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How to Decorate for Thanksgiving Without Using Turkeys

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    How one designer decorated a wood-paneled room for Thanksgiving.

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-- -- I think of Thanksgiving I think of family.

-- when my favorite season I happen to love the fall in -- the changing the colors I feel like god.

Working his artistry -- across the landscape.

And I couldn't be happier doing this holiday in this room when I first us -- and I knew -- was dark paneling.

And not a lot of natural light I decided I needed to go -- The problem with Thanksgiving -- most people think a candy corn colors like orange and yellow red.

And I didn't want to really incorporate too much of that in this room because it would just make -- -- darker.

So I found inspiration and a -- fabric it's a beautiful silk and basically took the blues and grays and cool colors and and -- -- the warmth.

With the cranberries and me we cut -- I didn't want it to be typical Thanksgiving and wanna see any turkeys.

I came across this great place for Mata had a and they have sentence.

And I thought well that's a different spin on Thanksgiving.

And then use that idea to incorporate -- And when I found these great -- save them they have pheasant feathers I thought great I'm an anger are great others into my sights seen.

And I even put them in my napkins and that's something anyone can do.

Another element that people can use and do it in their own home is instead of having your typical -- -- in the fireplace.

Why not make your fireplace and a little bit of an -- landscape as well.

And in this round I used cat tails.

And weeks usually when people think -- Thanksgiving they usually have one long rectangular table and what I find is the conversation ends up being limited.

To the person who you're sitting across from.

So in my design this year I decided to break it up a bit and have Q smaller tables where.

Most people around the table can talk to each other and and -- and conversation.

And it makes it -- much more intimate setting.

My hope for people who come through this basis to feel that it.

-- elegant but warm and inviting and in my designs whether they're traditional -- modern.

That's usually the type of feeling I try to do I tried it have people feel that they can actually -- in this space it's real.

It's not something over the top it's something that -- want.

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