“Red, white, and blue” tends to evoke the Fourth of July, but in this McLean, Virginia, home, it’s all about the Christmas holidays. Erica Burns of Erica Burns Interiors, who had done the first round of home décor for the family, was brought on board to help them deck their newly built center hall house for Christmas.
“This is a young family just starting all their holiday traditions together,” Erica says. “They asked us to create an overall space that is festive for the season but also blends with existing décor.” And that existing décor—what Erica calls “traditional, Southern, preppy, and happy”—has a red, white, and blue palette she easily translated into a fun, celebratory holiday color scheme. The approach was to use the colors as a backdrop, pull out…
