Christmas Home Tour: Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 on my Christmas Home Tour. Since I had recently repainted the walls of the family room in blush this past spring, I thought blush and gold would be the perfect color scheme for this room!

RELATED POST: If you missed Part 1 of the Christmas Home Tour you will find it here.

I played around with fresh garland this year. I tried a couple of techniques to keep it fresh as long as possible. They didn’t work, and it was dried out within a week and a half. But in that week and a half, there was nothing like it, the smell, look, and texture was amazing!

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All the photos are of the fresh garland after it had dried up, in my opinion, it still looked great. Would I do it again, yes! And will keep playing around with different techniques to keep it fresh for as long as possible. If I figure out anything that works, I will share it with you.

FIREPLACE

For the mantel, I draped it with fresh garland. Added a couple of mercury candleholders with flameless flickering candles, and a string of gold ornament lights. I had made another faux boxwood wreath that I added to the mirror.

Fresh garland has the best draping effect!

I had purchased oversized gold outdoor ornaments this year but didn’t get a chance to figure out where I was going to use them outdoors. I decided to see what I could do with them indoors instead. I put a couple in a basket along with some extra throw pillows.

TREE

Here is the Christmas tree! I wrapped the tree with two blush and silver ornament garlands that I found at Michael’s. Purchased a few blush ornaments at Michael’s as well. The light blush ornaments I made using the same technique I used in the Hearth & Hand Inspired Ornament Tutorial using blush spray paint instead of black.

Here are a couple of close-up photos of the tree, I LOVE the blush!

You can see in these photos that I like to add feathers to my Christmas trees. It creates a softening effect and helps to fill in the bare spots of the tree.

I placed a cluster of three of the oversized gold outdoor ornaments next to the tree base. The tree base is a custom urn base that Craig made for me. Using a plastic flower pot, PVC pipe, and concrete.