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6 Christmas Living Room Decorations From Around The World
Hammonds Furniture The holiday season has finally arrived! To spread some festive cheer, interior design specialists at Hammonds Furniture have created visualisations of Christmas living room decorations from around the world. From traditional English décor to lucky spider webs in Ukraine, local customs and traditions still have their place in the Christmas decorations people put up in destinations around the world. ‘The living room is the heart of the home, and the place where so many memories are made. For so many people, putting up the tree and decorations is the best part of Christmas,’ says Kirsty Oakes, Head of
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Christmas Room Decor Inspiration To Make Your Home Extra Festive
Photography: Polly Wreford / Styling: Marianne Cotterill / Direction: Sarah Keady 1 Christmas room decor: vibrant wreath Before you even step inside, attach a Christmas wreath to your front door. This gorgeous red and green wreath perfectly complements the muted duck egg door colour. Dix Blue No.82 in Exterior Eggshell, Farrow & Ball 2 Christmas room decor: blissful whites Create a cosy Christmas setting with an elegant white table scheme. Include fine bone china, beautiful linens and vintage-inspired candlesticks, teamed with tactile cushions, faux greenery and a sparkle wreath. Christmas decorations available from The White Company 3 Christmas room decor:
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Bidens’ Christmas decorations: ‘Gifts from the heart’
Tinsel, turtledove ornaments, family photos and presents in bright red boxes mark the holidays at the White House this year. One hundred volunteers helped to decorate, using 25 wreaths, 41 Christmas trees, 300 candles, 6,000 feet of ribbon, 10,000 ornaments and nearly 80,000 holiday lights. For the Bidens’ first Christmas in the White House, first lady Jill Biden recently unveiled the mansion’s 2021 holiday theme as “gifts from the heart” — faith, community, family, friendship, learning, nature, gratitude, service, peace, unity and the arts — that bring together Americans of all ages and backgrounds. Left: Thank-you cards grace a
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Hallmark Christmas Movie Suite at Club Wyndham Review 2021
#GHGetaways is a travel series that highlights budget-friendly vacation destinations across the U.S. that the whole family will love. Delightful. Magical. Picture-perfect. Those are just a few of the words that sprung to mind when I saw photos of the Countdown to Christmas Holiday Suites, a first-time collaboration between the Hallmark Channel and timeshare resort Club Wyndham. Led by the Hallmark Channel’s head of design, three suites at Wyndham properties across the U.S. received 360º Christmas makeovers just in time for the 2021 holiday season, complete with floor-to-ceiling backdrops of wintery scenes, in-room kitchens spilling over with seasonal treats,
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Festive NYC restaurants to enjoy the best Christmas decorations
Dining out during the holidays isn’t the sugar-plummy sleigh ride it used to be. Not only because of the pandemic, but because so many of the city’s beloved venues for year-end celebration are gone. The Plaza Oak Room, Bull & Bear and the ‘21’ Club are among the many we’ve lost. But the surviving choices are precious. Most of our picks evoke Yuletide nostalgia: They’re older and all-on cozy with lots of holly and poinsettias, plus warm lighting to hold back the crush of the year’s earliest sunsets. Such venues can be touristy, but they’re also a lot more atmospheric
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This Cedar Rapids home goes all out for Christmas decorations
A Christmas tree and other decorations in the four seasons room at the home of Shannon Hall in northeast Cedar Rapids. Hall goes all out decorating for Christmas. He has an extensive collection of decorations. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Indoor Christmas decorating for most people likely involves one tree, one room and one weekend. Some people drop decorations into additional rooms. Others, well — they just do more. That group includes Shannon Hall. This year’s decorations involve six Christmas trees, five rooms plus the entry and two to three weeks of working nonstop. In his eyes, “you can never have too
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See how the Bidens have decorated for their 1st White House Christmas : NPR
A Christmas tree stands in the Red Room during a press preview of White House holiday decorations on Nov. 29. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A Christmas tree stands in the Red Room during a press preview of White House holiday decorations on Nov. 29. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images For their first Christmas in the White House, the Biden family will celebrate with the theme of “gifts from the heart” for their holiday decor. In unveiling the theme on Monday, President Biden and first lady Jill Biden explained: “The
