Creating a winter wonderland at home Beverly Hills style - Video

(8 Dec 2019) LEAD IN:
It's time to mix up your Christmas holiday decorations for 2019, interiors experts are encouraging us to branch out with pastel ranges including the baby pink and blues to high end designer centerpieces.
Some come at eye watering prices especially in Beverly Hills where the jet put on their party shoes and kick off the holidays.

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It's another glistening and glittery Christmas again when it comes to holiday decor and tables this year.
Anything that sparkles and shines is on trend.
A change for this year are pastels for when it comes to creating your own personal winter wonderland.
Z Gallerie on Beverly Hills is always on the cutting edge trends and this year it's about warm, soft accents.
The colours are: baby pink, turquoise, cerulean blue and blush.
"So some of the trends that you're going to see this year are not your normal traditional red and greens. We have amazing colours like our blush, our cerulean colour that we have which is a blue tone. We also have our celeste which is a lighter blue tone so we tend to stay a bit in the blues, the silvers and the pinks. Obviously we still have our traditional golds and whites and silvers to make your winter wonderland happen, but of course you want to add in a bit of a pop of colour so we have a bit of the softer tones this year," says store manager Jennifer Jean-Louis.
Accents this year are also on pearl decorations, apparently in every shape and form you can think of.
That's partly because white is also a huge trend now.
White on white decorations for trees and tables.
The National Retail Federation expects retail sales in December to grow overall between 3.8 and 4.2 per cent
Consumers are planning to spend $1,048 on average this holiday which is four percent more than they said they were going to spend last year.
Marley Majcher, event planner and author of But Are You Making Money says it's important to mix up the look with various textures and sheens.
"Think of yourself as a holiday set decorator. If you were in charge of the windows of a fabulous department store, what would you do? Well, you'd go around the store and you'd collect your favourite items, think of all kinds of different metals and metallics and glittery objects, anything that's going to catch the light. You can never go wrong with tons of candles, with battery operated LED lights and put them altogether and don't forget to just go around the house even, and find things like deer, peacocks, add them to your tables and don't forget to add something for the place setting," says Majcher.
She believes it's vital to look as though you don't have to try too hard to pull off a look:
"Don't be afraid to mix and match. It's better if things are different heights and different types of glass and different shades of metal. Nothing has to match. The more of a collection it looks like and the more you just pulled it together, the better it's going to be. When it looks like its too right out of a catalogue, it looks like you tried to hard," she says.
Geary's another store in Beverly Hills  carries the most luxurious decor items for the holiday and house and table.
Geary's CEO Thomas Blumenthal says stores have had to adapt to the millennial Christmas and Chanukah table.  
He says the trend now for them is not formal table settings but a more relaxed atmosphere and look.
Versace's Medusa Grande Vase in gold is $725 and an Antique Reindeer and Sleigh circa 1880 is $25,000 (USD)

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