双语资讯：用什么布置你的节日之家.docxVIP

Most people do a little decorating for the holidays, but for Bunny Williams it’s a major undertaking. Ms. Williams, the Manhattan interior designer, likes to focus on the mantelpiece — or in the case of her Connecticut house, which has five fireplaces, all five mantels. 每逢节假日，大多数人都会在自己家里稍作布置，但对于邦妮·威廉姆斯(Bunny Williams)来说，这就是一项大工程了。威廉姆斯在曼哈顿做室内设计师，喜欢在壁炉架上下功夫。她在康涅狄格州(Connecticut)的别墅里有五座壁炉，也就有五处壁炉架可供她打理。“I have things on the mantel that I love,” said Ms. Williams, 70, who recently designed a line of stone fireplace surrounds for the British company Chesney’s. “But at holiday time, I take it all off and start over again. Every year, I try to incorporate something different while using some of my old favorite things.” “我会把自己喜欢的东西放在壁炉架上，”威廉姆斯说。她现年70岁，最近为英国奢侈壁炉品牌Chesney’s设计了一款石砌壁炉架。“但是在节假日里，我会把它们都拿下来，重新布置。每年我都会试着融入一些新东西，同时搭配一些我最喜欢的旧物件。”There are conflicting schools of thought on how to go about creating a composition. “Some people are very symmetrical; some people are not,” Ms. Williams said. 在怎样布置壁炉架的问题上，人们分成了截然不同的流派。“有些人很注重对称美；有些人则不。”威廉姆斯说。But whether you prefer a balanced composition with pairs of objects or a free-form configuration, there is one principle that holds true, she insisted, “You need some things with height: Overscale is better than under scale.” 但是，不管你是喜欢装饰品成对摆放的平衡布局，还是自由随性的不规则造型，有一个原则是不变的，她坚持这么认为，“你需要一些有高度的东西：超大号的饰品比偏小的饰品更好看。”Ornamental trees are an obvious choice, especially around the holidays. The ones Ms. Williams found at the Silverleaf store in the flower district were made out of sparkling leaves set in silver urns. “These are just fabulous,” she said, explaining that the color gave them a glamour above and beyond that of the average green topiary. 装饰树显然是个很好的选择，尤其是在节假日期间。威廉姆斯在曼哈顿花卉区(flower district)的Silverleaf精品店找到了一些。它们由闪闪发亮的叶子和底部的银色小瓮组成。“这些树真是太漂亮了。”她说，并解释道，这种色泽能够赋予它们特殊的魅力，超越了一般的绿色修剪植物。She was also drawn to a cluster of silver-colored birds dusted with glitter, she said, because “glittery things make a room look festive.” 同样吸引她的还有几只身上洒着亮粉的银色鸟儿。她说自己