White Lights for Christmas
Written By Frances Healy •
Lighting plays an important part around the home during the festive season, warm white lights add sparkle and simply enhance what is already in place. The important thing to remember when creating your light displays is quantity, you’ll need plenty of them to make an impact - so don’t skimp. Intertwine your lights with scented orange and cinnamon candles set alight in burnished and bronzed lanterns creating warmth and opulence. Complete the look with a decorative pinecone garland dotted with dainty, shimmering stars. For a simpler look, pile them in a bowl, fill up your hurricane lamps or wrap them around a shaped metal feature like this elegant star.
Use indoor LED fairy lights to enjoy the sparkle of Christmas whilst remaining environmentally conscious. Battery powered ones mean no need for dangling cables or trip hazards Greet your guests with some gorgeous outdoor lighting displays – look for shapes that blend into your outdoor spaces - these twinkling cow parsley seed heads radiate with their frosty backdrops and remind us of summers past.
Use fairy lights as uplighters rather than all-over decorations to subtly draw attention to key features in your garden. Invest in some solar-powered fairy lights for your garden displays, but be aware that the limited hours of daylight at this time of year may curb their sparkle a little. However you decide to decorate your home, enjoy this magical and peaceful time with friends, family and loved ones.
Merry Christmas!
Frances
Frances Healy
Interior Design Director
Frances Healy Interiors Ltd
About the Author: Frances Healy, Interior Design Director, Frances Healy Interiors Ltd
Frances has spent her entire career working in premium luxury residential properties across the whole of the UK and also into mainland Europe, the United States and Caribbean. Having completed Art School, Frances joined Charles Hammond Ltd on Sloane Street in London where she carried out her apprenticeship working as a junior member of one of the Design Teams. Her experience in classic period houses and riverside apartments during the 1980’s and 90’s within London and the luxurious country estates of the home counties, gave her a training, knowledge and address book, which is still with her today.
Returning to her home in the South West 20 years ago, Frances now heads up her own Interior Design business where she can still be found in prestige properties in the exquisite seaside towns of Salcombe, Fowey, St Mawes and Rock or high on the moors of Bodmin and Dartmoor still working her magic, still loving her trade and making many, many old and new clients very, very, happy.
Frances lives in the Southern Tamar valley right on the border between Devon and Cornwall with her husband and their beloved spaniel Barney. Weekends will be spent boating, walking the beaches (come rain or shine) or pottering in her greenhouse.