Ok. let’s get started. The front doors seem like a logical place to being the tour. I haven’t yet finished decorating the porch {check back for that next week}, but I did get the wreaths up on the front door. Our doors are extra tall, meaning that those over the door wreath hangers don’t work for us. Instead I hang my wreaths using ribbon tacked into the top of the door.
Come on in and let me show you around!
Just inside the front doors, you are greeted by our entry table straight ahead and our living room to the left. Above the entry table, you would normally see painting {a DIY that I plan to repaint soon}, but for Christmas, I decided to wrap the canvas in a giant, black and white print featuring the lyrics of “White Christmas” that I designed and printed at FedEx office.
I am loving black and white stripes this year, and you’ll see that theme continue through the main floor. You may also spot our elf, who made his first ever appearance at our house this week. So far, the boys love having him visit.
I am also having a lot of fun with the new lamp that I bought at Target this fall. For the fall, I filled it with corks, for Halloween I wrapped it in cobwebs crawling with plastic spiders, and for Christmas, I filled it with red and silver ornaments. Next to the lamp sits my favorite photo from my boys’ visit with Santa last weekend.
To the left, our entry area opens into the living room.
One of my go to ways to decorate for each season is to swap out the pillows on my couch. For Christmas, I used the same teal sweater pillows that you saw in my Fall Home Tour, but this time combined them with a red snowflake pillow {Target}, a black and white sweater pillow {HomeGoods}, and white and gray fur pillow {Target}.
On the coffee table sits a tic tac toe board that I bought at Z Gallerie several years ago. During most of the year, it holds teal and white Xs and Os. Since we have two young boys and have to keep our coffee table styling kid friendly, I’ve been having fun switching up the the tic tac toe pieces with various seasonal items. For the fall, I painted small, plastic pumpkins silver and gold. And for Christmas, I picked up these cute red and white, large plastic ornaments from Target. Fun for the whole family!
Next to the tic tac toe board sits our silver, tree shaped Christmas card display. I filled the display with red and teal scrapbook paper to dress it up while we wait for cards to arrive in the mail. You can read more about that, and see what it will look like when it’s full of cards here.
In the background, you’ll also notice that we have two wreaths hanging on the inside of our frosted glass front doors, which mirror the placement of the wreaths on the outside of the doors. {Read how we hung these back to back wreathes}.
I continued to add pops of red to the other side of the living room, with snowflake pillows from Kohl’s on the Barcelona chairs and red orchids.
Our television hangs above the Barcelona chairs, but a wide frame helps disguise the tv and make it look like a piece of art. For the holidays, I created a CD of photos to display on the tv, allowing us to enjoy some of the amazing lighting displays that we saw while visiting Madrid at Christmas a few years ago.
I have had that white feather wreath for years, and I still love it just as much as day one. The space above and aroundthe wreath felt a bit empty, so I hung some smaller dollar store snowflakes from shimmering ribbon. I also added some icycle garland to the mantle to complete the snowy scene.
That orange wall becomes a perfect backdrop for my collection of DIY Christmas trees and painted Christmas trees that I created last year!
Our stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and my DIY stocking monogram pins make sure we know whose is whose. It wasn’t intentional, but I think it’s fun that our initials spell ABCs!
We spend most of our family time in this room, and at Christmas it’s a cozy place to curl up and watch movies together on the couch!
Beckett and Cooper have really been enjoying listening to these Christmas songs and stories while playing together, and I love that they will grow up knowing what a record is!
CONTINUE TOURING…
Want to see more Very Merry Christmas Home Tours? There are five other fabulous bloggers sharing their home tours today {you’ll find links to their posts below}, as well as more than 30 bloggers opening their doors throughout the week.
