CHRISTMAS DECORATING | Christmas Garland Decoration for Your Stairway

0:07 [Music] [Applause] hey guys welcome back to the kin woven home channel what do you think mom we're here we're home we're woven we're ready to decorate for Christmas today we're gonna tackle the grandiose staircase and we are gonna show you guys how we decorate my mom's staircase garland if you don't have a staircase keep watching because maybe you'll put it on your mantel but here at my house I have a three-part staircase and we're gonna take it from normal everyday stuff to something super Christmas glam for King wolven and I would recommend that you grab a friend while you're doing your Christmas decorating or grab your mom and a cookie we should make cookies

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1:39 number one step number one is check your Garland let's do it [Music] turn towards someone you're not saying I want the other side might I like this side of my hair moving i'ma for point number two point number one Oh step number one is you want to make sure that your tree and your garland are coordinating doesn't have to match a can match or it can have reference points like this year I actually used a heavily white flocked tree so my Garland and all of my wreaths and everything I do in my house are going to be heavily flocked for me my tree is pure green but I use some picks and some things to put in it they have some flocking on it and it also has like you

2:25 know touches of snow so for the Garland's I'm using in my house I'm actually gonna use partially flocked Garland's to mix it up but you want to make sure that there is some interweaving well by the white flocking somewhere else in your house just to make it feel like it really kind of cohesive yeah looks nice so mom what's number two well I'm glad you asked because I'm standing here with it this is where we take the garland and we lay it out on the staircase railing just to decide what is our style gonna be this year I've done so many different ways this year what I think I'm gonna do is the swag and over swag and over it's got a nice little rhythm to it doesn't know

3:11 so this is where you lay out because you need to find out how many Garland's are you gonna need for a staircase this size so what I do is I kind of go up and down the stairs myself because I need to see from you know down here is this the swag that I really want the other thing to make a note of this what the point of this step is not to attach it yet it's just to make a plan to understand how many Garland's are we actually going to need what type of swag and what pattern and just to kind of get the vibe for the design and the style that we're gonna go for it this is a kind of a unique thing that I've developed over the years where if you swag it on one side and then the next swag instead of going like this like this like this which you typically see down a staircase swag it on the front and then swag it on the back and

3:57 then swag it on the front by doing that now your garland is beautiful from any direction you could be upstairs and look at it you can be downstairs and it's absolutely beautiful this demonstrates you why this step is so important because what I would find is that with the swag one garland is not enough to take me to the bottom what I will need to do is take a garland and cut it in half and I'll tell you why behind with the lights the lights have to come off and be real it that's the downside but if you want it to be perfect I'm gonna get some snow in my lashes she gets stuff in her lashes on for her for at the end with the confetti

4:51 it's tucked so sure if we pull this down here so that it has a really swanky bottom to it I was once told I had a swanky bottom that was a long time ago see here's the thing guys even though we're professionals and we do this every year and it always turns out beautiful I'll have to test it you have to play around with it so don't think you're gonna put your stuff up and it's going to be perfect the first time so here's one little thing that we need to consider you see this this is the male end this is what plugs into the wall now in my house I took the liberty when we first moved into this house to put outlets at the top of each one of these staircase landings for this very purpose that's how much I love staircase garland I love it love it love it what you're saying if I already guess is we need to split your room yes we do you are one smart cookie I'll show you

5:37 whoa okay great so you want to rewire this bag went back that yes maybe that's what we're gonna do in step number three step3 you guys we recommend you try to buy garlands that are pre lit it will save you so much time in the end and make it a lot easier but in the event that you don't have a pre lit Garland and you want lights in it we recommend you take them off one by one and you do what to it well this is kind of a fun thing I've learned over the years of having to light this stuff bend your garland in half identify the center take your string of a hundred lights identify the center tie it together center to center and then weave your lights out that will ensure that your lighting is even and equal and consistent throughout your garland now on this step when we take it down we

6:22 know where we want everything we actually went around and I marked on the tag on each of these the this is the a section this is B and then on the top of C that way when we take these down we don't get them mixed up it's also great for next year too so the point in this step honestly is you don't want to necessarily fluff and do everything on the railing it's easier to take it down let's we're gonna put it on the floor we're gonna fluff the branches take off all the tags right mom yeah oh and you're gonna also take the little each one of these Garland's has comes with a bag of a couple of different replacement bulbs and you want to keep those but what you don't want is what I have was this big huge baggie full of all these replacement lights for all these different things over the last 20 years then you go I don't know which one goes with which so I've learned to take all

7:08 the ones that go to these pieces of Garland stick it in a small baggie and with a sharpie just write on it heavily flocked garland and I can even write where I bought it about this at Shinoda and it would remind me I did that with my Christmas tree I could even put the year on it gosh I could do so much good you could if you could add to the Dewey Decimal System and really know how to find that sucker I could put a photo on there my goodness [Music] okay fourth thing we're gonna do is we're gonna attach the garland back on

7:54 to the staircase but for good now what I used to use on my staircase was this Pat it's called paddle wire it's floral wire it comes on a paddle comes in a bunch of different gauges and you can get this at Shinoda as well I cannot do any of what I do in decorating without this stuff this is like golden however putting this on my metal staircase this has also got a pink finish on it and it has a tendency to scratch it now Elena said this looks like your hair extensions but no it's twine just want to make sure you guys know that you can tie this on and this won't scratch your paint you can also use ribbon but I think this is just gonna blend in easy yeah give it a little bit of a messy organic look a little Ricci look a little wheezy let's get the time let's do it here we go [Music]

8:41 identify it by putting the very top one at the top good you know when we move and we're out of state or not here anymore I'm gonna miss my staircase I love this Turkey bring it with you [Music] super-important to plug it in at this point yeah that's so pretty we're leaving this extra piece out because we're gonna make this our grandiose moment she might want to put some extra lights in the boughs or any of the ribbons or things that she's gonna add to it to really light it up step number five Shara and I are gonna show you what we do next and that is to

9:27 actually decorate the garland my philosophy is start right here this is your crescendo point your no point yeah the staircase leads its way down to this kind of like how we say start with the topper first and work your way down this is gonna set the tone for how the rest of the garland ends up looking and I'm also gonna keep in mind we're gonna stay with my luxury glammy theme and we're gonna use some of the same materials that we used on the Christmas tree so it'll tie the two together perfect let's do it I need to make like get all your pipes and Hix [Music] [Applause] [Music]

10:42 all righty what are you saying I think it looks incredible I like how you've included some of the natural with the glitzy and it's our Ken woven color palette it's got some really cool colors and then this has also got great little almost like clumps of grapes only they're made out of pearls it gives it that more glamorous sophisticated and glitzy look which will lead us into creating number six which are mini moment you know mom before we get started on our step number six I think we should take a little cookie break I would love to do that okay we're taking a break we'll be back

11:42 it's what our many moments mom it's just a smaller version of this using a lot of the same materials but wherever we have a place where it attaches it's the perfect place for a mini moment we're gonna go up and do this all the way up and then we're gonna do the Robie but Rosi what did we decide sheriff we took Rosie off because of the height difference when you look up at this angle you can't really see Rosie as well it's kind of covered by Rho a and Rho B and so it kind of just didn't really need anything so you know we're toning it down it's what we do minimal that's how we are cachito

12:28 okay mother here's your chocolate chip cookie okay so after our cookie break we decided to do step number seven which is to connect your mini moments so as you saw here we have our big moment it's now the mini moment has similar ribbon high similar pics but we want to connect them all by by weaving in and out this ribbon you want it to look like it's one continuous row of ribbon that connects all of these things but it really isn't you cut them in pieces because it's easier to go in and out if you try to do this in one continuous roll it would be a nightmare and then you can just tuck this one I already started on the bottom and I'm gonna come up here and I'm going to tuck and I'm going to weave it around this way underneath see that looks like

13:15 the ribbon is just sort of weeding up and in and through perfect I'm gonna go wash my hands and then we're gonna get to step number eight the final fabulous step okay so number eight we just finished adding some final touches and I'm putting the last icicle on mom why don't you tell them what we did so icicles are really fun to use I use them on my tree this year and I collect them all the time I have some that are frosted which is what Shara just put on some that look like they're just ice and some that are completely clear there are different shapes and sizes which makes it interesting when you're adding icicles to any of your garlands or your tree go in and out do the depth thing because when it's all in a row all ice

14:01 on the very front it looks fake but as you'll notice here we'll get some good close-up shots these go in and out you can see some from the back over here as it swags over to this side and then swags to this side bottom line is it's a layering process and that is what this last step does you step back and you go do I love it or do I just like it if you just like it maybe you need to keep adding some more tchotchkes and we also added some of these little balls here in different colors of our color palette one quick tip I would mention is when you do attach these delicate jewels to your garland just make sure they're really really well fastened especially if it's in a walkway people are walking up and down the stairs you don't want one of them to get broken [Music]

14:50 just getting all that extra snow off the ground really made a nice dear friend I'm gonna stab you and now it like pops [Music] and when I look at it from here I think even from the underside it's really pretty I think the icicles made it yeah Lauren try baking while you're doing it that's really help we wish you guys a very Merry Christmas from the kin we'll be family this year we hope that your homes turn out absolutely beautiful and that we are in some small way being able to make an impact even in your garden

15:41 all right we love you guys we'll see you bye [Music]