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BLUES-Y CHRISTMAS DOOR


2018
12.07

Tags: Christmas, Christmas decor, Christmas decorating, Christmas door, DIY wrapped door, door, gift wrap, Gift wrapped door, Mary Tyler Moore, Mary Tyler Moore Christmas episode, Michael's, ribbon, WORLD MARKET
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The door to Christmas at Social Nesting HQ opens with a very special wrap job, and this year, some very special company stopped in to help…


Aside from the tree, the Christmas Door is the one bit of decor we border on giddy about. It just isn’t Christmas without the presence of an oversized present lurking in the corner of the room. So without further ado…

Out came the trusty tools, the wrap from World Market and some jute ribbon from Michaels, and the template we made to get the whole for the door knob and latch in just the right spot…

…and how special it felt to be able to have the episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show – the one that inspired this Christmas decor staple – on in the background as we did it.

So for those who missed the countless retellings of this story: it was the mid-70s, and a young boy was watching a rerun of a Christmas episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The original airing, in December 1970, was while he was in-utero, but who’s to say it didn’t make its way to the womb then too. Just saying: one should never underestimate the power of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Anyway, back to the mid-70s… so, when he saw the most exciting decorating touch he had ever seen, Mary’s front door wrapped like a giant present, he vowed that one day, in a place of his own, he would do the very same thing.

And so it came to pass that we are on year eight of a wrapped door. And every year it is as thrilling to create, and to share with guests, as that very first sighting was.

Come on in, won’t you?

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GETTING LIT UP


2017
03.14

Tags: bar table, DIY, Homesense, Hook & Stem, IKEA, lamp cord, light-up bar table, Michael's, plant stand
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 No room for a bar cart and a lamp and a side table? Cheers to a hybrid of all three! We Frankensteined together a collection of parts to solve the a lack of space issue while turning the home bar into a beacon… 

Light-Up Bar Table

It started with the beautiful plant stand (below, far left) from Hook & Stem… We knew we wanted it but secretly we also knew that we needed a plant stand like a moose needs a hatrack. So it was destined for an alternative purpose.

The pink wire basket (far right) was a Homesense find that smacked of the Ferm Living basket tables we longed to own but are way out of the price range.

The IKEA Sekond cord set came next – again, purchased without a final use in mind, but destined for greatness, especially surrounded by a vintage-look wire bulb cage left over from a previous project…

Light-Up Bar Table components

In the centre (above) are a perfect wooden circular platform and an embroidery hoop – both from Michael’s – that were morphed together to create a lid that fit snuggly into the rim of the wire basket. The embroidery hoop was trimmed to size and glued securely with Goop to keep the makeshift lid from sliding around.

We then covered the top with a bright and brilliant floral scrap from our stockpile and secured it with Mod Podge…

Light-Up Bar Table covered top

And then it was literally a series of slotting things together:
The legs of the plant stand, the cord set through the basket, the basket into the plant stand, the lid onto the basket and another wireframe basket that was holding our booze stash on the credenza, now sitting atop the whole thing.

And on or off, this takes up the perfect cozy corner of Social Nesting HQ…

Light-Up Bar Table

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