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How to Decorate Your Home in new Stylish Trends

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If you want to decorate your home in new stylish trends there are only a few little touches you need to make. Trends are what they are – fashion statements that do eventually go away.

Classic Cornish ware is in vogue. These are blue and white storage jars that look like large cookie jars b us you can put anything anthem. There is also a service in the U.K. called tggreen that will personalize what goes on these jars with words like cookies, crayons or whatever you like.

If you are going to redo your floors and can’t afford expensive slate tiles then look no further than the Camaro vinyl flooring collection. This company makes vinyl that looks like wood, stone, slate and marble.

Coat stands have had a face lift as well. A company called Peg makes them in fluorescent plastic. The hooks are not hooks but disks that stick out from the center of the trunk of the tree. These are gentler on your clothing when you hang it on a hook.

To show how ecologically correct you are buy a rug made in eco-friendly rubber bands. They come in all kinds of different rainbow colors. Best of all these rugs, which are very gay and happy looking are slip-proof and water-proof. RugSale.com is a great site to purchase a new rug from. They have a huge selection. You can find a RugSale promo code from Promo-Codes.com to get a discount and save some money.

Retro toys of any kind are also quite fashionable nowadays as well. Think of those little dogs that would react to iPods or old style robots.

When it comes throws for your couches or chairs then start thinking spots. Throws that have big spots on them are the best.

One of the coolest chairs to own is the Conran 111 Navy chair. These are plastic chairs that come in primary colors. Each is made from 111 recycled plastic coke bottles. The new chair comes in six colours with a scratch-resistant finish. The original chair was made in aluminum.

Another hot recycled item are the Studiomold lamps. These are lamps with a base made out of crushed and twisted coke bottles and then coated with black rubber to create a base for lamps.

To show your guests you are fashion conscious buy the new day calendar by Persephone Books that features reproductions of famous end papers. End papers are the pages of vintage books that have patterns. Each end paper is noted with the name of the famous novel that was the end papers first starring appearance to the public.

How to Decorate Your Home in the Glitterati Theme for Xmas

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One particularly popular trend for decorating your home this Christmas is the Glitterati theme. This is a theme in which everything is gold must rule: like the saying “All that glitters is not gold”- except this time it is true. All that glitters must be painted or colored gold and silver for this Christmas theme to be successful.

Technically silver symbolizes the moon and gold symbolizes the sun. The moon means wisdom and the sun means hope. All of your Christmas ornaments on the tree, mantel, stair case or elsewhere should be this color. You can get Christmas balls in polished, matte, paralyzed and shiny colors.

Tie hundreds of these balls together to make a gorgeous, opulent Christmas garland that can be hung on the staircase banister or as a garland on the mantelpiece. They also look good as a garland on a chandelier or hung individually as balls from the chandelier frame.

A beautiful centerpiece can be made by filling a glass tiramisu container with gold ornaments. You can then use gold dinner ware to add an even stricter gold shine to your table setting. One tip is to know that gold looks very elegant against a natural wood table. It is much hipper to lay out your table on bare wood then cloth if you are using this glitterati theme for your table. You can also use tiny Christmas balls wrapped with gold ribbon to wrap your napkins together.

A very elegant and simple craft project is to make an enormous wreathe (think the size of a hula hoop out of many different sized shiny gold and silver Christmas bars. This can be showcased one large wall in your home.

You can also make small hanging pendants out of clumps of small silver balls and hang them by transparent thread in a window where they will catch the light.

For another wonderful effect wrap a few presents in silver and gold wrap and make sure that there are no patterns. You can also attach gold and silver balls to the top of the present.

You can even hang very tiny balls on the edge of your Christmas cocktails so people can identify whose glass belongs to whose.

If the “gold on gold” effect becomes a bit much for you then you can always tone it down by using a bit of bronze or pewter in your color mix. Soft lighting also helps this look less showy and more elegant.