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The Christmas Decoration Restraint

French holiday decoration is small in scale and short in duration. A tree, some greenery, candles. It goes up in mid-December and comes down at Epiphany, and the exterior of the house is rarely involved.

Set a date to put decorations up and a date to take them down before you start. Six weeks of decoration reads as festive; ten reads as furniture.

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