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Hi, Homeworthy. I'm Cher Beal. Welcome to my home in Newport Beach, California. Come on in. I'd love to show you around. Music This holiday season, get ready to unwrap the most magnificent holiday homes with Homeworthy's 25 Days of Christmas. For the month of December, we'll take you inside the most heartwarming houses decked out for the holidays in true festive fashion. From twinkling lights and elegantly trimmed trees to sparkling ornaments and cozy holiday charm, these homes capture the warmth, wonder and beauty that make this season so special. So join us as Homeworthy celebrates 25 Days of Christmas. The magic starts now. Raise your glass. Cheers. Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. You're watching Homeworthy, where we believe every home has a story. Hi, I'm Cher Beal. I've been a designer for more than 30 years. Welcome to my home in Newport Beach, California. We've been living in this home for more than 20 years. It's a house that we saw as an open house under construction and was simply not what we were looking for at the time, but we had a toddler and a teenager and all their friends in our much smaller house and the teenagers were tripping over the toddler toys and so this house that had a lot of space and a playroom and a separate area for the teenagers was really just a dream come true for us. So we've been here a long time and this house has been remodeled over time and adjusted accordingly depending on our life phase. The style of the house is Mediterranean tile roof in stucco, very traditional and kind of stiff inside. In a lot of places I installed metal window sliders. I opened up everything to the outside, kind of everywhere in the house and it became a much cozier and coastal feel of a house, but still in keeping with its primary architecture. I've decorated in keeping with the style of each space of the house. So in our more casual family areas, I have a earthy, more natural vibe and in more formal areas, I have things sort of a little more formal and upscale. I think it would feel like too much if every single room was just an explosion. So in the spaces where we are primarily or perhaps we're entertaining, then that feels more appropriate. And then in other spaces, sometimes it's just a little hint of red or a little teeny thing, a little accessory that makes you feel like, oh,it's Christmas, but there's some relief from too much decor. Welcome to my kitchen dining space. In the entry of the space, instead of doing a regular Christmas tree, we decided it would be more fun and a little different to shake it up and use some natural branches. We're going with the woodland mushroom theme that seems to be so popular and we've got all kinds of fun hanging owls and acorns and mushrooms of all different sizes and shapes and of course, a few little tea lights. So we did this by putting our branches in a... We flocked them a little bit to just make them look like the snow had fallen on top of them and then we put them in this faux base and added some moss and some little birds and we've got candles and fresh flowers and all kinds of funny mushroom shapes and birds and natural woodland creatures throughout. So we just think that's sort of a fun entry greeting. This entry is sort of a greeting space and a transition space between our casual dining and our kitchen and our family room. And I love this space because I'm always setting it up for whatever holiday it is or if it's summer, I just have lots of different fresh flowers here. If it's a holiday, then I try to do something so when you walk in, you immediately feel, oh gosh, it's Christmas. This is so fun. Then we go into the kitchen dining and this space is just such a cozy, fun space for us to entertain and have family gatherings. I think the most important thing in this space to note is our little crystal stars. So these are the stars that I collect in two different sizes for my children every year so that they each have a collection and they can hang them in their windows or hang them from a chandelier themselves. This is where we have most of our family gatherings with our grandchildren or in-laws or family friends. This big casual table. In the center of this table is all these sort of lovely silver balls. And this is from my mother-in-law has given me a silver ball for every year we've been married. That's a lot of silver balls. On the table, rather than a full table setting, we have just these little lovely trays with candles and trees and a few little birds kind of going along with our theme but just sort of a subtle accent. Over here we've got an antique sleigh and all kinds of packages decorated. And we've got some fun, unusual patterns that I'm going to show you how to create later yourself in my craft room. And some fun little planters with narcissus. And I'll also show you how to create some super fun ones in my craft room in just a little bit. It's a narrow, long space so that I have great storage at either end. So this is kind of super great. It's got pull-out shelves and I house all kinds of linens and napkins and big platters. And if we're having a get-together or a party, a lot of times this is my serving space. So on this end of the room, I designed it with this built-in that was deeper on the bottom. And again, it's got pull-out drawers so that I can house linens. And then the top is just all kinds of storage for vases, water pitchers, dishes. It's kind of fantastic storage all the way to the ceiling, cake platters. So I love it for that casual storage. So now that you've seen the kitchen dining, I'm going to share with you the kitchen. So this kitchen space is one that you can see we've really opened up on all sides to this area, the banquette in this direction into the family room in this direction and then the kitchen dining that you just saw in this direction. And when we did the remodel, we replaced a giant island in the middle that just took a while to eat up. And this functions much easier for us in our family. We use this a lot of times to serve and then cooking here. And then we have this great banquette area that we love to have breakfast or our grandkids love to do projects here. And you can see everybody outside on the patio and the pool beyond. This is family central for us and there's almost always someone sitting here at this banquette area. So you're going to notice if you've seen any of my Instagram posts that for the season, I actually replaced my slipcovers on these chairs. They're typically in the same floral pattern that you see in this pillow and in the trim on the draperies. But for the Christmas season, I replaced them with these large check covers and then kept my same skirt. So by adding this dark green, adding a few dark green pillows, I changed the look from being summer to a holiday, more festive look. So just very simple minor changes going with all of my primary furniture and decor, but just a couple little adjustments to sort of give me a fun holiday decor. In the center, I've got vases of all different sizes. Again, I have my fun little mushrooms. I'm kind of repeating this silly little mushroom scheme throughout. And I've mixed them with different vases filled with flowers. And the light bounces off of them and it's just sort of super fun. The blinds on the window were actually custom because they were so large. And they are motorized so that they can come up and down quite easily. But they were custom because the size is so gigantic. But they're sort of wonderful to have in the morning light if it gets intense. And the windows all open up to beyond, obviously. This is kind of one of the things I do often, too, is this is a little... It's serving the purpose of a Christmas decoration, but it's also a toy. And so I love to have things scattered about that when my grandchildren come, they discover and they can play with. And so it's a little accessory, but it's also a toy and they are welcome to play with it. As big as this house is, I'm always cognizant of designing spaces with storage and lots of storage. And so, again, you can see I've got storage for open shelves for dishes, accessories, lighting, and then also storage above. So on this side as well as the other side, as well as underneath the banquette, these lift up like a boat and you can store. I store Christmas dishes and things in here during the off season. It's kind of storage everywhere. One of my favorite things on this side is the little snowman to the far right, and that was one of my children has made. And it's super compatible with my other little snowman accessories over there, all with silly faces and all just sort of celebrating the joyous holiday. I'm always inspired by creating an environment that feels special and that will delight my grandchildren, my children, and even myself. So anything that has a sense of humor, and especially if it's not an obvious sense of humor or an obvious thing I'm trying to be funny, then I love it. So you will see around my house little cast bronze mice, and I just, I think it's funny. Just a little mouse that's like sitting or on the stair step or behind the door. And at first, someone thinks, oh my gosh, it's a mouse, but then they say no. It's actually a tiny sculpture. I find that humorous. Snowmen that are smiling and next to the stove. It's, they're just little things that sort of tickle me, and so I think it, I think they will, other people too, and even if they don't, I guess I'm, I'm pleased with myself or tickled when I'm in the space, and that's just kind of fun. So now that you've seen the kitchen, we're going to head into the family room, and it's a joining room open to the kitchen, and when you're in the space, you can enjoy the outside and enjoy what's happening in the kitchen as well. So this space, we did the same thing. I replaced some of the floral pillows and some of the kind of chartreuse pillows that I have in the summer with some dark green accents, and then I decorated my tree accordingly with a little bit more of the dark green versus the summer chartreuse, and it just changed the look and made it feel a little bit cozier and more Christmasy, even though we're coastal and open to the outdoors. These little birds and nests were some of the first ornaments I ever bought, and I was a single parent with two little girls and no money to buy Christmas ornaments, and so I went to the craft store and bought all these little birds and bird nests and pine cones, and then even took the pine cones and glued ribbon onto them, and I still have those ornaments to this day, and I've used them every year for more than 30 years, and I still love them, so I think this was before anyone started doing the natural scene, but it was just I could afford to do, and then over the years, I've added little glitter birds, and this year, of course, I added some mushrooms and then some little fruit, but basically, I'm starting with what I've had for years and years, and still love it to this day. So this space was completely closed off to the outside. There were two doors, but you didn't feel connected to the outside, so by adding a porch and opening it up with this very large opening with these custom-sized barn doors, you now feel that you're able to go inside and out, and these doors are open when it's December, and they're open every single day here, so it's really kind of fantastic in California weather. The other thing that we did is open up this. This had two small openings and a wall in between, so it felt very separate from the family room originally, so this now you feel that you're in the same space, so it reads as one large room, and then we also closed off the main hallway, so that now there's this private sort of back stairway to the house, and so this area all feels open, but the stairway up is not a grand staircase, but more of a private. This is our family area staircase, so we love how that makes all this function. One of the challenges of this space initially because of all of the large openings everywhere in the fireplace was setting up seating, of course, and then also placement of TV, so what I've got hidden here is a pop-up TV, so we've got a remote, and this is a large anywhere here, and everyone lays on the chaises and the big wing chairs, and it's kind of super comfy, but the TV on a regular basis is kind of hidden and not the center focus of the room. One of the things I'm going to show you downstairs in my craft room is how to put together a sweet little planter that you can give as a gift when you're going over for dinner, so this is just, we started with a simple planter, and we just changed it depending on our decor. This one fits in my decor, but I'll teach you how to make a couple others that might work better for yours. I'm also going to show you how to make fun paper. Do you notice how this paper matches my room exactly? This may be something that you like or that you don't like, but for me, I think it's super fun, and I'll also show you my little trick on that, how to coordinate packages. Coming from the kitchen takes us into the dining library and the living area and the more formal spaces of the house. So here we are in our dining library. We've got storage behind for all sorts of china and dishes, a space that is cozy for eight and then opens up to the outside. In terms of decor in this space, I just used a very simple greenery and flowers in the middle of the table and our little lovely fruit and vegetable tree. And of course, our wine bottle has a fur coat. This little lovely fruit tree is just... We've added leaves to it to give it just a little metal tree. We cut up a garland and added these little leaves to give it just a little more fluff. And then I've just collected these different ornaments over the years, sort of all different fruits and vegetables, and they're just sort of super charming, I think. So we could also use this for a family dinner, but it has to be a smaller family dinner. And usually when we have our kids and grandkids, we end up in the other room because we actually... It accommodates even more people. So this is more, you know, dinner party kind of room. When I designed this space, it was just a large rectangle, so we opened it up to the outside and added all these bookcases and built-ins and then divided the space so that allowed us storage on the other side. So when you open up these, this is all cabinetry that we designed to make this space feel like a cozy library instead of a big formal dining space. And then when you go inside this little door, there's this awesome storage for dishes and wine. But of course, we still have our doors covered in a wallpaper that looks like books. It's so funny. So we've been on some wine, you know, trips with a bunch of friends and so we usually get some wine and then we have... People give us wine as gifts and so we have a fair amount of wine but we're actually... We actually probably prefer beer versus wine. So as a designer, in each space, I usually try to have something extra special. And in this room, its special piece is this chandelier, which is actually very, very old and it actually is from the days when you did light a room with just candles. So you can see how stunning this is in this space. It just kind of really adds the drama to the space. So you can see where we're about ready to set up for a table setting in here, but we purposely didn't do it for today's shoot because we knew we had so many other Christmas decorations to cover. But stay tuned. Follow us on Instagram and we'll show you all kinds of Christmas table settings. What I love most about the holidays is probably what most of us love and that's that it usually provides opportunity for all of us to be together with family and friends and celebrate. So that's what I love the most is everyone getting together and being together and it's wonderful to have a space that can accommodate that. So now we're moving into the central hall, the entryway and the formal living room. So on this oversized table, again, I treat it like an entryway and like it sort of to announce the holiday. In this case, Christmas. If you saw my prior video, it was very Halloweenish. Sometimes I'll just have seasonal flowers and books and other accessories. But right now, it's got probably one of my favorite trees because it's got sort of my special little ornaments. So notice how it's off the ground. No, little people can knock things over, and so I have things that are a little more treasurable. Most of my things are not that, I don't worry about them breaking, but there's a couple things, some ornaments that from my parents and just some funny ones that I've collected over the years. I have everything from, you know, the TV to the butter stick to a little airplane that reminds me of my dad who was a pilot. Sort of all kinds of a chandelier, a funny whale, things that have been collected over the years that are just a little bit whimsical and fun, perhaps more fragile. And then, of course, this is one of my other little design tricks. I decorate a lot with boxes, and these are boxes that I pull out every year, and they're super easy to wrap in because they're already covered in paper. They untie, and I can just put the gifts inside. It's just an easy, simple way to wrap and an easy way to decorate. I use them, you could see for various stacking packages and stacking accessories on top of them, and they just make such a lovely composition, and they're just so practical. So this is the more formal area of our house. It's obviously a great size living room. This is a fun room in that we've got the fireplace and different things that I've collected over the years, and then again, certainly very comfortable upholstery, so it's a comfortable room, but just a larger room and a little more formal, but then again, still open to the backyard, outside, and this was one of the things that we did in the remodel is open this all up with these floor-to-ceiling metal windows, so it adds a little bit of a modern look and helps you appreciate our pretty California weather on the outside. I've got several different funny sort of antiques, and of course, I couldn't help myself and added a wreath of ornaments to this guy's head. Of course, ornaments and my packages again, and almost every year, I have these packages actually filled with presents for my kids and grandkids, and so on Christmas morning, everyone runs around and collects what looks like all the decor, but there's really presents inside. So in this corner of the room, I have this antique sleigh that I bought years ago at Round Top, the antique festival in Texas, and of course, I had to have it reupholstered in a fabric that coordinated with my interior. Every year, we fill it with packages and usually adorn it with a bag of coal for the naughties and then lots of presents all around it. So because we are so close to the coast and you can see the ocean from outside the windows, I've got this great collection of shells and starfish and kind of super fun coral. I typically have these kind of all year round. Leaving the formal living room and walking into the foyer, I want to share with you our little lovely shelf and how we've just decorated it minimally with flowers and sparkly garland and a little wreath and an angel. Sort of very simple. And then also in this corner, we've got a smaller tree that's got all these bubbles filled with all kinds of feathers. So just very subtle and not a strong focal point. So let me take you upstairs and share with you what we did in our master sitting area. So now we're in the stair landing before you get to the master area and the other bedrooms. And in this area, I think it's fun to point out that stockings don't always have to be on a mantle. And in this case, we just hung them here in the stairway. These are little needle point stockings that I've done for each of the kids as they were growing up. And a smaller tree that kind of looks great coming through the main entry of the house. So now we're going to transition from the upstairs landing to the primary bedroom sitting area. And so this was a space that when I redid the house and the floor plan when kids went off to college, we turned this into a library sitting area for the primary bedroom. And it turns out that this is a space that we use every single day. It's one of our favorite spaces. This was actually a deck that I enclosed and made into a sitting area. So we've got a lovely ottoman that we store linens in and a little sectional that was made specifically for this spot. And this is just an area that again is an entryway I set up with seasonal flowers or in this case, my holiday decor. Lots of storage again down below and lots of book storage because we love to read in this family. On this table, this was actually an old dining table. And I put a mirror on the top. I use it for, like I said, my seasonal flowers or in this case, the holiday decor. So I've got all of these little collected shell trees and boxes, packages, and of course, fresh flowers. So this is my little vanity area. And this was an area that again was a tiny little deck that was not terribly usable. And so I made it into this great little vanity area that I use every day. I built storage on either side that's mirrored And then had a piece, a vanity piece made that houses both makeup and hair dryer and things like that. Of course, I've got my little lovely praying angels that I converted to lamps. They remind me to say my prayers every day. And pictures of my grandchildren. And again, a mirrored top that sort of reflects the light from the windows. And a pretty view beyond. I have always been a designer. This is what I studied in college. It's what I've studied throughout my life. And it's always been my profession. And I kind of knew it had to be when every time I'd pick up an architectural digest, I just wanted to, I was so energized. I wanted to run around the block. So it's been a career that has just suited me so well. I've had a business for years and been able to have some flexibility around children and family. And I've loved it. I've done all kinds of styles all over the country with all kinds of clients. So it's always creative. There's always new product. And I love the business aspect as well. So it's been a really good fit for me in my life. So now you've seen most of the house. But I'm going to take you downstairs to my craft room. A room that I use almost every day. So this is my basement underground garage craft room. So I had this awkward corner in my garage. And I converted it to this craft room. I repurposed my island from above in the kitchen. Took the marble top off of it and put a wood top and painted it. Poly coated my floors and did all sorts of built-ins everywhere to create a craft room that I use for wrapping and all kinds of craft storage and actually making crafts too. I've got room on the back side if you want to sit on a stool and work on different projects. And it's a great place to wrap scissors, tape. Things are right where you need them. Wrapping papers on big rolls in the back. And then all sorts of things stored in the clear boxes. So this space was designed to accommodate these plastic bins that could easily be taken out and put on the counter and use whatever craft you're doing or also be taken upstairs if it was a kid's craft and you wanted to do it at the banquette upstairs. And then I have all these little narrow drawers that house all kinds of stationary and craft items. This pull-out, because it gets a little bit deeper here, for glitter and glue and other storage for small different kinds of wax twine that you might use for beading. We've got storage for more wrapping paper here. Craft books here. So it's a fantastic space to do any kind of craft that you like to do. And speaking of crafts, let me show you a couple things that I talked about upstairs in terms of making a couple things that I actually made down here in my craft room. So now I'm going to show you how to put together one of these little hostess gift planters. Here's two different styles, and we're going to make yet a third style today. So these are the things that I talked about upstairs, and I'm going to show you quickly how,if you buy just a simple little planter with these bulbs and ivy from Trader Joe's, you can turn it into something that feels like a charming hostess gift. So the way we started with this is I kind of looked at where was sort of the front and the best visible side. And I know with this guy, I'm going to put a little nest, and all of these things are available at a craft store and a little bird. You could do all kinds of things. You could put a little Santa. You could put an ornament, some other ornament. But this looks like the perfect spot to position my little bird. And then, of course, I'm going to make this planter a little more neutral. So maybe green is not your color for your interior, or maybe red and white is not, or for your hostess. Here's a way to make something that's a little more neutral and a little more that would kind of go almost in any setting. So all we did here is we've got ribbon wrapped around. And so in this case, we want to make sure we've got plenty of ribbon to wrap and tie in the front. So I'm going to wrap around and kind of guess my length, maybe cut a little bit too long. And then what I've done, and you can use a spray, but, of course, I try not to use the spray adhesive on my plants because it's not healthy for them. And so here's just a little bit of generic glue. We put that on the sides all the way around. And this is maybe not quite as easy as spraying, but then I don't have to worry about sort of hurting my plants. I put it partway in the front. And this is this great little craft glue. I like to buy these little small tubes because then you can use them before they kind of go bad. Put it all the way around. And then I position my, position my ribbon at the top. I press firmly and tightly around. Pull it to the front. Pull it front. Pull it tightly in the front. And then here, this is where I use one of these little sticks with wire attached. You can buy this at any sort of craft or floral store. I poke it in the very front. And then when I knot my ribbon, I'm going to get this guy on there tight. And when I do my knot, I can pull it up and post it on my little spike in the middle. But now my knot is at the front. I can do a little bow. Or if we don't want a bow and we just want a knot, that might be simpler on this guy. We'll angle our ribbon. Angle our ribbon on this side. Okay. We're going to adjust our little ribbon. Adjust our little bird. And sometimes you need to add a little bit more moss. Sometimes these come with moss and sometimes they don't. And so if not, you can just apply a little more moss to the top. Make it look a little bit, a little bit perkier, a little more color. And give this guy a little bit here. And then the other thing we can do that we've done, like in this one, is we added a little bit of this floral and we've also added, we've also added some ornaments. So in this case, we might add just a few of these little tiny ornaments, also available at a craft store, that just add this little spark of color. And we're just poking them in. You could sort of do any kind of arrangement you want, wherever you feel like you need just a little bit, a touch of glitter. And then the other thing I like to do is then attach a fun little card, maybe something you've also made or something that you just have and you've printed, had printed and it ties on the front, like this. Sort of a sweet little, a sweet little personalized gift that you can make for your hostess and if you know, if you know their decor and their colors, then you can, you can make it to match their house, which would make it extra personal. So, and I usually try to use several different kinds of ribbons. So the ribbon to tie, then the ribbon to tie on, on the little name tag. So there we go. Three different kind of looks. Each have a bird. They have a different kind of bird. You could use a Santa. You can use all kinds of different ornaments or ribbon, multiples of, but it ends up making just a fun little hostess gift that you, that you made yourself and that hopefully then works with your, your hostess's decor. Well, I'd like to share with you one of my fun little wrapping tricks. So on these pretty packages that you could see, that you saw upstairs on our tour, I pointed out how this fabric or how this particular paper matched my fabric and how I had done that. And so I want to show you what I did exactly. So here's my print. Here's my original linen fabric, sort of lovely old classic print. And I took it to my reprographics place where I have my plans printed and asked them to blow it up and print me a copy, an architectural paper. So here it is blown up and it makes this wonderful graphic. And one of the things I like best about it is that you actually can see every single thread of how it's woven. So it ends up having very much a fabric feel. So I mixed this in with my other, my other packages and ribbons and I felt like it obviously matches my decor but was really sort of super lovely. In another spot that we also toured upstairs, I did the exact same thing with a totally different look. So here we are with an Indian print, an Indian block print fabric. So here's the original fabric and this is a block print and here's the original size of it. And then blown up, obviously it made this great big flower and I used, I reused ribbon that I had before, put a little pine cone on top and a Santa. Look what a lovely, unusual, unique print we have. On another example, same thing, fabric blown up, Indian block print and here it is kind of super large and I'm sure you could have it done the same size too. I blew it up and thought it made it very dramatic. I tied it with twine. Again, you can see the weave of the fabric that I just think makes it super interesting. I tied a mushroom on top because of course we're going with mushrooms these days and put this fun little package on top that I could put a little prize in and yet another package on top of it and we get a totally different look, but a look that matches our space in our room. So anyone can do this. You can even use your copier. I've done that to reproduce my own sort of smaller package, smaller package wrapping paper on an 8 1⁄2 by 11, but when you go to a reprographic store, you can get a much bigger print and a much bigger sheet that actually works better for wrapping. When I think of home, I think of, and this home in particular, I can't help see my girls and all of their cheerleading friends, 12 or 15 of them, you know, running through the house and piling in the pantry and I see my son riding his scooter, finding these circular patterns in the house and turning the corners on his scooter. It's family memories where we all continue to grow and love each other. Thanks so much for coming Homeworthy and checking out my holiday decor. Time to go. Got lots of gift wrapping and table settings to do. Bye for now. Thanks for watching. Go to Homeworthy.com for exclusive content and shopping guides.