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The purpose of the hand sketch is basically to identify major installation

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issues. This is remembering that you need a ladder in a certain place. This is

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remembering, oh we've got to bring extra electrical, you know, extension cords.

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We're going to need special kind of tape. We're going to need special kind of

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attachments and we're going to have to hire a handyman or we're going to have

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to use a professional receiver in this particular space. That's what the hand

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sketch is all about. I actually created this in Word document. Very simple

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example. All I did was I used shapes and I used my entry hall so that you can have

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an actual example. I put a line for the front doors. I put a little box right

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here for a key table. A circle for the chandelier. Just a rectangle here for a

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console and then another rectangle over here for another console. This

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is not to scale but what I would do is just mark up on this. I'm going to need

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a handyman because somebody's going to have to get on a ladder for the

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chandelier. And what this does is it helps give you a marker for the space

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and it separates the planning portion into two manageable sections. The first

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portion is just getting your head around what you want your holiday home to look

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like. What rooms are we going to tackle this year? How, you know, how are we going

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to navigate the space? This portion of the planning is all about, okay, well now

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we've got the space we know we're going to tackle. What do we need to not forget?

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And it's really about making lists, figuring out if you're going to have to

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have handymen, professionals, if you're going to have to hire your family, bake

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some extra cookies, do all those sorts of things. So on these pages for the

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execution, the installation planning, I always say use the same pages throughout

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the series no matter how messy they get. One of the things that we often do is

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use those clear binder covers. They're just little plastic sheets that you can

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get at a local office supply store and you put the piece of paper in it and

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then you can write on top of it with a sharpie and make notes on it. What's

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really nice is that then you can use, we'll use these pages later when we

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start to sort through the rooms and start to pull in, actually choose the

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colors. So what are some of the things that you want to not forget in the

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execution portion? On page number 10, I have what I call the little extras. These

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are the things that will help you install your job like a professional or

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if you have handymen or you're using professionals, have these things on hand.

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They make a huge difference, especially if you've got a group of people coming

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in and you're trying to knock out your holiday home really quickly. The first

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thing that we do is we use white gloves on our hands and we actually have long

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sleeves. One of the things that I'll do is buy old t-shirts at either a thrift

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store or order them from a Kmart or a Target or a Walmart and we'll just

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simply cut off the sleeves so that whoever's working on the job can put

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them on over their clothes and their hands are protected. When you're working

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with greenery, even faux greenery, and you're installing things for the

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holidays, it's very easy to get your hands nicked and that little thing can

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help you. If you're installing your house and you're working four hours or even

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eight hours, having your hands and your arms protected goes a long way. The

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second thing I recommend having are what we call prevention and repair kits. These

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are things like wood fixers, little felt pads to protect your banisters.

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You put these on underneath so that when you put on the garland it doesn't

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scratch the wood. I always have matching twist wire and we have links for these

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on the member page for you so that you actually know the items and

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we've got links to things like Kmart and Walmart, you know all the places that

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we buy these things. We also have booties and wipes and booties are those little

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white shoes that you they're almost like a like what a doctor would wear and you

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put them on over your shoes. It helps protect your year-round floors and your

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decor, especially if you have to stand on a couch. The other thing we provide are

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wipes. I'm gonna take a sip of my coffee.

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These are furniture wipes, you know the pledge wipes, things so that you can go

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back behind and just clean up little messes. The other thing I've included for

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you on this list is what I call the decorators medicine kit. I actually put

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it in red and in bold for you so you don't forget. And these are the things

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that we put together and have in every single room. I know a lot of people might

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like to have a central station and we do typically have a central station when

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we're installing a holiday job, but your life will change dramatically and your

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stress level will go down if you have individual what I call these decorator

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medicine kits in each one of the rooms that you're installing. And these are the

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things that I include. Scissors, tape, pliers, wire cutters, magnifying glass,

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tweezers, felt, sleeves, gloves, like we talked about long sleeves and white

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gloves, superglue, wire, extra lights.

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extension cords, extension cords, and more extension cords. Sharpies in the color of a space. And I like

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these big ones because if something gets rubbed off you can just go back with a nice sharpie in

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the in the same color. It's one of those fantastic decorator tricks. A stylized trim kit. And what a

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stylized trim kit is, let's say you're doing a series of garlands or you're working with a

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particular decor or something else, ahead of time we might make a few repaired or pre-grouped

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vignettes so that if something falls or if something doesn't quite look right we're able

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to just take that and shove it right in where it needs to go so we don't have to create it on site.

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I would say a stylized trim kit which is basically extra pieces of the styles that you're going to

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use. And then my strong recommendation is that every room is finished before you move on to

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the next room, especially your first room. If you can get your anchor space, let's say it's your

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entry hall, you get your anchor space designed and you've decided on a density and a formality

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scale and you've got the space done, then you're not running from room to room to room with a pile

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of ornaments or a pile of decorations trying to figure out am I going to stuff it here, is it

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going to work here, is it going to work here. It just saves all of that chaos. So get your first

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room done and then move on. The only exception to that is if you are working on a massive project

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and you are using professional receivers and you have teams placed in each room.