Easy steps to lavish decorating

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Interior designer Peter Vilsack presents tips on making lush holiday decorations for the home. These include foregoing the traditional red and green color motifs for silver and gold or blue-green and silver, and decorating mantels, windows and staircases with ropes of evergreens.

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Formal style in the Shenandoah Valley

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Christmas decorations at Libby and Jim Welsh's 18th-century-style home in Staunton, VA, emphasize the stateliness of rooms and complement the patterns of furnishings. Various types of greens are used coupled with gold ribbons and white silk fabric.

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History comes home in Litchfield

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The Sheldon Tavern has become a landmark of Litchfield, CT, since its construction in 1760. Its present owners, Deborah and Selvyn Seidel, successfully converted the old tavern into a modern home while retaining its original architecture.

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