Christmas Home Tour 2016

I'm here tonight to share our full home tour of our House decorated for the holidays.. I'm going to keep my wording to a minimal.. you can find out more details about each room by clicking individual room links below for further details...

Neutral Winter Decorating

So I've changed up some of our decor since all the Christmas decorations came down. I am a neutral girl at heart so here are some ways I infused woods, creams and whites in our house.

Our Main Floor Recap

Here is a little Recap of all the tweaks we've done to our new home's main floor.. If you missed any of them you can click the Links to see each of our Room's more in depth.

This is our Dining room ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Kitchen ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Kitchen Eating Area ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Family Room ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Living Room ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is my Hubby's Office ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Hall and Entry ~ See the full HALL REVEAL HERE & ENTRYWAY HERE

This is our Laundry Room ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

 This is our Powder Bath ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

Stay tuned for all the Upper Floor / Bedroom Reveals coming soon...

See Our FULL HOLIDAY HOME TOUR HERE

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Neutral Christmas Decor in our Family Room

Here is the Final reveal of our neutral French Country Inspired Family Room.. Natural materials like Burlap, jute and wood are used throughout our Home with touches of red and glittering accents. 

Our Tree is a mix of Handmade and Rustic store bought ornaments

Find out more info on Our Christmas Tree and Tree Skirt HERE

We kept our Holiday Mantel simple with Rustic touches.. The burlap stockings flow perfectly with the tree bases and our ornaments. The RH wooden rocking horse in front of the fireplace adds a touch of whimsy for the season...

Our white sectional features a mix of seasonal throw pillows

This is our simple Coffee table decor.. I added this glittery wooden star ornament inside the lantern.. We kept it very simple this year as our daughter is only 19mths and gets into everything!! Overall this faux book opens up and hides our remote and the lantern she doesn't seem to touch.. not sure why?? so that's why I've been really boring this last few months..

I made these ruffled, red and cream ticking stripe pillows myself to go with the S.Claus pillow cover I bought on this Etsy a few years ago. The Burlap Believe Pillow is available HERE.

I changed up the display on top of our antique radio to a vintage wooden toolbox full of candles and these silver and rope detailed ornaments...I fell in love with these ornaments as they reminded me of nautical glass fishing floats..I used a vintage barrel and filled it with birch branches that I bought from Homesense two Christmas's ago.

I wrapped the base of the banister with a faux garland that I basically stole at a garage sale this summer for $2!! And hung a believe sign that I made from Jute webbing underneath. 

I made these Burlap and metallic silver polka dot lumbar pillows from fabric that I picked up from Joann fabrics online. I also made one for our front hall and stencilled it with the word Believe.. I was going to stencil festive words on these one's too but decided against it.. This way I can use them for more than just Christmas. 

On my side table I displayed a glass cloche with a wooden star wrapped in starry lights from Restoration Hardware. The cloche looked lonely alone, so I styled it with this wooden reindeer... I just found the reindeer at a second hand shop close by my house for $1. I just love inexpensive Holiday finds!! Don't you?

This is the look with the starry lights all lit up.. It looks really pretty at night!

Here is the view of our Kitchen from our Family Room.. I have Christmas displays almost everywhere on our main floor.

Behind the couch I normally have a vintage telescope and a large vintage Map sketch. So I hid those in my storage area and hung up a large wooden sled instead.  I draped the sled in a Noel Burlap banner made by Mom's Etsy Shop. 

Behind the couch I have a sofa table that I refinished, you can see more on that makeover here. I used 2 galvanized lanterns from our front porch on either side. and used a silver and jute wrapped tray as a centrepiece. The tray holds a vintage wooden toolbox with a galvanized planter, also from our summer porch. 

I filled one side of the planter with fabric candy canes and the other with Natural cinnamon sticks... 

I just love the scent of Cinnamon!!

I placed my pillar candles in my galvanized lanterns but realized my candles seemed too short in comparison so I used these metal tart shells that I had and turned them upside down. It increased the height of the candle then I wrapped the base with 2 different colours of metallic beaded garland.

This is our media unit all jazzed up for winter. You can see the full Built-in unit Makeover HERE. Check out our Detailed Christmas Mantel HERE.

This is my view every morning as I walk down the stairs ;) It Makes me so happy.. For the first time I feel at home and don't have the desire to move!! Let me tell you.. That makes my hubby Happy! ;)

If this is your first time checking out my blog.. You can see how this Room looks on an everyday basis here ;)

See our FULL HOLIDAY HOUSE TOUR HERE

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French Provincial Chair Makeover

This amazing chair was another successful Kijiji find!.. I found 6 chairs plus a table.. for $60!! This has got to be one of my best DEALS yet!! I've been wanted cane back chairs for awhile now.. So I was super psyched when I found them. I love the detail on the chair.. and the quality and shape was impeccable! 

 The only drawback was it didn't mesh well with my fabulous ruffled slipcovers that I got for my other dining chairs.. The original plan was that I was going to replace the x-back chairs with the new cane back style. BUT the back of them doesn't accommodate the slipcover ties to tie a bow, and the seat size was a little too large.. so they didn't end up working! :( And you know I need my ruffles!!! So for that reason I will only be keeping 2 chairs for captain chairs. And will probably end up selling the rest.

The chairs have great bones and are well built.. sturdiness of vintage chairs is key!

I removed the fabric seat with my handy screw driver and started painting with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White. No primer required.. yay! It did take a while though.. I ended up applying 3 thin coats.. with a minimum of 1hr wait times in between..but the finished product was well worth it! It turned out to be a 2-day nap time project :)

The fabric seat cushion was actually in pretty great condition but the colour was a little too dark for the look I was going for.. So I covered it in this natural cotton Linen like material from Fabricland.

Now our new chairs flank the sides of our Dining Hutch.

 Wooden clover detailed mirrors hang above our new captains chairs.

If you missed it, you can see our FULL DINING ROOM REVEAL Here.

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House Tour Recap

So this the final Goodbye to our little Piney! It was a great home... We got Married in this home. It was a New build that we added a lot of personal touches to add character! We kept the house quite neutral but kept it interesting with details through vintage accessories, vintage louvered doors as a room divider, lots of built-in shelving, lighting and wallpaper. Tomorrow I will post our next Home's Before Pics.. So onwards to our new adventures in our next home!! 

Exterior Pics:

 Stairs: Large Newell Post in Java Stain

 Hall Entry: Console table with bench underneath, vintage radio 

Gray & White Main Bathroom: Restoration Hardware Crystal and Chrome Knobs, Benjamin Moore Coventry Gray Paint. White Ruffled Anthropologie Shower curtains. Target white Roman Shade.

 Den: Re-upholstered Shabby Chic French Provincial Sofa with linen and Burlap Pillows. White Ikea drapes. Home Depot Pendant Light. 

 Dining Room: Benjamin Moore Alexandria Beige Paint, Vintage architectural prints

 Family Room: Sklar Peppler Sofa and Chaise, Ethan Allen Brown Velvet Ottoman. Leaned Vintage Wooden Ladder, Mirrored nesting tables. Ikea Billy Bookshelves (See before and after here)

 Guest Room: Antique Bedroom Set, Vintage Mirrors/ trays hung up as wall collage. Vintage truck from my husbands Grandmother. Ikea Bedding with a embroidered pillow from our trip to Bahamas. Vintage Lighting sprayed Aqua Blue. Refinished Desk. See Before and After Here.

 Kitchen: See more info and Pictures Here.

 Master Bedroom: See More Info Here

 Master Bathroom: Restoration Hardware Chrome Square Knobs. Rona Faucet, Home depot Mirror and Chrome Wall Sconces. Gray Striped Wallpaper.

 Upper Hall Pics: See more info here

 Outdoor Patio:

 Thanks for looking! Hope you enjoyed!