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    2022 Christmas Home Tour

    Christmas Decor, Decorating, Holiday & Seasonal

    collage of a traditional home decorated for Christmas with vintage thrift store items
    collage of a traditional home decorated for Christmas with vintage thrift store items

    Decorate with what you love at Christmas! Our holiday home home is filled with my beloved vintage ornaments and thrifted collections. If you’re a fan of Southern Living and Ballard Designs, take a look inside this traditional home. It features elevated thrift store decor, including Shiny Brite ornaments, chinoiserie porcelain, mercury glass, vintage brass and colorful patterns.

    Welcome to my annual Christmas home tour. I’m excited to have you take a peek at our holiday decor.

    collage of a traditional home decorated for Christmas with vintage thrift store items

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    Especially at the holidays, our home is a reflection of all the things I love.

    Pastels and glitter. Brass candlesticks and blue-and-white porcelain. Gold accents and velvet ribbon. Shiny Brite ornaments and tinsel trees. Ginger jars and birds. Mercury glass and velvet.

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    I’m like the grandmillennial’s maximalist older sister! I love layers and collections and fun pops of color. I embrace eclecticism over perfection.

    Keep scrolling to take the full tour, or use the links below to jump ahead to your favorite rooms and spaces.

    Jump to:
    • Christmas Front Porch
    • Christmas Foyer Decorations
    • Dining Room Christmas Decorations
    • Living Room Christmas Decorations
    • More Christmas Decorating Ideas

    We’ll start the Christmas tour on our front porch.

    Christmas Front Porch

    I always tend to gravitate to traditional colors and more weathered elements on the front porch.

    white trees in urns flanking a front door with a garland and wreath for Christmas

    While our porch is covered and mostly protected from the elements, you don’t want to decorate with anything too precious outdoors.

    black buffet on a front porch decorated with rustic red and green Christmas decorations

    But then, I do have a piece of painted furniture on the porch. And I use some collectible vintage items, like Thermoses, enamelware and snowshoes in my outdoor vignettes.

    collage photo showing how to decorate a large porch for Christmas

    I did a complete porch tour with seven other decorators this year. Check it out if like to see more photos and details from our Christmas porch.

    Christmas Foyer Decorations

    From the porch, we’ll step into the foyer, which is a pastel wonderland of tinsel trees and vintage glass ornaments.

    This year, I put our flocked pink Christmas tree in an urn to elevate it.

    pink Christmas tree in an urn decorated with vintage Shiny Brite ornaments

    I decked it out with an assortment of vintage ornaments and retro-inspired ones. There are a mix of new Christopher Radko Presents Shiny Brite reproduction ornaments, as well other vintage thrifted baubles.

    pink Christmas tree with vintage and retro ornaments

    I reserved the older Shiny Brite ornaments for the trio of tinsel trees on the painted buffet in our foyer.

    silver tinsel trees in chinosierie planters decorated with Shiny Brite ornaments

    Normally, I tend to group my Shiny Brite ornaments by color. In the past, I’ve had a pink-and-green Shiny Brite tree and a silver-and-blue Shiny Brite tree.

    But this year, I really mixed things up.

    colorful Shiny Brite ornaments on tinsel trees in chinoiserie planters

    I love how bright and colorful this area is. It makes me happy every time I walk by.

    Want to learn more about the history of Shiny Brite Ornaments? This blog post details the origin story of the iconic ornmanents and includes lots of ideas for how to showcase them.

    colorful shiny brite ornaments on a silver tree in a blue and white planter

    I definitely took a cue from the grandmillenial decorating playbook by displaying this silver tinsel tree in a blue-and-white fishbowl planter.

    👇🏻 Shop for Tabletop Tinsel Trees Like Mine Below 👇🏻

    And what’s better than one tinsel tree in a chinoiserie planter?

    tinsel tree with Shiny Brite ornaments in a Chinoiserie flower pot

    Two tinsel trees, dripping with vintage ornaments!

    And what’s better than two tinsel trees?

    tinsel tree with vintage ornaments in a silver compote

    Three tinsel trees!

    I purchased this tall compote bowl with plans to fill it with ornaments. But I decided it would look even better with a tinsel tree in it. So, I sent my husband to Target late one night to pick up another one!

    vintage Shiny Brite Christmas ornaments on a small silver tree

    Seriously, these little $10 tinsel trees are perfect for vintage ornaments. The branches aren’t quite as sturdy as the taller tinsel tree I have in the large fishbowl planter. But they’re definitely a great buy.

    In fact, I just bought several more — in white, silver and gold — to use next year!

    Check out my tips on how I secure my tinsel trees in planters to ensure fragile ornaments aren’t damaged.

    Did you know I have a collection of Christmas jigsaw puzzles featuring images of Shiny Brites and other vintage Christmas ornaments?

    collage image of eight puzzles of vintage Shiny Brite ornaments

    Shop for Shiny Brite Puzzles Here

    Dining Room Christmas Decorations

    From the foyer, we will head into the dining room where the Christmas decorations are a bit more traditional chinoiserie chic.

    I loved last year’s chinoiserie Christmas tree with dried hydrangeas and ginger jar ornaments. But I wanted to change things up a bit this year.

    Christmas tree in a brass planter with a china cabinet

    We also have a curious new cat, Susan, who showed up on our Christmas porch last year. (It was obviously very inviting!)

    I wasn’t sure how Susan would behave around a Christmas tree. For that reason, I wanted to decorate the dining room tree with pretty, unbreakable elements.

    Christmas tree in brass urn with red velvet leaves and paper ornaments

    Because the word “simple” does not exist in my decorating vocabulary, I stuffed the branches with red velvet floral picks, beaded picks and garland, faux poinsettias and a few bird ornaments. That may not have been the wisest choice for cat proofing!

    ornaments on a traditional Christmas tree

    But so far, Susan has not bothered the tree at all.

    paper ornaments with velvet ribbon on a Christmas tree

    I also made some glitzy paper ornaments, and I’ll have a tutorial on how to make those soon.

    Christmas tree in a brass planter beside a china cabinet

    I put the tree in my mother-in-law’s vintage brass planter again this year. The tree stand is too big for the pot, so I used a different technique to stabilize the tree in the planter.

    I added a few other holiday touches in the dining room.

    dining room table with brass candlesticks and large bowl centerpiece

    Thrifted brass candlesticks and some oversized Christmas baubles in shades of blue, silver and red add a festive touch.

    traditional dining room table with brass candlesticks and centerpiece bowl decorated for Christmas

    I hung a DIY bejeweled wreath on the bar cart.

    white wreath with red ribbon hanging on a gold bar cart

    I added a few ornaments and bottlebrush trees, along with my collection of Portieux Vallerysthal glassware and blue milk glass, to the bar cart.

    bar cart with blue milk glass goblets decorated for Christmas

    Living Room Christmas Decorations

    Next, we’ll head into the formal living room, where we have our main Christmas tree.

    large flocked Christmas tree decorated with glass ornaments

    I rarely show this angle of the room because it’s so hard to photograph against the windows and French doors.

    But I think our tree is pretty magical, decorated with our collection of keepsake ornaments and pink and green velvet ribbon.

    large flocked Christmas tree decorated with glass ornaments

    It feels very “southern” to me with the dogwood and red berry tree topper and the mix of traditional ribbons.

    The full-sized 9-foot flocked pre-lit Christmas tree is new this year after the lights burned out on our old one. I think this is the largest tree we’ve ever had, and it’s gorgeous! I did a lot of looking and research before buying it.

    👇🏻 Shop for Our Exact Christmas Tree Below 👇🏻

    glass ornaments on a flocked Christmas tree

    While themed trees with matching ornaments are beautiful, I really enjoy rediscovering our keepsakes every year.

    glass ornaments on a flocked Christmas tree

    I use ribbon and floral picks to keep things fresh every year.

    large flocked Christmas tree decorated with glass ornaments

    By the time we got the tree main decorated, I was a little exhausted by Christmas decorating. I don’t think any of us wanted to make another trip to the attic!

    So I added only a few more small touches to the living room and called it done.

    tinsel tree with handblown Christmas ornaments on a cocktail ottoman

    Another inexpensive tinsel tree, this one in champagne gold, nestles inside a vintage brass planter with some handblown Christmas ornaments and a pink mercury glass garland. (I own this garland is several colors!)

    Christmas decorations in a formal living room

    Here’s a quick look at the other side of the living room, looking out towards the foyer and hallway. As you can see, I’m a firm believer in mixing different colors and styles for Christmas.

    Thanks for taking the time to tour our holiday home. I hope you found some inspiration.

    More Christmas Decorating Ideas

    If you’re looking for Christmas decorating ideas, you might enjoy these virtual holiday home tours from years past.

    vintage pink and green shiny brite ornaments on silver tinsel trees
    collage photo showing a traditional style southern home decorated for Christmas with vintage items
    collage showing four different Christmas trees with a text overlay, Christmas Home Tour
    Christmas tree decorated with gold ribbon and pink and green ornaments in a formal living room
    tinsel tree decorated with Shiny Brite ornaments
    You don't have to buy all new decorations to have a beautifully decorated home at Christmas. Scour yard sales, barn sales and antique stores year round to find vintage decor to use at Christmas.
    It all started with some gorgeous, wide chalkboard ribbon. Throw in a some vintage Christmas decorations, greenery and ample pops of red, and the result is a gorgeous front porch decorated for Christmas. Who wouldn't want to spend time relaxing in this beautiful space? It's so welcoming and festive!
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