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The Canadian Champion, Friday, October 26, 2001-21 Decorate more than just your home this holiday season (NC)-When you think about how much decqrating we do for those days between Thanksgiving and New Years. how cornte we don't decorate with those festive touches the other 300+ dayt of the year? You have heard psychologists talk about the "January blalis". For us Northerners il may bic caused by the lack of sunshine, or tl could lie attributed to when the dlock striket midnight and the holiday parties. school programs, concerts and social gasherings, etc. stop. But t think the real reason we experience the "January blalit" is because we are missing the beautiful. colourful decorationt from the holidays. We are just plain bored with our intertors. 'tes, bored wjth the house back to ils old, normal self. Well, thts year let's avoid those -January blalis" by thinking about deco- rating flot only for the holidayt, but alto for the other 1l months. So here are some dec- orating ideas that can make your home festive year 'round. One thing is for sure, the holidays add colour. For tome, it's red and greens that are added to the current colour schemne of the home. For me, it's metallics. If you have played it safe by using neutrals when decorating your home, those holiday decorations can be the most eye-catching colours you have used. So why not add more colour year 'round? Colour is emnotion. If you love that green, why not paint a roomt green? While I waa doing a Hunter Douglas Window Fashions promotion out East, I met a young lady that wanted to decorate ber dining roomn. She showed me a beautiful floral fabric that had a creamn background with tomne wine and rose coloured flowers, with various greens in the leaves and stems. There were alto tomne shades of bItte and gold in the pnint. We statted with the window covering. The firat layer we agreed upon waa a Silhouette™ window shading. Silhouette window shadings combine the best fea- sures of sheers, blinds and cuetains in a single, sofs window treatment. Floating coloured vanes in a 2-incli size are held in place by sheer-fabric front and back facings, free of support or lift cords. Once tIhe wîndow shading is completely ktwered, the vanes cao lie opened, ilted and shut by a single continuous cord. When fully rtised, Silhouette is concealed within a colour-coordinated headrail. In addition to rectangular windows, Silhouette shadings cao cover angled - or arched- top windows. A wider three-inch vaoe size is alto offered, as well as the roomn-darken- ing Silhouette Bon SoirTM. Two textured vaoe fabrics - Silhouette ToujoursTM and Silhouette NaturelleTM - are alto available. Easy, affordable batsery powered motor- ization - Silhouette with PowerRise(I - is aoother option. The next layer was goîng to be a layer of swags and jabota in a beautiful stripe in creamn, wine, and green with just a souci of gold. The swags and jabota will be trimmed with a wine, green and gold fringe and then they will be mounted under a comnice. 1 could tell shte was getting excited. Her look turned to surprise when I suggested site pains her walls sage green. She said, why not cream? I asked lier what type of room she waoted to create; one that said "nice" or one that ttid "WOW!" It took lier a few min- utes and she said, "I neyer thouglit about that." t said, "that's why you 'Asked Sally' - you waoted a designer look." Colour is emnotion - live a little. Colour cao change thse roomn for the lest amouint of money. What's thse worst-case scenario? You paint an exciting colour and you then decide il juat isn't you. Paint over il! It's nos that expensive and you won't go on won- dering for thse next few yeart, "what if...?" Go for il! "I'm doing okay, but 1 wish 1 didn't have diabetes. The people at CDA make it