Tour My Home Decor Store: Christmas Edition!

Hello friends and welcome back to the channel. My name is Jennifer Davenport and I'm an interior designer and I love Christmas. This video is going to be all about my store during the holidays. If you haven't subscribed to my channel be sure to do that. Now, just a gentle reminder, we are not shipping this year, but come visit us if you're in the Nashville or Queensborough area. When you first enter my store, this is what we call the foyer, and this is where I put my biggest tree. It's a 12-foot tree, and in this foyer is where I also display all of my picks and things that you want to put into a tree. As I go through the store to show you things, I also want to give you some tips for your own decorating. And this is one of my favorite ones. On this tree, I've just laid a wide ribbon and then a more narrow ribbon, and all I did was curl it just a little bit, and look how beautiful that is. When people first come into the store, I want that wow factor in the foyer, and then I want to create another wow factor, which is what I've done here on this very large dining room table. I was so excited at Market to find these deer. The first time I found a female and a male deer, and it's stunning. Ribbons and bows are all the rage this year, and a lot of it has to do with John Mark. He is amazing. If you don't follow him, go follow him on Instagram. We started carrying his ribbon this season. I also carry Dee Stevens. I'm loyal to both. But ribbon makes such a difference, and it has been a super fun year with all of the colors and displays for all of the different ribbons. It is beautiful. This is one of my favorite ornaments. Look at the details. Another thing on this tree that I found this year are these magnolias and they're so different because they just look like fairy wings with a little bit of gold on the tips. So here's a tip. When you're decorating an all white tree, you need to have a little depth to it. So on this ornament, there's a little bit of sage green. What I did was choose A beautiful sage green stem and put that in the tree and that is how you're going to get that depth and have that other color pop out. So you know Ralph Lauren is all the rage this year. So this is my whimsical Ralph Lauren tree. I put a lot of color in it, a lot of stems. And also the deer, I put them over here. If you don't have a big table where you can put some big deer, nestle them into the tree. Another trend I saw at market was fruit, and I'm all for it. So I found this pick with some blueberries and then a green apple. And again, that's another color that really will make your tree stand out. You just stick it in your tree and you're done. Here's a super easy way to add some Christmas elegance to your home, And that is just get a green swag. Attach a bow to it. You can put it above a mirror. You can put it above some artwork. And in this case, I just put it above some lanterns. And it turned out a super easy centerpiece to do on your dining or kitchen table. A large bowl. Add some green picks in it. And just put in some large or small ornaments. If you're going to put ornaments in, kind of vary the size. And it's so easy and so elegant. I picked these up at market because it's my nod to Princess Diana. I really wanted to embrace vintage Christmas this year and when I found this sleigh it was perfection. I also found a vintage Santa. Now I didn't want to just leave him in the sleigh by himself so what I did was I created a simple swag that just lays in there, added a bow and some picks and you're done. This is one of my favorite things in the store, and that's this mantle and the garland. My daughter found the mantle on Facebook Marketplace, and so Scott installed it. And this garland, I'm going to be honest, it took me quite a while to do it. Because each little ribbon I cut in different sections and made bows, but I love the way it turned out. You want to elevate your garland, there's two things you can do. One is add magnolia, and two, add some tapered candles. For me, I'm going to get tapered candles that come on a timer because we're busy doing this. Here's a few tips on decorating a tree. The biggest thing for me to make a tree look really stunning, your tree is shaped like this. When you put picks in, no matter what kind of picks they are, let them come out from the tree. It makes it whimsical. It adds so many layers. I love it. Now, another thing I love, I'm a little crazy about birds, and so I love to add them to trees. But don't just stick them anywhere. I like to put them on the tree. On a little branch, how that little bird would sit in nature. This was one of my favorite ornaments I found at market. And yes, I added it to this mostly white tree and it worked. Now when you're adding ornaments to a tree, I don't like to add them by the string. I like to take the string off and on that little hook, I'm going to put a Christmas ornament hook and put it close to the tree branch as if it's growing off the branch. The only time I don't do that is when I'm using droplets. To me, droplets take the design over the top. This is my very colorful traditional tree. I was so happy color was back this year. I'm all about it. And you'll see in this tree, I've paired reds and all kinds of blues. Look at this hand painted. Droplet ornament. The other thing on this tree are the chinoiserie ornaments pulling out against the more blue. Now, don't be afraid to use a really large ornament. I'm going to call this bell an ornament, but you would think, oh my goodness, I wouldn't put that in a tree, but I would. Look how good it looks in the tree. Let's talk about how to put ribbon on the tree, so many different ways. I'm going to tell you how I did this one. I had three ribbons. I had one that was an embroidered ribbon, a little more expensive, and then I had these two ribbons, a velvet green, and this is my John Mark ribbon with a little bit of plaid on the outside. Look how I did this. Two loops, each ribbon. This one's a little bit smaller. You're going to take that embroidered ribbon And kind of trail it down in your tree, then you're going to make these bows and just set it into the tree and get it in there, not on the edge of the branch. You want it in so that it looks set in there. And that's all you have to do. So make several different bows for your tree. And here's another tip. How to get them on your tree evenly. Think about a diamond. If I'm going to put a bow here, I'm going to make a diamond. I'm going to put a bow here. I'm going to put a bow here and I'm going to put a bow here and I create the diamond and I keep going around the tree and that's how you'll get all of your bows to be perfectly even on your tree. Okay if you're somebody who doesn't want to do a lot of decorating for Christmas can't relate but these are so cool. They go on your chandeliers you just slide them over you might have to take the bulb off and slide them over or you can use them on a candlestick done We've decorated for Christmas and, I mean, really, these aren't hard to pack away. This tree is probably one of my favorites in the store. Every year since we've opened, I've done a Ralph Lauren tree. I'm all about it. This one, I hardly used any red. I focused on blues and browns and it just worked. If you want to add a little bit of red, do that in ornaments like I did with this one. Or do it in a pick where it's just a little bit of red. Again, you're adding layers and textures to your tree. Here's another easy Christmas decorating tip. A simple wreath, a lantern, and all you need to do is add a bow, and you are done. Just as a reminder, I know it's disappointing, but I'm not shipping anything this year. But if you're in Tennessee or near Nashville, come visit us. We're in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I would love to meet you. Now, if you haven't seen my video about my back porch, be sure to check that one out As well, and I will see you in the next video. Thank you so much for watching