Hello friends! Today I’m sharing my tips on What to Decorate and Make in November to get you organized for the holidays! I also wanted to extend a huge THANK YOU for all of your kind words of support, your votes and your beautiful compliments on my Liveable Luxe living room design that’s in the La-Z-Boy Design Dash contest! You’ve all been so incredibly gracious! More on that below.
In case you missed it, I designed a living room in just 36 hours in the fun La-Z-Boy Design Dash Blogger Challenge and my room is in a design contest!
Check out my whole living room reveal and my 7 Secret Tips on How to Design a Living Room.
Now let’s talk about what to decorate and make in November! November is a busy month for holidays, preparation for winter, getting ready for guests and parties and getting a start on our holiday gift list!
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Here are things to Decorate and Make in November:
Decorate your Entryway or Porch for the Holidays
Here is my Holiday Entryway from last year. I love adding festive curb appeal to my front entryway at Christmas with a front door wreath, garland for my door and DIY pine and birch urns decorated with natural elements!
Easy Handmade Gift Ideas:
I have a ton of DIY gift ideas for you to make for friends and family! Browse my DIY Gift Ideas section to see them all!
My DIY Pina Colada Coconut Sugar Scrub in a mason jar is one of my top pinned posts and a reader favorite! It’s smells so amazing with pineapple and coconut – it’s like a tropical holiday in a jar and makes your skin feel silky soft and moisturized to the max!
Make a bunch of these quick and easy DIY embellished notebooks to give as teacher gifts, neighbour gifts and hostess gifts!
Bake some holiday cookies:
Make these yummy Make Ahead and Freeze Apple and Cranberry Icebox Cookies – makes a great food gift idea too! – Package them in mason jars with the free gift tags below for quick and easy gifts!
Free Printable Gift Tags:
Save money and make your own pretty holiday gift tags! Go here to download them and print them off on your computer. Cut them out, add some baker’s twine and attach to your holiday gifts!
Organization and Storage Ideas for Yard and Garden Tools and Supplies:
You’ve raked your leaves and prepped your flower beds for fall and winter. Here’s some great ideas to store and organize your yard and garden tools such as hoses, rakes, garden shears and more!
Collect Pallets to Build a DIY Potting Bench and Pallet Wood Bar
November is a great time to scout out pallets to build my husband’s custom designed DIY Potting Bench with faucet, sink and hose reel! Collect pallets to make this fun Pallet Wood Bar too! Even if the weather is turning cold now where you live (like here!) you can collect pallets now to build next Spring.
DIY pallet wood potting bench
Get ready for Guests:
November is a great time to deep clean your Kitchen for guests and parties with this Kitchen Cleaning checklist, clean your hardwood floors as well as clean tile floors (foyer, bathroom, kitchen) and get the rest of your home clean for guests.
Add some new bedding to your guest room.
Painting Tips and Tricks:
Makeover your fireplace to showcase your holiday decor! How to paint fireplace tile and mantle fresh bright white.
Paint that room that’s been needing a fresh coat of paint before the holiday parties start. How to Paint walls quickly with less mess! Cut your painting time to one third!
Here are the paint colors I used in my own home for some color inspiration! If you like grays and whites I think you’ll like these:
I hope you like my post and ideas on what to make this month – I’m sure you won’t get to them all – my motto is just do what you can!! But I hope there are a few ideas here that you like! 🙂
Heather Luckhurst is the publisher and owner of the Design and Lifestyle website 
Heather @ New House New Home says
November 12, 2015 at 8:09 amYour November to do list sounds very much like mine – except I wait until December 1st to decorate the outside – just can’t do it before then.
Voted for your living room. The funny thing is that it was my favourite anyways!
Sue Crossman says
February 8, 2016 at 5:35 pmHi Heather!
I love the color of your front door you show with the Christmas decorations on the porch. Could you please tell me what color paint and brand you used to paint the door? Also the floor of the porch is a great color if you could include the color and brand of paint you used as my front porch is just like yours!
Thank you so much!
Sue
heather says
February 28, 2016 at 1:16 pmHi Sue! Thank you for your lovely compliments! Our front door color is Sherwin Williams Weathervane! Our entryway floor is just poured concrete – we didn’t paint it. Have fun with your front porch! 🙂