Get Christmas and holiday decorating tips inspired by Riverside’s Festival of Lights


Searching for thoughts on the best way to give your home some occasion enchantment? We realize exactly who to inquire. 


The Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn Hotel and Spa, which propelled the day in the wake of Thanksgiving with a switch-on service and firecrackers, is frequently casted a ballot America's top occasion show in national surveys. This year, in excess of 750,000 guests are relied upon to wonder about the 5 million or more lights and 400 animatronic figures during its five-week run. 
So we asked Richard Wood, chief of building at The Mission Inn Hotel and Spa, and he offered these tips for embellishing at home. 

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Go regular: Plant occasional blossoms in your nursery in November to get ready for December sprouts. On the off chance that you live in California, poinsettias, paperwhites and scaled down pine trees will all make due through December. 

It's the easily overlooked details: Don't disregard little subtleties, for example, the letter box and doormats. Little contacts are what potential occasion visitors are probably going to recollect, so dust off the Christmas mats and embellish post boxes like little occasion homes. 

Leave no follow: To abstain from beating openings into your front entryway, just drill a little screw into the highest point of the front entryway and balance your wreath with angling line. Use zip connections to balance lights on rails and fences without leaving nail or staple blemishes on the outside of your home. 

Be composed: Remember that occasion finishing will be a lot simpler on the off chance that you sort out your enhancements appropriately when taking care of them for the following year. Use cans or different instruments to compose occasion lights, so they don't get tangled away. 

More is always better: The Christmas season is the one season when it is okay to leave lights on when you are not home. Rather than purchasing every single new adornment every year, add to your current embellishments.
Bring the outside in: Use pine cones, poinsettias, sprigs of pine and different components of nature to bring the happy sentiment of the outside, inside. Take a stab at filling your chimney or hearth with poinsettias to include an elegant fly of happy shading to your lounge. 

Happy nourishments: Holiday food sources don't in every case simply have a place on the supper table for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Hanukkah. Blame the special seasons so as to enhance with relatives and get ready DIY occasion adornments from happy nourishments. For instance, make pomanders (oranges studded with cloves). Not exclusively will these little organic products fill your home with occasion aromas, however they are fun occasion specialties to assemble. Try not to overlook other occasion nourishments like treat sticks for tree improvements and furthermore use cranberries as festoons. 

Spare time: Wrap your blessings prior in themed paper and use them to add to the general occasion stylistic theme. 


Trimmings aren't only for the tree: Use adornments to brighten your home; balance them in picture outlines, fill jars and hang them in non-customary spaces, similar to the restroom or rooms. 

Layer the table: Incorporate layers into your tablescape with happy tablecloths, napkins, plates and wreath.