Top 10 Ways To Style Your Own Amazing Spaces Seasonal Party
If you have a Christmas party planned over the next few days, and you want to pamper your own amazing space, here’s a couple of tips that could really get your seasonal celebrations going off with a BANG!
1. First Have A Good Old Tidy Up And De-Clutter
It sounds a bit obvious, but you really do need a bit of space to get the creative juices flowing.
2. There Is Nothing Like Home-Made
Laura Jane in the Crystal Palace converted toilet apartment made all her Christmas tree decorations out of gingerbread. She made paper templates of modern stylised gingerbread men on her computer, and cut out the dough and baked them. It wasn’t successful the first time as the edges didn’t stay clean. She had another go, this time cutting them while they were still warm. Bingo!
3. Lights Always Add Magic
It is a dark time of year. It’s a simple thing, but plain white fairy lights lift the spirits.
4. Decorate Everyday Objects
I spied a lovely old sit up and beg bike in William’s workshop. It was his Grandfathers and as I had a long line of lights to hand you can guess what happened next.
5. Think About The Small Details
On the table in the gingerbread cottage, some simple twigs in a jug have teeny hand-knitted socks hanging on them. In the Crystal Place toilet a row of pretty shoes neatly stored against a wall have a line of Christmas lights draped along them.
6. Make A Greeting Card While You’re At It
It may well be too late for this year, but take some pictures for next year and then you have the basis of a home made Christmas card. For these purposes, if you have manual controls on your camera, I’m a fan of getting in quite tight and using a short depth of field. It adds a visual piece of magic.
7. Use What’s Around You
Look closely at the window in Tim Sand’s cabin. There is a simple but beautiful garland of leaves made from tree bark strung up on a bit of string. Lovely!
8. Let Convention Inspire You But Not Hold You Back
The Christmas tree in William’s workshop was planted in a customised old galvanised bucket and decorated with a few simple lights and beaten up old teardrop caravan models strung up with twine string. These small, preloved caravans made all the difference.
9. Be Organised
I’m not keen on a scatter gun approach to decoration.. look at dark corners.. light them.. sit in your favourite chair.. what do you look at..decorate it. The tiny outside space at the converted toilet is already lovely with its hanging 70’s style chair. A rope light and a graphic cushion adds some more wow factor and creates something fab to look at.
10. Look At Things Differently
Re-invention makes you feel alive, as much as I am a fan of re-use, mix it up rather than always using the same old decorations. Having said that, a few key things are charming. I still have the worn out fairy on my Christmas tree that I had as a child. She has a tatty old paper pleated skirt and a tarnished bit of tinsel in her wand, but I’d miss her if she wasn’t there and one meaningful thing has much more impact than always using the same old stuff.
Watch out for the Amazing Spaces Christmas Special with George Clarke, 20 December at 8pm on Channel 4 for many more inspirations.
