Building site to Santas grotto (Decoration Ideas)

Member Name: magpie

Product:	Decoration Ideas
Date:	24/11/00 (2878 review reads)
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Advantages: Christmas grotto in our house

Disadvantages: Will cost money

I have a huge problem this Christmas: friends, with children are visiting, and our house still looks like a building site!

As everyone knows, most Christmas fun is around the dining table, be it playing games, eating, or drinking after our big meal. However our dining room is a complete mess. Half of the walls haven't got plaster on them, there is no carpet, no curtains, and no wallpaper. However, I plan to make this into a wonderful Christmassy room, and go completely over the top.

I'm going to buy enough muslim to completely cover the walls. I'm going mainly for white, but I'm also going to get a couple of swathes of gold and red material. This is going to be made into curtains, the length and bredth of the room. I'm going to pin them the to top of the walls, and let them hang at the bottom. Behind the curtains I'm going to fix lots of fairy lights - all white. These can be bought from Woolies, and are really cheap. They will twinkle behind the muslim, creating a magical effect.

I'm also going to buy lots of tinsel. This will be drapped along the top of the material, hiding the pins, and accenting the drapes.

Our Christmas tree (fake 5', £7.99 from Woolies) will go in the corner of the room, and also be decorated only with red and gold, with white fairy lights. Staying within a colour schemes makes it much more stylish.

This will take care of the walls, creating a much softer atmosphere in our dining room, and hiding our ugly exposed brickwork.

For the floor, I'm going to buy some cheap rugs or throws. These can be got from most bargain shops for about £10. I'm simply going to cover up the floor with them, making it more comfortable to walk on. Throws make excellent temporary rugs, although they are not hard wearing, they cover up the floor!

I hope that these relatively cheap coverings will turn my building site into a proper Christmassy room, and t
hat it will be a Christmas to remember for my friends and their children. I just have to figure out what to do with my kitchen now...I wonder if tinsel looks good wrapped around copper pipes?!

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