Chris H. Olsen has been a featured speaker at numerous Flower, Home & Garden style shows. CHRIS ALSO DOES CUSTOM WORKSHOPS - and can create tailored topics and projects per client's request!
Chris H. Olsen's presentation topics include:
A Winter Wonderland
Revitalize your home for the holidays by looking at each surface, each area and asking if it would benefit from an infusion of color and holiday cheer. You can create your own "winter wonderland" by blending Chris's step-by-step instructions and fun ideas with your own. Allow yourself to move out side of the box and let your imagination, along with Chris' help, make your home warm, fun, and never typical this Christmas season.
Growing is Due to Knowing
Chris delivers powerful key points that will grow your business. Be prepared to face some of the ways you conduct your business. Whether your ways are right or wrong, Chris will share with the audience life experiences that have increased his "knowing" levels. The end result is that these valuable lessons have resulted in a more profitable bottom line. Remember bigger is not always better. You can stay home for free! You will laugh, you will be challenged, and you will leave inspired.
Seize the Moment and Take Control
Most of us lead stressful lives these days, further compounded by our reliance on technology and social media. For those reasons, a quiet time in your home and garden has become even more important. Your home is your retreat. You deserve a sanctuary that makes you feel alive, fulfills a desire to escape outside worries, and is a stress-free zone. However, because of our revved-up lives, we don't always know how to stop and create our own personalized comfort, in either the home or garden. Never fear: Chris will motivate you to expand your horizons and will wipe away any self-doubt you may have about creating your own space. With his humor, energetic personality, and knowledge, Chris demonstrates how you can make small reinventions by sharing unique and stylish ideas so your home and landscape will be a thrilling, yet soothing and inviting place, in any season.
Anything But Typical
When designing your home and landscape, don't be shy and reserved. You can be bold, loud, and creative, yet follow sound design principles. Learn how to combine those principles that Chris will lay out for you, along with your own design elements, to create the perfect retreat. Challenge yourself to expand your horizons, and do something different from the designs of your friends and neighbors. Surprise yourself, even. Dare to be different, and make your home and garden the envy of your neighborhood by using the ideas Chris will share with you.
Refresh, Remix, and Restyle
Let Chris show you how to mix what you already have in new ways, and bring in only a few choice new elements, so you don't break the decorating bank. You can turn dusty and forgotten pieces--things you'd forgotten you owned, even—into charming, and engaging personal statements. And do it all through the use of 'jhemajang.' And what is that word, you ask? It's Chris's trademarked verb that means 'the mixing up and arranging of different elements, both garden and unrelated, old and new, in a funky way that brings the pieces together in a whole new light.' You can clean out that dusty corner of garage or attic, and find forgotten pieces you can jhemajang together to create an eye-catching display. Chris will show you several possibilities and many combinations that will give you the impetus and encouragement to beautify your home and landscape.
Thinking and Living Outside the Box
Injecting new color, or combining colors in new ways, is the easiest method to create instant joy in your surroundings. You can expand your color palette, add vibrancy to your home and garden, and escape the color rut we often find ourselves in by going outside your normal choices. Color is impulsive, primitive, advancing, positive, and just plain refreshing. Chris is renowned for his use of this element in landscape, and will show you how to add color using three sources: annuals, perennials, and brilliant foliage plants. Color is the one tool you can always use to express yourself, and he'll share some tips with you to help you 'color outside the lines.'
