Basic seasonal home decorating

The basics of seasonal home decorating begin at your front door. You can accomplish decorating several different ways. You can have one door decoration that can be changed with the seasons or you can have four different decorations. The best way to start your seasonal home decorating it to find one seasonal piece that you really love and build from there.

If you are a person who likes flowers, you can purchase one wreath, grapevine, straw or metal frames are good choices. You can then decorate it with the flowers of the season and a ribbon or bow in the correct color palette to match the season. Fall is obvious, orange, red, brown and gold. Winter can be seasonal with icy blue and white or more holiday inspired with red and green. Spring is a time of pastels like yellows, pink,s and light blues. Summer is colorful and bright with more reds, purples, and greens.

If you like flags, it is easy to change your flag seasonally either in the large or the garden size.

In the house, the dining room table cloth or table runner can reflect the season. If you are a crafter, you can make a runner that is reversible and this way you will only need two runners, one for winter and spring and one for summer and fall. It is easy to have a seasonal decoration anywhere in the house, all you need is a clear glass or crystal bowl and something seasonal to put in it. It can be any number of things, Christmas balls, seashells, pine cones or plastic Easter eggs. You can use a small bowl or a large bowl, pedestal or footed.

Another seasonal decoration, especially if there are children in the house is a glass pedestal compote filled with seasonal candy. M&M’s are particularly good for this purpose. They come in loads of seasonal colors and flavors.

If you have a fireplace with a mantle, this is a great place to have a focal seasonal decoration. Depending on the style of your home, you can consider adding a large vase filled with artificial flowers that you can change seasonally. The beauty of this is that you can then just store away the other seasons away when they are not in use.

When you are getting your basic seasonal decorations together pick up four storage containers at the same time. Keep all your decorations for the season in your container when they are not in use. If you use the Rubbermaid type container, your decorations will be safe from moisture and damage in the off season and you will always know just where the decorations are.

Start off with a few basics. As the years go by,  if you buy good quality items that will never go out of style, you can add a few new items every season until you have everything you need.

One last seasonal decoration is a candle. There is nothing quite as seasonal as the scent of pumpkin pie, evergreens, honeysuckle and blueberries just to mention a few.

So there you have it, a few basic ideas for decorating your home for any and every season.