How to Decorate Your Home in the Glitterati Theme for Xmas

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One particularly popular trend for decorating your home this Christmas is the Glitterati theme. This is a theme in which everything is gold must rule: like the saying “All that glitters is not gold”- except this time it is true. All that glitters must be painted or colored gold and silver for this Christmas theme to be successful.

Technically silver symbolizes the moon and gold symbolizes the sun. The moon means wisdom and the sun means hope. All of your Christmas ornaments on the tree, mantel, stair case or elsewhere should be this color. You can get Christmas balls in polished, matte, paralyzed and shiny colors.

Tie hundreds of these balls together to make a gorgeous, opulent Christmas garland that can be hung on the staircase banister or as a garland on the mantelpiece. They also look good as a garland on a chandelier or hung individually as balls from the chandelier frame.

A beautiful centerpiece can be made by filling a glass tiramisu container with gold ornaments. You can then use gold dinner ware to add an even stricter gold shine to your table setting. One tip is to know that gold looks very elegant against a natural wood table. It is much hipper to lay out your table on bare wood then cloth if you are using this glitterati theme for your table. You can also use tiny Christmas balls wrapped with gold ribbon to wrap your napkins together.

A very elegant and simple craft project is to make an enormous wreathe (think the size of a hula hoop out of many different sized shiny gold and silver Christmas bars. This can be showcased one large wall in your home.

You can also make small hanging pendants out of clumps of small silver balls and hang them by transparent thread in a window where they will catch the light.

For another wonderful effect wrap a few presents in silver and gold wrap and make sure that there are no patterns. You can also attach gold and silver balls to the top of the present.

You can even hang very tiny balls on the edge of your Christmas cocktails so people can identify whose glass belongs to whose.

If the “gold on gold” effect becomes a bit much for you then you can always tone it down by using a bit of bronze or pewter in your color mix. Soft lighting also helps this look less showy and more elegant.

How to Decorate Your Home in Winter Whites

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Decorating your home in winter whites is all about simplicity. First of all the color scheme for winter white décor tends to be white with dark brown wood. So the floors should be stained a dark brown if they are not brown already. Frames and other accents can also be made of dark wood. Otherwise everything from the door frames to banisters to kitchen cupboards is painted white. Eerie single wall is painted white as well.

Lucite furniture works well in an entry way along with oversized mirrors with white or chocolate brown frames. A great place order furniture is EverythingFurniture.com they have a huge selection. If you order from there be sure to pick up an EverythingFurniture.com discount code from MomsDiscount.com and save some money. White throw rugs or small footstools with white leather covers also work well here. Make sure everything from Kleenex boxes to plant holders is also white.

In the living room plain white cotton curtains and white bamboo shades make great window covering. A white rug with an even whiter pattern on it also completes the design. White ceramic posts and white shades should be a design feature of the lamps. Silver coffee tables with glass tops and round coffee tables made out of dark wood are also a good option.

There should be few pictures on the wall but the ones that are in place should have white ceramic or brown frames.

Floral arrangements should be lush but using white flowers such as roses, hydrangeas and calla lilies. A touch of green can be added in the form of moss or hydrangea leaves. A plain white ceramic vase filled with white money plant leaves can make a nice addition to a white room.

At Christmas time there are great ways to harmonize a white décor into your holiday color scheme. When you trim the tree, keep the lights all white and as small as possible. Clear glass and plastic ornaments and white ornaments should be interspersed with gold ones. Tie big white ribbons to the very end of the branches for a nice effect. Garlands of white pearls also suit the white-washed Christmas look.

Garlands for this type of scheme do not have to be fussy or expensive. You can tie greenery with a bit wire and white ribbon. You can also hang a boxwood wreath above your mantel or in a prominent place in the living room. You can also spray pinecones white and make a still-life in basket out of them for your mantelpiece.

Finally you can really make your Christmas tree look unique by wrapping all of your Christmas presents in white and decorating them with white ribbons as well.