Courtney Warren is a Texas-based interior designer whose work has been featured in Real Simple, Better Homes & Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Apartment Therapy, and Today.com. She is a frequent consultant on Fox 4 TV’s Good Day program in Dallas, was ranked in the top 3 percent of interior designers in the US by Houzz.com, and starred in the Dallas episode of TLC’sFour Houses. She delights in helping overwhelmed clients create beautiful spaces—and will never turn down a warm chocolate chip cookie or Diet Dr Pepper.

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Christmas Decorating Guides: Get the Holiday Help you Need

In a dream, I am organized, together, and unscattered.

My children are well behaved minions who fluff pillows at my loving directive.

Decorating my house for the holidays is a joy and we hold hands and sing a prayer of thanks before we eat our homemade feast, then they rub my feet as we nap and watch football.

Enter reality, where I am decorating the house by myself and reminding my kids for the millionth time to get off my phone, then I realized my youngest just shared the poop emoji to my Instagram account.

Classy.

The football game is too loud in the background and were the commercials always this racy?

and all I want to do is take a nap instead.

Can anyone relate?

Sometimes the holidays feel like a sneak attack that are a burden instead of the fun and memory-makers they can be.

And I am the first offender?

That’s me.

Stressing over what should be special.

So, what can we do instead?

How can we make our holiday season intentional,

and how can our decor add to the magic of the season instead of the stress?

How can we pull everything out of the attic and put it in the house for 2 months without the house feeling dirty, cluttered and disheveled?
Do we buy new decor every year? How do we do that without going broke in an already expensive season?
Do we follow the newest holiday trends, or do we stick with classics? Is there a way to mix both without it looking disheveled?
Do we decorate every single room? How? Like, a pinecone on the toilet? How much is too much and how do we know when to STOP?
How in the world do we store all this STUFF. (Insert the word crap if you like to live on the edge!) Where do we put it and how? Because by the time the season is finished, I am also finished, and I usually throw it in a box to not be pulled out until next year. Then I have twice the work to make sense of what I have as I work through tangles and wires and snags and broken bulbs and I am already tired before I have begun. How can I work smarter and not harder?
Finally, what is even the point of all this madness? Is the season worth the stress? Why should we spend the time to decorate for the holidays?

I love the holidays, and love having my house look festive, but it is a lot of work to get everything decorated! Working with Courtney really made a difference in how the house looked. The holidays are such a busy time that it’s nice to have a helping hand.

-Beth in Frisco

I happen to adore decorating for holidays and my passion gets fulfilled every year as I help homeowners up their Holiday Game with items they already have.

I realized quickly that not everyone needs to hire a decorator to come to their home, and there are some consistent building blocks that make holiday decor smoother and more impactful while using what you already own!

I want to share those with you this year in my long awaited Holiday Blueprint Bundle, made up of 2 separate products.

These ebooks are so chalk full of tips that I am devoting a dedicated space to each Holiday!

5 Days of Fall is an ebook that contains building blocks to assist you as we tackle the worst pinpoints and hassles of decorating for the holidays.

Some items we are covering include: