This year, my collections take center stage in our Christmas decor. I’m showcasing my collections of vintage Shiny Brite ornaments, blue opaline glass, blue milk glass, thrifted brass, chinoiserie and other treasures. If you’re a collector, I think you’ll find lots to inspire you.
Welcome to my 2021 Christmas home tour.
It’s always fun to have people over at the holidays — even when it’s virtually. I hope you enjoy our holiday decor as much as we do and find some inspiration for your own home.
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Garden-Inspired Christmas Front Porch
We’ll start out on our Christmas front porch where I mixed vintage finds with rustic ribbons and garden-inspired elements.
The porch is the one place where I am most likely to use a traditional red-and-green Christmas color scheme, punctuated with dramatic black.
The black painted buffet, striped rug and glider cushion stay on the porch yearround. But I like adding different pops of colors as the season change.
View the entire Christmas front porch tour here.
Vintage Shiny Brite Ornament Collection
Our foyer might be my favorite place to decorate every season, but especially at Christmas.
Because this is where I display my collection of vintage Shiny Brite ornaments and other vintage glass ornaments.
I started out with just a few vintage ornaments from my grandmother. But I’ve been adding to my collection through the years.
I used to just have one silver tinsel tree where I displayed the Shiny Brites. But as the collection grew, I added a second smaller silver tinsel tree and a flocked pink Christmas tree.
This year, I “planted” the tinsel trees in a vintage silver trophy bowl and an ice bucket. To make sure the trees don’t tip over, I put canned food and bags of rice and beans in the silver pieces.
I only have one of these vintage glass bird ornaments. But I would love to have a tree full of them. Collecting goals!
The ornaments are beautiful in their imperfection.
Did you know I launched a line of jigsaw puzzles this year featuring my collection of vintage ornaments? Shop for them here.
Our cat, Felix, usually makes an appearance in my annual Christmas Home Tour.
The first year he made his appearance, I caught him sunning himself in the foyer and snapped a quick pic that has become one of my most liked Instagram images.
Every year since, we’ve had to bribe him with treats to get him to pose. Which explains this year’s blurry, lip-licking shot. Models can be so difficult!
As you can see, I’m partial to pink and green Shiny Brite ornaments, but other colors have been creeping into my collection recently.
Chinoiserie Dining Room Christmas Decor
I couldn’t resist displaying some blue and silver ornaments in the dining room in my collection of blue opaline glass and blue milk glass.
I gave a little sneak peek of the grandmillennial style dining room decor when I showcased my chinoiserie Christmas tree with dried hyrangeas.
The dining room sits right off our entryway, so you can see the foyer and the Shiny Brite forest.
Our dining room table is set with vintage glassware, china and my collection of thrifted vintage brass candlesticks.
For the table’s centerpiece, I filled a large bowl with dried hydrangeas from our garden, boxwood balls and a few oversized glass ornaments.
I think this tree might be one of my favorite ones I’ve ever decorated.
I love how the dried hydrangeas and velvet ribbon look with the blue-and-white chinoiserie ornaments.
Gold Christmas Tree
From the dining room, we’ll head into our formal living room.
This year, a bunch of lights burned out on our traditional green prelit Christmas tree. So I had to switch up my plan and use the gold Christmas tree that’s normally in the dining room.
I think the change of plans turned out pretty well!
Since we have tall ceilings in our living room, we elevated the shorter tree by putting it in this Toulon Christmas tree urn, which I bought on clearance last year. I’m all about those after-Christmas sales.
Want to learn how to turn any planter or urn into a Christmas tree stand? I walk you through the process in this blog post.
I love how the green and red ornaments on the tree reference the colors in our botanical artwork.
I do miss having our family ornament collection displayed. But this red, green and gold Christmas tree is a vibe I am loving.
Can we talk about that green velvet ribbon? So much impact — and a 25-yard roll cost me less than $14.
Speaking of green velvet ribbon, I couldn’t resist taking a photo with last year’s big tree topper bow wrapped around this desk chair.
I like big bows and I cannot lie…
Gardening has been a big theme for our family in 2021. So, it’s only fitting that I incorporated plants into our holiday decor.
I planted this amaryllis and poinsettia arrangement in one of my vintage McCoy Pottery planters. I can’t wait until it blooms — hopefully on Christmas.
I’ve had to move a lot of my houseplants to make room for our Christmas tree. So I loved adding a blooming Christmas cactus to this vignette with my thrifted brass deer and candlesticks.
These painted wooden shoes were the perfect spot to tuck a few more vintage glass Christmas ornaments.
More ornaments and collections, including my Grandma Joyner’s mini teasets, hobnail glass and milk glass are on display in these shadowboxes.
Thanks for taking the time to tour our holiday home.
More Christmas Decorating Ideas
If you’re looking for Christmas decorating ideas, you might enjoy these virtual holiday home tours from years past.
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Paula@SweetPea
I so much enjoyed your Christmas home tour, Amy. I just ordered two tinsel trees to use next year. One will display my P. Buckley Moss ornaments and the other my Lynchburg city ornaments.