Merry Christmas y’all! Are you getting in the Christmas spirit yet? I had fun this year taking my time with the decorating and started putting up my tree right before Thanksgiving. Then, I took my time with the rest of it and got it finished relatively stress free. I don’t know about you, but I really don’t like to be stressed out this time of year. And blogland tends to get in a little bit of a frenzy with all the home tours and so much else going on. So, I want to remind us all again this year, this is a season of peace and calm, not chaos and frenzy. I choose to celebrate without getting stressed out this year and I hope you’ll join me!
On that note, I do love sharing my Christmas decorations. I’ve always loved to decorate for Christmas and blogging has just allowed me to share it with the world now, so I hope you enjoy this year’s home tour as well. I’m going to share my living room and den today and then on Friday, I’ll be joining another home tour, where my kitchen and more of the dining room will be featured.
Once again, I’m joining Lindsay from The White Buffalo Styling Company on her packed with inspiration home tour, featuring so many great bloggers. I’m happy to be included among them. You can go over to her blog to see the whole list of bloggers this year and click from blog to blog to see all the beauty!
Thank you all for stopping by to see me this year and if you are coming by from Design Post Interiors, welcome! So glad you stopped by. These home tours just allow you to get more creativity and inspiration from so many sources, so enjoy them all.
I added some simple garland to the front of my porch, welcoming in guests to my Holiday home. A fresh wreath on the front door with a lime green bow adds just the right touch.
Inside the front door my urn tree on a pedestal is my biggest tree now. I love paring down from the bigger trees and doing this urn tree. I’m loving my collection of smaller trees to spread around the cheer.
Placing it on top of a pedestal gives it plenty of presence in the room since I do have higher ceilings in here. I pulled out all my old gold and white decorations this year and love how it looks, with its festive sparkle and glow.
I love to add a full and festive tree topper with all sorts of fronds and picks. Using berries, feathers and sparkly fronds, it’s a tree topper that cascades out. I just pull out my old stash that I’ve had forever and stick them all in there together.
Some of these ornaments I have had for years and they still make me smile. The snowflake burlap garland I found at Michaels last year. Love it on the tree too, for some rustic appeal.
Flying Santa is one of my fave ornaments from years ago.
View of the tree looking back towards my small foyer entry area.
On the foyer table this year, I added in all my gold sparkle. I’m enjoying gold all over again and it’s a good thing I kept it around. It adds such a glow to the Holidays. I collected a few thriftstore brass candlesticks and brought them home just to have around and enjoy. The garland is faux, but is a nice one.
A brass tray holds brass candlesticks and instead of candles, I just sat some pretty gold and glass ornaments on top. I love having a few unique ornaments around just for this purpose. Those pretty gold tree cones I picked up at Pier One in the last year or so. They light up and are so pretty on this table.
Tying a pretty ribbon on them makes them extra pretty. That white Christmas tree votive holder, I’ve had for years. I added some faux snow on a brass bowl and there it sits. When I have my girlfriend party, I’ll add some real candles for extra ambience.
My coffee table holds a big candle holder and I just added faux snow in there with some of my battery candles.
I love piling pretty ornaments in plates and bowls and just adding a little fresh greenery. This is a vintage plate that I picked up from long ago yardsales.
I so enjoyed decorating the fireplace mantel this year. I just got the rustic mantle added before Christmas last year and then this year’s newly planked fireplace mantel is so much more fun to decorate than the rock was.
You will recognize this sign from Scripted Simplicity as the star of the mantel this year. I love it and how it conveys such a wonderful message for this time of year. O Come Let Us Adore Him, Christ the Lord! I added 2 lemon cypress trees from Lowes on either side of the mantel. Since I had these pretty urns already, I took them out of their plastic containers and plopped them in the urns, adding reindeer moss around the base. I LOVE my mantel this year!
Draping sparkly pinecone garland from Lowes along with the vintage gold garland I found antiquing, it’s the perfect little accent needed for the rustic mantel. I simply added my slice of wood on top and placed some pretty things on top, with a simple glass urn holding extra ornaments and a string of bells. Bottle brush trees I picked up inexpensively at the Country Living fair this year, the white deerhead ornament came from Lowes, and the natural branches came from a walk outside. Those feathers in the top were 50 cents at the Country Living fair and I thought they were so pretty, I knew I could find a spot to use them. The gold box adds a little glimmer to the mix of rustic. I’ve had the box forever too.
On the other side of the mantel, I kept it really simple too with piled up gold ornaments on top of my white cakeplate with a cloche on top. I love just using what I have and making it look new again. I picked up those gold balls at an estate sale a couple months ago. More branches from outdoors add to the natural appeal. I love the mix of natural, rustic with a little gold elegance thrown in!
So, that’s my mantel this year. I sure am enjoying having this gas fireplace too, it’s been so nice to sit in this room and enjoy the feel, listening to Christmas music and enjoying the lights. I can say that I’m finally really happy with my mantel and loved being able to show it off this season.
The living room with some glimmer and shine. Notice that gold tree in the corner? Oh, I knew you would! That was a fantastic find last week when I was in Nashville. I was out antiquing before I headed home and ran across this vintage gold tree just waiting on me. At $19, it was a no-brainer to come home with me. I love using tabletop trees and so that’s all I’m doing at my house now. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to a big ole’ tree again. I’m so enjoying my tabletop trees and this one is perfect for the corner of my living room, sitting on the pedestal.
You can’t see the star that well, but It’s an old school star tree topper that lights up. It’s not old, but has an old look to it, like the stars we used to put on our trees growing up. I also ran across a collection of vintage ornaments, with their older patina that I couldn’t pass up, so I brought them home to add to this tree.
No lights needed, just the glimmer of the gold tree and these vintage ornaments.
Those little gold and silver balls were in the original box with 25 cents marked on the box. I was giddy when I spotted these. They are the smaller ornaments on top of the tree and have such a nice patina. Oh, the good ole’ days! I bought this smaller set of 12 for $5 and was happy to find them. They are the perfect addition to my golden tree. This tree makes me smile so much this year!
The living room table just got some fresh greens and feathers added in for some fun. It is Well is also from Scripted Simplicity.
Along with this pretty Glory to God in the Highest sign. So cute on my side table with my family pictures.
On the other end table, I added my cloche with winter scene and faux snow. Love this too!
My Fitz and Floyd nativity scene goes on the aqua table under the mirror.
I adore this set that I’ve had for probably 25 years.
The tree all lit up and looking beautiful!
And another shot of the tree and foyer table all lit up.
Downstairs, I added my Ballard Designs tree that I found at the outlet a few years ago to my coral table. Perfect accent in here with all my turquoise ornaments. I love it in here and had just enough turquoise to cover this tree. It’s one of my favorite things this year too.
Joy reminds me to be happy and joyful in all things.
This little corner of the den sure has come a long ways since last year too. Last year, it was still piled with my….ummm, stuff. So glad to get it all finished and looking pretty for this year’s Christmas.
My happy turquoise tree with a mix of ornaments from all over.
On a side table, I added in a mix of colorful ornaments that were extras. I love the sparkle and shine they add in here too, in this old tray.
So, Merry Christmas from my house to yours! I hope you are all enjoying the beauty and peacefulness this season brings and be sure and take the time to slow down and really savor this time of year. Jesus truly IS the reason for the season, let’s not forget that!
The next stop on the tour is my friend, Diane from In My Own Style. I know she will have some gorgeousness going on and it will be colorful and so pretty, so stop over there and take a look!
You can see all the links to the bloggers in this tour at Lindsay’s blog.
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