Christmas 2009 Ben and I had a great opportunity to showcase our talents by decorating a model home at Winslowe's View at The Pine Hills for the greening of the models. This annual event along with, "Holidays on the Green" is held the first weekend in December. There is a Reindog Parade (dress your pooch up!), an artisan boutique held in a festive indoor marketplace, a visit from Santa and many more activities. This year the event drew an estimated 1,000 people to the viewing of the models alone. A HUGE success.
We started putting our plan together in October, viewing the model, spending evenings going through catalogues and my "morgue" of magazine ideas. Once we had our ideas together we arranged to decorate the week before the open house. Ben created a spectacular door piece, we decorated 2 Christmas trees and added several other festive touches. Alot of hard work, alot of lessons learned (as both of us had never done this before) and ALOT of satisfaction with the end result. Of course there were a few things we wish we had done differently, but all in all we were happy with our efforts.
The Pine Hills is a residential community located in Plymouth, MA. It is a beautiful development
with a "village like" atmosphere and has won many prestigious awards including the "Best Master Planned Community in the Nation" in 2003, by the National Association of Home Builders". If you would like to read more about this area go to
pinehills.com, maybe it will inspire you to move to New England and experience "Holidays on the Green" next year!
We wanted to share some pictures and would also like to thank Dominique Sampson and all of the staff at the Winslowe's View office for this opportunity and most enjoyable experience!
We used our collection of vintage 
