Holiday House Tour
I shared several photos of our home decorated for the holidays over on Instagram so I figured I should include a post too 🙂 Check out my Holiday Home Tour 2018!
–>>Watch a full video Holiday Home Tour on my Instagram Channel here!
You will find DIY Christmas décor ideas in this post, including popular Dollar Tree Christmas Décor and Farmhouse Christmas Decor! Buffalo Plaid Christmas Decor has been really popular the past couple of years and I’m glad it stuck around this year. I just love plaid! We also built a DIY Faux Fireplace so I could show off our Christmas fireplace decor!
Most of the sources are listed below for each room 🙂
Kitchen
I updated our kitchen right before the holidays by painting the cabinets white, adding new hardware, and adding a peel and stick wallpaper as a backsplash, The hubby helped remove an upper shelf that was previously above the bar and we repurposed that shelf in our laundry room.
Paint Color: Chalked Paint in Linen
- Cabinet Door Pulls
- Dollar Store Farmhouse Christmas Signs (DIY)
- Wreaths (Micheal’s Arts & Crafts Stores)
- Rae Dunn Mugs (Home Goods)
- Mini Trees (Hobby Lobby)
- Holiday GingerBread Plexiglas Sign (Ikea Frame, tutorial coming soon!)
- Subway Tile Wallpaper
- Tiered Tray (Home Goods)
- Rug (Home Goods)
Here’s the Kitchen BEFORE…
Here’s the AFTER picture again… A full post on how I did the update is in this post!
All the signs pictured on the shelves were made using Dollar Store materials!
I set up this cute little Hot Cocoa Station using glass jars found at Walmart and a tiered tray (old from Home Goods). The little Chalkboard sign is an ornament from Hobby Lobby and the Sweater Weather Soy Candles are homemade. The dough boy cookie jar was handed down (vintage).
Breakfast Room
Wine Rack Paint Color: Beachside Drive Behr
- Merry Christmas Sign (Handmade by me, screen printed on MDX and stained Pine frame)
- Light fixture (Wayfair)
- Blinds (Lowes)
- Table (Thrifted Vintage find)
- Chairs (Thrifted several years ago, Pottery Barn)
- Wreaths (Micheal’s Stores)
- Wine Rack/Dresser (Home Goods, painted Beachside Drive)
I love having a place in our kitchen area for this cute bar. The dresser is a great place to store extra cloth napkins and other bar items. This is where we store our drinking glasses as well as wine bottles and my collection of shot glasses!
I placed a cake stand here because we are limited on space in our kitchen. The teal lantern holds our Amazon Echo (Alexa) since this is a central location in the house to speak/hear Alexa.
The Advent wreath is from Amazon and the essential oils diffuser in the center of the wreath is from Scentsy. I only use Young Living essential oils though and you can learn all about essential oils here.Â
Family Room
Paint Color: Unknown ( I think this is off-the-shelf pure white though)
- Faux Fireplace (built by hubby, painted Chalked Paint in Linen, tutorial coming soon!)
- Ladder Shelf (Pottery Barn, painted Chalked Paint in Linen)
- Baskets (Home Goods)
- Paper Trees
- Elf on the Shelf
- Christmas Tree (old, not sure where we purchased!)
- Ornaments (most are from Hobby Lobby)
- Buffalo Plaid Stockings
- Buffalo Plaid Blanket (Joann Fabrics, Winter of 2017)
- Buffalo Plaid Wrapping Paper (Target, Winter of 2017)
- Village Houses (Target and Hobby Lobby)
- Small Tree and Garland (Hobby Lobby)
- Fairy Lights
- Oversized Chalkboard
- Christmas Countdown (on the chalkboard)
- It’s the most wonderful time Farmhouse Sign (Handmade by me, screen printed on MDX and stained Pine frame)
- ‘Tis the Season Tray (World Market, Cricut cut vinyl added to the front)
- Rae Dunn Mr. Claus & Mrs. Claus Mugs (Home Goods)
Our family room looked so different a month before this picture was taken. We just bought this house in July of this year and we are slowly updating it.
The hubby built a faux fireplace which gives the room a focal point and makes it feel cozy.
We downsized from our last house and had to sell our 9 foot Christmas tree so we decided to just use this smaller “skinny” tree this year.
I transformed our over-sized chalkboard into a Christmas countdown calendar with this digital file.  The kids loved circling the day and counting down to Christmas!
Entryway
Paint Color: Unknown ( I think this is off-the-shelf pure white and was this color when we bought the house)
- Vintage Ladder (garage sale find)
- Buffalo Plaid Stockings
- Fairy Lights
- Christmas Trees Sign (Handmade by me, screen printed on MDX and stained Pine frame)
- It’s the most wonderful time mini Farmhouse sign
- Green Garland (Micheal’s Stores)
- Burlap and Buffalo Plaid Garland
- Wreath (Home Goods)
- Mirros (Home Goods)
- Pillows (handmade/sewn)
- Cedar chest (vintage handed down, refinished with Briar Smoke wood stain)
- Lanterns (Micheal’s Stores)
- Rug (Home Goods)
I found this vintage ladder at a garage sale just a couple weeks before Christmas and am still getting used to decorating it. I think the fairy lights will stay on it year-round 🙂
I’m currently updating the entryway (added wallpaper and painted the door) so it no longer looks stark white!
Master Bedroom
Paint Color: Unknown ( I think this is off-the-shelf pure white and was this color when we bought the house)
- All I Want for Christmas Sign (Handmade by me, Cricut cut vinyl on MDX and stained Pine frame)
- Fairy Lights
- Green Garland (Micheal’s Stores)
- Merry Christmas pillow (Hobby Lobby)
- Buffalo Plaid Pillow Covers (handmade/sewn)
- Buffalo Plaid Blanket
- White Quilt (Linens & Hutch)
- Side Tables (Old, Ikea Hack)
- Lamps (Old, Home Goods)
Our master bedroom was a popular image on Instagram and I’m not sure why… could it be the buffalo plaid?
Formal Living Room/Den
Paint Color: Unknown ( I think this is off-the-shelf pure white though and was this color when we bought the house)
- Red Stockings (Pottery Barn, personalized)
- Dollar Store Farmhouse Signs
- Mini Wreaths (Hobby Lobby)
- Farmhouse Wall Sconce
- Card Catalog Cabinet Dresser/TV Stand (Ikea Hack)
- Mini Trees (Micheal’s Stores)
- Mini Village Houses (thrifted)
- Red lanterns (Ikea)
- Fa La La Y’all Red Truck with Tree Pillow
- Basket (old, Home Goods)
- Buffalo Check Throw Blanket (Joann Fabrics, Winter 2017)
- 4-Inch Flocked Tree (Walmart)
- Brown Chair (old, Buy Buy Baby)
Our living room (I like to call it the Den) is the perfect nap room (other than the fact that it gets a ton of natural light, haha). It’s just a cozy room to sit and read a book or watch a Hallmark Christmas movie, you know what I’m saying?
I kept the colors in this room more masculine and traditional Christmas red.
Front Porch
House Paint Color: Unknown (it’s a beige-yellow and was this color when we bought the house)
Door Paint Color: Beachside Drive Behr
- Wreath (Micheal’s Stores)
- Merry Christmas Y’all Sign (Handmade by me, screen printed on MDX and stained Pine frame)
- Fairy Lights
I started hanging this over-sized farmhouse sign on our porch suring Fall and love it so much! I plan to update the Cricut cut vinyl every season 🙂
Read how to make your own Farmhouse style signs like the one on our front porch for only $12!
How to pick the right paint colors
Have you ever had trouble picking the right paint colors for your home? Choosing the right paint colors for your home can be overwhelming. There are so many different “whites” and “grays” these days, how can anyone know they are making the right paint color choice?
That’s why I put together the best tips on How to Choose Interior Paint Colors in this post.
Every home is different… the entryway in our first home was much different than the entryway in our second home, and both of those were very different from the entryway in our third home! So I chose a different paint color for each entryway in all three of our homes. Not to mention, from the time that we bought our first home, to the time that we bought our third home, home paint color trends changed drastically. The colors that I used back then were no longer a trendy color and well, I just didn’t like the brown-ish tan that was in our first home, haha.
So if you need help choosing paint colors for the rest of your home, head on over to this post to see my paint-picking tips and what has worked for me in all three of our homes 🙂 My post with how to choose paint colors for your home is one of my most popular posts and readers have benefited from reading it before heading to the store to buy paint that ends up not working out.
I also have some ideas for choosing paint color combinations for bedrooms (with themes!)
Paint Versus Peel & Stick Wallpaper
Peel and stick wallpaper has become very popular recently since not everyone has access to tools to build their own Shiplap walls (thanks Chip and Joanna) or wants to tile an entire wall with subway tile. I love tiling but if I could slap up some wallpaper and call it a day, that would make me, the hubby, and my wallet happy!
You can find peel and stick wallpaper online at Target, Amazon, Home Depot, and more! I’ve linked my favorite peel and stick wallpaper and the ones I’ve used personally below.
Cheap Home Hacks that’ll Increase Value
Renovating a home can come with a high price tag if you’re not budgeting and deciding which updates bring the best return on investment. After selling our updated first home in just 4 years, we bought an even bigger house that needed a lot of updating. We sold our second home after 4 years while doing the much-needed work to produce a profit by following the same strategies we did in our first home.
If you enjoy updating your home, want to increase your home value or just want your home to look better, you should check out thee 10 Cheap Home Hacks That’ll Make Your House Look So Much Better.
Tour Our Homes
I hope you got some ideas for Christmas farmhouse decor or coastal Christmas decor after reading this post. These modern Christmas decor ideas are just what you need to create a cozy home for the holidays. Add some buffalo check Christmas decor and incorporate turquoise Christmas decor just like I did! I can’t wait to see the Christmas decor trends 2019… but I know that Dollar store Christmas decorations will still be a popular item. If you have a Cricut machine, I hope you can make some of the Cricut Christmas crafts linked in this post :)#farmhousechristmas #dollarstorechristmas
Be sure to check out my full list of recommendations for home decor and crafting here!
–>>Watch a full video Holiday Home tour on my Instagram Channel here!
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