SPREADING FESTIVE CHEER BRINGING CHRISTMAS INTO THE KITCHEN
With the Christmas tree likely occupying your sitting room or dining room (or both if you’re feeling indulgent), a wreath on the front door so that your hallway begins with some festive cheer, and maybe there’s a festive-scented candle that’s wormed its way into your downstairs loo, all too often the kitchen gets left out of the Christmas decorating equation. But, as great believers in Christmas cheer spreading to every corner of the home, the team over at Neptune share a few of the easy but effective ways to sprinkle some seasonality into the heart of your home – the kitchen.
BRANCH OUT OVER THE KITCHEN TABLE
A long term love of ours is to get outdoors and bring back a fallen branch that can be suspended over the table, or kitchen island for that matter. Not only is the feeling of having foraged and reclaimed a piece of nature for one’s own fulfilling, but it extends the fancy of the Christmas tree by giving you another branch to play with.
To help yours float as convincingly as possible, we suggest painting any positioning hooks in the same colour as the paint on your ceiling and then to hang it from however many hooks you need (depending on the length and weight of the branch in question) using clear wire. Then, fetch the fairy lights and decorate with a restrained number of decorations – we find sticking to just one or two is best to stop it from looking overcomplicated. Simple is beautiful remember.
FAIRY-LIGHT FILLED COOKIE
It is nigh on impossible to not feel festive when in the company of twinkling fairy lights. In the kitchen, they work a charm if you have exposed oak shelving that a pine garland can rest along with lights woven in amongst the fir bristles, but the light show needn’t stop there. Is yours a kitchen with pantry jars on display? Why not decant your dried pasta or pulses, and stash inside a cluster of strand lights. Or if you want to keep everything in order and as it was, invite a few newcomers like our glass Belmont jars, and fill one with festive treats like mini mince pies or gingerbread biscuits and the other with our Hazlitt star lights – they’re battery powered so there’s no plug socket required.
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