Christmas Kitchen Accessories

A small suggestion that can transform your home decor Christmas in an original way, flee standardized decorations and we convert our house into a warm home where entertaining family and friends with all our love. Cookware, new or old will help us create a loving home for our Christmas decorations.

The trays for cakes, especially those who have foot or are for cakes of various heights are magnificent items to decorate if you add small plants or plant crowns. Flat trays they can also serve to decorate, we will use them as a backdrop for a table centerpiece for example.

Nice pasta strainer can serve to make a centerpiece with a large candle decorated with holly. A mug with Christmas spheres can be placed on any furniture in the hall or living room as decoration. And canning jars are excellent for mounting original candles with red berries and green branches.

Metal trays arranged on the wall or on the table with pineapples and other plant decoration typical of the era. The glassware used as vases or candle holders are very common elements that give this new use greatly highlighted.

Any item of kitchen can be used with other tasks. Original shakers used as picture frames are a great idea. Jars and other containers used as vases. This will help us to form an original Christmas decoration that is sure to cause great impact on your guests.

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Silver Plated Christmas Ornaments

The silver color is one of the most characteristic of the Christmas season. It is present in the centerpieces to decorate with meals this time of year, in the accessories to decorate the tree and in another series of Christmas decorations so common. This Christmas will tone with a different, magical as ever, but with a twinkle hue.

The strips of silver on the tree are a classic that never gets old. Christmas balls, walnuts and hazelnuts painted this shade for schools, hanging stars, drenched with spray cones ... all help you to beautiful pictures as we see in the images.

A nice assortment of silver ornaments are a must on the dough. A majestic color, especially for those important dates that we gather with family and friends. The table shine specially with those touches in bright gray, with simplicity and harmony.

Uses silver sprays specially designed for the holidays. They are sold in many gift shops and craft you will facilitate this work. Send a layer Christmas decorations is super simple, just sprinkle with spray on the object and then let it dry. We can also buy ornaments and painted in this color, of course. Complete with glasses, napkin and cutlery in gray or blue, have a Christmas decoration out of the ordinary.

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Ideas For Christmas Tree Stand

If you want to put something different from the traditional skirt at the base of your Christmas tree take a look at the proposals that we present below. There is something for everyone, you can choose the option that best suits your decorating style and your tree will look much more original these parties.

A wooden box with wheels is a good aesthetic choice, combine perfectly if the style of your decor is industrial chic rustic or shabby. The can paint the same color that dominates the room, white is ideal, you can also decorate it with some allusion to the holidays as a single arrow pointing to the North Pole in the picture above.

If you want a more natural choice, if possible, you can opt for a wicker basket. In this case you can leave the tree with the root ball and plant it after the holidays abroad.

This base of pineapples is original and easy to do. We will use a walk every weekend to pick up a bunch of dried pineapples. We can use them as is or decorate with a little white paint or white glitter.

Speaking of natural options it is not far behind, a piece of tree trunk with its natural patina will be a great base for a Christmas tree. The contrast between the intense green of the tree and the dark color of the body is perfect. It can be used in any decor.

Above we showed one made ​​with a box of fruit base, well if your tree is large proportions can make this "fence" especially with a large drawer for industrial packaging.

We may also use a basin or tub of zinc, we also combine with almost any modern decorating style from rustic to industrial. If we provide a warm antique vintage touch to the decoration of these parties and family so endearing.

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Christmas Centerpiece Decorations

Today I want to show you some ideas for decorating the table this holiday season. All but simple ideas that you can do yourself, and most importantly, spending very little money.

Now I show what I have done with a cardboard I made ​​the trees and the candleholder is a glass jar that I've stuck a few sprigs of bush. The white balls I bought last Christmas.

I hope it will inspire you and that you put into practice some of these ideas.

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Decorating Wreaths Ideas

Wreaths are not just for Christmas and look at the pictures but I bring you today. With garlands such spaces can be created very special and very important. Well ... I hope to bring forth an idea.

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New Christmas Colors 2013

We bring new proposals to break the routine of green and red, new color combinations for a new Christmas. This next Christmas is a good opportunity to innovate, sharpen our creativity and decorate our home with new color combinations. From the examples we bring you sure you can go further and innovate new combinations. We got carried away by the inertia and habit too often, a little change and even a hint of rebellion are the spice of life.

Decorate your Christmas tree with an assortment of blue, silver and green glass ornaments and add an assortment of packages wrapped in blue and white to complete the color scheme. This combination of green and blue, both in light tones, complemented with silver creates an environment of great elegance and subtlety.

Green combined with brown create a natural environment in this living room. The decoration of the fireplace , with green socks on the wood, is reflected in the tree decorated with bright green fields and flowers in cream.

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A perfect spanish holiday retreat

Today I bring you the tangible proof that "holiday home" doesn't have to be equal to "resigned to comfort and design". This house, located in the small town of El Pozo de los Frailes, in the heart of the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata, i have been dazzled by its light, the color, the parts recovered by owners who are unable to give an air mid-century so attractive.

is that as I have been told their owners - readers of this blog ; )- most of the furniture and decorative objects have been recovered from second-hand shops, such as the sofa and a couple of armchairs , both 60 and reupholstering in an intense blue color. But they have also found parts in vintage clothes shops, on Ebay, in Etsy.

The handmill, that wonderful furniture in blue and white on the left, is a finding of the years 50 that was in a very bad state of conservation and painted completely white. But oh, what a surprise! The decaparla discovered the original blue and so now looks like in the kitchen, next to the banks Tolix in metal and the collection of demijohns and old glass bottles blue. 

 on the wall there is a cartel of 1949 original of the feasts of Almeria and a poster of the 60 of a exposure of Miro in the Gaspar de Barcelona room purchased in Populart in Seville. The coffee table is one of the years 30 and above there is a bulb Phase ahhh! And a sculpture of a bull of Jonathan Adler. The mirror is of Thai Natura and the tiles of the floor, crafts, a factory alicantina. **** AND to close some beautiful images of the area. And that is that I have been able to read, part of the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata is a Biosphere Reserve. So here I leave you, with some almost untouched beaches and an environment to discover with calm. If even the New York Times have been set in this "the European paradise ... ". It will be something. I already have it on my list of

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