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Dress Your home for the holiday season with decorating ideas from Rhode Island pros

 

By Megan Fulweiler

Photographs by Chris Vaccaro

December 1996

 

 

 

 

 

"All the elements here come together naturally for presentation," says designer Beth Siqueland from Grasmere Floral Shop in Barrington. Yellow-tipped cypress, seeded eucalyptus, gilded ivy, and arborvitae.., the list alone makes us swoon. Siqueland insists that "anyone with capable hands and access to a yard" can work the same seasonal magic. Of course, she has thought to hang a double wreath, and to wrap the railings so that this whole Providence doorway — with its topiary guardians — becomes a landscape of welcome, studded with jewel-like fruit, and very green.