Tis the season to haul out the fall decorations, keep the Halloween ones handy for a little bit and than suddenly we will move into the holiday season. The next three months are fast paced and probably my most favourite time of year. I love to check out the unique creations some of my neighbours have out and see if I can recreate them. This does not always work, but it is fun to try. 🙂
I wanted to share some great tips for simple design changes, the prep and clean-up end of things. These come courtesy of Sarah Baeumler of HGTV fame. Sarah is the co-host of her hubby’s show House of Bryan where she often puts her knack for design to good use. See what Sarah has to share..
Design Tips:
- Simplicity is key: When it comes to decorating, less is more! Over decorating is time-consuming and leaves your home feeling cluttered. A simple look will brighten your space and leave more room for mingling.
- Seasonal Florals: Fresh flowers on the dining table are a must, though one large centerpiece isn’t always the best choice when entertaining guests. Dial up the holiday spirit and leave more space on the table for turkey using smaller, in-season floral arrangements with fruit and vegetable accents to decorate your table instead of an oversized arrangement.
- Warm welcome: Start impressing your guests before they even walk in the door! Take your holiday colour scheme outdoors and set a welcoming mood with lavish greenery adorned with seasonal décor such as leaves and pine cones.
- Switch up your colours: Branch out from your traditional Thanksgiving colours and choose a colour palette reflective of your style. Using all white or different shades of white can help to keep your look clean and crisp. Or, add a festive shimmer with copper, silver or gold accents.
- Overnight guests: Soft white linens and duvets for your guests will make them feel like they’re staying at a luxurious hotel. Keep a basket with white towels and toiletry items they might have forgotten, like toothbrushes and toothpaste, for an added touch of elegance.
Prep & Clean-up Tips:
- Outdoor décor: To revive last year’s décor and keep it looking new, use OxiClean™ Versatile Stain Remover Powder. It’s the perfect solution to remove dirt, dust and grime from decorations that were sitting in storage or outside throughout the fall.
- Dress to impress: Don’t shy away from wearing your favourite party dress for fear of spills and stains. OxiClean™ Liquid Laundry Detergent keep your clothes looking vivid and bright and removes any dried-on stains the first time.
- Attack spills and stains: There’s always a risk of spills and stains at any social gathering. Be prepared for a spill to happen by mixing OxiClean™ Versatile Stain Remover Powder and warm water in a squeezable bottle before the party starts, but make sure not to seal the bottle and to discard the mixture afterwards.
- Get the kids involved: Having the kids set and clear the table gives adults some well-deserved down time. Don’t stress about their scraping and rinsing skills, OxiClean™ Extreme Power Crystals™ Dishwasher Detergent and Triple Action Dishwasher Booster will remove the toughest stuck on foods and stains to keep your dish and glassware sparkling clean and free of debris – no pre-rinsing or pre-washing necessary!
- Linens and Towels: To keep white linens brilliantly white and looking their best for your guests, use OxiClean™ White Revive™ to get tough stains out the first time. To keep colourful towels vivid and bright wash-after-wash, use OxiClean™ Liquid Laundry Detergent.
The Giveaway:
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Good luck!!
What is your favourite item to decorate with for the holidays? I love a big, leafy wreath for the Fall and a beautiful lights at Christmas time. ♥
FT&PD
Suz
Erika letson says
I love to use fall leaves of all different shapes and colours!
Melinda says
I like to use items from Nature, acorns/pine cones/flowers/branches.
Lynda Cook says
I love the lights for Christmas, so many colourful lights all around the house!!
Jonnie says
I like to decorate with wreaths for the holidays
Holly MacRitchie says
I love to decorate with evergreen garland
Heather says
I love to carve pumpkins for Halloween. I probably spend 5-6 hours per pumpkin doing the hardest designs that I think I may pull off.
lori b says
i love candles
Kelly D says
I love Christmas Lights!!
Jana L. says
lights! lots of lights 🙂
Glogirl says
I like to decorate with scented candles around the house!
Jenn says
Both multi-coloured lights and white lights!
Belinda McNabb says
the clear christmas lights. It always looks so festive and pretty
Stephanie LaPlante says
I love decorated with handmade crafts. Most are wooden.
salexis says
Candles! They offer beauty AND fragrance 🙂
Florence C says
Lots of lights and decorations I collected over the years.
Karla Sceviour says
I like to decorate with colorful and holiday candles.
maria says
pumpkins add a nice touch
Tammy Dalley says
I love to decorate with pumpkins, colorful decor and fall candle scents
sarah sar says
I love to decorate with xmas lights!
lisa bolduc says
lights, they set the mood for everything
Amy C says
I like to hang Christmas lights all over the living room.
Maria says
Love lights and greenery
heidi c. says
I love wreaths, lights and garlands all over the outside!
Annamarie V says
My favorite items to decorate with for the holiday are lights and candles.
Mrs White says
I love to decorate with fall flowers and pumpkins. Anything gold and glittery also ties in nicely 🙂
Brenda Penton says
I love to decorate with lights. Makes the house feel so cozy.
Lisa Williams says
I love decorating with all the tree ornaments I’ve collected over the years and I love to decorate with a table centerpiece and a wreath that has holly berries and pine cones.
Cheryl says
I love Christmas glass ball. I use them everywhere 🙂
Sandra Watts says
I love candles scented for the holidays.
Rosanne Robinson says
I love to decorate with candles, varying sizes, scents, & colours.
Viv Sluys says
I like to decorate with candles and window stickers.
Wendy Hutton says
love to decorate with lights, inside and outside of the house
David says
like to decorate with wreaths for the holidays
Valerie Theberge says
I love Christmas Lights 🙂
Amber Y says
I like using lighting, holiday themed throw blankets and small trinkets that can be subtly strewn through the house and on book shelves.
Anne Taylor says
I love bringing out all of my grandmother’s and mother’s old Christmas decorations the most!
Tara says
My kids gather red branches, evergreens and leaves and we make up something for the front door.
Erin W says
I love decorating with vintage items! Old wooden thread spools, retro decorations…
Judy Cowan says
I love to decorate with lights, wreath on the door and little seasonal items (tea towels, candles, figurines) etc through the house.
Jenness M says
I go a little overboard with Christimas lights love them!
elaing8 says
Christmas tree lights and homemade ornaments
beth says
I love our familys collection of meaningful christmas ornaments. We also love the rabbits, bunnies, lambs for Easter
ivy pluchinsky says
I love decorating with christmas lights or wreaths
Jennifer P. says
My favourite thing to decorate with for fall is leaves – I like to do leaf art with my kids.
lynn clayton says
candles wreaths pinecones
andrea amy says
i love to decorate the christmas tree with lots of lights and ornaments the kids have made me over the years
Judy Cowan says
Love combining mini lights, tulle and items from outside (corn stalks, hay bale, pumpkins etc) to decorate!
409cope says
I love to decorate with lots of candles!
Meg says
For the fall season I like to decorate with skulls and skeletons- creepy!
Robyn Bellefleur says
I love using wreaths because they can be changed according to the holiday or season.
Tina L. says
I like to decorate with lights.
Brenda Witherspoon-Bedard says
we like to decorate with pumpkins 🙂
Wanda Bergman says
Our Christmas tree is always the most fun to decorate!
Crystal Porter says
Lights! Lights EVERYWHERE. We’re in the process of replacing all of our old ones to more efficient LED lights.
Maria McLachlan says
I love our fresh tree and the garland most.
Dixie says
I love everything about Christmas decorations. The tree, the garlands, lights…. The more the better!!!
JOY says
i don’t decorate much any more for Halloween – we always have a jack o’ lantern of course – i love to see scarecrows, and natural decorations, like gourds, straw, leaves and corn stalks for fall festivities.
LILLIAN BROWN says
Pine cones and pine branches from the many pine trees on our property
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FREDERIC BROWN says
I like to use branches with the berries still on them from my huge Holly bushes
Christine says
Love Christmas lights!
Elissa says
I love to decorate with fall leaves, pomegranates….and my ikea solar apple.
joanne darrell says
I have a beautiful fall wreath.It is my favorite time of year.
Gillian Morgan says
I like to use white lights to add some sparkles to the tree and mantel.
Debbie F says
I like using the clear Xmas lights.
Bailey Dexter says
I love to incorporate the drawing,painting and anything the grandkids make. Before every holiday on the weekend sleep overs we do crafts
Sarah at Journeys of The Zoo says
I don’t really decorate for the holidays because we go away. I do however have a fake Christmas tree that’s set up all year in our portable. Does that count?
Besos, Sarah
Journeys of The Zoo
l p says
coloured leaves. thanks
Lisa Neutel says
i love using things from outside for example dried flowers, twigs, evergreen ..all found everywhere around me and free
KellyPC says
I have 4 huge rubbermaid totes full of Halloween decor! My fav pieces are the realistic &/or creepy bits,
Rhonda W G. says
I like to use anything from nature. I am also am determined to have a pink themed Christmas this year which I know is an extreme opposite! lol
heather sibley says
I adore Christmas lights
Wanda Tracey says
I love decorating with Christmas lights! It’s by far my favorite and I get excited to put up many for the season.
Wendy Jensen says
My favorite to decorate for the holidays is green garlands.
angela m says
I love to decorate with lights and green garland for the holidays.
Leana says
I love decorating with lights!
Elizabeth Matthiesen says
Outside that would be pumkins and inside it’s clear lights on my Christmas tree and real candles too. 🙂
Wayne Lecoy says
It would be great to win an OxiClean Prize Pack.
In response to your question of
What is your favourite item to decorate with for the holidays?
I like to use Christmas Lights and Garland to decorate.
Thank you for having this giveaway.
ruth moreira-lozon says
we love lights! we put them around the windows, door frames, it’s just so pretty and simple!
Tracy D says
We always love making a wreath every year for the front door. 🙂
Andrea says
I love our Christmas Tree and ornaments!!
Juliee Fitze says
I like using lots of lights and pine cones.
Belinda S says
I really like pinecones… Whether they are natural, painted, or sparkly!
nicolthepickle says
I like sparkles and candles, combined if at all possible. 😛
Erica Best says
i love lights
Nicole B says
I love to put up the wreath on the door. Just makes the house that much more festive
Kay says
I like to decorate with white poinsettias wrapped in silver foil with natural greenery and little white lights.
Lindsay T says
I love Christmas lights & decorating the Christmas tree.
DianeG says
I decorate with coloured lights.
Kathy Davis says
My favorite items to decorate with this time of year, pumpkins. I plant flowers in pumpkins, carve them, and put all shapes and sizes are my house. PS. I love Oxiclean. I use it weekly in my laundry.
Kristi Renout says
We use lots of sparkly white lights
Doris H says
I love decorating with candles.
Kathy Davis says
Oops! Is this giveaway open to Canada only?
MapleMouseMama says
I’m afraid so Kathy, but thank you for reading.
lynne m says
I love wreaths any time of year!
Patrick Siu says
I don’t decorate. Its a pain in the butt to remove it after.
Treen Goodwin says
I love Icicle lights for the Holidays 🙂 thanks for the chance 🙂
Min K says
candles
Dreena says
I like to decorate with fairy lights (the little lights) as well as seasonal greenery.
Cheers.
Piroska says
I love decorating with natural things–pine boughs, pinecones, burlap, etc.
Angela Mitchell says
I love fall wreaths and swags.
mrdisco says
popcorn strands
Lucky says
I love decorating with holiday lights! In and around the house. So magical !
Kim G. says
I decorate with a Christmas tree and lights.
AlEa Elliott says
Lights, garland, holiday scents! It’s all so wonderful.
Karine says
Garlands are simple but make such a difference
Gail says
pine boughs and branches
Megan C says
I love decorating with lights. I have ones the color of candy corn and ones that look like candy canes. I have a ton more for every holiday.