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How to Decorate Your Home in Winter Whites

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Decorating your home in winter whites is all about simplicity. First of all the color scheme for winter white décor tends to be white with dark brown wood. So the floors should be stained a dark brown if they are not brown already. Frames and other accents can also be made of dark wood. Otherwise everything from the door frames to banisters to kitchen cupboards is painted white. Eerie single wall is painted white as well.

Lucite furniture works well in an entry way along with oversized mirrors with white or chocolate brown frames. A great place order furniture is EverythingFurniture.com they have a huge selection. If you order from there be sure to pick up an EverythingFurniture.com discount code from MomsDiscount.com and save some money. White throw rugs or small footstools with white leather covers also work well here. Make sure everything from Kleenex boxes to plant holders is also white.

In the living room plain white cotton curtains and white bamboo shades make great window covering. A white rug with an even whiter pattern on it also completes the design. White ceramic posts and white shades should be a design feature of the lamps. Silver coffee tables with glass tops and round coffee tables made out of dark wood are also a good option.

There should be few pictures on the wall but the ones that are in place should have white ceramic or brown frames.

Floral arrangements should be lush but using white flowers such as roses, hydrangeas and calla lilies. A touch of green can be added in the form of moss or hydrangea leaves. A plain white ceramic vase filled with white money plant leaves can make a nice addition to a white room.

At Christmas time there are great ways to harmonize a white décor into your holiday color scheme. When you trim the tree, keep the lights all white and as small as possible. Clear glass and plastic ornaments and white ornaments should be interspersed with gold ones. Tie big white ribbons to the very end of the branches for a nice effect. Garlands of white pearls also suit the white-washed Christmas look.

Garlands for this type of scheme do not have to be fussy or expensive. You can tie greenery with a bit wire and white ribbon. You can also hang a boxwood wreath above your mantel or in a prominent place in the living room. You can also spray pinecones white and make a still-life in basket out of them for your mantelpiece.

Finally you can really make your Christmas tree look unique by wrapping all of your Christmas presents in white and decorating them with white ribbons as well.

How to Decorate a Room With French Finery for Christmas

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There are a lot of festive trends for 2011 that are worth noting if you want your home to look festive and contemporary but one of the most popular this year is going to be the “decorating in French Finery” trend. This is a very formal and opulent look that is a bit retro but also very classic.

Technically it is a shabby chic look. Most things are painted white but walls should be a pea green or a very light yellow. Second hand crystal chandeliers are part of the look as are tall mirrors with window pains. Lace, white chenille and curtains with tiny fringes or prints are also part of the look.

Objects are also showcased on tall Greek columns, that are also painted white and interspersed through the room. Faded chintz chairs and tall painted cabinets help this look come for life. Candles, in white metal lantern cases, also complete this vintage look as do gilded framed portraits of deceased members of the family and pillar candles surrounded by boughs of greenery.

It is also very traditional with this look to place plaster or ceramic busts about the place. To make these busts look more in tune with the holidays try wrapping green and red velvet Christmas ribbons around the subject’s necks.

Rooms done up in French Finery very often feature a Fainting Couch. This is as chaise lounge with a floral print that has a side table that is also covered in the same floral print. A crocheted throw and a few Christmas cushions in green and red complete the look. Usually a framed mirror is hung over the fainting couch and augmented with a big Christmas leaf.

The best Christmas tree for this look is the spiniest and most skeletal spruce you can find that is then gently flocked with fake white now. Decorate it with many yards of thick sheer gold ribbon that are intertwined with very tiny white Christmas lights. You can h harmonize the entire effect with a natural cedar garland that has been spray painted gold. This tree does not have the usual ornaments on it. The idea is that the tree looks wrapped in gold ribbon.

This type of room should have its own formal wrapping dining table. This can be a table that is rate and old and shabby chic in style but painted all in white with touches of gold.