We decorate our tree with strands of popcorn, cranberries, dried oranges, homemade gingerbread men and salt dough ornaments. The children love to make these things together and it is sweet making memories with them. If you and your friends don’t have kids you can make these things together and it will be fun for adults too ❤️ I love a homemade Christmas! The vibes of this video are so cozy and I’m glad to have a video of things Paige actually likes 😂
Me too I love homemade and handmade decorations. Making them is half the fun of the season and they just look so much more personal than storebought mass produced things.
I put up framed vintage Christmas vinyl record albums. The graphics are amazing and often totally over-the-top. Every star/singer put out an Xmas album back in the day and they’re incredibly easy to thrift.
As a pro organizer this is validating. A few seasonal and sentimental touches give warmth and sophistication without taking up loads of storage space the rest of the year. Real flora can just be tossed.
I gave my daughter an ornament every year since birth. Usually depicting some event…broken arm skating so a skater, travel, drivers license, college. She just got her first apartment and has a collection of meaningful ornaments for her tree.
My mom did the same I have a nice collection of ornaments for when I eventually have my own tree! Plan on doing the same with my kids! Such a sweet idea🎄
My parents also did the same thing! And my husband's parents, so now we already have a full tree of ornaments. I can basically tell our life stories via ornament lol
I love how this video is all about Christmas decor yet you don't smile once. Reminds me of my husband. You may not enjoy it this year but everyone will still enjoy you being there ❤
I once asked my adult son if he thought Paige was cute (I do!). He said she is adorable and he especially liked how she didn't feel the need to smile. 😐
This video is a whole smile in itself and Paige smiles at least once at the end. I also do love that she is a parcimonious smiler. She is adorable and she knows her stuff !
Thrift stores are a great place to find a huge variety of ribbon for very little money. If you want unique colors and patterns, the vintage ribbons are far more fun than what’s currently in craft stores.
I have a collection of Christmas postcards from the 1920s and thereabouts. The graphics and the colors are so pretty, and each card was only $1-2 each. I clip them on a garland, etc.
Probably my absolute favourite holiday decor-video to date! A few years ago I started buying one christmas decoration for the tree when I travel. Don’t have space for a tree of my own yet, but one day it will be filled with travel memories!
I do the same, and now have a box full of one-off Christmas decorations from my travels. Because I have dogs almost all of them are made of wood or metal or cloth so non-breakable;-))
This was great. It alleviates the holiday pressure thing. My 10-year relationship ended, so I’m not feeling too festive this year, but I did buy a sweet old Victorian home, so I want to create a good vibe with that. Candles, a simple tree and some easy front porch decor is about all I have energy for. I’ll bake, too. That’s what makes it the holidays for me-Vince Guaraldi and baking. With all the insanity of the past few years, just creating a warm, relaxing vibe feels like the right level of festive.
Hey Paige, I lost a pet this season and it changed how I plan to decorate. Rather than reds, I’m doing green and gold… more muted and peaceful. Christmas or the holidays are not the most wonderful time of the year for everyone…. It should be meaningful to us as families or individuals and a time for us all to be kinder to each other if we haven’t been that way all year. Some folks don’t have family, some are broke, some has experienced loss, or are sick. It’s a good time to find your joy, but also a good time reflect and find a way to give peace to yourself or another. People think buying is a means of giving … give someone a compliment, open a door, be kinder when your frustrated, donate coats, socks and underwear to charity as they can’t accept those things used; and give yourself time to rest and just be. Much love and peace to you all. Be kind to yourselves too. ❤
Paige, here's some chill background music you might like for the festive season that doesn't lay the cHrIsTmAS cHEeR on too thick: - A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio - Live at The Bon Soir - Barbra Streisand - Scenery - Ryo Fukui - Black Focus - Yussef Kamaal - Any of the "Khruangbin Vibes" Volumes, not official but easy to find on yt - Space 1.8 - Nana Sinephro
@@striketochill Here's one just for you: Mina - Mina (1971) ---- self titled album with a cute baby monkey as the album cover. Italian chantress with veery lush grand orchestration, leans slightly into rock at times.
When I was a baby, because my parents were not well off, my mom would make ornaments while I napped. She made them out of toilet paper cardboard rolls - santa, elf, mrs claus, three wise men, a caroler ... and I can't remember what else. I now have them - except the caroler bc my dad thought she was sexy and so my mom kept her. LOL. I finally have an apartment large enough to decorate and plan to get a fake tree (I don't like to kill trees) and decorate with with these amazing embroidered and beaded bug ornaments I have (from target!). That's as far as I have gotten in my planning!
Love your sweater and love who you are. It's been so good to have someone pull people back to being creative without the cheap commercial props. I have my grandmother's small xmas trees from 2 inches to 6 inches, some she added tiny bits of cotton to look like snow. I have her bird ornaments that I put in a dish with small pinecones I forage, her ornaments from the 1930s and 40s that she had, some that she added glitter to. The old beaded garlands so fragile, she restrung some and there's spaces in between that I hide, some are broken.But I remember the beauty of them on the tree as a kid. I have the treasures I said I wanted when she asked me before she died. She used to create a city under the tree and made a little lake with a mirror and a swan, it was what I most looked forward to on xmas morning. I still have that swan and some of the tiny metal cars from those eras. I also have faves I saved of my own for 50 yrs, like egg carton stars I cut and glittered, when I was pregnant with my son. I love the creativity and the history of the old vs the new. Thank you being honest and authentic, and keep the sweater, it's gorgeous!
When I was a kid in the early 70s, at school we made simple decorations by staggering two small squares of different colored tissue paper, poke your finger in the middle and twist the paper, so it looks like a flower. My mom loved those when I brought them home, and kept them for several years. Now I dote on the felt and sequin birds she made from directions in Good Housekeeping in the 60s.
My favorite holiday decor is the little 4x4 canvas paintings I buy every year from the kids at our local Boys and Girls Club. They look so good grouped together and I love supporting these little artists 👩🎨
I'm in the same position as you this Christmas Paige (same age too!) and am finding it daunting. To be honest, I've been wishing we could just skip to January. You seem to have a good attitude to it all though and I admire that ❤️ My parents always have a bare branch (often lichen-covered) hung from the ceiling in our hallway. My Dad uses fishing wire to hang it so it looks like it's floating. Then we decorate it with miniature vintage baubles, lights and lameta. It's beautiful to gaze up through, like a Christmas cavern - sort of like stalactites! It's fun to go out foraging for the perfect branch. Lots of love from Cornwall, UK xx
Every year my mom makes gift bags from Christmas fabric, and has been doing so for as long as I can remember. We all have a stash of them and get some more every year so we can give them away as needed too. I almost never actually wrap anything. It’s so effortless and you could get holiday fabric at the end of the season and make a few bags throughout the year. It’s literally a square and and anyway to do a tie.
I really like your character and your sweater as well. For a few years now, I’ve turned to reggae Christmas tunes! They are fun and uplifting during sentimental or hard times. I miss the days of what felt like our friend-Christmas on the 23rd. So many would be coming home for the holidays and they were such fun reunions.
I think whatever makes your nostalgia sing…go for it. I love that you decorate your Thanksgiving table with your mom. I bet the cabbages will be fantastic. My house is full of quilts and embroidered items that my mom and others have made, along with…fake trees and wreaths. 😝 Living in So Arizona, foraging means cactus, and gosh darn I like the look of a piney tree. You can of course purchase greenery, but it is cost prohibitive.
Your classic / traditional Xmas decor style is so very much like I what I grew up with and continue to do myself. The more "natural" the better and it all feels so warm and cozy but never overdone or "plastic"! Enjoy your holidays and I'm looking forward to the videos of your new home in the new year.
For anyone in the UK, there’s a gorgeous stationary shop in Seven Dials, London called Choosing Keeping and their Christmas selection of vintage cards, baubles, wrap, etc are just beautiful.
Thank you Paige, for another great video! I think it’s my favorite, so far. I understand being in “crisis” during the holidays. Something pretty awful happened to me during the holidays years ago. I actually stopped enjoying Christmas until I had grandkids. (Many years). I hope the new year has great things waiting for you.
When do you get ornaments?? When (and if) you have kids of your own, give them an ornament (or two) every year at Christmas and slowly they will build up a collection. Whenever we travel, if I see cute ornaments, I will buy some for my now adult kids to keep adding to the collection. I think by the time they all move out (when they are in the 40's, at this rate), they will have more than enough to fill a tree!
My mom started collecting ornaments for us when we were born. Every year we got a new ornament, usually connected to something like a vacation or a special event. When I first moved out of the house I bought a couple boxes of vintage mercury glass ornaments and right away I had a tree that was special and tasteful looking, not something covered with tat from the craft store.
Love these! I lost my mother a year ago and we loved to forage for greenery, birch bark and holly. All of your suggestions very much remind me of my childhood home and reminds me of happy times with her. She would agree with all of this 😊 haha
Hey Paige, I really feel you in regard to not having your own place to decorate for the holidays, but you will get there! I just moved into an apartment by myself and this is my first time being able to do what I want with the space. Its such a freeing feeling after a long time of struggling and I want everyone to experience it By the way, if any of you cat owners out here are reading this, keep in mind to keep the cats away from real pine! It is toxic for them. Personally I'm using my grandmothers old ceramic tree haha
On ornaments. My Mom got my brothers and I an ornament every year. I started buying myself an ornament every year once I was out of college. When I put them on the tree, I tell my children (who I have bought an ornament for/they've picked out every year) the stories behind them. It's an oral history, of sorts. It's also tradition. That's the most important thing in your video, "This is what my family does". The tips are good too!!!
One of my favorite things at the holidays is switching out some of my year-round art for holiday pieces. It feels a lot more cohesive with my style and gives me a built-in reason to refresh my gallery wall.
Colonial Williamsburg has always used fresh fruit such as wreaths of lemon and magnolia, apple and pineapple and boxwood. It is one of the things I love. It is simple and nostalgic. I also like to force bulbs. Seeing red or white tulips look so beautiful and cozy. For packages I love to use red shiny paper with red shiny bow, green on green, or silver on silver. I love monochrome style for gifts. It looks sophisticated. Love your suggestions. Totally agree that less is best. No DIY Dollar Store!
An alternative to the silver dishes and bowls of nuts is a large crystal bowl filled with cinnamon scented pine cones and slices of dried citrus fruit. Thats the first thing to appear in my place, that and the candles. It does get a bit more Christmasy later on but still staying classy, I hope. I did give in and buy an artificial tree after decades of real trees. I hated it at first but once I'd learned how to style it I felt a little better about it. It's still not the same but circumstances make having a real tree a challenge and I simply can't be without a tree at all. I have accumulated a lifetime of ornaments and decor but some of my favourites are the handmade bows made with wired ribbon. I hope that despite everything you do manage to have a lovely time x
I am sure you would have liked the way we decorated for xmas at my grandparents' home in Denmark: no plastic, no writing...just candles in the tree (yes it was dangerous!) nuts and apples, crumbs for the birds in the snow and a lot of knitting and violin playing near the wood-burner.
I like your holiday sweater! I'm a greens and candles lover for decorating the home. When they are used up, you don't have to store them. I Love plaid -- for pillows and throws and table cloths. I have a few pieces of art that have a winter theme that I get out every year when it starts getting cold and snowy.
I definitely have some festive art pieces that I put out only around the holidays. My dad painted me a large piece of a figure skating polar bear and it doesn't really fit my vibe for most of the year, but in Nov/Dec it's A+.
I am a “til the wheels fall off” kind of decorator. I only buy what I really love. I pull out the same things every year: my Erzgebirge nutcracker, my off-white ‘03-‘04 Target tablecloth with the wide chenille border and felt holly appliqués, my silver salt and pepper shakers . . . they still excite me. This year, I’m putting juniper cuttings around tapered candles on the dining table.
I’m also going through my own crisis. Really bad breakup last year with my now ex fiancé. Soooo I also have spent a year avoiding all sentimental shit. Appreciate knowing I’m not alone on that
You crack me up- love the straightforwardness.🤣🤣 I use natural things for decorating the holidays, because when they are over i throw them in the compost. Also for Christmas I add heirloom ornaments on the table with holiday chocolates, candles and greens.
the bowls of nuts!!! that rly brought back memories of my grandma and all her christmas eve traditions :’) blessing each corner of the house by throwing walnuts to the corners of the dining room
my grandmother always decorated her house with holly - placed on shelves, wound around the railing of her staircase, in vases around the house. I loved it and was so happy to move into a place with a holly tree in the yard so I can do the same.
I used to live in the part of the country where holly could be grown. I guess we rather took it for granted. I live in area now where holly comes in a wee cellophane wrapped box at great expense ( and from holly farms in the same town where I lived as a child!). I treasure these tiny bits of holly now and put them in a place of honour in our home.
Lots of good ideas here!! I started buying myself a very nice xmas ornament, glass, handblown and imported from Germany, every xmas. I would buy a couple more because they also make great xmas presents too. Xmas is about light, reflections, sparkle, and color at its most basic. As for a tree, I have a bright orange bottlebrush tree I bought years ago that was a prop from a tv xmas special. About 4ft tall. If you are go with a fake tree-amp it up!!
One of my favorite decor pieces are some ceramic snowman’s my little nephew painted when he was 6!!! I treasure them and happy to put them out every year
Candles, sparkly lights, baking yummy fragrant things, warm and cozy things like blankets. A mix of vintage & handmade things. I like a personal and warm vibe, not a glitzy glamour show-offy theme.
I was waiting for this! Being also a Christmas grinch with a 5 yo I want to stay away from tacky crafty stuff (which is inevitable with a kid) and going for a mix of simple/minimal with a touch of something drawn by my kid like seating cards or something. Since I print a lot from work, for wrapping paper I like to recicle the drawing drafts with a cute ribbon. GLAD to know you're also against fake trees, since I work with real plants for me is a BIG no no. Here in Barcelona you can order a tree from a plant nursery website and get it on your living room for as cheap as 50 euros so is a no brainer for me. Thank you Paige!
My mom and I crafted a lot at holidays when I was a kid. The ones I remember the best and liked the most were ones that involved us making little houses for little villages - like using graham crackers to build fake little gingerbread houses from. One year we embroidered some. Super fun and cute and some we still have.
I have a fake tree and have since age 9 because I have pretty bad allergies 🥲but I get balsam candles to get the smell 😊I’ve been really leaning into campy mid century Christmas vibes (which complements my apartment decor) and it’s really fun.
Just here to post my appreciation of "old hoes" and that this is the exact dynamic and humor of my family and that i appreciate it since sadly, many families don't have this level of humor or closeness. My dads mom is from Chicago so maybe that's it. ❤
i read in a magazine that danish people usually have a candle next to their plate when they eat dinner on Christmas eve. The point is to sit at the table the longest, till the candle has burned down. probably not possible to sit there the whole evening, but it's cool to make it into some sort of contest that actually just results in eating slow and enjoying dinner/quality time. love ur videos!
I always go a little hog wild w Christmas decor. Last year I got my first chance to decorate outdoors, to decorate my front porch. I couldn't really figure out how to rig up lights outside...maybe this year I'll add them. So much of my decor is thrifted. Do you remember how fabric stores used to sell pieces of cotton that were printed with animals, etc.? You cut out the front and back, sew it together, and stuff it w cotton. I have a Santa like that, I thrifted the material and sewed it together myself. It's a funny little pillow on my couch at Christmas.
I do a fun kitchy Christmas that is fully intentional. I love foraging for greenery. I gave up a full size tree for a full size leg lamp and crate in honor of my favorite Christmas movie. Being an Ohioan we own that movie considering it was filmed here. That goes with decorating regionally. I have a 1950 decorating style with actual pieces from that era. That's why the kitch. I thrifted Christmas ceramics from that time. Still looking for an authentic ceramic tree. I like to decorate rooms with the color that is already there. My old sled is a part of the porch decor and bows I made myself. Don't like to pre made ones.
I agree with a lot of Paige’s tips here. My grandmother has a storage shed packed with holiday decorations. Every year she throws away half of them because she doesn’t have room after buying new decor for her current vision. Mostly what I remember as a kid are lights and smells.
What a breath of fresh air Paige. Could not agree more. I also dislike everything plastic and sprinkles that pollute our environment. In addition to what you said, people know it is Christmas because there is mulled wine on the stove and a huge stack of board games in a corner just ready to be played.
I love going to a salvage or craft store for cheap pieces or a few yards of holiday fabric to wrap personal gifts to close friends and family. It's something I'm known for in my circle. They look forward to it & appreciate the cute sentiment. ❤️
My family collects ornaments from birth. I have given my daughter, nieces and nephews the ornaments that Pier One put out for years. Once the grandkids hit college, we switched to an ornament swap played like the dirty Santa game. As a kid, my parents decorated our indoor trees and potted plants with real red velvet ribbons tied in bows. Always a bowl of nuts to crack. They used real trees until I became ER bound with an allergy to evergreen trees in my 20's. Did you mention Magnolia leaf wreaths? They are gorgeous. My mom has, I believe, 4 sets of Christmas China (or more) and its gorgeous, but a ton of work to hand wash. She also has 2 or 3 sets of fall China. Maybe ten regular sets, 2 Easter/spring sets, and a patriotic looking set. Sooo many sets of crystal! Linens out of control! Most sets of everything serve 16-20! She also has a total selection of desert plates that coordinate with most anything, red cut glass, etc. Let's not forget a half dozen sets of chargers! This will be my sister's and my burden one day (she's in her early 80's) Her exquisite tables will forever be remembered. She's doing it again this year! They do a turkey, a ham, and a couple of sirloin tips. It's an ordeal. We only give gifts to the greats at her house now, we are so many in number, it's chaos. However we still play games, with what I call airport bottles of alcohol. *It's an oil and vinegar cruet. Good luck in your new home!!
My mom has these amazing ornaments that my grand-father hand made in the fifties. Little glass snow globes for the tree, pine cone men with felt legs and arms on ski's and winter scenery on plates. They just make stuff like that anymore :(
Paige, I'm sorry you're not feeling the holiday spirit this year, and I appreciate that you're willing to make a video like this for us anyways! I love your recommendations. I admit, I personally love a bit of the cheesier Christmas-y look, but try to stick to the vintage stuff like you suggest! Even if it's a little goofy, having clearly vintage inspired Christmas decor somehow makes it look a bit classier. It's the holidays, so have fun with it! :) I wish I could have a real tree, but I am extremely allergic to pine sadly. So fake tree it is. :(
I love to arrange stem and leaf clementines in the Lalique crystal bowl which my mum received as a wedding gift in 1958. And apparently if you buy stem and leaf clementines, they are natural (ie not sprayed to preserve their colour). Where I live, clementines come in a lovely wooden box from Spain or Morocco. 🍊
Fair Isle sweaters are the BEST. They were all the rage when I was in high school at the start of the preppy era (think “Ordinary People”). In those days, you could get a 100% wool pullover for next to nothing and the thrift stores on Melrose Av. in L.A. were rife with wool and angora sweaters from the 50s and 60s. It wasn’t touristy then and the clothes were dirt cheap.
My twin kiddos (boy and girl) already have an ornament collection started. They get an ornament every year and they each have a box that they keep them in so that when we decorate the tree they each put their ornaments on the tree, first, before we put on the other ornaments. I started collecting them for them for the first few years until they were old enough to pick out their own. We used to go to Pier One or local craft fairs with them to get them. They are 15, now, and still love this tradition… well, my daughter loves it more than my son, but she’s more sentimental. (Oh, Paige, you’ll probably like this idea: I also started writing to them in a journal the day I find out I was pregnant, (for 15 weeks, I wrote: Dear Baby, and then we found out we were having twins! I filled an entire journal, and the last entries were when I was in the hospital in labor. At that point my sister, mom, and dad all wrote them little letters, because I was a little busy, haha. I kept writing in journals about what they were doing, things going on in our lives for four years, and I have saved them, of course. I wasn’t doing it because it was a viral online idea or something, I just loved to write and wanted to tell my baby all about what was going on in the outside world while they were still on the inside. I only stopped writing because I went back to teaching and life got so much more busy).
My mom brings out a vintage poster for the movie “White Christmas” and I love it so much. I have a lot of fond memories of that movie because we watch it every year and it’s just a cool old piece.
Your sweater suits you really well - was really surprised to hear you saying by the end of the video that you think of it differently. Keep it! Also, super useful, tasteful and sustainable decor tips btw ;)
I love your ideas and absolutely agree you should have pieces that you can reuse for years and years. We only have sentimental items, and don’t go out and buy stuff every year.
Every year I took my children pick out their own ornament and wrote the year on the bottom. When they grow up you either have a tree full of memories or they have ornaments for their own tree. Last year I started buying ornaments for the grand babies.
vintage wallpapers as gift wraps! you can find them even cheaper than craftpaper, the cheap ones are usually too ugly to actually serve as a wallpaper, but are unique and just.. fun as a gift wrap. also, Instant anecdote.
Beautiful simple ideas, love it! I am pretty sure I watched some christmas themed video last year with great tips too, but unfortunately am unable to find it... (There was sugared fruit I think and other projects).
I usually have a really small tree in a pot with some soil on my balcony. Last year I made a huge wreath of spruce branches and decorated it with dried orange slices and cinnamon sticks and red ribbon. It was so beautiful, but I found spruce needles while cleaning up until midsummer 🎄 So not doing that this year sadly
I bought a fresh tree every year when my daughter was little. In the late ‘80s I bought colored “light show” Christmas lights from the local five-and-dime (J.J. Newberry, Woolworth, or Fedco). They put on a real performance and they still work. I never see “light show” lights in stores anymore. They may blink but that’s it.
Hello Paige, I like your series. I like you. I mean the way you're presenting and analyzing stuf. People like Caroline Winkler and Valentina's house can not compete with you. They act like sales agents for blend boring retail furniture chains. You on the other hand have a feel for colours, contrasting materials and structures and you are not obsessed with styles, trends or rules in interior decorating. I am doing a very big and complex interior design project in my appartment in the Netherlands. It totals 240 square meters. It's big enough, It has 3 bed rooms. And guess what? I am taking out 4 walls and sacrificing all 3 bedrooms, in order to make one big space. And right in the center I will be making a giant ellipse egg shaped wall (10 meters long and 2 meters wide), made out of exotic materials such as chrome fused glass, Possini silver chrome crystal lighting. All the walls will float (they do not touch the floor. The couch (12 pieces) white, is lit underneath and rests on a giant platform of dark Japanese wood, which in turn is lit with LED elements underneath. So everything is "floating"; On the walls you will find original high res 4k movie stills from Thelma and Louise, Fargo, Heat, Se7en, Roman Holiday, Casablanca so great movies. All walls will have either soft fabric like linen, or Onyx marble or Italian ceramics plating from the Machiaveccia line. One big wall will feature a giant waterfall 4 meters wide again with LED behind it. Center piece will undoubtedly be the giant 2,5 meters by 1,5 meters Leica shot black & white picture of Audrey Hepburn as a young girl. In the center of the giant living room we will be placing a ROUND shaped fire place, really in James Bond 60's style. I have watched many different youtube design content creators, and I mean more than 50 different people. But I keep coming back to your channel. I have great ideas and dreams myself, and somehow when I look at you looking in turn at other people's stuff, I feel inspired. I hope I get the opportunity to show you my project when it;s finished. I will not be hiring any professionals because I want to save as much money as possible just for purchasing all the exotic materials. The bill so far is already exceeding the 150,000 euro mark. Also your eyebrows are beautiful. But that;s not the point. Bye ! Keep up the good work.
Hey Paige, love the ideas for holiday decor! One thing - did you make your lake house tour private? The clips you included reminded me of it and I tried to go back to watch it but couldn’t find it. Would you consider doing another one, maybe?
When do you start collecting ornaments? I’ve been inflicting an ornament on my 32-40 year old kids every year since they were teenagers. For 38 years now I’ve added a glass ornament for our family every Christmas too. My alter ego goes wild with gaudy sparkle and rules-be-damned on the tree, but the rest of the house, not so much. 7:47 that’s my wedding china! Wedgewood Osborne!
We decorate our tree with strands of popcorn, cranberries, dried oranges, homemade gingerbread men and salt dough ornaments. The children love to make these things together and it is sweet making memories with them. If you and your friends don’t have kids you can make these things together and it will be fun for adults too ❤️ I love a homemade Christmas! The vibes of this video are so cozy and I’m glad to have a video of things Paige actually likes 😂
I love the look of popcorn strands! And dried orange slices hung up with ribbon. So festive!
Me too I love homemade and handmade decorations. Making them is half the fun of the season and they just look so much more personal than storebought mass produced things.
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Sounds lovely. 🎅🏾
My grandma always tells how they used to make christmas tree decorations like this ♥
I put up framed vintage Christmas vinyl record albums.
The graphics are amazing and often totally over-the-top. Every star/singer put out an Xmas album back in the day and they’re incredibly easy to thrift.
LOVE this idea! My favorite art piece is my framed whipped cream girl.
Oh that is brilliant. I've seen people frame Christmas bags and cards, but vintage Christmas albums? I love that idea!
This is a great great genius idea that I love
I feel like those are the only vinyls you CAN thrift hahaha!
@@kathy9341Herb Alpert!
As a pro organizer this is validating. A few seasonal and sentimental touches give warmth and sophistication without taking up loads of storage space the rest of the year. Real flora can just be tossed.
or composted!
Tossed in the compost lol
I gave my daughter an ornament every year since birth. Usually depicting some event…broken arm skating so a skater, travel, drivers license, college. She just got her first apartment and has a collection of meaningful ornaments for her tree.
Oh, I love that! Such a sweet collection of life events.
My mom did the same I have a nice collection of ornaments for when I eventually have my own tree! Plan on doing the same with my kids! Such a sweet idea🎄
My parents also did the same thing! And my husband's parents, so now we already have a full tree of ornaments. I can basically tell our life stories via ornament lol
I love how this video is all about Christmas decor yet you don't smile once. Reminds me of my husband. You may not enjoy it this year but everyone will still enjoy you being there ❤
I once asked my adult son if he thought Paige was cute (I do!). He said she is adorable and he especially liked how she didn't feel the need to smile. 😐
This video is a whole smile in itself and Paige smiles at least once at the end. I also do love that she is a parcimonious smiler. She is adorable and she knows her stuff !
This is such a sweet comment
Thrift stores are a great place to find a huge variety of ribbon for very little money. If you want unique colors and patterns, the vintage ribbons are far more fun than what’s currently in craft stores.
I never thought of going to the thrift store for ribbon. good tip, thank you!
I have a collection of Christmas postcards from the 1920s and thereabouts. The graphics and the colors are so pretty, and each card was only $1-2 each. I clip them on a garland, etc.
Absolutely right. Ribbons, wool, fabrics, the thrift store is great for that, the prices are just amazing!
Ugh finally! I've been wanting some non-tacky Christmas decoration ideas 🥹😍
Paige, can you do a mix of this video and the reviewing subscribers’ home video? You know, reviewing subscribers’ homes decorated for the holidays? 😊
Probably my absolute favourite holiday decor-video to date!
A few years ago I started buying one christmas decoration for the tree when I travel. Don’t have space for a tree of my own yet, but one day it will be filled with travel memories!
I do the same, and now have a box full of one-off Christmas decorations from my travels. Because I have dogs almost all of them are made of wood or metal or cloth so non-breakable;-))
This was great. It alleviates the holiday pressure thing. My 10-year relationship ended, so I’m not feeling too festive this year, but I did buy a sweet old Victorian home, so I want to create a good vibe with that. Candles, a simple tree and some easy front porch decor is about all I have energy for. I’ll bake, too. That’s what makes it the holidays for me-Vince Guaraldi and baking.
With all the insanity of the past few years, just creating a warm, relaxing vibe feels like the right level of festive.
The nice thing about this kind of decor is that it also doesn’t need to be taken down the day after Christmas lol
Hey Paige, I lost a pet this season and it changed how I plan to decorate. Rather than reds, I’m doing green and gold… more muted and peaceful. Christmas or the holidays are not the most wonderful time of the year for everyone…. It should be meaningful to us as families or individuals and a time for us all to be kinder to each other if we haven’t been that way all year. Some folks don’t have family, some are broke, some has experienced loss, or are sick. It’s a good time to find your joy, but also a good time reflect and find a way to give peace to yourself or another. People think buying is a means of giving … give someone a compliment, open a door, be kinder when your frustrated, donate coats, socks and underwear to charity as they can’t accept those things used; and give yourself time to rest and just be. Much love and peace to you all. Be kind to yourselves too. ❤
Paige, here's some chill background music you might like for the festive season that doesn't lay the cHrIsTmAS cHEeR on too thick:
- A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio
- Live at The Bon Soir - Barbra Streisand
- Scenery - Ryo Fukui
- Black Focus - Yussef Kamaal
- Any of the "Khruangbin Vibes" Volumes, not official but easy to find on yt
- Space 1.8 - Nana Sinephro
These are great!! More recommendations, pleaseeee!
@@striketochill Here's one just for you: Mina - Mina (1971)
---- self titled album with a cute baby monkey as the album cover. Italian chantress with veery lush grand orchestration, leans slightly into rock at times.
I love Vince Guaraldi Trio!
Also James Taylor, A Christmas Album (jazz)
instrumental (piano) like George Winston's Winter.
I love: Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Its a Holiday Soul Party and A very chilly christmas with Chilly Gonzales (Beautiful jazz piano)
When I was a baby, because my parents were not well off, my mom would make ornaments while I napped. She made them out of toilet paper cardboard rolls - santa, elf, mrs claus, three wise men, a caroler ... and I can't remember what else. I now have them - except the caroler bc my dad thought she was sexy and so my mom kept her. LOL. I finally have an apartment large enough to decorate and plan to get a fake tree (I don't like to kill trees) and decorate with with these amazing embroidered and beaded bug ornaments I have (from target!). That's as far as I have gotten in my planning!
Love your sweater and love who you are. It's been so good to have someone pull people back to being creative without the cheap commercial props. I have my grandmother's small xmas trees from 2 inches to 6 inches, some she added tiny bits of cotton to look like snow. I have her bird ornaments that I put in a dish with small pinecones I forage, her ornaments from the 1930s and 40s that she had, some that she added glitter to. The old beaded garlands so fragile, she restrung some and there's spaces in between that I hide, some are broken.But I remember the beauty of them on the tree as a kid.
I have the treasures I said I wanted when she asked me before she died. She used to create a city under the tree and made a little lake with a mirror and a swan, it was what I most looked forward to on xmas morning. I still have that swan and some of the tiny metal cars from those eras.
I also have faves I saved of my own for 50 yrs, like egg carton stars I cut and glittered, when I was pregnant with my son. I love the creativity and the history of the old vs the new. Thank you being honest and authentic, and keep the sweater, it's gorgeous!
When I was a kid in the early 70s, at school we made simple decorations by staggering two small squares of different colored tissue paper, poke your finger in the middle and twist the paper, so it looks like a flower. My mom loved those when I brought them home, and kept them for several years. Now I dote on the felt and sequin birds she made from directions in Good Housekeeping in the 60s.
@@peztopher7297 I love it! 💛
My favorite holiday decor is the little 4x4 canvas paintings I buy every year from the kids at our local Boys and Girls Club. They look so good grouped together and I love supporting these little artists 👩🎨
I'm in the same position as you this Christmas Paige (same age too!) and am finding it daunting. To be honest, I've been wishing we could just skip to January. You seem to have a good attitude to it all though and I admire that ❤️
My parents always have a bare branch (often lichen-covered) hung from the ceiling in our hallway. My Dad uses fishing wire to hang it so it looks like it's floating. Then we decorate it with miniature vintage baubles, lights and lameta. It's beautiful to gaze up through, like a Christmas cavern - sort of like stalactites! It's fun to go out foraging for the perfect branch.
Lots of love from Cornwall, UK xx
Every year my mom makes gift bags from Christmas fabric, and has been doing so for as long as I can remember. We all have a stash of them and get some more every year so we can give them away as needed too. I almost never actually wrap anything. It’s so effortless and you could get holiday fabric at the end of the season and make a few bags throughout the year. It’s literally a square and and anyway to do a tie.
That’s a good idea. Also could be good for quilting scraps.
@@slk1451 yeah fat quarters work perfectly for bags like this!
I really like your character and your sweater as well.
For a few years now, I’ve turned to reggae Christmas tunes! They are fun and uplifting during sentimental or hard times.
I miss the days of what felt like our friend-Christmas on the 23rd. So many would be coming home for the holidays and they were such fun reunions.
Paige is my supporter of chic boujie snobbish decorating that makes everything just better and I really am glad for this video specifically.
Last year I made pomanders with oranges and cloves. Super easy to do. They look great grouped together in a bowl and smell amazing.
We used to do those too!!
You are a wise woman. This comes from a person probably twice your age. I agree with your perspective on holiday decor completely. A Chicago fan!
I think whatever makes your nostalgia sing…go for it. I love that you decorate your Thanksgiving table with your mom. I bet the cabbages will be fantastic. My house is full of quilts and embroidered items that my mom and others have made, along with…fake trees and wreaths. 😝 Living in So Arizona, foraging means cactus, and gosh darn I like the look of a piney tree. You can of course purchase greenery, but it is cost prohibitive.
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Your classic / traditional Xmas decor style is so very much like I what I grew up with and continue to do myself. The more "natural" the better and it all feels so warm and cozy but never overdone or "plastic"! Enjoy your holidays and I'm looking forward to the videos of your new home in the new year.
For anyone in the UK, there’s a gorgeous stationary shop in Seven Dials, London called Choosing Keeping and their Christmas selection of vintage cards, baubles, wrap, etc are just beautiful.
Yess Growing up we always had a bowl of nuts in the shell with an antique nutcracker next to them
Vintage is always the way to go, especially at Christmas. And plaid
Thank you Paige, for another great video! I think it’s my favorite, so far. I understand being in “crisis” during the holidays. Something pretty awful happened to me during the holidays years ago. I actually stopped enjoying Christmas until I had grandkids. (Many years). I hope the new year has great things waiting for you.
Lake house tour! It’s nice that your family sounds close and does cute stuff.
Real poinsettia plants really make an impact so I use a lot of them around my home in all different sizes and colors. I love your sweater.
When do you get ornaments?? When (and if) you have kids of your own, give them an ornament (or two) every year at Christmas and slowly they will build up a collection. Whenever we travel, if I see cute ornaments, I will buy some for my now adult kids to keep adding to the collection. I think by the time they all move out (when they are in the 40's, at this rate), they will have more than enough to fill a tree!
My mom started collecting ornaments for us when we were born. Every year we got a new ornament, usually connected to something like a vacation or a special event. When I first moved out of the house I bought a couple boxes of vintage mercury glass ornaments and right away I had a tree that was special and tasteful looking, not something covered with tat from the craft store.
Love these! I lost my mother a year ago and we loved to forage for greenery, birch bark and holly. All of your suggestions very much remind me of my childhood home and reminds me of happy times with her. She would agree with all of this 😊 haha
I love getting ornaments from places I visit! I love the mismatched but nostalgic look. It's never too early to start collecting :)
Thanks Paige. Now I am inspired...simple, vintage, foraged, candlelit Christmas for me!
My fave Xmas decor is Nordic candle arches that you put out in the window and also the Nordic star paper hanging lanterns
Hey Paige, I really feel you in regard to not having your own place to decorate for the holidays, but you will get there! I just moved into an apartment by myself and this is my first time being able to do what I want with the space. Its such a freeing feeling after a long time of struggling and I want everyone to experience it
By the way, if any of you cat owners out here are reading this, keep in mind to keep the cats away from real pine! It is toxic for them. Personally I'm using my grandmothers old ceramic tree haha
On ornaments. My Mom got my brothers and I an ornament every year. I started buying myself an ornament every year once I was out of college. When I put them on the tree, I tell my children (who I have bought an ornament for/they've picked out every year) the stories behind them. It's an oral history, of sorts. It's also tradition. That's the most important thing in your video, "This is what my family does". The tips are good too!!!
I suddenly feel like throwing a huge pre christmas feast with my peeps
Same.
I like how when she says "fun pattern" she always shows plain plaid or stripes
I’m sorry what did you expect exactly? A pattern of a monkey riding a unicycle?
@@monaduna2667 yeah
One of my favorite things at the holidays is switching out some of my year-round art for holiday pieces. It feels a lot more cohesive with my style and gives me a built-in reason to refresh my gallery wall.
Colonial Williamsburg has always used fresh fruit such as wreaths of lemon and magnolia, apple and pineapple and boxwood. It is one of the things I love. It is simple and nostalgic. I also like to force bulbs. Seeing red or white tulips look so beautiful and cozy. For packages I love to use red shiny paper with red shiny bow, green on green, or silver on silver. I love monochrome style for gifts. It looks sophisticated. Love your suggestions. Totally agree that less is best. No DIY Dollar Store!
An alternative to the silver dishes and bowls of nuts is a large crystal bowl filled with cinnamon scented pine cones and slices of dried citrus fruit. Thats the first thing to appear in my place, that and the candles. It does get a bit more Christmasy later on but still staying classy, I hope. I did give in and buy an artificial tree after decades of real trees. I hated it at first but once I'd learned how to style it I felt a little better about it. It's still not the same but circumstances make having a real tree a challenge and I simply can't be without a tree at all. I have accumulated a lifetime of ornaments and decor but some of my favourites are the handmade bows made with wired ribbon. I hope that despite everything you do manage to have a lovely time x
lol the one pic had a plate of garlic scapes and those are a hyper-seasonal, late spring crop lololol
I am sure you would have liked the way we decorated for xmas at my grandparents' home in Denmark: no plastic, no writing...just candles in the tree (yes it was dangerous!) nuts and apples, crumbs for the birds in the snow and a lot of knitting and violin playing near the wood-burner.
can not wait to see how you style/ shop for your new place
I like your holiday sweater! I'm a greens and candles lover for decorating the home. When they are used up, you don't have to store them. I Love plaid -- for pillows and throws and table cloths. I have a few pieces of art that have a winter theme that I get out every year when it starts getting cold and snowy.
I definitely have some festive art pieces that I put out only around the holidays. My dad painted me a large piece of a figure skating polar bear and it doesn't really fit my vibe for most of the year, but in Nov/Dec it's A+.
I am a “til the wheels fall off” kind of decorator. I only buy what I really love. I pull out the same things every year: my Erzgebirge nutcracker, my off-white ‘03-‘04 Target tablecloth with the wide chenille border and felt holly appliqués, my silver salt and pepper shakers . . . they still excite me. This year, I’m putting juniper cuttings around tapered candles on the dining table.
I’m also going through my own crisis. Really bad breakup last year with my now ex fiancé. Soooo I also have spent a year avoiding all sentimental shit. Appreciate knowing I’m not alone on that
You crack me up- love the straightforwardness.🤣🤣 I use natural things for decorating the holidays, because when they are over i throw them in the compost. Also for Christmas I add heirloom ornaments on the table with holiday chocolates, candles and greens.
the bowls of nuts!!! that rly brought back memories of my grandma and all her christmas eve traditions :’) blessing each corner of the house by throwing walnuts to the corners of the dining room
my grandmother always decorated her house with holly - placed on shelves, wound around the railing of her staircase, in vases around the house. I loved it and was so happy to move into a place with a holly tree in the yard so I can do the same.
I used to live in the part of the country where holly could be grown. I guess we rather took it for granted. I live in area now where holly comes in a wee cellophane wrapped box at great expense ( and from holly farms in the same town where I lived as a child!). I treasure these tiny bits of holly now and put them in a place of honour in our home.
Lots of good ideas here!! I started buying myself a very nice xmas ornament, glass, handblown and imported from Germany, every xmas. I would buy a couple more because they also make great xmas presents too. Xmas is about light, reflections, sparkle, and color at its most basic. As for a tree, I have a bright orange bottlebrush tree I bought years ago that was a prop from a tv xmas special. About 4ft tall. If you are go with a fake tree-amp it up!!
One of my favorite decor pieces are some ceramic snowman’s my little nephew painted when he was 6!!! I treasure them and happy to put them out every year
The fact that I got an ad for Michael's holiday decor sale at the end of the video was PERFECTION
Candles, sparkly lights, baking yummy fragrant things, warm and cozy things like blankets. A mix of vintage & handmade things. I like a personal and warm vibe, not a glitzy glamour show-offy theme.
I was waiting for this! Being also a Christmas grinch with a 5 yo I want to stay away from tacky crafty stuff (which is inevitable with a kid) and going for a mix of simple/minimal with a touch of something drawn by my kid like seating cards or something. Since I print a lot from work, for wrapping paper I like to recicle the drawing drafts with a cute ribbon. GLAD to know you're also against fake trees, since I work with real plants for me is a BIG no no. Here in Barcelona you can order a tree from a plant nursery website and get it on your living room for as cheap as 50 euros so is a no brainer for me. Thank you Paige!
My mom and I crafted a lot at holidays when I was a kid. The ones I remember the best and liked the most were ones that involved us making little houses for little villages - like using graham crackers to build fake little gingerbread houses from. One year we embroidered some. Super fun and cute and some we still have.
I have a fake tree and have since age 9 because I have pretty bad allergies 🥲but I get balsam candles to get the smell 😊I’ve been really leaning into campy mid century Christmas vibes (which complements my apartment decor) and it’s really fun.
Just here to post my appreciation of "old hoes" and that this is the exact dynamic and humor of my family and that i appreciate it since sadly, many families don't have this level of humor or closeness. My dads mom is from Chicago so maybe that's it. ❤
I love art from the thrift store that reflects the season.
love this about using again stuff with special memory
i read in a magazine that danish people usually have a candle next to their plate when they eat dinner on Christmas eve. The point is to sit at the table the longest, till the candle has burned down. probably not possible to sit there the whole evening, but it's cool to make it into some sort of contest that actually just results in eating slow and enjoying dinner/quality time. love ur videos!
I always go a little hog wild w Christmas decor. Last year I got my first chance to decorate outdoors, to decorate my front porch. I couldn't really figure out how to rig up lights outside...maybe this year I'll add them. So much of my decor is thrifted. Do you remember how fabric stores used to sell pieces of cotton that were printed with animals, etc.? You cut out the front and back, sew it together, and stuff it w cotton. I have a Santa like that, I thrifted the material and sewed it together myself. It's a funny little pillow on my couch at Christmas.
I do a fun kitchy Christmas that is fully intentional. I love foraging for greenery. I gave up a full size tree for a full size leg lamp and crate in honor of my favorite Christmas movie. Being an Ohioan we own that movie considering it was filmed here. That goes with decorating regionally. I have a 1950 decorating style with actual pieces from that era. That's why the kitch. I thrifted Christmas ceramics from that time. Still looking for an authentic ceramic tree. I like to decorate rooms with the color that is already there. My old sled is a part of the porch decor and bows I made myself. Don't like to pre made ones.
“Fun pattern” = plaid or striped every time.
😂💕much love
I agree with a lot of Paige’s tips here. My grandmother has a storage shed packed with holiday decorations. Every year she throws away half of them because she doesn’t have room after buying new decor for her current vision. Mostly what I remember as a kid are lights and smells.
What a breath of fresh air Paige. Could not agree more. I also dislike everything plastic and sprinkles that pollute our environment. In addition to what you said, people know it is Christmas because there is mulled wine on the stove and a huge stack of board games in a corner just ready to be played.
The ornamental cabbage tends to smell like a very strong fart. Just FYI.
I love going to a salvage or craft store for cheap pieces or a few yards of holiday fabric to wrap personal gifts to close friends and family. It's something I'm known for in my circle. They look forward to it & appreciate the cute sentiment. ❤️
speaking about Christmas and fun decor with best deadpan delivery!!!
My family collects ornaments from birth. I have given my daughter, nieces and nephews the ornaments that Pier One put out for years. Once the grandkids hit college, we switched to an ornament swap played like the dirty Santa game. As a kid, my parents decorated our indoor trees and potted plants with real red velvet ribbons tied in bows. Always a bowl of nuts to crack. They used real trees until I became ER bound with an allergy to evergreen trees in my 20's. Did you mention Magnolia leaf wreaths? They are gorgeous. My mom has, I believe, 4 sets of Christmas China (or more) and its gorgeous, but a ton of work to hand wash. She also has 2 or 3 sets of fall China. Maybe ten regular sets, 2 Easter/spring sets, and a patriotic looking set. Sooo many sets of crystal! Linens out of control! Most sets of everything serve 16-20! She also has a total selection of desert plates that coordinate with most anything, red cut glass, etc. Let's not forget a half dozen sets of chargers! This will be my sister's and my burden one day (she's in her early 80's) Her exquisite tables will forever be remembered. She's doing it again this year! They do a turkey, a ham, and a couple of sirloin tips. It's an ordeal.
We only give gifts to the greats at her house now, we are so many in number, it's chaos. However we still play games, with what I call airport bottles of alcohol.
*It's an oil and vinegar cruet.
Good luck in your new home!!
My mom has these amazing ornaments that my grand-father hand made in the fifties. Little glass snow globes for the tree, pine cone men with felt legs and arms on ski's and winter scenery on plates. They just make stuff like that anymore :(
Paige, I'm sorry you're not feeling the holiday spirit this year, and I appreciate that you're willing to make a video like this for us anyways! I love your recommendations. I admit, I personally love a bit of the cheesier Christmas-y look, but try to stick to the vintage stuff like you suggest! Even if it's a little goofy, having clearly vintage inspired Christmas decor somehow makes it look a bit classier. It's the holidays, so have fun with it! :)
I wish I could have a real tree, but I am extremely allergic to pine sadly. So fake tree it is. :(
I love to arrange stem and leaf clementines in the Lalique crystal bowl which my mum received as a wedding gift in 1958. And apparently if you buy stem and leaf clementines, they are natural (ie not sprayed to preserve their colour). Where I live, clementines come in a lovely wooden box from Spain or Morocco. 🍊
Fair Isle sweaters are the BEST. They were all the rage when I was in high school at the start of the preppy era (think “Ordinary People”). In those days, you could get a 100% wool pullover for next to nothing and the thrift stores on Melrose Av. in L.A. were rife with wool and angora sweaters from the 50s and 60s. It wasn’t touristy then and the clothes were dirt cheap.
My twin kiddos (boy and girl) already have an ornament collection started. They get an ornament every year and they each have a box that they keep them in so that when we decorate the tree they each put their ornaments on the tree, first, before we put on the other ornaments. I started collecting them for them for the first few years until they were old enough to pick out their own. We used to go to Pier One or local craft fairs with them to get them. They are 15, now, and still love this tradition… well, my daughter loves it more than my son, but she’s more sentimental. (Oh, Paige, you’ll probably like this idea: I also started writing to them in a journal the day I find out I was pregnant, (for 15 weeks, I wrote: Dear Baby, and then we found out we were having twins! I filled an entire journal, and the last entries were when I was in the hospital in labor. At that point my sister, mom, and dad all wrote them little letters, because I was a little busy, haha. I kept writing in journals about what they were doing, things going on in our lives for four years, and I have saved them, of course. I wasn’t doing it because it was a viral online idea or something, I just loved to write and wanted to tell my baby all about what was going on in the outside world while they were still on the inside. I only stopped writing because I went back to teaching and life got so much more busy).
I think diy Christmas stuff can be great - paper chains, paper snowflakes and salt dough ornaments for example.
My mom brings out a vintage poster for the movie “White Christmas” and I love it so much. I have a lot of fond memories of that movie because we watch it every year and it’s just a cool old piece.
Your sweater is great, goes well with vintage and foraged decor,
Paige, can you do a video some point about decorating with art and especially FRAMING IT RIGHT to enhance your room's design vs. detract from it?
Your sweater suits you really well - was really surprised to hear you saying by the end of the video that you think of it differently. Keep it! Also, super useful, tasteful and sustainable decor tips btw ;)
I love your ideas and absolutely agree you should have pieces that you can reuse for years and years. We only have sentimental items, and don’t go out and buy stuff every year.
Every year I took my children pick out their own ornament and wrote the year on the bottom. When they grow up you either have a tree full of memories or they have ornaments for their own tree. Last year I started buying ornaments for the grand babies.
I like your sweater. It matches you. Trying to be festive and holiday like but still black like my heart type deal.
Can you please do a video on holiday decor for those in the southern hemisphere!! I’m so curious as to how you would decorate for a hot Christmas 😂
vintage wallpapers as gift wraps! you can find them even cheaper than craftpaper, the cheap ones are usually too ugly to actually serve as a wallpaper, but are unique and just.. fun as a gift wrap. also, Instant anecdote.
Beautiful simple ideas, love it! I am pretty sure I watched some christmas themed video last year with great tips too, but unfortunately am unable to find it... (There was sugared fruit I think and other projects).
I usually have a really small tree in a pot with some soil on my balcony. Last year I made a huge wreath of spruce branches and decorated it with dried orange slices and cinnamon sticks and red ribbon. It was so beautiful, but I found spruce needles while cleaning up until midsummer 🎄 So not doing that this year sadly
I bought a fresh tree every year when my daughter was little. In the late ‘80s I bought colored “light show” Christmas lights from the local five-and-dime (J.J. Newberry, Woolworth, or Fedco). They put on a real performance and they still work. I never see “light show” lights in stores anymore. They may blink but that’s it.
Hello Paige, I like your series. I like you. I mean the way you're presenting and analyzing stuf. People like Caroline Winkler and Valentina's house can not compete with you. They act like sales agents for blend boring retail furniture chains. You on the other hand have a feel for colours, contrasting materials and structures and you are not obsessed with styles, trends or rules in interior decorating. I am doing a very big and complex interior design project in my appartment in the Netherlands. It totals 240 square meters. It's big enough, It has 3 bed rooms. And guess what? I am taking out 4 walls and sacrificing all 3 bedrooms, in order to make one big space. And right in the center I will be making a giant ellipse egg shaped wall (10 meters long and 2 meters wide), made out of exotic materials such as chrome fused glass, Possini silver chrome crystal lighting. All the walls will float (they do not touch the floor. The couch (12 pieces) white, is lit underneath and rests on a giant platform of dark Japanese wood, which in turn is lit with LED elements underneath. So everything is "floating";
On the walls you will find original high res 4k movie stills from Thelma and Louise, Fargo, Heat, Se7en, Roman Holiday, Casablanca so great movies. All walls will have either soft fabric like linen, or Onyx marble or Italian ceramics plating from the Machiaveccia line. One big wall will feature a giant waterfall 4 meters wide again with LED behind it. Center piece will undoubtedly be the giant 2,5 meters by 1,5 meters Leica shot black & white picture of Audrey Hepburn as a young girl. In the center of the giant living room we will be placing a ROUND shaped fire place, really in James Bond 60's style. I have watched many different youtube design content creators, and I mean more than 50 different people. But I keep coming back to your channel. I have great ideas and dreams myself, and somehow when I look at you looking in turn at other people's stuff, I feel inspired. I hope I get the opportunity to show you my project when it;s finished. I will not be hiring any professionals because I want to save as much money as possible just for purchasing all the exotic materials. The bill so far is already exceeding the 150,000 euro mark. Also your eyebrows are beautiful. But that;s not the point. Bye ! Keep up the good work.
That sounds epic!
Absolutely fabulous. Yes. Love.
I only have one 'thumbs up' to give. But damn! Bang freaking on. All of it!
Hey Paige, love the ideas for holiday decor! One thing - did you make your lake house tour private? The clips you included reminded me of it and I tried to go back to watch it but couldn’t find it. Would you consider doing another one, maybe?
I was lichrully just saying what the hell is my holiday VIBE, what is the decor that speaks to me!! crucial info in this vid, thank you!!
When do you start collecting ornaments? I’ve been inflicting an ornament on my 32-40 year old kids every year since they were teenagers. For 38 years now I’ve added a glass ornament for our family every Christmas too. My alter ego goes wild with gaudy sparkle and rules-be-damned on the tree, but the rest of the house, not so much. 7:47 that’s my wedding china! Wedgewood Osborne!
im thrifting as much holiday decor as I can and this is so helpful!!! a fall version of this would be appreciated too !!
lol paige the cabbage in the candle has been in my pinterest for almost two years now and i am also finally doing it for thanksgiving
Great idea of the battery candles in the windows 💥😃