Holiday Party Home Decor Statements

It pays to know in advance - exactly what pronouncement you're planning to make this year, as your holiday party home decor statements. Apply "the latest" with what works best for you.

Add your built-in holiday party home decor statement know-how, and while you're out there holiday shopping, save yourself some money.

Shop for the few extras that you'll need to tweak your holiday party at your local Kmart, Target, Costco, Wal-Mart, or Salvation Army. Seriously.

Statement #1

Winter 2009 holiday party home decor statements...
Trends that establish prominent patterns.

The season's hippest look is reminiscent of the favored pattern style of England - plaid. Party "style detectives" suggest you choose your favorite pattern of plaid and go for it!

Shop for inexpensive plaid pillows and use them to punch up your decor factor. And choose plaid patterned queen or king size sheets to drape over tables and sofas and arm chairs You'd be surprised how much inexpensive plaid swagger you can add to your party space with a plaid bed sheet! Look for plaid flannel to use for soft seating.

Statement #2

Begin the beguine for the boheme.

Dance and have a good time at your party! Because you've got what it takes. Once again, you're going to be known as the ultimate party style maker in your crowd. Remember when you were told not to mix patterns? What a bad idea. Perfectly mixed and matched every pattern you want to together.

The artist in you will especially surface when you start having fun draping your strategic choices of paisley, floral, plaid, and stripe printed fabric. Talk about making several holiday party home decor statements in one swoop! Here's where going through what you already have on hand (and rummaging through the home section of Salvation Army stores) comes in handy. It's a party already! You'll dine and cocktail by candle light anyway. No one will ever know you picked up much of that great fabric at your eco-friendly, use-someone-else's-stuff, secondhand store.

Statement #3

Classic and conservative this Christmas?

Why not? Think a little bit outside the box. Make the Coco Chanel look your own. Huh? Think tweeds. Think pearls. This ones an easy one. This is one of those holiday party home decor statements that can be accomplished by merely changing your tablecloth, and adding a couple pearly extras. Include gold gilded appointments like ashtrays, votive candle holders, and dinner table flatware and serving pieces, that will reflect your holiday decor references to your Coco chain link statement. Channel your inner Chanel Christmas theme and in her honor, wear Chanel No.5.

The elegant texture of tweed tablecloths with pearlized appointments (pearlized flatware, vases, and candy dishes, for example) will definitely make a distinctive sturdy and beautiful statement to your table setting. After getting rave reviews for your cooking, the look of your table garner lots of compliments at your holiday family gathering this year.

If you plan on holding your title as a "First Lady of Holiday Party Home Decor Statements", show them something different. Don't be predictable. And if you have to go buy tweed, get yourself a righteous bargain.

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