Welcome to my home! Come on in and let me show you how I've created a bright and festive Christmas wonderland in my farmhouse! I would love to inspire you!

Farmhouse style is a popular way to decorate and create a warm, welcoming home! Kelly of North Country Nest has put a team of bloggers together to share our Farmhouse Homes on this Christmas tour! You'll find our styles range from rustic to modern and everything in between! All the links will be in one place at the end of my home tour!

I've always enjoyed the holidays and decorating for Christmas, but never more so than this year! Why? I had never really defined my style and I was often influenced by what others were doing or what was on sale at the stores!

I think once you accept what you love, it doesn't really matter what others are doing. Just embrace YOUR style and go for it! So what is my style?? I've defined it as modern farmhouse shabby cottage! I love a home that is filled with collected treasures, I love creating an inviting and welcoming, cozy atmosphere...and I really love white! But guess what? Your style will evolve over time, and that is okay!

Come inside my Christmas farmhouse

Normally my home is quite neutral, so for the holidays it is so much fun to decorate with reds and greens! I love a classic farmhouse feel for Christmas, so that's what I've done this year, except in my dining room where it's all about the blue and white!

The farmhouse welcome begins at the front door! Creating a bright and festive front porch gives friends a taste of what they'll find inside! You can see more details of my porch tour here. When decorating your porch, consider making it an extension of your home. Add furniture and a warm throw and even pillows! I have loved every single pillow cover I have from Returning Grace.



My dining room is filled with my collected blue and white transferware, so rather than do something different for the holidays, I decided to enhance the blue and white theme! I added a slim flocked tree to one corner and then decorated it with teacups, saucers, small ironstone pitchers and handmade ornaments! You can read more details about my French farmhouse tree, and find tutorials for creating the chippy spindles and the blue Sharpie ornaments I've hung on the tree.




I've had this tree up since before Thanksgiving, and it was so easy to make the transition from Fall to Christmas! I exchanged burnt orange and pumpkins for red and green!


Let's move into the kitchen. The Christmas decor was kept to a minimum in here, just a few splashes of red to add a festive feel.


My kitchen is small, but I was able to add farmhouse Christmas charm with a buffalo check throw, adding a red ribbon to my DIY ball topiary, and some festive pillows.


My Christmas Rae Dunn mugs get pride of place on my repurposed craft cubby that's covering up the old wall telephone switch!




When we moved into this home a couple years ago, this built-in cabinet was dark oak and it totally overwhelmed the small space! You can the transformation of our kitchen with paint. The breakfast nook is now a cohesive little corner tucked into our kitchen, and I love it! You can find the distressed ivory bench, the black metal chairs, the striped curtains, but the rest of the kitchen decor was thrifted and DIYed.


The kitchen opens up into our large living room, now a bright and light space! When we moved into the house, this was the one room that made me cringe! It was so dark and dated, with oak paneling and dark built-ins, oh and let's not forget the dark, dirty fireplace! Our living room transformation is complete, including the updated fireplace transformation that I finished in about 3 hours!


This room now feels like home! We have worked hard this year to make it more livable, including tearing out the shaggy carpet and installing beautiful, affordable  farmhouse floors. You can read about that process (we did it all ourselves, and it was a great way to put the teens to work do something together as a family!)



I really love the look of the painted paneling, it makes this room so much brighter!




More pillows, throws and candles = more cozy! Just what I crave at Christmas!


The living room opens up into our sunroom, which is one of our favorite spots in our home! It's full of windows, so lots of light floods in, and the cozy daybed is a great place to read or take a nap!


I put our large tree in the sunroom this year and love that it's out of the way of foot traffic, but still visible! In fact, you can see it when you walk in the front door!


The sunroom has new wood floors, we also added peel and stick reclaimed wood to the two end walls, and I love the rustic cottage vibe it has!