Decorate Your Home with Irish Blessings

Decorate Your Home with Irish Blessings

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• Front Porch
• Livingroom

On March 17th, we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day – a wonderful, whimsical holiday brought overseas by the Irish. Whether your own claim to Irish ancestry is real or a bit o’ playful blarney, you’ll have no difficulty bringing a touch of Ireland into your home.

Spring is the time of year that we are all green with envy for all that is Ireland – the lush green hillsides, misty mornings, clover and shamrocks. Green is associated with St. Patrick’s Day because it’s the undisputed colour of spring.

Green - Nature's Neutral

• Green signifies new beginnings, new life, and new growth. In your mind’s eye, visualize the different shades of green you may encounter while on a walk through a wooded path or country meadow - an infinite number of shades!
• Green is the easiest colour for the human eye to see. It’s restful and calming – an excellent colour choice for home decor. 
• It is also the colour most associated with money, that illusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

A Touch of Green will Bring Your Rooms to Life!

Add a green plant, a green-coloured vase, moss-covered or green picture frames, and throw cushions. If the room needs a larger dose of green, give it a fresh coat of paint. Like a leprechaun, green is a playful colour, so think creatively and don’t hesitate to mix and match various shades of green to a room.

Add Magical Touches of Irish Décor

Front Porch

• Have your very own Blarney Stone: on the front porch place a large rock and attach some green moss to the rock with a hot glue gun.
• Next to the rock, sit a ceramic leprechaun and plant shamrock in your outdoor garden planters.
• The shamrock is a traditional St. Patrick’s Day symbol because Saint Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to represent how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could exist as separate elements in the same entity.
• Inside the front door place a “pot of gold” and fill it with gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins and flank the pot with a pair of green candles on a foyer table.
• Pin a shamrock brooch onto the front centre of each candle to give that finishing touch of Irish decor.
• On the coat-rack next to the door hang a leprechaun’s hat (available from party supply stores).

Livingroom

• On the fireplace mantel, place a leprechaun beside a potted shamrock and a pair of candles.
• Make throw cushions for the sofa from old hand-knit sweaters or traditional Irish linens.
• Embroider or hand-paint a Celtic knot or shamrock in the bottom corners of each cushion.
• Throw cushions will feel as good to cuddle up with as wearing your favourite sweater on a misty spring morning.
• At the end of the sofa, lay a hand-knit mohair throw and on the coffee-table place a hardcover book about Ireland.
• Replace existing candles with the green-coloured variety and add a couple of table-top picture frames filled with Irish-themed photographs.