I want to show you a few more little vignettes for the holidays before we find ourselves in January. The month has moved so fast, I am very far behind. Christmas is in three days and I am not ready.
This collage shows my foyer console table. I left the console the way it was before the holidays and just added strings of clear crystal bead garland strung in and around the shell sculpture and two silver mercury glass trees. Very simple. Nothing over the top.
Above is the Swedish cabinet I designed for Swede Collection that resides in my home office. I have my white china collection stored on the five shelves and linen napkins and napkin rings, etc. in the drawers. The cabinet is 102" tall and 49" wide. The hardware is hand made glass pulls and knobs made by artisians in Oregon. The glass hardware is a perfect match to the Paris Gray paint. I designed it to have a sexy cinched waistline and antiqued mirror panels on top. My office walls are painted aqua and the floors are beige Italian tile. Chairs with aqua painted frames in the photo are from Amy Howard Collection.
In the left photo I hung from the glass knob a beaded wired star from Pottery Barn that has a bridge where a flameless candle sits. The star is 13" across and was a special offer last week to the first few people who purchased online. This is the largest one I have seen. Last year I purchased some from Dillard's but they were smaller, perhaps 9" across. I got six of them and was going to hang them outside but then it rained for three days. In the right photo I have added silver and gold ornaments among the china.
Another photo of the cabinet and a closer view of the silver beaded star and the birds.
With the five shelves and three linen drawers, this cabinet is perfect for a china addict like me. This is just a fraction of my stash though.
Going from my office to the family room, the only thing I changed here was to add white candles and clear candlesticks from Pottery Barn and on the left a framed shadowbox with a crystal and wire ornament in it. It is from Target. The glass demijohns are from France. I did the canvas painting on the wall behind a few years ago as well as painting the Henredon chest a metallic silvery taupe.
Moving to the living room, I have placed a 4 foot tree on the marble topped center table and decorated it with just white and silver ornaments. Tree is from Tree Classics online store. A few years ago I made the 60"x48" canvas fleur-de-lis painting on the wall behind the sofa. I decided not to put up our large tree in the foyer this year since I was running so far behind. Very simple. Nothing extravagant here.
In prior posts I have shown you other holiday tabletop displays around the house. Not only did I not put the big tree up, I also skipped putting garland and lights on my staircase. Some years I put lots of energy into it and some years not. This is a "not" year. We're cooking a turkey on Christmas day, so I guess I had better get to the grocery store and finish wrapping. Hope you have finished everything and are in the "enjoy" stage.
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Photos: Swede
