12 Easy Holiday Design Details Canadian House & Home

12 Easy Holiday Design Details
Canadian House & Home

This year we're just not feeling the love for red and green over-the-top holiday decorations. So we felt very inspired when we saw this gallery of 12 simple holiday design details with a muted yet festive color palette. For starters, these branches in a wide glass vase, and a few silver ornaments...

12-12-08 easy4.jpg Another simple idea is a lovely -- in this case, vintage -- dish filled with ornaments.

12-12-08 easy2.jpg This lovely mantelscape includes a mirror with cards slipped into the frame, and branches in glass vases.

12-12-08 easy3.jpg Battery-operated light strings and a few metallic ornaments look great in oversized glass vases.

• See all 12 ideas here: Canadian House & Home

Images: Angus Fergusson, Janis Nicolay, Nina Teixeira, Stacey Bradford

Comments (11)

Just love the different tones of white.

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posted by matthewbam on December 12th 2008 at 9:36pm
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yummy! silver and white is so big right now for christmas... just lovely!

posted by puck on December 12th 2008 at 10:24pm
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Best magazine ever!!

posted by liveinpeace on December 12th 2008 at 10:40pm
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The first picture is beautiful, I'm definitely trying a variation of the design!

posted by amelie de lune on December 12th 2008 at 11:24pm
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Lovely. This is so not the year to be audacious.

posted by Rick Roberts on December 13th 2008 at 12:25am
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Wow, I really wish I could find the golden Buddha in photo #7. Does anyone know?

posted by Rick Roberts on December 13th 2008 at 12:35am
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I bought the pewter trees last year. Like christmasishere said, Canadian house and Home is a great magazine. I like the top picture.

posted by At Home with kim vallee on December 13th 2008 at 1:58am
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Rick Roberts- If you're anywhere near a Chinatown these figurines are commonly sold in stores that sell both decorative and household wares. In CA the bigger Ranch 99 supermarkets sell them too.

Pearl River online has various ones but not exactly the same as the one in the picture.

http://pearlriver.com/v2/FramesSearch.asp?search=buddha&btnSearch.x=0&btnSearch.y=0&btnSearch=GoSearch

posted by Snowiye on December 13th 2008 at 4:26am
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Snowiye, thank you for your thoughtful reply. I feel retarded now after asking the question. :) I just didn’t want a chintzy looking one.

posted by Rick Roberts on December 13th 2008 at 11:57am
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Awesome inspiration. I'm doing the exact same thing with slipping the cards into a mirror frame.

posted by danze on December 13th 2008 at 1:46pm
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The tiny, vintage ornaments are lovely. And those round glass vases are so cheap at a flower wholesale outlet!

posted by dianalily on December 14th 2008 at 4:53pm
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