The 2024 holiday season is upon us, and now is the time to spruce up the house for entertaining guests and your own enjoyment. With this in mind, mybergen.com has compiled the following holiday home decorating advice from several of the Bergen County area’s leading home design experts. We hope this helps you prepare for an even happier holiday season!
Decorating for the Holidays on a Budget
Here are a few words of holiday home-decorating advice from Diane Durocher, the award-winning designer of her namesake Diane Durocher Interiors in Ramsey, New Jersey.
- Entwine decorative ribbon into garland and/or use ribbon to embellish the home’s staircases, trees, and other areas.
- To add more interest to a tree, start collecting ornaments reflective of a trip or somewhere special you visit.
- Set up a children’s tree for the priceless homemade decorations (Popsicle sticks allowed).
- Mix expensive decorations with plain glass balls–a great way to fill a tree when there aren’t enough decorations to go around otherwise.
- Burn some scented candles to enhance the holiday spirit.
And with all the money being saved using a few less expensive, creative home decorating touches, there’ll be plenty extra left in the budget for gift giving!
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Organize Your Home for the Holiday Season
As the 2024 holiday season approaches, Bergen County residents are preparing for their holiday traditions, shopping, guests, traveling, and gifts under the tree. Things are about to get very hectic! The experts at California Closets can help everyone celebrate the season in a more organized way!
Below are a few tips and other ways California Closets of North Jersey offers helpful holiday home preparation solutions:
- The Perfect Gift – As wardrobes shift from fall to winter, the ultimate closet provides the perfect home for your winter wardrobe. Whether for shoes, handbags, accessories or your entire wardrobe, a unique, custom closet is the ideal gift, especially for the person who has everything.
- The Ultimate Host – Whether with entertainment/media centers, pantries for your wine collection, bookshelves, or the kitchen, California Closets in North Jersey can help create a comfortable place for friends and loved ones to gather for effortless holiday season entertaining.
- The New Year’s Resolution – Getting organized will be a top priority on many New Year’s resolutions lists. California Closets can help create beautiful, customized designs to accommodate the unique needs of every homeowner while bringing comfort and serenity to almost any space in the home.
- The Green Alternative – For the environmentally conscious, California Closets constantly pursues opportunities to provide clients with environmentally sustainable options.
To create spatial design solutions, California Closets offers a selection of finishes and storage accessories available in various price ranges.
For more information, visit Californiaclosets.com.
Get Your Kitchen Holiday Ready
Since the kitchen is the heart of the home, you’ll want to ensure the space remains warm, inviting, and sparkling clean for your family throughout the holiday season.Here are some quick tips to help you get your kitchen ready for the 2024 holiday season:
Countertops – Keep countertops clutter-free by doing a quick clearing-off. Grab a laundry basket and fill it with those piled-up papers and magazines, school projects, and miscellaneous items that are taking up precious counter space.
After the hubbub of the holiday season has died down, you can sort through the basket and determine where all the items should be stored. Once the counters have been cleared, it’s time to wipe everything down. Remember that you must use a pH-neutral stone cleaner if you have granite countertops. Soap, abrasive cleaners, or cleaners with citrus can damage granite. And don’t forget about those usually unseen spots – move appliances, cookbooks, and displays so you can clean underneath them rather than just around them.
Sink – A kitchen may look spic and span, but one stinky sponge can easily mask all your hard work. The new “Dirty Dishes Dilemma” survey by Palmolive reveals that close to nine out of ten households (86 percent) have encountered a bad-smelling sponge, and almost everyone surveyed (94 percent) said they felt this particular odor impacts their kitchen’s cleanliness most.
Help keep guests’ noses from crinkling by ensuring bad smells are kept at bay. One way you can do that is with the dual-action formula of Ultra Palmolive Dish and Sponge Fresh Dish Liquid, which washes away odor-causing residue on sponges while its cleaning action helps remove stuck-on food. Dishes are left sparkling clean, and sponges are left smelling fresh. Another way to help keep your sponge smelling fresh? Properly clean your sponges by removing remaining food particles and thoroughly rinsing your sponge after using the dish liquid.
Shiny surfaces also enhance a kitchen’s atmosphere. Splotches and stains are a common sink surface menace, even with daily cleaning. Use an eraser-type sponge and an all-purpose cleaner to remove them. You can also try cleaning stains with baking soda.
Refrigerator – The holiday season inevitably leads to lots of leftovers. Make sure shelves aren’t filled with food past its prime by looking through your refrigerator every few days. Don’t forget to clean the bins and door shelves, too. Another way to keep the fridge smelling fresh is by opening a box of baking soda and storing it on a shelf – this will help absorb any lingering odors. Keep the outside of the refrigerator as sparkling as the inside by wiping down exposed surfaces. Door handles and edges can get grimy so pay attention to those areas.
Creating a warm and inviting kitchen space for the upcoming season doesn’t have to be time-consuming. A little bit of elbow grease will prepare your kitchen for the frenzy of festivities ahead. Learn more about all of the Ultra Palmolive dish liquid offerings at www.palmolive.com.
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Is Your Home Ready for the Holidays?
The holiday season has arrived! If you’re planning a holiday home makeover or want to spruce up one or two rooms in time for holiday entertaining, then you should check out the Bergen County Home Design section of mybergen.com.
Whether you are decorating a new home, thinking about redesigning/remodeling or looking for holiday decor ideas, mybergen.com’s home design features can help make your next project more manageable. This popular online resource has become the place to go for local home design information, helpful advice, and news from the region’s leading design-build, decorating, and home improvement professionals. Our content has a regional focus, and will provide you with Bergen County area home design businesses that can help make your next project a success.
You’ll find information about interior decorating & design, kitchen & bath, architects, furniture, lighting, appliances, fireplaces, wall coverings, generators, landscape design, flooring, bedrooms, window treatments, fine art, antiques, closets, pools & patios, remodeling, doors, garages, windows, decks, siding, roofing, home office, home security, carpet cleaning and more. You’ll also find holiday decorating tips on mybergen.com. As with all sections of mybergen.com, the Home Design content mix is updated frequently.
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