A Christmas Holiday Home Tour

Welcome to our Christmas Holiday Home Tour this year!

We wish you all a Merry Christmas season and are so glad that you can join us for the our Christmas Holiday Home Tour this year. I know it is coming to you all a bit late this year, but to be honest it has just been a busy  year, and our focus has been in other places. So I have been asked what is your theme? Yeah…. um well it is more like get it done….. can your relate? It seems like with Thanksgiving being late this year Christmas will be quick, and while I had 3 trees up before Halloween, I admit I drug my feet on garland and the rest of the accessories. This year for our front porch I did a full door garland and added red and green jingle bell garland, along with red ornaments to the entire piece. All of our house wreath also have the the same red and ivory ribbon which I picked up from Tractor Supply at the end of season for 75% off. This allowed me to re make all nine wreaths, create the new garland and add a large mailbox bow and still have a bolt left over so I added matching ribbon bows to our light deer to make the entire outdoor package match. My dining room table runner is the snowy Pottery Barn runner with these black iron reindeer that I scored from Home Goods for $13 each end of season last year. I will say I did have a lady totally stalking me and my cart for these as they were quite the deal. They make a great focal piece with the sleigh I already had from a prior year. My husband decided to add the beaded garland to look like reins and I thought his contribution was cute so we kept it and I am calling him out for it. Good job man! I used my traditional Lenox Holly Berry China, layered with the matte black plates which match those reindeer spot on. I am still just loving those black plates, they go with every decor right now. My Lenox napkin rings, goldware and red charger to pop everything for the holidays.

On the sideboard I placed my oversized dough bowl and filled with vintage elves and ornaments along with my Lenox cookie jar which have not put out in years. It felt good to have old Saint Nick make and appearance again. It was also the perfect spot for my Rudolph wall art and the He Knows If You’ve Been Bad or Good sign as it lends itself to a North Pole vibe.Over in the Book and Bourbon Library I did a colorful candy colored tree loaded up with tons of various sized ornaments. It has colorful light to match the outside this year. This tree is always one of my favorites, although I am not sure why. I like that it is a negative space tree and it gives the feel of a real Charlie Brown tree, yet it is strong enough to hold a ton of ornaments, so you can load it up. This creates a very impactful look of minimal greenery and focuses in of the ornaments and lights. Versus being a large green mass covered in ribbon and such, which is why I think I find it so appealing. However it takes a ton of ornaments to really make it look good so it would be a investment piece from that standpoint, where as a green tree fills out whether you have ornaments or not. You can also find little candy colored stocking adorning the fireplace in this room with oversized initials for each. I grabbed these little stocking end of season at Walmart last year for 20 cents for for $1.00 I got all five even if I use them just this year I can throw them away at the end of this year I have lost nothing. We put them up along with our shoes for Saint Nick or Krumpus.

Pro Trick: For In- Stock Stocking Initals I picked these up at Kirklands 50%. However “Z” is hard to find (1 per box if any) and I could not leave little Zooey out, but an “N” turned sideways worked out great. Sometimes you just have to think outside the box.

Heading over into the main great room I put my Ralph Lauren garland up again this year and added in the this gold velvet ribbon which is in the main tree and mantle. I added this Santa which was given to me by a dear friend I and I just wanted to look at his face this year. He has sweet button legs and may look like much, but it a sentimental thing.  As you can see the mantle has the same golden velvet ribbon, I picked up 4 50 foot bolts end of season at Wal-mart last year for $2-3 a bolt which was a total steal considering the quality of the ribbon. It looks very high end like the stupid expensive stuff that runs $50 a bolt so I bought everything I get my hands on, even though I was not sure how gold was really going to work at the time. Here is the tree and how it worked out. Gold velvet, dark green and gold embossed ribbon and black ribbon. Layered with silver beads and champagne garland, then layers of gold, silver and champagne ornaments. While it seems a bit out my personal character I really love how it turned out and it is very regal. 

This year we also got our fur babies a gingerbread house scratcher. Which they love! We put it next to their little holiday tree we put every year. It became a tradition after we put it up for Zooey and she un decorated it, and now it has become “a thing”. They actually want their tree. Over in the kitchen I added some candy sprinkle style window garland and my gingerbread men to the window, just keeping it really light but still adding some decor. I placed my vintage spice containers in the window that have the cutest little vintage ornaments glued into them. These are such a fun retro set of cloves, nutmeg and cocoa which is super cute next to my hot cocoa bar.  The are the only set of the bottle brush trees I decided to keep from the big trend of them a few years ago, I actually sent the rest of them to Goodwill this year, as I was all done with that trend seen from my Island of Misfit Toys Christmas Table (seen here). Up in our bedroom this is look at our tree which is red and white with a rustic woodland theme. I added the white antlers and a woodland mesh ribbon made out of tree bark along with a fair isle scarf fabric ribbon. I picked up a new tree skirt for this tree last year on end of season since our other tree skirts were getting a bit worn. Cats will do that rather quickly.  This one is a super soft white fur skirt which the kitties really love. I place our wooden old toy train in front of the the fireplace to complete the decor.

Across the hall in the guest room I have added William Morris Strawberry Thief Bedding to this room which matching the Christmas print duvet perfectly. Of course we put Pig on this bed as a fun little pillow since he matching too.

This is the room where we put the flocked tree since our fur babies like to eat it. The flock is really not good for them, and can cause cancer, so we put it behind closed doors now every since we lost Ralphy to cancer. While I love how they look it is not worth losing my babies. I also picked up a new tree skirt for this tree too and it just happened to match a ribbon that I already owned which is kind of  mind blowing, so of course that plaid along with a hunter green is what I used to go on this tree. The green will actually show up on this tree since it is flocked.
This tree has new look with all of FrontGate ornaments on it. Since these are all glass and very breakable they too, go been closed doors until the babies decided not to climb the trees anymore. If they ever decide to do that, lol. I love this set of which came in a large box set of 150 ornaments, which all match, they are all so pretty and look so regal on a tree.
The last little tree is a pencil tree that went into the twin bedroom which we recently added a fireplace into over the summer. So I wanted to to show that angle with the pretty new antique mantle that I acquired, and the Carrara marble surround  I DIYed to go around the new fireplace.  Again this bedroom got jewel tone in blue, burgundy and green with a new Kirkland’s tree skirt I think I picked up back in March for $3 dollars and look how good it looks. Even if the cats destroy it I am not going to care.
The last picture as you head out is of the front of the house all lit up after dark. You can see where we used a combination of both white lights and colorful lights.
I hope you have enjoyed this seasons Christmas Holiday Home Tour. Be sure to check back to see more holiday fun this whole season!

Want to see more of my Christmas Home Tours? Well check out the Tours of Christmas Past, here:

Christmas Story Home Tour

Holly Jolly Home Tour

Vintage Christmas Home Tour

Rustic Christmas Home Tour

Home for The Holidays: Christmas Home Tour

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