Add Sophistication, Elegance to Your Home with Snow Day Design Scheme
A few weeks ago, I showed you how we turn our house into a Winter Wonderland each year after Christmas, and many of you really seemed to like that idea- Some of you even went on to do it yourselves and share the pictures online.
And then Mother Nature saw what we were all up to and said, “Oh no you di’int.“
She showed us her own version of Winter Wonderland decorating by dumping an insane amount of snow on the eastern half of the United States– up to 30 inches in some places and a whopping 8 inches right here in Nashville, which was enough to shut down pretty much everything here for the last five days.
We are now on Snow Day #6 here at the Ferrier house– and I have abandoned my Winter Wonderland decorating scheme for something far more current — the Snow Day motif. I’m sharing it with you now so that you can incorporate some of these ideas in your own home, and make this unavoidable family time TRULY MAGICAL.
Customize your front entryway by piling sopping wet gloves, scarves, hats, and mittens along the wall. Word on the street is that all the celebrity design stagers are employing this technique right now!
Celebrate the season of being shut in for days on end with clever groupings of cups half-filled with stone cold hot chocolate.
Add some eclectic charm to your kids’ bedrooms by encouraging them to dump all the toys they never play with on their beds. I hear this look is all the rage right now in Paris.
Give your coffee table modern edge by arranging LEGOs, Nintendo Amiibos, Star Wars figures, McDonalds Happy Meal toys, a Kindle, a half-filled water bottle, hair bands, a broken pencil, a Nintendo controller, a comic book, and cookie crumbs in a seemingly random heap. (I saw this idea in Architectural Digest and just had to steal it!)
Encourage your husband to start leaving his shoes in the dining room for no apparent reason except… SNOW DAY. This, my friends, is what’s known as feng shui.
Unmade bedcovers are truly of the moment. Pile clothing on top of them for added flair.
Expose your decorating expertise by juxtaposing laundry with light sabers in a lighthearted pile on your bedroom floor.
Bake a lot of cookies and then leave all your cooking implements out — This laissez faire aesthetic shows off a sophisticated elegance. Oh, and keep that checkbook handy- You might actually leave the house one day and then you’ll need it.
Did you decorate your dining room table for the winter season? Get in the Snow Day spirit by adding to it your purse, a re-usable shopping bag, a dishtowel, homework, charge cords, a sheet of stickers, old mail, and fleece jackets of assorted colors and sizes!
C’est tres chic!
Now that you have the basics down, you, too, can achieve a Snow Day design scheme that every Park Avenue socialite will envy!
Check in tomorrow to see my Snow Day Style Report: Great Bathrobes I Have Known.
Oh honey, I soooo beat you on this motif! I’ve been doing this for aaaages. 😀
You are on top of the trend!
You are on top of the trend!
Oh honey, I soooo beat you on this motif! I’ve been doing this for aaaages. 😀
Sick Day Chic is what’s stylish in Colorado right now. Our weather is gorgeous at the moment but the flu has struck our region and we basically have not left the house in a week. 😛
Oh Melissa, I’m so sorry. I hope you were able to take advantage of Tamiflu- It SAVED me this time last year.
I waited too long to go to the doctor – I was past that point by the time I went in. The flu part seemed to have resolved and I was dealing with residual bronchitis. My husband says I’m tough. I say I was just too darn sick and tired to get off the sofa!
I waited too long to go to the doctor – I was past that point by the time I went in. The flu part seemed to have resolved and I was dealing with residual bronchitis. My husband says I’m tough. I say I was just too darn sick and tired to get off the sofa!
Oh Melissa, I’m so sorry. I hope you were able to take advantage of Tamiflu- It SAVED me this time last year.
Sick Day Chic is what’s stylish in Colorado right now. Our weather is gorgeous at the moment but the flu has struck our region and we basically have not left the house in a week. 😛
I am assuming that eight inches is a lot for Nashville and the city isn’t prepared for that kind of snow removal? In Minnesota, eight inches would get us a two hour school delay. Of course my mom would tell is stories about growing up in Seattle where a quarter of an inch of snow would shut down the whole city!
Honestly if we had five days off of school due to snow, I think your house would look much better than ours! Which is scary since your kids are younger than mine.
Eight inches completely shuts Nashville down. So does two inches! We are just not equipped for snow.
I knew this storm was coming, so I spent a couple of days beforehand cleaning the house — which seems crazy, but it was sort of nice that most everything was clean underneath the crap. 😉
Eight inches completely shuts Nashville down. So does two inches! We are just not equipped for snow.
I knew this storm was coming, so I spent a couple of days beforehand cleaning the house — which seems crazy, but it was sort of nice that most everything was clean underneath the crap. 😉
I am assuming that eight inches is a lot for Nashville and the city isn’t prepared for that kind of snow removal? In Minnesota, eight inches would get us a two hour school delay. Of course my mom would tell is stories about growing up in Seattle where a quarter of an inch of snow would shut down the whole city!
Honestly if we had five days off of school due to snow, I think your house would look much better than ours! Which is scary since your kids are younger than mine.