Rustic Glam Christmas Decor/How to make a focal point on a small staircase garland
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- 8:04–9:31 Add End Embellishments
From How to Refresh a Staircase for the Holidays in an Afternoon, Step 2: Add Ornaments and Accents to Garland
To complete the decoration, create smaller, complementary arrangements for the ends of the banister. These arrangements should be less elaborate than the main focal point. Use smaller evergreen picks, pinecones, and one or two decorative ornaments (like a blue bauble) for each end. Secure these smaller arrangements to the banister at the beginning and end points of the garlands to balance the overall look. Ensure they cover any visible securing ties. This creates a cohesive and festive garland display.
- 8:04–9:31 Add End Embellishments
From How to Refresh a Staircase for the Holidays in an Afternoon, Step 2: Add Ornaments and Accents to Garland
To complete the decoration, create smaller, complementary arrangements for the ends of the banister. These arrangements should be less elaborate than the main focal point. Use smaller evergreen picks, pinecones, and one or two decorative ornaments (like a blue bauble) for each end. Secure these smaller arrangements to the banister at the beginning and end points of the garlands to balance the overall look. Ensure they cover any visible securing ties. This creates a cohesive and festive garland display.
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0:04 hey guys today I want to talk to you about making a focal point for your staircase garland now if you saw my home tour part one you saw where I decorated my staircase using Christmas stockings as an accent to the garland if you didn't see it I'll link it below so I used the bottom stocking as a focal point meaning the focal stocking had more embellishments than the rest of the garland so today I want to show you how to make a focal point but on a smaller staircase like the one I have in my kitchen here I'm working with a beet Garland very similar to the one that I
0:49 used in my tour last year and if you didn't see that tour I will link it below so you can see what it looks like on a full staircase but today I have already started with one in and I'm using three strands of these and they're different colors of different lengths on the beach okay before I move on to the top part I just wanted to show you how you have to gather all the beats and connect them with this wire and so once
1:39 you get the desired length that you want you just tie it and tie it really tight so that these beads do not move and then go ahead and attach it to your banister and I'm just using the same wire and don't worry about all of this stuff because that's gonna be covered up now I happen to have two separate silver chains and I'm just letting this extra cord hang and I'm gonna just stick it inside the stocking when I'm done because I didn't want to cut it you
2:26 could cut it if you want and let me just warn you that there are beads out there that are on a string these happen to be i think individually glued so they don't move so you can cut them between the beads but there are some that if they move that means you will be cutting the string and all the beads will fall off on your string so these are the ones that you're going to want to get so you can cut them where you need to when you're when you have your desired length okay so let's go ahead and now I'll take you up top and just let you see how I do
3:13 the lengthening part okay so now I have the other in all three strands in my hand and I'm going to show you now how you can shorten or lengthen the other strings so as you can see the white is a little tight and you want to have this side to match as closely to this side as possible but going up the stairs there's a few more spindles or it's just a longer distance up so it's not going to be exactly the same but you want to make it close so as you can see the white on this end is a little tight so just
3:58 release it a little bit and I'm going to rely on lies Tamra man husband to let me know if I have the right swag or not more down or up on the white and the blue looks good okay so now that we feel that it looks good it's about the same on the swag I'm
4:49 going to go ahead and tie it with the twist on the silver and I'm going to tie all three strands together make it tight so that they don't move and if you find that one strand is longer once you twist it or if you step down if you don't have anyone to help you all you need to do is loosen the wire and start over okay so I'm going to now attach this one to the top
5:45 and don't worry about all of this mechanics showing because I'm going to cover that up and I'll show you that in a minute okay so just like in the front I'm going to use the stocking to as my focal point and on this one I'm just just like in the front I'm just stuffing this with different greenery and other picks this one the crystal rocks and some of the slop greenery and that is going to be my focal point this is going to be the one that will stand out the most and let me show you what I'm going
6:31 to put on the other side okay and then this is what I'm going to put on the ends and you want your other decorated item to be less full so this one definitely is smaller than what will be in the middle and so what I'm going to do now is go ahead and finish embellishing these and hang them up so you can see what it looks like okay now that I have the stocking in place I'm just going to stuff it with different evergreen plants or you stuff it with whatever you like flowers poinsettias
7:21 whatever but I'm going to use the Evergreen picks as you keep the shape on the stocking I just stuffed it with some grocery store bags in the bottom just a variety and I'll add a few more embellishments and then let you see how it turned out
8:09 okay guys so this is how it turned out smaller pieces on the end and the large piece in the middle as your focal point [Music] okay guys so here are some other examples of garland that you can use and then I wanted to show you on here what I meant about the type of garland that you can't cut so on this particular garland you can see where you can move the beads obviously you can't cut this garland because all the beads would fall off but if it's the right length or if you can hide them in then by all means use just type but just want to give you some
8:55 other ideas of different type of garland that can be used do it for today and I will see you guys in the next video
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