a table runner. I got mine off of Amazon for 10$ and then just added pieces I had laying around the house or that I use for other holidays. I started with a small decorative Christmas tree to center the table and started working around it. I added some brass candle sticks to surround the tree (I thrifted those for less than 10$). I also put simple white candlesticks and burned them all at different frequencies to add texture, height and character. Then lastly, to bring everything together, I added a variety of pine cones (spray painted and natural) as well as other small nature pieces to tie it all together and add great smell.
Another easy way to decorate for the holidays is pillows & cushions. Switch those up to add some colour and texture for a sleek simple Christmas decor. I used pillows from my den and switched them up in the bedroom so it didn’t even cost me a dime (I mean if we want to get technical the pillow case did cost me 4$ from a street vendor in India but who’s counting).
“We shape our homes and then our homes shape us”