Ready to Bloom When you swap out holiday plates for things you use in your home throughout the year, start looking for new methods to exhibit aged bits. Karin Jeffcoat of Cote Designs at South Carolina used classic milk glass for this particular tablescape, including placing one bowl on top of a cake. The dishes have a wintery white appearance. She then filled them with paperwhite bulbs that complement the pinecones on the table, knowing they will bring even more heat to the insides when they bloom.
Rustic Placecard Holder Replace the color and glitz of holiday placecard holders with easy, rustic ones. South Carolina floral and event designer Karin Jeffcoat created placecard holders by setting individual pinecones in miniature urns. Pinecones can transition your home from the holiday season.
Woodsy Texture Usher in the winter season. Dig through your cabinets or scout thrift shops for patterned vases and bowls, which can be full of pinecones and bulbs, such as these paperwhites chosen by floral designer Karin Jeffcoat. Use different finishes and designs to give the tabletop an casual, eclectic look. "I really like the feel of the bulb itself," she adds.
Bits of Green After Christmas, those once festively adorned spaces on tables and in bookshelves may feel empty. Warm up the winter months with hints of natural greenery, particularly in shades that differ from traditional holiday sunglasses. "Greens are a soft accent for the house," says Karin Jeffcoat of Cote Designs. She used reindeer moss that's maintained to give it this chartreuse color, but you might also forage items, such as magnolia leaves, in the yard.
Scandinavian Inspiration To update a wreath for your winter, use white paint and fake snowflakes, such as interior designer Eduardo Rodriguez of The Designer Pad did for this particular tablescape. He also upcycled pinecones, which can be dipped in white paint for a shimmery effect, and arranged them in terra cotta pots that he painted gray and white. The rest of the pots hold colorful candies and biscuits for a casual Scandinavian-inspired winter get-together.
Cozy and Contemporary With their thick, fleshy leaves, succulents give a more contemporary edge to decorating for the winter. Floral and event designer Karin Jeffcoat upcycled old cable-knit sweaters to produce adorable, versatile container covers that balance that modern feel with a cozy warmth needed to make it through a long winter inside. This foursome could be a coffee table vignette, or you could make longer to operate down a dining table, interspersed with pinecones and dried pomegranates.
Long-lasting Extras Pinecones and dried pomegranates can help decoration last well past the holidays. Karin Jeffcoat of Cote Designs utilized glass cylinders to maintain small succulents, making use of a filler and then inserting a smaller kettle together with the succulent so that it would peek over the top. She coated the cylinders with pieces of sweaters.
Winter Bundles Upcycle bits of an old blouse, as well as flannel, to get a creative koozie to maintain a low-maintenance succulent. Karin Jeffcoat of all Cote Designs, a floral and event studio at Aiken, S.C., combined several succulents for this cute winter look.
Clever Container To make the winter look last, you can fasten the sweater cloth around a vase, glass tubing or pot in a couple of ways. You can hand sew the cloth together, like Karin Jeffcoat of Cote Designs failed here, or hot glue it.
Whimsical Mantel A flock of tiny owls nestled on a mantel brings a whimsical woodsy element and texture to a winter scene over the fireplace. You even could leave up a number of your greenery and berries for this post-holiday look constructed by Atlanta designer Ann Wisniewski.
Wintery and Beautiful Insert a fluffy white pillow to an antique chair, or some other wood or metal chair, to give your room an instant touch of elegance that is white. Atlanta designer Robin LaMonte also put glittery snowflake cutouts in the built-in screen cabinet and filled in the spaces with greenery and jewel-toned items.
Iced Effect Fill vases with a shiny finish, such as mercury glass, with iced branches and flowers to give your holiday centerpiece a classy winter refresh. Add a few snowflake votives (these are Allen Roth new from Lowe's) to transition into a new year seem. Then while packing up ornaments, keep away shapes such as pinecones or finials, which may finish off the conversion.
Glitter and Gold Glittery pinecones and greenery may take your winter decor into the new year at a brand new and festive way. Georgia interior designer Melanie Robinson upgraded these pinecones by covering them with a spray glue, putting them in a ziplock bag and pitching in clean glitter. She doubled up on bites to add weight to the coffee table vignette then brought in new greenery from her yard to add height to a brass vase she picked up at a thrift store.
Fresh Florals After the vacation plates, platters and placemats are stored off, add a new element of greenery through new blossoms and topiaries. The lemon cypress topiaries and Star of Bethlehem in urns supply a touch of green, whether on a table or on a mantel, says floral and event designer Karin Jeffcoat.
Green and White Redux White and green is a universal colour which can transition nicely into post-holiday decorating, particularly in the event that you remove stronger holiday hues like red. Karin Jeffcoat of all Cote Designs filled small urns with fresh flowers, such as white hydrangeas and dainty Star of Bethlehem.
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