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Merry and Bright Colonial Christmas

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Colonial villages feature homes and public buildings delightfully adorned with a wide array of decorations featuring natural materials. These can include pine roping around a door, overdoor fans, window plaques and wreaths. Fruit and flowers provide colorful embellishment -- and this same vivid naturalism is whisked indoors to create merry and bright holiday accents.
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Traditional Pineapple Window Accent
Next: Colorful Colonial Mantel
The pineapple, the traditional symbol of hospitality that dates from colonial days, is the focal point of this large and dramatic oval plaque. Overlapping magnolia leaves form the border. At the center, the large pineapple is ringed with red apples, nuts, lady apples and cranberries on a boxwood bed. Additional accents of lady apples and nuts are added.

From Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg by Susan Hight Rountree. Published by The Colonial Williamburg Foundation, copyright 2003. Images and text reprinted with permission.



Traditional Pineapple Window Accent

Colorful Colonial Mantel

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