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Interior Designer Confab: How Will You Be Updating Your Clients’ Or Your Own Homes For The Holidays?

It’s almost time to start decorating for the holidays — so what better people to ask how they’re decorating than the great interior designers of the Hamptons and New York City?

How will you be updating your clients’ or your own homes for the holidays?

Shannon Willey, Sea Green Designs

We love to add holiday greenery for both our clients and in our home. My love of nature comes through with pine bows and red berries combined with ribbons and ornaments. Adding these natural elements is a great way to update your home for the holidays no matter what you’re celebrating.

Gideon Mendelson, Mendelson Group

We haven’t had the opportunity to help decorate our clients’ homes for the holidays. I’m available! As a family, we decorate our home in the Hamptons for Christmas. The tree is the big event. We buy it locally every year and usually invite close friends to help with the trimming. It’s a lot of fun (much more than the clean up) and the kids get involved. I love the tradition of it all. My husband has a collection of holiday decorations that he has accumulated for many years and these are displayed throughout the house. He loves those decorations. I like to add some natural things to the mix: pumpkins, gourds, and some sculptural clippings from the garden add a nice touch.

Matthew Miller, StudioLab

We love spending Thanksgiving, Hanukkah/Christmas out East in our Sagaponack home. My wife and kids like to take the reins and decorate the house and table for the holidays. They typically incorporate colorful accessories — such as the orange table napkins and red leaves seen in our Thanksgiving spread — topped off with seasonal, local flowers. I prefer to do the cooking — I would’ve been a chef in another life!

Elena Frampton, Frampton Co

I lean heavily on florals for holiday décor. I find they’re the best way to celebrate the season and express your personal style. Each year presents the opportunity to do something new. My approach is less conventional; I might go for tropical plants in festive red or silver, add a flash of hot pink or orange to a monochromatic arrangement, or pair neutral feathers and pampas grass with a vessel that is more traditionally “holiday.”

Geoffrey Walsky, Iconic Modern Home

I always turn to lighting to make the most high impact, yet low cost improvement to any space for holiday entertaining. Whether changing sconces, light bulbs or decorating with lights and candles, it is the easiest way to change the mood for any space whether indoors or out.

Ty Wenzel

Co-Publisher & Contributor

Ty Wenzel, a recent breast cancer survivor, started her career as a fashion coordinator for Bloomingdale’s followed by fashion editor for Cosmopolitan Magazine. She was also a writer for countless publications, including having published a memoir (St. Martin's Press) and written features for The New York Times. She is an award-winning writer and designer who covers lifestyle, real estate, architecture and interiors for James Lane Post. She previously worked as a writer and marketing director for The Independent. She has won multiple PCLI and NYPA awards for journalism, social media and design, including best website design and best magazine for James Lane Post, which she co-founded in 2020. Wenzel is also a co-founder of the meditation app for kids, DreamyKid, and the Hamptons social media agency, TWM Hamptons Social Media.