Invite: Ski Trip Landing Pad
If you, like us, live in Colorado, you have the perfect landing pad for a few skiing friends to spend a weekend. So, cozy up your guest room, add a few thoughtful amenities for your guests, and make the offer to your friends! You don’t even have to ski with your guests–just give them a cozy place to lay their heads after a busy day on the slopes!
guest space!
RIGHT: This sleek lamp by Currey and Company keeps the space from feeling too stuffy or traditional.
Invite: Morning Coffee with a Girlfriend
Upgrade your standard drip coffee pot to an espresso machine. Fill a clear glass jar with homemade biscotti. It keeps well for a couple of weeks, and makes a delicious (and beautiful) accompaniment to a cup of coffee.
Invite: A Holiday Wrapping Party
This time of year, it’s easy to use busyness as an excuse not to have people over. Why not do the opposite and use it as an excuse to invite people into your home? Your friends and neighbors are probably longing for a few hours to finally get their holiday packages wrapped and their Christmas cards addressed. Why not get together for cookies and warm drinks and tackle these tasks together?
1 t salt
1 t baking soda
1/2 t ground cloves
Maple Cream Filling
2 c confectioners sugar
1 T milk
Invite: Quit Being Embarassed of Your Home!
Continuing our series from last week…
Think about the last time you entertained (if you can remember!). When people came into your home, did you apologize that it wasn’t cleaner, more pulled together, that your design projects weren’t further along? I often hear during my initial consult “I’m embarrassed of my home.” Let me tell a little story that changed my mind forever about apologizing for your home.
I knew a woman in Romania who lived in a two bedroom apartment with her husband and six children. They were involved with humanitarian projects shortly after the Communist regime fell. The apartment was very sparsely furnished–a coffee table and a full mattress were the solitary furnishings in the main living area. This woman had a group of Romanians for dinner. She welcomed them into her home, ushered them in and seated them around her coffee table for a simple dinner she had prepared and there were no apologies made.
While this statement does little to provide job security for me, it is not the design of your home that makes it suitable to host in. Anyone can host, regardless of your space! So, let’s celebrate this woman’s simple entertaining style with a fun (albeit a bit out of season) meal you can share around a coffee table while watching your favorite holiday flick or keeping up with a weekly sitcom: Greek tapas!