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Aqua and Red Christmas Home Tour

It’s Christmas!

Today I have a major treat for you guys!  I am sharing our home in all its Christmas decoration glory. 

And not only that, thirty of my favorite creative blogger friends are also sharing their Christmas homes this week. You can check out today’s home tours at the bottom of this post and see all 30 homes right here.

This weekend I pulled out all the decorations and turned the house into a winter wonderland.  I am so excited about the Christmas magic everywhere and cannot wait to share it with all of you!

Christmas home tour collage

I decided to skip the traditional red and green Christmas colors this year. They really just aren’t my thing. 

Aqua, on the other hand – aqua and I are best friends. 

So Christmas at our house is full of lots of aqua, red, and silver. Also, pretty much all of my Christmas decorations are things I made myself or found at a thrift store. Because that’s just how I do things.

Welcome to our home!

have yourself a merry little christmas sign on table and vintage ornaments in vintage balance.

The foyer got a little update with lots of thrifty finds. The mirror is a Pottery Barn knock off made with a thrifted mirror and this vinyl. 

The old sewing machine drawer even got a little touch of Christmas with an antique copy of Christmas stories by Charles Dickens that was another yard sale find.

And I have a bit of an obsession with wrapping paper so I decided to let some of my favorites do double duty as décor. I corralled them in my repurposed lampshade basket.

vintage scale with vintage ornaments.

The vintage balance was a yard sale find, as were those gorgeous vintage glass ornaments on it.

Christmas decor in entry against wood plank wall.

The family room is looking festive with lots more old ornaments and a simple garland made from glittery scrapbook paper.

white buffet with various jars and bowls of ornaments.

The special Christmas lampshade is my regular old lampshade covered in wrapping paper from the dollar spot at Target. 

This is definitely my new favorite, nearly free way to update lampshades whenever you want a change!

lampshade covered in Christmas wrapping paper.

Our Christmas tree is also in the family room and it is beautiful! 

I wanted a flocked Christmas tree so badly but couldn’t justify buying one when we already had a perfectly good (artificial) tree.  So I flocked our old tree and it is 1000% times more beautiful now!

Even better – it was way easier and faster than I had anticipated.

Christmas tree with aqua red and white christmas decorations next to white painted fireplace with Merry Christmas sign.

If you are wondering where all my handmade ornaments are, we haven’t actually finished decorating the tree. I did the lights, garland, and balls myself while my husband was at work but we wanted to do all the special ornaments together as a family. They should all be making it onto the tree later this week!

Merry Christmas mantel.

The best part of the mantel is clearly the Merry Christmas sign. Merry is made from various craft letters I’ve collected over the years. It is a bit hard to tell in pictures but they are all sparkly thanks to a coat of glitter blast spray paint. 

The Christmas sign is hand painted onto a scrap of beadboard I found at the Habitat for Humanity Restore.

merry christmas sign.

The rest of the mantel is just old books, candleholders and jars gathered from around the house with some aqua and red ornaments to add some cheer! 

And of course the stockings – we don’t have matching stockings but they are all knitted and they are so cheerful looking!

Christmas tree with lights on next to fireplace with candles.

I love candlelight at Christmas – it makes everything look that much more beautiful and magical.

nutcracker collection on bookcase for Christmas.

My husband’s nutcracker collection (which his grandmother began when he was a child) is hanging out on the living room shelves this year. 

He actually has about twice this many nutcrackers, but I decided to only pull out my favorites this time.

nutcracker collection.

I think I love the Santas most of all!

Collection of Santa nutcrackers.

And finally, the dining room.  The huge mirror was another yard sale score that just needed a fresh coat of paint.  The garlands are made from glittery scrapbook paper and glittered chipboard letters.

o holy night glittery banner and painted glass Christmas trees.

And those little Christmas trees are an assortment of the clear glass Christmas tree candy jars that fill the shelves of thrift stores all year round. A little paint and some silver leaf and they look completely modern and new!

painted glass Christmas tree jars.

And to finish everything off, a simple ornament centerpiece on the table.

bowl of vintage ornaments on table.

And that’s the tour!  Just looking at these pictures makes me all warm and fuzzy inside!

I’ll be sharing tutorials for many of the projects throughout the house over the next few weeks, but if there is something you are particularly wondering about, be sure to let me know.

And now, you are definitely going to want to check out these other fabulous home tours.  Click the links below for tons of inspiration and catch up with all 30 blogger Christmas home tours here.

collage of other Christmas home tours.

A House Full of Sunshine

Lovely Etc.

Bigger Than The Three of Us

May Richer Fuller Be

Paper and Fox

Delineate Your Dwelling

Merry Christmas!

carrie signature in blue

Comments

  3. chris aka monkey says

    carrie how joy filled and festive i love it all but your husbands nutcracker collection wow how sweet is that xx

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    • Carrie says

      Thanks Chris! His nutcracker collection is pretty cool – and of course I love that he lets me display them however I want!

      Reply

  4. Chaney says

    Pretty, pretty, Carrie! I love that you went non-traditional with your colors, and it all looks so festive. Can’t wait to see how you flocked your tree!

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    • Carrie says

      Thanks Gretchen! You can do so many things with wrapping paper! And I totally agree about aqua and red – I’ve been looking forward to your tour since I saw your teaser pic!

      Reply

  11. Alicia @ thrifty and chic says

    This is so pretty Carrie! I love that vintage balance. It’s amaaazing :) I can’t wait to hear how you flocked your tree. We were just talking about flocking our old tree. Did it make yours look fuller by chance? That’s our main problem with the old one :)

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    • Carrie says

      Thanks Alicia! I love that old balance too – especially because it was a steal at $1! And the flocking did make the tree look a little fuller – mostly because it just gives the eye so much more to look at than before. It draws your attention from the sparser spots.

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    • Carrie says

      Thanks Cindy! I completely agree – it’s a color combo you wouldn’t necessarily think would go together but it works so beautifully!

      Reply

  13. Ashley ~ 3 Little Greenwoods says

    It is so much fun peeking into everyone’s home to spy on their Christmas decor! I love your flocked tree and the Merry Christmas over the fireplace!

    I would love for you to share this post {and others} at my Show Me Saturday linky party this weekend. My readers would love your decor!
    ~ Ashley

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  14. Erin says

    What a great tour, Carrie! I love all the aqua colors vs. traditional Christmas colors. Everything looks so cozy and festive. Such a perfect home to enjoy the holidays in :)

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    • Carrie says

      Thanks Emily – you are so right! Traditional red and green decorations do not look great with the rest of my house. But I feel like I found a way to make it work and still be festive!

      Reply

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