Find Your Holiday Style

If you visit friends and family in late November and throughout December, you’ll notice that everyone has a different holiday style. Some people rely heavily on handmade items and natural touches like evergreen boughs. Others choose understated elegance. Still others adopt a retro look.

When you have small children, it’s easy for your holiday style to get lost, as you’re overtaken with preschool crafts and sturdy plastic ornaments. However, we’d like to make a case for letting your inner decorator shine through. Even just a few personal touches can really pull your home together, and kick your holiday cheer up a notch.

Which Holiday Style Fits You?

For the holiday season, our friends at Art Knapp are highlighting five different Winter Wonder themes at their stores in downtown Vancouver and Port Coquitlam. Perhaps one of them will resonate with you.

1. Silent Luxury

Silent Luxury is a style that features soft tones and understated, upscale luxury. Look for a touch of cobalt blue, mink, pewter and sable. If you like to indulge over the holiday season, this may be the style for you.

2. Christmas Chic

If you love mid-century modern, then Christmas Chic may be the holiday style for you. It’s all about fresh, crisp, clean lines, with a slightly Scandinavian feel. The colour scheme is festive and hip in soft whites, blues and red accents.

3. Sparkling Whites

If romantic elegance is your thing, then Sparkling Whites just may be your holiday style. It’s a stunning mixture of silver, gold and – of course – white, to add a little sparkle to the season.

4. Classic Home

If you love an old-fashioned Christmas, evoking images of yesteryear, then Classic Home is your holiday style. It features traditional Christmas decor with touches of purple to add richness and depth.

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5. Maple Woods

One of the best parts of living in Vancouver is the way that we’re surrounded by nature, even in the heart of the city. With Maple Woods you can bring that outdoorsy feel into your holiday style. It’s a rustic mixture of natural elements, using cedars, birches and owls.

Whatever your holiday style, we hope that you’ll find ways to express it this year. Because any season is merrier, when you’re surrounded by things you love.

This article was sponsored by Art Knapp. Celebrate the season with Art Knapp in downtown Vancouver and Port Coquitlam. It’s your go-to Christmas destination for unique winter greens and exclusive holiday decor for your home. They also have a fabulous ladies’ fashion department where you’ll find the perfect dress for that holiday party. Bring your little ones to Storytime with Mrs. Claus at the Port Coquitlam location starting November 28, 2013. Your little ones will meet Mrs. Claus and her little elf, hear a story, and decorate cookies. From there they’ll enjoy a train ride through the Christmas tunnel where it’s always snowing. Then take a spin on the Christmas carousel, new this year. Register online at www.artknapps.ca.