The seasonal change is the first hint of the coming holiday season. That first crisp morning you step outside and the air is different, the first phone calls with invitations to bonfires, parties, dinners, and escapades! The Holidays are right around the corner. Laughter shared with family and friends is the main reason you love this time of year. Our homes become welcoming havens that offer sights and aromas to entice people to share our good fortune, food, and fun.

Decorating your home for the three main Holidays often times leaves you tired and exhausted as the weeks roll by between Halloween and New Years? You can relieve most of the pressure by using neutral colors in your Holiday decorating themes, and simple change small accents for each Holiday. The brilliant colors of the autumn season can be coordinated to carry through the winter for Christmas and New Year. The earth tones of fall and the jewel tones of Christmas match well when used properly.
When you choose to change textiles and lamp shades, and other standard room decor items, it is best if you have them stored in like item bins. You can label them by room, color, and Holiday for easy access as the weeks pass by. Wall prints, and other large items can be safely stored and brought out for a quick change when they are wrapped and labeled accordingly.

Using large textiles such as area rugs can be used to set the color scheme for any room, and any Holiday. Using an earth toned Flotaki rug during Halloween and Thanksgiving makes an easy transition from the living room to the foyer at Christmas time for a welcoming place to display a small table filled with pumpkin scented candles, and a touch of rusty red in a bowl filled with fresh apples. A burnt orange rug in the hallway can be moved to serve as a welcome spot of warm color when it is moved into a kitchen at Christmas, and blends well with other Christmas colors. Using rugs can add depth to a small room like a bathroom, and provide comfort on a cold floor. Braided rugs are an excellent way to provide easy cleanup after the holidays from straw for a pumpkin display, or the fallen needles of a Christmas tree.

Always store the smaller items used as accent pieces in bins labeled by Holiday. You can easily pull them out and swap out the small accents of pillows, figurines, napkins, and other items for the Holidays. Using tablecloths and napkins that provide coordinating color schemes from fall to winter can save time and money as the Holidays change. Slipcovers in neutral colors can be accented with decorative tiebacks, and bows of ribbons that declare the Holidays favorite color scheme.

Decorating for the Holidays should be an effortless transition from one to the other, with only a few major changes needed. Using these tips can help you move through he Holidays with more time spent with family and friends and less time worrying about changing everything at once, three times. Just make the Seasonal changes small ones, by using as many items in your home from one Holiday to the next to decorate for the Holidays.

Author Bio: Author Seraphina loves sharing her thoughts on holiday home decorating. Her most popular suggestion is to look at the floor first and consider flokati rugs and other natural area rugs.

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