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Strategic Ideas for a Beautiful Home at Christmas
Build on the basics, use the old, and create something new that’s unique to your home and family
With so much decorative choice at Christmas, you need a strategy so you know whatever is done looks organized, well arranged and beautiful, and not haphazard and disorganized. By combining a little basic or traditional decoration, along with trying creative and different ideas, you can create a beautiful and pleasingly decorated home.
Traditional decorating ideas include using wreaths for doors or entranceways and on a wall with an unobstructed view. Garlands can be placed along surfaces where they can be hung vertically or horizontally, including fireplace mantels and staircase banisters. And Christmas lights can be used by themselves or with garlands, in shrubs and of course on Christmas trees. Christmas lights can also be wrapped along with garlands on a banister or stair railing to add a twinkling Christmas look.
Using Christmas lights outdoors along the frame of houses and icicle shaped ones to decorate the roof lines of homes have become very popular. Icicle lights are just as easy as regular lights to put in place and they create a very pleasing display for the holiday season. Adding color to these outdoor light displays can also make houses…
