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Local designers offer tips to give your home holiday sparkle
It's that time of year. The turkey's all used up, and it's time to bring out your best baubles, bangles, red and green bows and focus on holiday decorating. We contacted local designers for ideas to help make your home beautiful and inviting for the holidays. The general principles came down to keeping it simple and inexpensive, using what you've already got in a new way for a festive look. Clean and sparkling Keep your decorating scheme coherent and start with a clean palette. If your home has a fairly neutral scheme, you're free to add plenty of color for the holidays. If your house is colorful, stick to a more limited palette, maybe even just silver and gold. A great byword is "sparkle." Incorporate as much glass and crystal into your decorating as you can. Nothing is more festive than the gleam of crystal candlesticks, vases, stemware, and bowls. For even more effect, goblets and bowls can be used to hold sparkling colored glass ornaments. You can't have too many candles for holiday parties and dinners. -- Martha Ruschman, of Martha Ruschman Interior Design, Evanston, (847) 864-2707. Toys bring memories This year, I decided to install a shelf around the room of our library to house my train set I was given in 1955 on my fifth Christmas. Expanding on this idea, I have begun to collect vintage memorabilia to incorporate on this shelf along with some Christmas items which will recall that special Christmas. This year I am adding a lot of my parents' and grandparents' old ornaments and will feature model trains, cars and trucks to brighten this memory for me. I use only one color of wrapping paper with varying types of the same color ribbon. This year we are doing Tiffany blue wrapping paper with butterscotch satin French ribbon and juniper branches. We have become known for our packages. -- John Cannon, of Cannon Frank A Design Corp., Chicago, (312) 595-1550, www.cannonfrank.com. A personalized table Instead of a place card, use a framed baby photo -- I purchased inexpensive frames and made a photocopy of a baby picture to insert in the frame. I added a striped ribbon to the top so that guests could take the frame home and hang it on their tree. Use a scarf as a table runner. Pull a fancy one from a closet, drape it across a table for interest and movement. -- Steffanie Dakis Danby, The Home Stage, Kenilworth, (847) 251-9634, or (312) 961-6435, www.TheHomeStageChicago.com. Use your treasures If you have a collection, of nutcrackers, for example, put them all together on mantle. Don't spread out throughout room. Your collections have more impact in a grouping. Buy ornaments from your family trips. Taking them out of storage and putting them on your tree brings back great memories. They are like old friends. It's a sentimental holiday, these are a wonderful reminder of family and friends. http://www.pioneerlocal.com/riverforest/lifestyles/home_design/1319979 ,on-holidaydecor-121108-s1.article |
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