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5 Best Home Christmas Party Ideas For Your 2023 Holiday Season
Christmas parties! Where would we be without them?
Forcing conversation with your least favorite coworker for 2 hours at the corporate party? Experiencing the dinner of a lifetime with your family? Experiencing the nightmare dinner of a lifetime with your family? Christmas has the unique ability to play on every emotion. Parties form the centerpiece to the holiday season.
Today, we’re offering our 5 Best Home Christmas Party Ideas to start new traditions, bring friends together, and make Christmas magic, magical in 2023.

Top 10 Quiet Luxury Home Christmas List Essentials for 2023
December 1st is rolling right around—Thanksgiving is over, Black Friday is (thankfully) over, and it’s time to start hinting to your loved ones (and yourself) exactly what you want or need for Christmas this year. Think of these as gifts for your home so when all the holiday cleaning is done, your house looks even more beautiful than before the season began.
“Quiet Luxury” gifts for the home are timeless and high quality. They are feel good statements for the home that aren’t flashy, but add just the right touch to make home feel like home.
So if you’re struggling to make that Christmas list, check out these Top 10 “Quiet Luxury” Home Christmas List Essentials.

Using Color to Enhance Your Home Office
For our minds and bodies, there are few more powerful forces than colors.
Colors dominate our moods, they change our perceptions—every room you walk through, if it’s an ugly swamp toad brown or a nice Benjamin Moore Blue Spruce, changes how we feel. It can even have physical effects on your body. Using color is especially important in rooms where you spend a lot of time.
So for your home office, you want to pick colors that elevate your moods and reinforce your creative, efficient, and prosperous side. If you implement the right Feng Shui color principles for your office walls and furniture—and even on your office accessories and pillows—you can quickly find your work space to the space you feel the most you.
Ok. So which color do you need? Let’s dive into our Feng Shui Energy Color Guide and find out!
Three Tips On Using Black Paint For Walls (And Five Top Black Paint Colors That I Love)
From ancient Greek artists using black to paint intricate designs on terracotta vases to 12th century monks robed in black cloak, all the way to Coco Chanel’s introduction of “the little black dress”, black has been used consistently across time and various cultures in art and fashion.

5 TIPS TO BUY THRIFTED ART (TO MAKE YOUR SPACE AMAZING)
Art makes life worth living, right?
I always think that art makes your space worth living in, too. If you’re stuck with boring walls or worse, ugly walls, then it’s time to make your place special by buying art that has meaning to you. There’s a reason someone paid $450 million dollars for an obscure Da Vinci painting to put on their wall.
We might not be able to buy a Da Vinci worth the price of an island, but there are ways to identify special art for your walls.
Let’s dive into some common problems!

5 FALL HOME DECOR IDEAS USING VINTAGE AND FENG SHUI THAT MAY SURPRISE YOU!
Are you bummed by fall or are you excited for it? That might be one of the most divisive questions on earth. Personally, I’m stoked for fall and I’m ready to give you some design tips to do the same!
Check ‘em out.