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A minimalistic holiday Becka Miller
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n my early 30’s we owned a big old drafty historical home in the village of Baldwinsville. I took decorating for the holidays very seriously. It was a weeklong affair adorning every banister and window frame with decor. I love those memories and I like to think I made that time of year very magical for my children. But children grow up and my life looks very different now. With a very busy career running two businesses I don’t have the time or energy to go all out like I used to. But interior design is my business and I love my home to be beautiful, so I have learned a few minimalist approaches to the holidays. The first thing I do is to gather pine branches. I cut them from my own yard or I purchase them from Home Depot and I use them everywhere. I keep the same decor I have all year long and add pine to vases, and urns.
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I switch out my pillow covers on my couch to my holiday pillow covers, and I use a few simple wooden signs and word garlands around my home. For our Christmas tree we went fake about ten years ago, and I don’t hang all of my ornaments, but I do keep them in a decorative bowl so we can still look at them and reminisce. A trick to make your tree look fuller is to buy neutral or decorative tissue paper and ball it up and stuff it on the inside of the tree, this fills in empty spaces in the tree and pushes the ornaments to the front of the tree. The holidays can be stressful for most of us, a more minimalist Christmas allows us to put the focus where it should be, celebrating with our loved ones. SWM Becka Miller owns Millers Crossing Design, www.millerscrossingdesign.com
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