Home Decor

The year my sister moved abroad and my parents decided to spend Thanksgiving at a resort, it was just the four of us at home — me, my husband, and our two kids — and I stood in the dining

Pick the colour scheme before you buy a single thing for Thanksgiving, and the rest of the table almost decorates itself. Pick it afterwards — after the runner, the napkins, and the candles are already home — and you end

Somewhere along the way, Thanksgiving got a reputation for needing a special set of dishes. The glossy photos show matching china, chargers, and glasses that all came from the same box, and it is easy to look at your own

Thanksgiving dinner already costs enough. Between the turkey, the sides, and the extra chairs you borrowed from a neighbour, the last thing anyone needs is a table that costs another small fortune to decorate. The good news is that the

The morning after Halloween always catches me a little off guard. The candy bowl is half empty, there is fake cobweb stuck to a doorframe I swore I cleaned, and the porch still looks like it is waiting for trick-or-treaters

Two years ago I put a carved pumpkin on the front steps on a Saturday afternoon, proud as anything, and by the following Friday it had caved in like a deflated balloon. The face I had spent an hour cutting

Every year, sometime around the third week of October, I stand in my living room and do the maths. There is the fall decor I already put out in September — the pumpkins, the wreath, the plaid throws, the lanterns

Every October I have the same argument with myself, and it starts in the pumpkin patch. Do I go full classic Halloween — the orange pumpkins, the black cats, the whole gloriously loud orange-and-black thing — or do I keep

A few years ago I hosted my first Halloween dinner party as a proper adult. Not a costume party with a fog machine, just six friends, real food, and a table I wanted to look like the moody October evenings

There’s a specific October feeling I know too well: you step back from your decorated living room, and instead of “spooky and stylish” your brain says “why does this look like a Halloween store exploded in here?” I know it