DIY Basket Weaved Lumbar Pillow Cover

I was at it again, making MORE pillow covers.. See how I made this Jute Webbing Basket weaved pillow cover by clicking below for full details...

Our Neutral Holiday House Tour

I always like to decorate with Neutrals and Vintage Decor. So for Christmas it was no different.. I incorporated lots of Burlap, Jute and wood throughout our home for a very natural organic feel.. Shall we say French Country Rustic Christmas.. The best part about decorating with neutrals is most of the decor can stay up once the Tree comes down ;) To keep the all the neutrals interesting, I used lots of glittery accents mixed with subtle touches of Red and Metallics. Now our Home feels warm and festive .. ready for the holiday season ahead. 

 See our FULL Christmas Home Tour... Come in and have a Look...

Adding Woven Jute Ribbon to Our Christmas Tree

Today is just a small post on my latest Homesense Holiday find.. A woven roll of 3 inch burlap jute trim on this great rustic wooden spool.. for only $5.99.. I honestly thought I was seeing things.. Plus it was 10yrds for under $6.. that's almost unheard of!!! When I first bought it I wasn't quite sure where it was going to go.. I just knew I NEEDED IT!! 

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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Our French Country Christmas Tree

One more month 'til Christmas!!! So to mark the occasion I thought i'd share our neutral themed Christmas Tree!.. is a faux tree.. It sounds a lot nicer than Fake! I like the idea of a real one but hate the idea of lugging one home and pine needles.. so this faux one is just fine for now. Our understated tree features a wooden star vine garland, with a mix of new and homemade ornaments mostly made from natural materials like Burlap, wood and Jute, with touches of white.

Our Neutral Christmas Mantel

The Christmas Reveals continue.. Here is our Family Room Mantel. We kept it simple and a little Rustic thanks to the use of Burlap, Jute and Wood accents.

So our mantel is part of this built-in drywall media unit.. For one of our open displays I used wood planks with a  painted deer head, hand painted by moi.. we placed it over our wooden sailboat art. I added a Large wooden glittery star (Homesense) and a glass jar full of Metal Chain linked garland (Homesense)

Our French Country Christmas Decorating Sneak Peek!

It snowed here today for the first time so I felt it was appropriate to share a sneak peek of our Home's holiday decor. It's a mix of French country inspired, Rustic decor. When decorating I try to always use more natural materials for a casual look... So for Christmas it was no different. I used a mix of Greenery, Wood, Wicker, Burlap and Jute. Then to soften all the wooden accents and increase the holiday feel I added touches of Metallic, like Gold and Silver with go-to classics like red and white. See below for more details.

This is just a sneak peek on Our Christmas Decorating Ideas for this year and what I will be posting over the next few weeks.. It was way too many picture's for 1 or even 2 posts.. So I will be breaking down each post to individual rooms for a more in depth tour of our home. Stay tuned for the Full Reveal. If you missed our Previous Home's Christmas decorating, you can see it here.

Here is a quick peek of our Tree decorated in neutral holiday decor wrapped in a Rustic Wicker Star Vine Garland. For a Tree base I used a antique galvanized tin bucket with a Ruffled Burlap and Muslin Tree skirt to complete the look.

 Kitchen Decor.. See the full KITCHEN REVEAL HERE

Front Entry Foyer Decor

 Family Room Decor

Full Christmas Room Reveal's Coming Soon!!

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Past Christmas Decorating

Very excited to share our Christmas decorating this year...  I am just in the middle of taking some photos and editing and then I will be posting Our Current Home's Christmas decorating, hopefully within the next week.. Here are some ways I have decorated for the holidays in the past. Hopefully you will be inspired to get started on your holiday decorating too :)

Mantel decorating: Hanging a banner or a Garland..

Coffee Table Decor: Bowl of bells or Extra Ornaments

Christmas Throw Pillows: Red and cream Striped ticking fabric & Burlap Believe Pillow

Candle/ Vase Filler: Cinnamon Sticks.. Looks pretty and Smells great too.

Table Decor: Glass cloche with wooden star wrapped in starry lights from Restoration Hardware.

Stay tuned for our upcoming Christmas Tour

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