Dec 9, 2015

Christmas Home Tour

In case you didn't know, I loooooooove Christmas.  Love.  And there is nothing that I love more than our home decorated at Christmas!  I love all the lights and the cozy feel it has.  Thankfully my girls have inherited my love of the holidays and enjoy every aspect of Christmas just as much as I do!

Here is our 2015 Christmas home tour....

This is our front porch, we are so lucky to live out in the country and we love nothing more than sitting on our porch and enjoying the sights and sounds!



We don't have a huge foyer, but it works!  The old window is from Brad's parents farm, I have several of these old windows throughout the house.


These stockings were made by my great grandmother, love having these heirlooms ( as does my cat who attacks them daily).


We have a pretty large dining room area, it's attached to our kitchen also, and this is where we entertain and spend most of our family time. I have two trees in the dining room, this one is the homemade ornament tree.  Love looking at all the ornaments the girls have made over the years!


This tree is on the opposite side and is the candy tree.


Love how it looks at night, so cozy!


I don't do a ton of decorating in the kitchen, I like my mix match of trees behind my sink though!  I put up a couple things above the cabinets, but not near what I used to...


I love these stockings, when Brad and I first married, I stitched our names on these and also hand stitched the applique on.  As each child came, I got lazier, and started hot gluing them, haha!  Still love em!
  

Our main tree, it's a mix of golds and reds, beads and ribbons.  The tree skirt was also made by my great grandma, and the same skirt we used growing up.


Downstairs we have the Christmas village.  The kids still love playing with this.  Alayna and William (her cousin who comes after school everyday and is the same age) play with this everyday, they get the lego stuff out and pretend its their village.


This tree is our "woodsy" tree, love it!


You can see the nature theme down here (seriously, NO MORE DUCKS!)  Emma's piano and the Christmas book my Grandma used.


I love this wall because all of this is from the farm.  They tore down the old barn a few years back and I had them save the windows and door for me and created this wall.  This is by far one of my favorite things in our home.  I also have a basket of all of our Christmas books.  we try to read one every night, along with an advent book that I will post about later...


And finally our entertainment center.  The singing carolers on the left were my Grandma Trellis'.  I adore these.  There are also two music carolers on the right that were my Grandma Omi's.  Love having these treasures.


I absolutely love getting our our decorations every year and having all the memories come with it.  Our decor is a mix of newer things and lots of old things passed down.

Hope you enjoyed my holiday home tour!

Linking up with Andrea and Beth!

10 comments:

Erin (No Bohns About It) said...

Those little stockings hanging on the stairs are adorable! I love having heirlooms as well. Makes the holidays that much more special. Your whole house is beautiful!

Andrea Nine said...

Such beautiful touches!! I love the village and woodsy tree!! Isn't it wonderful to be at home and just be family cozy amongst the decor and lights!! Just love it!!!

Trac~ said...

I love your trees and the special mementos from your memories as a child - those are always extra special touches! :)

Jenny said...

What a lovely festive home :) Enjoy the holiday season!

Erin Peyerk said...

I love all your trees and how you decorated your front porch! I also really love that barrel wine rack!! Very cool. :)

Unknown said...

Tell me, please...what is a candy tree and how can I get me one of those?!??

Suzanne
www.suzannehines.org

Meggie said...

Love your home and all of the history and tradition behind several of your decorations! Going to check out more of your blog too! =)

Lindsay's Sweet World said...

I love your front porch so much! We love to sit out on our front porch as well... I need to step up my game for our Christmas décor out there next year, though!

The Live Well Life said...

Love your Christmas decor! Also, jealous of the size of your dining area. That would be SO nice. And that barrel wine rack is the neatest thing ever!!

Courtney [Sweet Turtle Soup] said...

I love the mix of old and new and made and purchased. I think that makes it so so personalized to you! I love all the trees you have! I think we will need to step up our tree game when we own our home.