I was not raised with Christmas, so my friends and families were impressed, when they saw my first Christmas tree and my holiday decorations, after I got married. What impressed them most was the way I was able to intertwine both Chanukah and Christmas themes and still create a cohesive look.
After that first Christmas, years before I became a home stager, I began to help my friends and families to decorate their trees and their homes for holidays. I also tried to pass on some decorating tips.
These friends, after a while, understood that I am big on balance, flow, and harmony when it came to design. However, you wouldn’t know that now by looking at my own Christmas tree.
It all began few years ago, when my first daughter came home from school and proudly holding on a shocking pink Santa. I was hoping that the pink Santa would go into her scrapbook box, but she had other ideas; it had to go right in the middle of the tree. That year, all I could see was only the pink Santa.
Next year, a neon orange angel followed the shocking pink Santa. The first question that ran through my mind was, are you colooooooooooor blind? No, girls can’t be colorblind. She just wanted to be different from her classmates.
As the girls grew older, their involvement in holiday decorating also grew. They have their own style, especially when it comes to Christmas tree. The more scattered and hodgepodge look, the better. At first, I was beside myself and had a hard time to stop myself going to the tree and reshuffle all the ornaments. However, thankfully too, I changed my focus from the design of the tree to the energy of the home. My daughters bring such a happy and positive energy, when they sing and hang the ornaments together. I love the excitement in their eyes and to me that is what holidays are all about.
So, I might come to your home as a stager and create a beautifully designed Christmas tree for you, but as a mother I know that the most beautiful tree is in my own home.
If you happened to go to a home stager home one day and see their Christmas tree and say to yourself, “boy, I can do a much better a job”, I hope you remember this story. By the way, that shocking pink Santa is my favorite ornament.
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