Dress your Home for Fall – Part Four
Decorating your front stairs for fall can look nice. Just make sure to leave enough walking space. Use potted mums or evergreen plants surrounded by pumpkins and gourds. Rusty pots make good planters for this display, but terra cotta pots will work too. If you carve pumpkins, use your carved pumpkins here, this display will [...]
Dress your Home for Fall – Part Three
Get a plate in a warm color such as red, yellow, or orange. Gold looks great for this accessory if you can find it. Hot glue artificial leaves around the edge of the plate. Make sure they overlap each other. This can be used as a candle display, as placing two or three pillar candles [...]
Dress your Home for Fall – Part Two
Adding a fall wreath to your front door will really make the outside of your home look ready for the season. There so many different types of wreaths than can be made fairly easily that I will write a separate blog to go over them. Window boxes are great to use in the summertime, but [...]
Dress your Home for Fall – Part One
Fall flower arrangements can dress your home up for Thanksgiving. Take advantage of nature. Try putting colorful corn into a glass container, filling it with water, and fill it with sunflowers, mums, and thistle. Add red berry sprigs if you can. If you have a field near your house, you can gather cattails and other [...]
Easy to Make Fall Centerpieces – Part Two
One of my favorite centerpieces is one that ends up looking like a little pumpkin patch in the center of your table. This one could be used for a Halloween party just as easily as for Thanksgiving. Place a large pumpkin in the center of our table. Set medium and small pumpkins around it randomly. [...]
Easy to Make Fall Centerpieces – Part One
If you are hosting a Thanksgiving meal at your house this year, here are some ideas to impress them with your table decorating. A centerpiece on the table will be sure to draw attention from your guests and get you compliments. There are many options you could go with, and some of them are very [...]
In Conversation with Patricia Gray
Patricia Gray Patricia Gray is an award winning, highly recognized interior designer from Vancouver, Canada, who finds time in her busy schedule to update her interior design blog almost daily! and I know how hard this is. Her blog features her inspiration, including other designers and architects that she admires not to mention sneak peeks [...]
Make your Home Cozy for Winter – Part Four
If you have a fireplace winter is the season when you really want to use it to your advantage. Make sure your fireplace is the focal point during these cold months. Put those big floor pillows and blanket near the fireplace. Stack a few books or candles on one side of the seating area. Make [...]