I want to decorate for the winter season, not the holiday season. This includes the interior and exterior?

Question

of the house. The fireplace mantel, front door, etc. . . I have a few idea's but looking to see if you can come up with something better.

Answer 1

Throw in a splash of color
Snowmen, snowflakes, lights in the bottom of your plants not Christmas lights one bulb shining up to add depth to the plant.
Chunky letters in your last name or a word that inspires you are great for the mantels. Make a wreath for the door out of grapevine heather sprigs and dried berries. They have cranberries and dried raspberries you can hot glue them. Put out a big bird house with black sunflower seeds. You will get a variety of birds not just sparrows and finches.

Answer 2

Yes - you can take your decorating que from nature.

Color pallets into the winter season deepen, so richer, jewel tone colors with sharp contrasts work well.

Think aubergine and gold, with blue/green accents

scarlet, navy and jade,

cream white with rich, mocha brown and chalk pink.

Black (as long as it is a dark indigo black) and melon green with raspberry accents...

Once you find a color scheme that you like, then materials you can use that are festive, but fairly non-holiday specific are:

white globe lights (you can get them this time of year with the Christmas lights).

Big, chunky candles.

Crystals and prisms (to splash a little rainbow throughout the place)

Bundles of willow twigs, evergreens, or ornamental grasses with a pretty satin bow of your choosing.

Asian paper lanterns : I like those the best.

Wreaths of any kind.

Smells of Harvest fruits and vegetables like squash, plums, apples, herbs and spices.

glitter and shiny surfaces - anything that transfers light.

Anything in collections: three or more of a similar item grouped together is a collection.

I hope this helps get you started.

Answer 3

Whites and dark blues, combined, are good colors if you want to emphasize the snow in winter. You can add glitter to some of your objects if you want to represent the crisp, new snow that comes with winter, or clear glass / crystal as reflections of ice. It's pretty traditional to represent snowflakes, ice and evergreen wreaths in internal and external winter decorations.

If this scheme seems too "cold" for you, you could purposely bring in dark green colors reminding you of evergreens to add a feeling of warmth to your decorating. The dark green can be combined with a very warm dark maroon color, but this is often interpreted as being representative of certain Christian holidays that occur during the wintertime, rather than a combination of evergreens and bright red berries that are often present outside in the landscape.

Answer 4

you can use the theme of snowflakes, snowmen maybe pointsetta plants. try hanging a laundry line on your mantel and hang different mittens, gloves, maybe even socks. I love lights if you wanted to stay away from red and green you can do white. I also think candles are a good decoration .

Answer 5

Take your indoor decorating from nature: your climate and season. Pine cones, berries, leaves, all make great decorations. Freshly cut willow branches placed in vases of fresh water make nice centerpieces. Baskets of pine cones do as well.

Answer 6

wreaths made with fake fruit and greens. Candles and a winter village on your mantel.

Answer 7

I like the wreaths that have lots of pine cones and berries. Just don't use Christmas ribbon - maybe a plaid or rust or dark green ribbon.

Answer 8

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