Christmas Decorations

[TheBeachHouse]

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?.

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?

The people on the Inn Crawl will expect some sort of holiday decoration. If you want to make it all about Hanukah, it would be true to you and also festive for guests.
You can set the table beautifully without being Christmassy. Use non traditional colors like gold and pink. Or you can use the blue and silver generally associated with Hanukah. Lots of candles and sparkle can just say, 'winter wonderland' without saying, 'Christmas.'
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Check out Pinterest and search 'non-denominational holiday decorations' or 'Hanukkah decorations' or 'holiday party' for more ideals.
I love this. An original and fun take on a traditional theme.

 

[happykeeper]

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?.

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?

The people on the Inn Crawl will expect some sort of holiday decoration. If you want to make it all about Hanukah, it would be true to you and also festive for guests.
You can set the table beautifully without being Christmassy. Use non traditional colors like gold and pink. Or you can use the blue and silver generally associated with Hanukah. Lots of candles and sparkle can just say, 'winter wonderland' without saying, 'Christmas.'
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I would agree. We have done some years without traditional color schemes. It is all about sparkle and spritz.

 

[Generic]

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?.

Same tribe here. We decorate for Christmas for the guests but use blue and silver. We put up a tree. It's not for us, it's for the guests.

 

[Anon Inn]

Maybe a little different here. We put up a tree - or not - as the mood strikes us. When we do get Christmas guests, we suspect they may be escaping the whole rigamarole, including family.

Do what works for you, if you love the holidays - share the love, if not, not.

 

[happykeeper]

Maybe a little different here. We put up a tree - or not - as the mood strikes us. When we do get Christmas guests, we suspect they may be escaping the whole rigamarole, including family.

Do what works for you, if you love the holidays - share the love, if not, not..

I agree with that as well. Some years we have kept it REALLY minimal. The Inn Crawl thingy might be the driver.

 

[Madeleine]

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?.

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?

A friend decorates with a lot of greens and lights. It looks festive but passes her mother's 'no Christmas' test.
You can also decorate for what you are comfortable with. And let the inn crawl folks see something different. Who knows, you might make a lot of people happy!

 

[user 26]

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?.

well, if you are part of the inn crawl then yes you should do something. or why participate? i am sure not all guests coming through celebrate christmas. why not put out what pleases you? i love gorgeous blue Hanukkah decorations, snowflakes and the like. so lovely. i have a friend who makes potato latkes and serves them with sour cream and apple sauce. her table is decorated with a silver menorah with blue candles.
and all kinds of businesses put out 'fairy lights' year round. very cheery.

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?

 

[gillumhouse]

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?.

Help! This is our first holiday season and we are faced with decorating or not. We are Jewish and do not celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate Hanukah. I feel as if we should do some decorating for our guests. We are also part of a holiday Inn crawl so.I know the other inns will be decorated. I'm thinking lights out side, and in tthe windows. Wreath on door, menorah in front window. Greenery up the stairs with lights, but no tree. It is very confusing.Dear husband wants nothing but knows it will be good for business. Thoughts?

Personally, I think it would be cool to decorate Hanukah. It will bring something "different" into the Inn Crawl. I have heard "diversity" until I want to retch (my State gets dinged because we do not have enough diversity to suit someone) but THAT is the kind I would enjoy. DARE TO BE DIFFERENT!

 

[Joey Camb]

Our first Christmas, the owner went all out and hung lights all over the outside of the house - including the roof line on the third floor. Those damned lights stayed up for over a year because he got injured & could not get up there and neither could the rest of us. Last year we hung up some wreaths, big gold bells above our staircase, some lights on front porch facing main road. Tree inside in front window, train around the base, random holiday decorations on tables. Each year we do less, just too much work..

I would like to do more on the front but don't have anywhere to plug in - we have an outside socket but it doesn't seem to work so must get the electrician to have a look at it incase it can be fixed relatively inexpensively (ie don't even know if its connected up to anything) and then I could have nice lights on my canopy.

 

[Sunshine]

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html

 

[Sunshine]

Our first Christmas, the owner went all out and hung lights all over the outside of the house - including the roof line on the third floor. Those damned lights stayed up for over a year because he got injured & could not get up there and neither could the rest of us. Last year we hung up some wreaths, big gold bells above our staircase, some lights on front porch facing main road. Tree inside in front window, train around the base, random holiday decorations on tables. Each year we do less, just too much work..

I would like to do more on the front but don't have anywhere to plug in - we have an outside socket but it doesn't seem to work so must get the electrician to have a look at it incase it can be fixed relatively inexpensively (ie don't even know if its connected up to anything) and then I could have nice lights on my canopy.
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I would like to do more on the front but don't have anywhere to plug in - we have an outside socket but it doesn't seem to work so must get the electrician to have a look at it incase it can be fixed relatively inexpensively (ie don't even know if its connected up to anything) and then I could have nice lights on my canopy.

We don't have any elect outside either. We unscrew the light bulb from the porch light and screw in a thingy we got from the store that has outlets on it, and a place for the light bulb. Then plug in an extension chord, and we use hooks to hold the extension chord to the roof, (up and out of the way). It works great!!

 

[gillumhouse]

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html.

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html

And since this was one stop on the most wonderful Road Trip, I can attest to the fact it is Magnifique.

 

[Ice]

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html.

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html

And since this was one stop on the most wonderful Road Trip, I can attest to the fact it is Magnifique.
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We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html

And since this was one stop on the most wonderful Road Trip, I can attest to the fact it is Magnifique.
It was like stepping into a doll house!

 

[Kay Nein]

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html.

You do an absolutely amazing job! You turn your Inn into an attraction, not just a place of lodging.
(and congrats on the new granddaughter! You're right - she is PERFECT!)

 

[TheBeachHouse]

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html.

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html

Congratulations on This O ld H ouse! Very awesome.

 

[JBloggs]

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html.

We go all out for Christmas and get a lot of visitors because of it. "T h i s O l d House" tv/magazine had a contest, decorate your home for the holiday, and we won first place! Pretty fun! Now we do a 'S u g a r P l u m T e a" and so we have to decorate and go all out (its ok, I LOVE it). We decorate 23 themed trees, and garland over all arches and cedar boughs. Wreaths and garland outside too. Heres a link to see some of the pics,
http://www.highstreetvictorian.com/Victorian-Christmas.html

Hard to believe a year has come around so quickly...your place is the place dreams are made of over the holidays!

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