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Advent wreath
The sacral advent wreath is made of pine branches, has a round shape, decorated with four candles, three of them is purple and one is pink. They are to be lit on the four Sundays before Christmas, one more on each Sunday, so on the last Sunday all of them are burning. Nowadays we consider the advent wreath freely, it can have any shape and the colors and numbers of the candles can be also different from the tradition, even the lighting is not important, just the decorating function. Let’s choose an advent wreath for our classic home which is integrated to the Christmas decoration and fits to the colors of the interior.
If we would like to decorate the mantelpiece with it, don’t force the round shape. A multi-tined candle holder can be decorated as an advent wreath. Bind pine branches to its body. Stick berry branches among them and decorate it with ribbons and Christmas ornaments.
We can use a porcelain cake stand instead of a wreath body. If we would like to make it more unique, put four smaller saucers on it and insert the tall candles in them. Make sure it stands stably. Fill the saucers with moss, put holly berry or thuja branches around them. The cake stand and the saucers can be different in color but pay attention to harmony.
An antique silver plate could be a perfect base. Stand thick cylinder candles beside each other. Decorate them with ribbons and evergreens. Sprinkle walnuts, peanuts around them and make it more colorful with some apples or dried slices of orange.
For vintage style, put the candles in small tin buckets or clay pots. Fill them with moss. Put them on a wooden disc and use bark as decoration. It’s simpler and shiny solution if we put the white cylinder candles in jars. Just stand them in a row and number.
Ask for help of an interior designer for choosing the perfect festive decorations of your home.
Advent calendars
Reusable and creative advent calendars
Kitchen floor plans
Basic kitchen layouts on the floorplan and in reality (galley, U-shape, L-shape)
Candle
Demand for candles increases in this time of the year. The aim is not only dismissing the early darkness with cozy and romantic lighting but raising the shine of the coming feasts also. However, there are differences between the materials of candles and the production methods have a long history in elder days.
Beeswax was the first known wax. Nowadays using it is fashionable again. It burns long but it’s harder to work with. The candle is made of it by bailing, casting or rolling up wax sheets. The material has the smell and the color of honey.
Candles were made of tallow until the end of the 19th century. These were cheaper than wax, so mostly the poor used them. It had bad small because of its animal origin and sooted very much. In the ancient times animal fat and plant oils were burnt in small clay pots as lamps.
Stearin comes from natural fat, the candle made of it will be opalescent and milk-white. is the solid material breaks easily, candle can be made of it only by casting.
Paraffin is a petrol derivative, nowadays this is the most common material. It is easily workable, colorable and suitable for both casting and bailing.
The material of gel candle is actually a gelatinous textured limpid wax. It is suitable for casting. Bubbling can be eliminated by dipping the glass in hot water during casting.
Wick is an essential part of any kind of candles, which is a spun cotton material treated with paraffin. This provides the soot-free burning.
Any shape, color or smell candle is chosen for mood-lighting, it will be the part of the interior. Ask for help of an interior designer for planning the mood-lighting for a special occasion.
New England style
New Endland style interiors (nature inspired neutral colors combined with white and blue, with nautical ornaments)
Copper
Copper is in fashion again in interior design
My project 11.
Before-after photos of my latest project (block apartment, 67sqm)
Staircase decorations
The inner staircases were mostly treated as a necessary bad during planning and building a house. They were commonly designed narrow for gaining bigger useful spaces, with frequently uncomfortably high steps. This is felt by not only the owners but the guest also. Try to distract attention from it.
Let’s redirect the guests’ attention at the walls instead! One way of it is to put strong patterned wallpaper on the walls from the bottom to the top of the stairs. In this case, there’s no need for additional decor. If the surroundings are quite neutral, bold colors and patterns will attract the attention. Creating a picture gallery is another possibility. Hang similar themed or similar framed pictures all on the walls of the staircase. We can use mirrors, old window frames, colored gypsum rosettes etc. instead of pictures.
Further method is to decorate the stairs themselves. The rises of steps can be painted, wallpapered or even tiled. The stair runner not only makes the usage more comfortable, but it can be a perfect design element also. Striped pattern helps attract the eye upwards, but the same effect can be reached with a stronger color divergent from the color theme of the interior.
Any object can be a focal point in the turn of stairs or on the wall vis-a-vis the top of it, this way it almost drags up the one who passing. If there is a bigger place, put a chair, a bigger vase, an old rocking horse or any other object there fitting for the style. If there isn’t such a big space, just hung a picture on the wall or put very narrow shelves on which smaller decorating objects can be lined.
The combinations of these above just enhance the effect. Ask for help of an interior designer for solving similar problems.
Color pairs 19.
Color pairs: red-brown
