Could we talk about throw pillows for a moment?
Lois Huneycutt
6 years ago
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Comments (29)Sheesharee said: I'm trying to grasp putting the ornaments in the middle section. If you don't have enough to fill wouldn't it look like the color is just in the middle? I don't think I'm explaining this right. I don't think your trees look like there's vertical color in the middle. It's all well balanced. Back to Me: I will try to explain it better, sorry, so much easier to show someone in person LOL. OK, what I ment was you would put a large amount of the plain gold balls (in this case) in the internal part of the tree. You can place them sporadically inside the tree making sure though you start at the inside (where the trunk is) with the plain gold balls. Let me make this part more clear with what I deal with. Primary decorative ornaments I want to be able to see easily: Primary tree decorations. The pretty red decorative balls. The crystal drops. The glass icicles. The silk flowers,in this case red(this is something I choose to use) Secondary: The plain inexpensive gold balls. These are ment primarily for the inside "stuffing of the tree", BUT, some are used in a much smaller amount on the outside areas of the tree (parts you can see) for bringing in the gold ball as a SMALL ACCENT. So in answer to your question you would be treating your plain balls as a filler and tiny accent, NOT as the primary decoration. You would be using the PRIMAIRY balls on the outside, icicles, crystal drops, silk flowers. So that means you would buy 100 or so of the cheap balls for the inside and small outside accents. You would then be buying the PRIMARY balls, crystals, icicles in much larger amounts (I use at least a total of 300-500 of these primary items) Now my DD doesn't like as much as an over kill tree as me (although anyone coming to her home and seeing her tree is just in awe of it) So she uses the same items as I do basicly, but cuts the amount of ornament down to about HALF of what I do, and I think her tree is very beautiful. Now, I am just explaining how I decorate a tree, it doesn't mean that it is everyone elses taste. In the evolution of your tree you will come to the realization of what is best for you. My tree that I am doing this year was an evolving process, it took me quite a few years to get where I am, that is because since I am not wealthy, I have to do it a little bit at a time every year. I am happy to say, that I don't think I have to buy any more for the cream, crystal, and gold tree. Thank goodness! LOL Oh, yes, and as a bonus I can used the glass icicles and crystals with any color theme of tree, they fit right on in, so that saves me money too. This is an example of my cream color theme on some stacking plates. Does that make more sense?...See MoreCan we talk about bedroom pillows?
Comments (17)I took some pictures to show what I mean about it looking lopsided with DH and my sleeping pillows below. This is what it looks like with three smaller sized sleeping pillows below: Pls. ignore the comforter at the bottom. I bought a new duvet and the euro shams from Pottery Barn a few months ago that I'm planning to switch over to for a spring/summer look and am figuring out how to incorporate the euroshams into the picture. Another option I suppose would be to try to exchange the euroshams for standard shams and put the sleeping pillows behind those and don't use the matelasse shams. That way I don't have to deal with so many bed pillows. Either way though, it does seem to give a more balanced look to stick with 3 smaller sized sleeping pillows. Also, for those with queen beds, do you use standard or queen sized pillows? The queen sized ones don't seem to fit as well in the shams as the standard sized ones do. DO they make shams for queen size pillows or only standard and king size? I need to decide soon if I'm going to return any of these pillows....See MoreAbout to lose my mind over throw pillows!
Comments (27)Patricia- your story made my day! Sounds like something my father would do. I would love to wait on paint, but DH is insisting we do it before the new floor is in, which is happening well before the furniture is moved. *sigh* I guess he will learn about that part of decorating if we have to repaint because our color pick looks horrible with our furniture. anele- I was thinking about a creamy color I suppose, though I am so tired of living in a vanilla rental box. The biggest problem I'm running into with the couch is that many tones (even some non-neutrals) are making the couch appear yellow. So I'm still playing around with it. The other issue is that whatever color we pick for the living room will need to go down the hall (see my flooring x-post in this forum for a few pics) since there isn't a good place to transition the color. I will probably make yet another thread about paint after I take some good pictures tomorrow. holly-kay: I think I'm going to sneak the cow in and put her in the office with some fun, bright curtains! I think DH will let me get away with a little more in there :)...See MoreCan we talk about layering?
Comments (4)I fall in the more-is-more style of decor so layering is arranging several things on a table or other surface in a harmonious way. For example I might use a runner, a lamp, a plate on a plate stand, a plant, a statue, and a decorative box all together on a buffet or hall table. Or I might use several candles in candlesticks arranged in a group perhaps on a silver tray. Another example is using several pillows of different sizes or shapes on a sofa or bed with some arranged in front of others and a throw as well. One thing I like to do is overlap framed pictures on my mantel. Using an area rug on top of carpet is more extreme layering. I think layering has to do with embellishing, textures, as well as patterns. The layered look, while the term may be fairly recent, goes way back. Victorians decorated this way with the layers of window treatments and doilies under every tschotske and ornament. There are some styles in which layering works better than others I believe. Contemporary style would lend itself to less or even no layering whereas English country cottage, Victorian, even Traditional almost require it....See Moreacm
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