Christmas Decoration Ideas Theme Colors Part 1

Christmas is fast approaching!! Choose from a variety of themes to make is extra fun. Lots of ideas in this post to decorate your home this holiday in beautiful theme colors. Pick a color that describes your familys personality and style. You are sure to enjoy designing, displaying and showing your creativity!! Have an amazing Christmas this year :o)

Theme decoration Ideas : Blue-Turquoise-Silver

Christmas tree decorated in Blue and Silver! Love the delicate feel :)

A shimmery glittering mix of baubles.

Christmas table setting in lovely blue and silver. Turquoise is so stylish!

Inspiration for Blue and Silver table setting. Love the Christmas bon-bons!

Theme Decoration Idea: Vintage-Retro-Colorful !!

My absolute favorite!! A eye popping gorgeous mix of colorful baubles. Retro pop :)

A burst of color on a snowy winter morning to warm up your hearts.

Easy, inexpensive sophistication!! Love the simple elegance.

This is such an amazing table setting. Festivity at its very best..swoon.. :o)

If you have a stash of vintage shiny brites, use them to decorate dinner table. The eclectic mix will add oodles of charm!!

Theme Decoration Idea: Burst-of-Pink!!

Have a little princess who wants everything pink? I am sure this will make her Christmas absolutely awesome!

Use paper clips to hang baubles. The pastel pink baubles look delish! 

Pink room and candy pink Christmas!! What a gorgeous dose of pink, love the bright Orange and Blue contrast. It adds to the sophistication.

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Railings part 2

Last week we looked at Deckorators balusters and accessories, we forgot to review Deckorators new aluminum kit railing product Aluminum Railing System  This kit rail system has a maximum span of 6 and comes pre-drilled for all the different Deckorators balusters. It also has a snap on top cap rail with no exposed fasteners. There is also post sleeves to cover 4x4 rail support posts. The top and bottom rails are basically a aluminum 2x4. The Aluminum rail system comes in black and white colors.

It will be interested in seeing what the price is of this system. If it is more affordable or about the same as the basic vinyl railings on the market it will be a good option on wood decks, the railings are the biggest labor in staining a deck.  Judging by the pictures they show it with (composite decks) it will be about the same cost as a composite kit rail system.

So back to this weeks reveiw of different deck railing ideas, we are going to do a basic overview of the main deck and porch railings we see here in Michigan. Treated pine is still the main choice for decks and railing in the metro detroit area deck and porch market.

Wood deck and porch rails

We generally build all of our treated wood deck railings with a 2x4 top and bottom rail and the metal balusters, Sometimes we add a deck board as a top cap which gives the top of the rail a continous look.

 Or we will run the rail post above the top rail and add a post cap to the rail posts as you see here in the picture on the right which is a cedar deck. Notice the rail pocket hole attachment method we use on all the cedar decks we build here in Michigan.

Here is the same basic treated pine railing with a deck board top cap, but with  2x2 wood balusters. This is on a handicap ramp we built in Macomb County Michigan.  On angle of the railings on the ramp,  it is harder to use the metal balusters,  so we went with the standard wood 2x2s.  In one variation or another this is the most common wood railing

The Pictures below are from the web

Here is a interesting railing,  I believe from Deckorators with stained glass inserts and mix of vertical and horizontal balusters. Also tiffany post caps

Here is a wood rail posts and a top cap rail used with cable rails

                                           Here is some baluster patterns.

                                                          Chipendale 

Sunburst

                                                                               New England style

                           Glass balusters

Thank You for reading our blog, next week we will again be looking at different railing ideas

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