Hey Everyone! Welcome to my Christmas home tour 2014! I’m so excited to be part of the Holiday Home Tour this year hosted by Kendra at Joy In Our Home!
Now let’s get started! 🙂
Entryway Bench
We’re a bit unusual in that instead of our entryway bench being located right by an entryway door, it is pretty much right smack in the middle of our downstairs level across from the family room. I find this works best for us as well as guests providing easy access to purses, backpacks and the like. But I do tend to crowd out some of the useable space when I decorate it for the holidays! 
I love to decorate the top of the bench! And it’s so easy to switch out the decorations for the seasons. I especially love the weather vane! 
The milk jug almost always has something sticking out of the top of it, depending on the season! This time it’s fallen redwood branches decked out in stringed pearls and ornaments! 
I rounded everything out by sticking some redwood greenery around burlap and lace tied pillows and a redwood sway hung inside a old wine barrel ring! 
Family Room
Our family room is located directly across from the entryway bench. I just refinished the entertainment center and I’m really happy with how it turned out! I will be posting about how I did it in the near future, so stay tuned! 🙂 
When I got the entertainment center finished, I was so excited to finally have a place to display some of my late grandfather’s antiques and some of my flea market finds! 🙂 
We bought this door for our house when we were building it, but it turned out to be the wrong size and we never got around to returning it. Might as well put it to some use! 🙂
Living Room
Last but not least, our living room! We just recently repainted our interior walls, so we are still working on getting window treatments and wall décor back up. At least there’s nothing to distract from the Christmas decorations! 🙂 
If you like the burlap and button Christmas trees below, you can find the tutorial for it here.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my Christmas home tour for 2014! Please make sure to check out all the other awesome tours in the Holiday Home Tour at the blogs listed below!
– Monday –
1. Little Brags
2. Joy In Our Home
3. The Painted Hinge
– Tuesday –
1. 2 Bees In A Pod
2. Dandelion Patina
3. Love Create Celebrate
4. Shambray
– Wednesday –
1. Around The Watts House
2. Curly Crafty Mom
3. Dwelling In Happiness
4. Karen’s Up On The Hill
– Thursday –
1. 2 Bees In A Pod
2. Home RemediesRX
3. Life Love Larson
4. Melanie Gets Married
– Friday –
1. Bless’er House
2. Burlap & Babies
3. Meet the Bs
4. Posed Perfection
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🙂
Michelle
So lovely! The milk jug with the pastel ornaments is my favorite!
Happy Holidays!
Thank you Karen! 🙂 Happy Holidays!
I love how natural all of your decor feels!! And those antiques are beautiful! Definitely something to dress up every season! So glad I could stop by and check it out 🙂
Thank you Lin! 🙂
Sorry! That comment above was from me 🙂 My ipad is doing wonky things this morning 🙂 Lindi @ Love Create Celebrate
LOL no worries Lindi! I had to fix my blog header which got hacked this morning, so I definitely understand! 🙂
Hi Michelle, I’m Christine from Little Brags (part of the Tour this weeek) Super awesome decorations. Will be pinning a bunch here and glad to have found you. Will follow you along!!! xoxoox Christine
Thank you so much Christine! 🙂 I’ll be along soon to view your home tour and follow along too! Very nice to connect with you! 🙂
I love your tour!! Your tree is just gorgeous! And I love that door you decorated; such a fun decor piece!! 🙂
Thank you Amanda! The door is a lot of fun, and I was so happy I could repurpose that door since we waited to long to return it after we bought it! 🙂
It all looks SO gorgeous!!! I love all of the neutral touches and I am totally crushing on those rusty lanterns!!!
Thank you Kristi! I’m really into the neutral look this year, but had a hard time trying to pull it off for Christmas since it’s traditionally pretty bold colors, but it turned out pretty good thank goodness! 🙂
Hey there Michelle…your home is beautiful! I love how you incorporated your grandfathers antiques into your decor! I’m Vicki with 2 Bees in a Pod and will be showing my home tomorrow – my daughter Jennifer will showcase her home on Thursday. So happy to follow you…
Hi Vicki! Thank you so much and I can’t wait to see your and your daughter’s homes this week! So cool that you are both bloggers! 🙂 Very nice to connect with you as well!
Michelle, your home is so beautiful! Everything you have done is so natural and elegant. I could stare at it all day! I’ll be sharing my home on Wednesday (Around the Watts House) as part of the tour. I hope you get a chance to stop by!
Thank you Iris! 🙂 And I will most certainly stop by on Wednesday- I can’t wait to see your home!
Everything looks beautiful! I love the muted colors you decorated with… the pretty pinks and aquas are perfect. I better get busy for my house tour post on Friday 😉
Blessings,
Nici
Thank you so much Nici! I can’t wait to see your home! 🙂
Absolutely beautiful. I love the greenery and the pine cones, but my favorite is the tree in the washtub. Beautiful display of antiques and vintage items. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much! 🙂
Your home is absolutely beautiful Michelle! And even fresh paint just in time for Christmas! I love, love all the antiques… those lanterns and everthing else! They are beautiful! The greenery tucked in everywhere looks lovely as well! SO glad to have you as part of this tour, Michelle! xo
Thank you so much Kendra! 🙂 I’m so glad to be a part of this tour- I can’t thank you enough for inviting me! Looking forward to seeing the other homes throughout the week!
Love love love your entryway bench! And your tree is stunning! 🙂
Thank you so much Nicole! 🙂
Your home looks so pretty all decorated for the holidays! I love the way you incorporated your grandfather’s antiques into your home – so many treasures! And your entryway is just gorgeous and so welcoming!
Thank you Amy! 🙂 I loved your home tour as well- so warm and inviting! The Holiday Home Tour was so much fun- I’m glad we could be a part of it!
I love how festive your home is while still staying neutral. All the greenery looks beautiful too, I bet your house smells amazing! Happy to be a part of this tour with you 🙂
Thank you so much Melanie!!! It was a pleasure being on the tour with you too! 🙂
Love your Christmas decoration!!
Thank you! 🙂
Wow! Everything looks so beautiful! I love it!
Thanks for joining the Link Up this week!
Thank you Jess! 🙂 And as always, thank you for hosting!
I’m totally in love with everything! Pinned and tweeted. We appreciate you being a part of our party, and I hope to see you on tonight at 7 pm. We love partying with you!
Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls
Thank you so much! And I will be there tonight! 🙂
I love , love, love your home and decor. Your primitives are fabulous and you definitely know how to create the most wonderful vignettes. Your Christmas displays are stunning. Thanks tons for linking to Inspire Me.
You’re welcome Marty- it’s always a pleasure to link up to your party! Thank you so much! 🙂
Stopping by from the Totally Terrific Tuesday Link up. Gorgeous decor! Love the rustic look. We have old lanterns and the cable pulleys as well. We love taking our everyday decor and mixing in winter accents. Just lovely!
Thank you so much! 🙂
Your home looks amazing. Your holiday decorations are perfection. Now I know that I’m supposed to be looking at your holiday stuff but your collection of vintage lanterns in the family room has caught my eye and my envy!! love them.
Thank you Robin! 🙂 And no worries about the lanterns- I do the same thing when I look at other people’s holiday home tours (“Great job decorating for the holidays, but I just love your backsplash in the kitchen!”) 🙂
The showcase house! It looks like the nobody lives here, Michelle: it is so elegant, shining neat and clean. There is no speck of dust on all these decorations that is hard to make and even harder to maintain, sorry to say: how you do that? And, of course, the very creative and original decorations. The floor and new paint shine! Great job!
Thank you Irena! And trust me, it’s not nearly as clean as it looks- thankfully the camera is very forgiving when it comes to that! 🙂 But, the new paint does help makes things look cleaner 🙂