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SIMPLIFY SEASONAL DECORATING with the Easy Eight Method | Home Decorating Ideas
Jan 29, 2025
Struggling to decorate your home for the season without feeling overwhelmed? In this video, I’m sharing my foolproof Easy Eight Method for seasonal decorating! 🌸🍂 Whether it’s spring, fall, or the holiday season, this method will help you create a cohesive and stylish look with just eight simple steps.
This method makes decorating easy, stress-free, and fun—perfect for busy schedules or if you’re on a budget!
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00:00 Intro
01:00 What Is the Easy Eight Method?
02:36 Front Door
03:59 Dining Table
05:34 Coffee Table
06:55 Mantel / TV Stand / Bookcase
08:42 Bathroom Counter
13:17 Kitchen Counter
15:07 Kitchen Towels
16:49 Pillow Covers
18:34 Conclusion
19:45 Outro
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hi it's lindsy Diane from Dian decor.com
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in this video we're going to talk all
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about seasonal decorating and I'm going
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to share with you my easy8 method for
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seasonal decorating now if you like to
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switch up your home a few times a year
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and give it a little refresh seasonal
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decorating is perfect for that it allows
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you to sort of be current with the time
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of year and also give a little splashes
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and a nod to the season seon within your
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house but it can be very very expensive
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if you try to create these elaborate
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vignettes on your dining table and your
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entryway it's just not necessary we see
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a lot of it on Instagram and Pinterest
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these like over-the-top displays of
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seasonal Decor but you really don't need
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all of that to give your home a nice
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refresh so I'm going to show you the
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easy budget friendly way to do it with
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the easy8 method let's get started so
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what is the E8 method now this is
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something that I have developed over the
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years there are eight Target points
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within my home that I like to update
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during each season so whenever the
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season changes I'm going to switch up
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the decor in these eight areas now it
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may seem like a lot but these are very
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very simple and expensive changes now
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you may be wondering why would you take
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such a calculated approach to some
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something like interior design or
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decorating you know this is a creative
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field you kind of go with your feelings
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it doesn't have to be so rigid but what
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I found is that by sticking with these
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particular spots in my home I always get
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a good result I get this beautiful
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cohesive look in my home I get splashes
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of the seasonal Decor throughout my
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common areas and it's very fast for to
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do so whenever I want to switch up my
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Decor I can do it within a half an hour
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and it' be beautiful throughout the
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whole main area of my home and so as you
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follow along with the E8 method you're
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going to notice that they all have
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something in common and that is
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proximity to one another this is sewing
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a thread through your home where you're
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going to see from one location to the
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next a little splash of that seasonal
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Decor so let's talk about the very first
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area that you'll want to decorate and
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how you can go about decorating it for a
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new season first up is to start with a
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front door wreath you always want to
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start with your front door this is a
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great welcome home for you and for any
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of your visitors switching out a front
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door wreath is really really simple you
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can even do a wreath recycle like I have
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done in the past I will link the video
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to my same wreath all four seasons video
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so you can see how I recycle the same
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wreath for all four seasons but if you
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want to go out and grab a $20 wreath
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that's fine but once you have it hang on
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to it you know if it's a decent quality
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hang on to it your best bet is to find a
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nice green base and then just go to
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Dollar Tree and spend $2 on some florals
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and tuck them into that green wreath and
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you've updated it for the season it's
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very very simple for me that's the basis
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of my same wreath all four seasons um
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method but anywh you slice it you want
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to update your front door wreath now
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again a wreath doesn't have to be a
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standard circular wreath you can have
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your initials you can have a monogram
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you can have a door sign if you want it
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doesn't necessarily have to be a wreath
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it could be a bow anything that you want
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to hang on your door to give it a little
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bit of pizzazz and something that is
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appropriate for the season is perfect
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now Once you walk in through your front
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door the next thing that you'll likely
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see is either going to be a dining room
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a living room or a kitchen and these are
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the next areas of the home that we're
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going to focus on so let's start with
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the dining room if you have a dining
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room that is towards the front of your
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home that guests pass by when they're on
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their way to a living room or to a
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kitchen someplace deeper into your into
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your layout you want to put a small
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little vase with some flowers on that
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dining room table it does not have to be
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an elaborate tray display it doesn't
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have to be a teared tray with Easter
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bunnies and eggs and all that stuff just
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a simple vase with some florals in it
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now ideally you want to create a bit of
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a theme so that you have a cohesive look
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throughout your home so let's say you
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used pink tulips on your front door you
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might want to put a little bouquet of
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pink tulips in the vase that's on your
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dining room table now you don't have to
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go super matchy matchy it doesn't have
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to be tulips all throughout but choose a
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Common Thread either choose the same
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floral or choose the same color scheme
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so it could be pink hydranges or maybe
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you have a pink r pink vase with white
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florals in it or a pink vase with green
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florals in it whatever you choose just
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try to create a little bit of
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consistency so that you have a nice
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cohesive harmonious look within your
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home when you're doing the seasonal
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decorating and moving on from the dining
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room into the living room here you're
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going to want to update your coffee
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table so again this is a place where you
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could put another vase with some flowers
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or you can swap out some decorative
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books that you have on your coffee table
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if you have books that are featured out
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there for guests to browse through
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update those books maybe update them to
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have some colors that coordinate well
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you know if the the book covers will
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coordinate well with some of the other
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floral arrangements or things that you
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have going on in your house for the
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season or if it's just something uh
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nature inspired maybe you're changing
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the pages maybe you have something
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displayed out on one of those really
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pretty acrylic stands it can be as
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simple as just flipping open to a new
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page something that's got some bright
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vibrant colors on it we're talking about
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spring in this example but whatever
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season it is go ahead and match to that
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season if there are some other symbols
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of the season so we know spring brings
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Easter so you may have Easter Bunnies
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you may have some little wooden Easter
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eggs that you want to feature certainly
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put those out or you can just stick with
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florals and make it really easy on
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yourself either way add a little bit of
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sprinkling of the season to your coffee
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table in your dining room similarly if
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you have a mantle if you have a fire
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Place mantle or if you don't have a
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fireplace in a mantle and you have
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instead some built-in bookshelves or a
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bookcase or a TV uh stand or
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entertainment center use this location
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to sprinkle in some more decorative
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accents for the season now again
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something that's very simple is to do a
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Garland you can do a green Garland you
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can do a Garland with some flowers in it
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something like that is very simple to
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switch out during each season so that
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you just have something laid out that's
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decorative and pretty and goes along
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with the season if you don't want to go
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with Garland you can always use little
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figurines you can use banners Banners
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are very popular nowadays you can use
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little pennant banners or you can do a
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uh string of pom pom Garland you could
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also um just get creative you can um
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string or drape along pretty much any
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type of fabric along a TV stand or a
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mantle and that will give you a nice
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splash of color and decoration for the
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season in your living room the idea here
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is to make it simple and easy to swap
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out I know sometimes people go really
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really heavy into changing their hup for
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the season they change the curtains they
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change out rugs they change out throw
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blankets you don't have to to do all of
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that to get that little splash of
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seasonal Decor in your home just pick a
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few tabletop spaces like the ones that
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I'm sharing in the easy8 method and
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you'll be good to go next up is the
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bathroom countertop now here is where
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you will want to try to make a little
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small display if you have a small tray
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that's great if you have a basket that
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was perfect as well and just fill it
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with a few things you can use some sort
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of figurine you can put a new candle uh
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that is scented for something nice and
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fresh and light for the spring or
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something floral for the spring swapping
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out just your scented candle in your
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bathroom is great especially if it has a
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really pretty um you know uh glass jar
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to it look for something you know if
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you're in Target or if you're in
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HomeGoods or best of all I love Aldi I
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love to go to Aldi and get new candles
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every season because they have really
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pretty designs on the outside of their
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glass jars actually I'm going to show
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you an example hang
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on okay so this candle right here I got
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from Aldi this I picked up maybe two
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weeks ago or so the outside of the jar I
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don't know if you can see it really well
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it has these really pretty let me see I
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can get it
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Focus as these really pretty vines on
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the outside these little Vine gold
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leaves it's so cute and it's just the
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perfect way to update a space just
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swapping something out as simple as a
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candle holder this candle smells so good
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it's sea salt and Driftwood by kirkton
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house it's amazing the throw is
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incredible on this I've been burning
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this pretty much nonstop off since I got
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it it's it's really nice I'm sure I
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didn't pay more than5 or $6 for it so
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something like this is really great to
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grab to update your bathroom counter for
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seasonal Decor other things that you can
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use to decorate a bathroom countertop
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are of course a vase with some flowers
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in it you can do a little tray with some
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Moss balls on it you could also use any
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of those little decorative uh wooden
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signs that we see all the time at like
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um Dollar General uh lots of people make
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them on Etsy if you really like a more
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elaborate display I would suggest going
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to Etsy to check out some of the tiered
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tray Decor sets lots of people sell
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fully themed little decorative accents
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that go together that are meant for you
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to place them on a tiered tray but of
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course you can sprinkle them all around
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your home so if you're thinking like
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okay I'm just starting out with this I
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don't really have anything all I have is
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flowers but I don't want to just do
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flowers all over the home think about
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going to Etsy and looking at one of
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these bundles I'll show a few on the
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screen that are really nice these are
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great just to have you buy it once
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you're going to have it every year
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you're just going to tuck it away when
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you pack away your seasonal decor and
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bring it out the next year and you can
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switch up where you place it one thing
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that you place in the bathroom one year
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you can place on your coffee table the
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next or you can place something on your
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kitchen counter or on your dining room
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table you have enough pieces with these
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bundles that you can really mix and
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match and be versatile and change up
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your look from year to year another
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inexpensive way to decorate for the
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season is to go to Dollar Tree and grab
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a pretty frame and then go ahead and put
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a printed graph inside the frame and
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just stand it up as Decor you can put a
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poem on it and have it a beautiful
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background for the season so if it's
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winter you might have some sort of
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winter poem and have snowflakes in the
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background and you just printed it off
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from your printer and put it in this
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Frame and it's just a really cute little
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decorative accent to have again they
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sell lots of things like this at Dollar
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Tree already or at Dollar General Hobby
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Lobby Michaels you see lots of these
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little small things especially in
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um the dollar spot in Target to that
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sits towards the front of Target you'll
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find little small inexpensive decorative
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accessories like this we're talking $3
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and under these are perfect for putting
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on a small bathroom countertop to
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decorate for the season next up is the
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kitchen countertop now this is arguably
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going to be one of the most highly
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trafficked areas in your home and so you
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want to put together a nice display here
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this is again a place where I would
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probably just go with florals and call
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it a day get a nice vase and put some
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high quality artificial florals in it um
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I will leave a link to my video about
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how to pick good artificial flowers this
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is what I would use on my kitchen
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counter one because it's easy to move I
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don't have a lot of space on my kitchen
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island because that my sink is there and
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I just don't have a big kitchen to begin
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with and so me putting uh a tray on the
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kitchen island where we eat breakfast
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and grab a snack and sometimes eat lunch
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is just not practical it's eating up too
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much space I need it for prep I need it
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to eat on you know we need to wash the
14:18
dishes things like that so A flowers in
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a vase is perfect because I can just
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pick it up easily and Scoot it out of
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the way if I have to um I wouldn't do
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more than that for the kitchen but you
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can also make a vignette you can always
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make a pretty vignette on a tray similar
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to what you did in the bathroom if you
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have the space and you have a big Grand
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Island go for it do the teered tray and
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do it all up but if you want the fast
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and simple easy method way I'm saying
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just go with flowers in a vase go with
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the same florals that you're using
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throughout your home to keep it a
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cohesive look or the same color scheme
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to keep it a cohesive look and you're
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done it's a perfect way to just sprinkle
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in a little bit of seasonal Decor into
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your kitchen to go along with that vase
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on the countertop swap out your dish
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towels seasonal dish towels are really
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inexpensive to grab especially if you're
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just looking for decorative ones so you
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can keep your everyday you know tried
15:23
true trusted really high quality dish
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towels that you like to use and then
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just lay over some decorative ones on
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top of
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that they sell them everywhere Dollar
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Tree Dollar General they're really
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inexpensive again once you have them so
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let's say you just buy two of them and
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for a dollar a piece at Dollar General
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you're spending $2 just to add a little
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extra accent to your kitchen and just
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keep them year after year after year
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especially if you're not really going to
15:51
use them and they're really just for
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decoration there's no problem keeping
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them year after year after year the
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print isn't going to fade on you
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nothing's really happen they're not
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going to get worn they're not going to
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get Warped or shrunk or anything like
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that so the dish towels are a great way
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just to add a little extra if you want
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to go ahead and do the whole set you can
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get the dish towels along with the oven
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mitts and the pot holders that's cute as
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well lots of people like to swap out
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trivets and other types of um sometimes
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there hand soaps all of these things are
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just extras you don't have to do it I
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would stick to just having those florals
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on the kitchen countertop and then also
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going ahead and having the dish towels
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either hang over your sink or hang over
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the handle on your oven someplace where
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they're easily seen and it just adds a
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little pretty pop of color to your
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kitchen and you're good to go last but
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not least is to update your throw
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pillows by changing the covers so I'm
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almost never in ad advate for buying new
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pillows for every season I keep the same
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pillow inserts and I just buy covers
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it's much less expensive and they're so
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much easier to store you don't have a
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giant shelf's worth of pillows that are
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big and bulky that you have to figure
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out how to tuck away in some Decor
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closet most of us don't have space to
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have a Decor closet so go ahead and
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update your pillows they can be
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throughout your home I would focus first
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on pillows in your living room because
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that's a hight traffic area right that's
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where people are going to go in and out
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of and the whole idea is that we're
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again we sort of weaving the seasonal
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Decor throughout your home so we started
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at the front door then we're going onto
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the first adjacent room so whether
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that's the dining room or the living
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room you're going to have a sprinkling
17:49
of Decor there then you're moving into
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your kitchen and your guest bathroom and
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you have sprinkling of Decor there as
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well and so with the pillows you could
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use um pillow covers not only on your
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sofas and chairs in your living room but
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you could use them um in your if you
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have chairs in your home office or on
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your beds or uh any other place where
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you're having your pillows you could do
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them on your patio if you're updating
18:16
your patio any place like that it's a
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great place to change the look of your
18:23
furniture very easily by adding some
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decorative pillow covers especially ones
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that are going to go along with a theme
18:31
that you already have kind of running
18:32
throughout your home so that's it for
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the easy8 method if you just focus on
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those eight areas that's your front door
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your coffee table your dining room table
18:45
your mantle or TV stand or bookshelf
18:48
whatever it may be your kitchen counter
18:52
your dish towels your pillows and your
18:55
bathroom
18:56
countertop that is all you need to just
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sprinkle around that seasonal magic
19:02
around your home and give it a nice
19:05
refreshed and updated look for the
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season of course you can start here as a
19:10
base and go wild if you want to you know
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there are lots of things that you could
19:14
update you can update your table runner
19:17
and your place mats and your uh you know
19:20
you could update your dishes and your
19:23
coasters I mean there's a lot that you
19:26
can get into but if you are just looking
19:29
for an easy approachable affordable way
19:33
to decorate your home every single
19:35
season go with the easy8 method start
19:38
there and build on if you want to but I
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think that it's more than sufficient to
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give your home a beautiful updated look
19:45
I thank you so much for watching don't
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