This document summarizes a holiday styling project for a brownstone home in Chicago. Designers from The Barn Nursery created a unique design incorporating platinum, metallic, raspberry and purple accents to match the homeowner's aesthetic. Elements at the front door, porch, and yard were decorated with boxwood, eucalyptus, pinecones, and berries to create a sophisticated yet welcoming atmosphere. Materials were chosen and installed to withstand the city weather through the winter months.

1. Chicago Brownstone
Holiday Styling
Designed & Installed by The Barn Nursery & Landscape Center

2. Project Goals & Inspiration
This sophisticated homeowner in downtown Chicago, IL, loves a new, one of a kind look for
every season. For the December 2016 season, we wanted to create an inviting holiday
atmosphere with a twist on the traditional.
By incorporating platinum & metallic accents with raspberry and purple pops color and some
natural elements like painted pine cones and birch poles, our designers came up with a unique
and personal design that matched our urban homeowners aesthetic and the style of the
brownstone.
Being in the city, with lots of foot and vehicle traffic, requires elements and materials that will
hold up in extreme weather and under any conditions. By spraying all the greens with an anti-
desicant and hand building every element, the design will hold up well through December and
into the winter months.

3. Front Door Swag
The front door swag was created by hand using
fresh boxwood roping as the base.
The entire roping was encircled with gold
grapevine garland, platinum glittered balls and
pine cones as well as fresh purple seeded
eucalyptus, and raspberry & gold pines cones.
The top of the swag was topped off with a
grouping of all the accents and silver and white
stems.

4. Entrance
Porch Pot
The large porch pot along the
sidewalk offer a colorful and
sparkling welcome to any visitor.
Height is gained by bunching
dark purple stems, birch logs and
silver and gold stems. They are
surrounded by 20 platinum vine
balls and we used silver fir to fill
in the bottom and create draping
along the base.

5. Custom
Wreath
This custom wreath is a showstopper.
Created with a 20” fresh boxwood
wreath as the base, we pulled in all
the accents and loads of warm and
cool colors to create a sophisticated
design that is welcoming and
luxurious.
The perfect green satin bow at the
base pops dur to the bright purple
stitched designs and guests will love
the faint scent of fresh eucalyptus
from the stems included throughout.

6. Front Porch
Winterscape
These matching porch pots reflect a
new modern take on winterscape
design.
The more linear look is fresh and
matches the style of the townhouse and
the tall black front door.
Built in layers we started with basic
silver fir for draping, followed by
boxwood, gold twine balls, light purple
fresh eucalyptus and upright Frasier fir.
For height we added rows of white and
gold twigs, purple twisted stems and
birch poles.

7. Entrance & Front
Yard
We wanted to create a blanket of
greens with pops of bright color
for the gated front landscape of
the home. With evergreen shrubs
anchoring the design, we added
raspberry painted twisted stems
to the corners, filled the entire
space with fresh greenery and
then used the large winterscape
as the centerpiece of the deisgn.

8. From porch pots, to
wreaths and ribbon and
bows, we can help style
the perfect holiday look
for your home.
Call The Barn Nursery at
847-658-3883 to talk to
one of our designers!