Freshen Your Christmas Decor

Christmas is symbolic of tradition. However that does not imply it's important to fill your house concentrating on the same excersize equipment within the same color scheme yearly.

Brian Patrick Flynn, a Los Angeles-based interior designer and executive producer of HGTV.com's "Holiday House," says he reinvented the feel and appear of Christmas as part of his house.

Super stockings
For the previous night Christmas Eve, Call's family makes new stockings by sewing together large fecal material felt having a simple blanket stitch.

"We top off each with our name and also the year," he said. "Making these stockings offers us all something to complete the evening before Christmas Eve, and now we share memories and laughter on the way."

Terrific trees
A Christmas tree doesn't always have to remain parked in one place. Flynn recommends locating a small tree on wheels (maybe in the vintage metal wagon or maybe old metal washtub with casters on the bottom) so that you can change its location if you're entertaining to generate space or even bring extra holiday style to a different room.
An alternative choosing an understated color palette.

"This year I created a tone-on-tone tree using all shades of sunshine gray," Flynn said. "To do this right, it is all about possessing a balance of texture, finish, shape, scale and proportion."
Here is another white tree when you be employing light colors and neutrals, or simply a green tree with decorations in earth tones.

To shake up your tree's decorations, Call suggests using a theme.

"Last year to get a client, I indulged in multitude of vintage mercury-glass ornaments of any size and shapes. Silver was literally dripping from the tree," he was quoted saying.
"This year we have been having a completely edible tree, including childhood favorites including homemade popcorn balls, small sacks of chocolates tied with a ribbon and hung through the branches, and pungent gingerbread."

No tree
Should you have minimal space, cluster a bunch of white poinsettias. They set any gift giving occasion tone and appear "almost like snowfall."

Or you could make your own "tree" beyond branches: "In the kitchen at home, I like to fill a huge galvanized pot with armfuls of branches full of red berries," Call said. "As the time of year progresses, I recently clip incoming cards towards the arrangement so that anyone can enjoy. Everybody enjoys to come back to see my 'family tree.'"

Everything mantel
For homes which has a flat-panel TV mounted over the mantel, he has a high-tech idea: Burn images to DVD that coordinate using the accessories you lay out in your mantel, then allow DVD run during holiday entertaining.

For one project, Flynn displayed colorful pop art images (including a reindeer by artist Jonathan Fenske) around the TV, and put colorful goods like candy in apothecary jars and vibrant colored ornaments within the mantel.