Holiday decorating is a chance to layer personality, color, texture, and even scent in every room. It’s a way to highlight your home’s architecture, furniture, and existing palette in a festive design. Shimmering gold-tinsel trees tucked into corners, bookcases lined in strings of garland, and banisters featuring oversized velvet bows not only spark joy in our eyes but in our souls, too. Whether you lean toward natural greenery and rustic simplicity or playful color and patterned layers, holiday decorating is about celebrating who you are and what the season means to you.
Holidays Interiors to Inspire Your Own Home
Christmas in South Africa with Algria Ferreira-Watlings
In her Cape Town home, Algria Ferreira‑Watlings turns holiday decorating into a serene, artful ritual with South African influences. Instead of a classic Christmas tree, she transforms a sculptural agave stalk into a minimalist, gold-painted seasonal statement. Discover her other unique ways of bringing the holidays indoors.
A Luxurious Wade Weissmann-Designed Addition in Fox Chapel
Do you dream of a log cabin? Wade Weissmann Architecture reimagines the classic “cabin-in-the-woods” nostalgia as a refined but warm holiday retreat. He pairs reclaimed barn oak, a towering stone hearth, and stacked-log walls with simple seasonal touches like magnolia greens, pinecones, and a large grape-vine wreath.
Decorating for the Holidays in a Historic Pittsburgh Home
In their 1909 home in Mexican War Streets on Pittsburgh’s North Side, the owners embrace a holiday style that blends historic charm with playful modern touches. Their original Victorian architecture is the perfect match for soft candlelight, bold red highlights, as well as lush floral arrangements.
Holiday Decorations with Gwen Martin
Gwen Martin turns her Sewickley home into a natural holiday haven by shopping right in her own backyard. Evergreen cuttings, pinecones, and even twigs form the foundation for holiday garlands, mantels, stairs, tables, and even floor décor. The look is organic, flexible, and personal to the home-owner.
Deck the Halls with Three Design Experts’ Christmas Decorating Tips
Pittsburgh design experts Anne Dickson, Amy Ilias, and Leanne Ford each offer a different take on how to infuse homes with seasonal charm. Look into lush layering of color and texture, creative use of unexpected colors, and a go-with-what-you-have approach to find what works best for you and your own design style.
Story by Kylie Thomas
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