Style your Holidays Foundations 2022

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Style your Holidays foundations 2022

With the holidays just around the corner, start with these great home styling foundation accessory, entertaining and styling pieces for your holiday decorating this year. They will elevate what you already have this year when decking the halls and entertaining and make everyone in your home - feel the holiday spirit!

FURNISHINGS FOUNDATIONS -

Hourglass Wicker Table: With entertaining and rearranging furniture to fit in the tree - this great, little, sexy table can hold host your guest’s drinks, and can even replace a larger side table for the season.

Clear Glass Based Lamp: With all the decking the halls, this simple statement lamp can calm your very busy space. If your room is lighting poor - it's the perfect lamp for any style all year round.

Big Ass Knit Throw: Toasty! Cozy, chunky, seasonal - flip the switch for your living spaces to cozy up your space for the chilly weather season with this great throw. HINT: Can also double as a tree skirt.

HOLIDAY DECORATING FOUNDATIONS -

Open Wood Lantern: An open lantern can house anything. Stacked it on a stand, perched on a set of books or on a lift. Add it on the foyer entry table, or the pair the floor next to the door, as a centerpiece for your holiday table with fresh floral - On the buffet as the napkin or plate holder.

Marble Edge Riser Set: Lifts offer unlimited options when styling for the holidays. Anything lifted becomes more important, and creates interest. This set is made of marble with edgy gold accents and hairpin legs making anything on them very chic.

Natural Fiber Tree Collar: Tree collars are the best - they hide the mess under the tree, balance its stature, and this one brings texture and a clean, modern style to a space.

SCENTS OF THE SEASON -

Fresh Bay Leaf Wreath: A fresh Bay leaf wreath (this one has rosemary too!) is the quintessential holiday wreath and my Mom’s favorite. Lovely, richly scented, and it serves double duty in the kitchen (all organic) when cooking your favorite dishes. Just snip off a leaf or two. After the holidays, it will dry out perfectly to be a mainstay on a wall in the kitchen or pantry or broken down into jars or sachets.

Douglas Fir Essential Oil: O Tannenbaum. The scent of the season. Add few drops in a sprayer with Witch Hazel to freshen your linens, in your diffuser, scent your pine cone display or candles. Heavenly.

Rosemary/Mint French Milled Soap: French milled soap is the perfect hand cleanser in a guest bath. A little touch of panache for your holiday visitors. Rosemary and mint scented, a perfect scent for winter.

ENTERTAINING & HOME STYLING FOUNDATIONS:

Holiday Special American Old Fashioned Hard Candy: Little bowls of old fashion wrapped candies remind me of my Grandparents. These old favorites make any day during the holidays a celebration.

Monogram Guest Hand Towels: Pamper your guests with high quality paper in the powder room or table. They’ll feel like they’re at Downton Abbey.

Footed Raised Tray: A raised surface is the perfect starting point to any vignette accessorizing. Also great for your holiday entertaining to raise what you are serving.

Three Tiered Tray: Vertical decorating saves space and creates interest. Treasured collections look lovely on a table or the island. For entertaining - a coffee/tea station, for cookies, or nibbles. This fancy tiered tray comes apart too for more decorating options.

Clear Ice Bucket: Wine, ice, water, flowers, holiday treats, chips or bread when entertaining.

Marble Board: This marble pastry/cutting board can be used as a platform for decorating on your kitchen island, bar area, or is perfect as an appetizer board. Too looks lovely with potted plants on display.

Cheese Markers: Perfect and clever ”fork” cheese markers for your holiday spread.

Black ‘Chalk’ Paper: Buffet saver! Roll out this black craft paper and write your dishes on it with a white chalk pen. Great for the kids table and stylish paper for wrapping gifts.

Parchment Leaves Sheets: Up your cheese board cred with these sassy parchment leaves. Placed beneath your cheeses or fruits, it makes your platter a bit more special. Also great for desserts.

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Wallpaper! Up-style your space in a day.

Why are you waiting? If you are haunted by thought that wallpaper is only found in your Great Aunt Millie’s home or it is impossible to remove? Good news - the 21 century version is removeable, can be peel and stick and is totally hip.

I headed to a new client’s home yesterday to give her some fresh ideas to make her home her own. A decorating suggestion for the dining room, already painted navy, this wallpaper, but just the back wall.

York Wallpaper Peacock Pattern

Fun, yet just a bit sophisticated, and will tone down all that navy and add just the right bit of pizazz. Plus, it will be a showstopper when looking into the space from the foyer. And, that entryway right outside the dining room had a fantastic blue/grey tile. The paper will meld the color palette and tile pattern together and join the two rooms.

Here’s what is great about decorating with wallpaper - if you don’t like it in this color, it comes in 4 other color waves! Take a pick.

Ironically, my 2nd client in the day who is building a new home mentioned that she wanted to add wallpaper to her powder room. Well I just pulled out my phone showed her the paper saved in my gallery and she went gaga over the same paper. Then she pulled her phone and showed me the the color of the vanity going in, a beautiful, rich blue. BINGO! She too can use the same paper, but will get a completely different look! Her floor tile, the room size and papering of all the walls will have a completely different style and ambience. Won’t her powder room needing guests be wowed. Here’s her space.

Wallpaper can do a couple fantastic things for your home.

• It can help you create a color palette. Wallpaper is an easy way to help you choose colors for your home OR coordinate the existing colors in your home. You can pull a few colors from the pattern and use those as inspiration for a whole home color palette, or just the room. Too, the wallpaper pattern and its colors can create that tread that joins what’s already there.

• You can use wallpaper to create mood and personality. If you want to shake up a space, create ambiance, or a bit of surprise - there is nothing easier than using wallpaper to achieve that goal.

• Wallpaper can fool the eye. From brick, shiplap to a subway backsplash tile, there is a wallpaper that looks like an expensive design application but will cost you way less.

• It’s almost instant. Wallpaper can be up in a day (or even in an hour or two) giving you immediate results.

• It gives a space dimension. It can create texture, make a space feel larger, create depth, or ground a space.

• It can be used anywhere. On a ceiling, in a closet, to line the back of a curio, cabinet or door. It can be used to up-style a desk, chest, dresser or lamp. The remnants from a project can line a drawer. The spaces it can go are endless.

I can’t wait to see the results of these rooms with the wallpaper application and the finishing touches the paper brings. If you want to add wallpaper, but need a helpful push, a wee nudge, send me a message or give me a jingle and I’ll alleviate your wallpaper phobia, and squash those thoughts of the ghosts of wallpaper past. - Julea.