Merry and Bright Christmas Home Tour 2014

 Welcome to my Merry and Bright Christmas Home Tour 2014!

This year I spent a little more time than I usually do getting my home all ready for Christmas.  I’m not sure why, but I felt a little more overwhelmed at the idea of all the decorating (and a touch intimidated by all the beautiful home tours going on in blogland).  So I decided to give myself a few days (instead of a few hours) to decorate, and it was a lot less stressful having done it this way.

And I figured that since the carpets were vacuumed, the laundry put away, and the kitchen cleaned, the least I could do was document it right?   It was now or never to show you my home all decked out for the holidays!  It’s not perfect, but it’s our home and it feels lovely.

Merry & bright for Christmas…come on in!
Warning…picture overload.  😉

Our Christmas home is very colourful this year, and it all starts on the porch with bright and cheery Christmas trees!

Over time I’ve accumulated quite a collection of bright and colourful ornaments!  Many came from my collaboration with Canadian Tire over the last couple of years.

These snowflakes are new to the porch this year, and they seem to add the perfect touch, tying in our yellow door.

When you come into our home, the first thing you will see is our holiday welcome message!  I love this wreath on our chalkboard wall…

This year I had a lot of fun hanging simple evergreen wreaths on various glass doors throughout our home (I found these at Michaels for $2.99 each!  LOVE a good deal like that!).  They are simple and pretty hanging on our office doors…

Speaking of our office I added a little Christmas cheer in here too.  This is where I spend a lot of time working on my blog, so it’s nice to have some decorations.

And it’s also where I can get away with having a white tree with pink ornaments!  😉

Next up is our living room.  Not much changes in here year after year, except this year I was able to convince my family that we needed white lights on our tree!  I can hardly believe that everyone was on board with having white instead of coloured lights!  Our only regret is that we didn’t add at least 3 more strands!  We love our tree…we have a real one every year, and there is no theme…it’s a beautiful collection of ornaments we’ve collected since we were married and had kids, so everything on it is really special.

I kept our mantel simple this Christmas.  It’s funny because I love decorating my mantel for each season, but have a really hard time decorating a Christmas mantel.  I feel like it competes with the tree too much so I never know what to do with it.  I even had it completely empty for a while and it didn’t feel quite right so I added a simple evergreen wreath and filled my lanterns with coloured ornaments.

I also decorate my stairs with evergreen garland, lights and coloured ornaments.  They looks so pretty during the day, but especially so at night!

Merry & bright!

This year I also decided to add some holiday cheer to our eating nook.  Ever since we got our new (and much smaller table) I like decorating this space.

This nook is nice and bright, which makes it the perfect space for silver, gold and copper accents.

Side note:  you may also notice a certain photobomb?!  That’s Ed our Elf.  Yes we have an elf and we love him.

For a little extra cheer, I added ornaments to a silver tray on our table.   My 5 year old said that he specifically loved this decoration.  Too cute!

I also hung a simple evergreen wreath to my dish cabinet and I’m loving it!  I wish I could leave it there all year.

I love this view from my stove area.  When I look over at it, it makes me happy.

Now on to our master bedroom!

I have never in the history of Christmas in our home, ever ever decorated our room for the holidays.  And now I’m wondering why I haven’t before!  Our room is my most favourite part of our Christmas home.

I love the colour of our walls so much that I have really put an effort into keeping our master bedroom a sanctuary.  And it’s funny because as soon as we painted our room last winter, I immediately imagined evergreen wreaths hanging over our bed {I used miracle command strips to hang them}.  I LOVE how they look hanging there.  I thought about adding something extra to the wreaths, but I really just love how simple they are.

Then I layered on our faux fur blankets, fuzzy snowflake pillows and made our bed all cozy!

One of my most favourite things about our room is the NOEL sign that I found at Target!  It adds the most gorgeous cast of light in our room…I need to find a sign I can keep in here all year round.  It’s SO pretty!

Just look how gorgeous it looks at night!

For a little extra lighting I also added some LED branches to the basket of twigs and sticks that I used for my fall mantel.

LOVE it!

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So that’s my Christmas home…festive and cheery!  Now if I can just manage to keep everything tidy for the next month…that would be a miracle.  With my kids getting older I can’t even believe how messy my house gets on a daily basis…seriously.  I’ll just come back here to remind myself how clean it can be.  😉

I hope you enjoyed my tour!  Maybe you’ll even find a little inspiration for your home!

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If you’re looking for more Christmas Home Ideas, check out tours from my friends Virginia of Fynes Designs and Tara of Suburble!

Have a wonderful day!