Gunkelmans Interior Design Blog

Along with the holidays comes the time for holiday entertaining.  It can be stressful thinking of how to decorate your table, what to serve for food and drinks, etc. Gunkelmans Interior Design offers these holiday party tips to make your entertaining stress-free.

• Have a holiday playlist set on your iPod to play.    Be sure to mix it up to keep the liveliness of the party going.
• Set a beautiful table with white candles, white linens, white dinner plates and add a punch of color with the serving plates, dinner napkins and centerpiece.  A “wow” look on the table can make up for any blunders with the food.
• Serve festive drinks like eggnog, apple cider, a holiday punch, pomegranate martinis or champagne with a few cranberries tossed in the glass.
• Place holiday themed flowers around the home, such as poinsettias, berries, holly, or fresh greens tossed in a bouquet of white flowers.
• Let your guests choose their own seating.  No need to worry about pairing people up, they’ll be happy to mix it up a bit.
• Relax and have fun!  Your guests would rather enjoy socializing with you than have you worrying or stressed out.

 Happy Holidays!

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The color gray seems to be everywhere these days.   Some may think of it as an unpleasant color, but lets not go back to the ’80’s when it was used with mauve.   We can stay away from that trend forever.

Now it’s either classically subdued or infused with a punch of vibrant color like chartreuse, blue or yellow.   Or if you’re really daring a hint of red.    The nice thing about gray is that it can go either cool or warm so there are many variations to it.

Enjoy the images of gray done well.

Images:  Schumacher, Gunkelmans