As I was looking at last year's Holiday Home Tour I realized that the day I shot those photos was the day that we got our kitchen backsplash tile installed. Literally, right after I finished taking the photos for the home tour, the guy came to install the tile. So it has been exactly a year now that we have had the white tile in our kitchen. It was a change that made such a huge impact in the overall look of our kitchen. Painting our cabinets white, was huge. But adding the white tile and getting rid of that yucky old tile was the perfect thing to finish it off and make it ours.
Now it's time to come inside and see what we did this year. So grab your coffee and slippers and come on in!
My youngest is going to be our hostess today. Hello!
I'm still waiting on a Christmas door mat for the front porch that I ordered. I have been loving this layered rug look that a bunch of people are now doing. I don't know if I can ever go back to just one!
This entryway that we made over about a year ago (you can see the transformation here) has been both so fun and so useful for our family. It provides the perfect spot for putting on and putting away shoes for the girls and it has been so fun for me to style in all the different seasons. Last year, this is where we put one of our flocked trees and I decided to keep this space a little less crowded this year and put the tree in the dining room instead.
You can see a peak of it here. We will get to the dining room a little later in the tour.
Having fun yet?
Here is our living room/ family room. I have been slowly changing this room's Christmas colors from red to green and this year it finally has switched over completely. I love that the colors now blend in effortlessly with the everyday colors in our home.
If you remember from last year, we bought three of these white flocked trees (from Walmart) and they have been so awesome. I love that they are so easy to put up and down and that they look so great naked! I have one in my master bedroom that I am experimenting with ornaments this year, but really these look so gorgeous as is.
This record player was an early birthday gift from my husband. It is probably one of my most favorite birthday gifts that I have ever received. It is kind of a relaxing thing to put on a record. You can see why they still sell them. There is just something about them and they sound amazing. I feel like this weird hutch space was made for this record player. It seems to belong there.
Earlier this year I showed on stories how I put on this removable wallpaper. I love this IKEA unit even more now. It just added a little bit of character to an otherwise basic piece of furniture.
And now we move onto the kitchen, which is the one place in the house where I still like to use a lot of fun classic Christmas reds! Our white kitchen is the perfect backdrop for making the red shine.
I found these paperwhite starts at my favorite grocery store (New Seasons) and was so excited that I didn't have to start them from bulbs. Since discovering the Dear Lillie blog years ago, where she uses them in her Christmas décor, I have always associated paperwhites with Christmas. I feel like they are a staple. And they smell so amazing!
I found these cute little gingerbread cookie cutter lights at Michael's this year and I couldn't pass them up. Aren't they the cutest!?
This year I decided to use faux greenery around the kitchen sink window. I just remember last year sweeping up all of the pine needles constantly and it was driving me crazy! Now I can re-use this same garland next year and I won't be sweeping up needles all Christmas season.
We have had a bucket list on this kraft paper roll since Summer and the girls love it. They are always asking what list is next. We did a Summer and Fall bucket list. Even if you don't get to everything on the list, (which always happens to us) it is still fun to try and do all the fun things every season. This year we added "Random Acts of Kindness". I am not sure yet what that will entail, but I am excited to try and get the girls to do something like that and start to get an appreciation for how lucky they are and what a good thing it is to do kind things for others. If anyone has any good ideas for little kids, message me in the comments below. I would love to hear ideas!
Now we arrive at the dining room and this is where I put our other flocked tree. I put it up right before we had people over for a "Friendsgiving" this year and I have to say, I loved having a Christmas tree up with all of the Thanksgiving décor. It just seemed very fitting. As if to say, "This holiday is good to give thanks, but an even better holiday is right around the corner.".
I am getting the itch to switch this piece out, with something bigger, with more storage. I have to start the craigslist hunt for the perfect piece.
In the meantime I took out all of the books that used to be here and started playing around with different things.
Here is the buffet that I made over earlier this year. It was a lot of work, but I love how it turned out. You can find the post on how I painted it here.
That's all for today. I hope to get a post up of our master bedroom, girl's room and playroom soon, so check back later for more! Hope you have a wonderful week!
You can find old Christmas Home Tours here:
Christmas Home Tour 2014
Christmas Home Tour 2017
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