It’s A Blue Christmas | Merry & Bright Holiday Home Tour – Part 1

Happy Holidays and welcome to the 4th Annual Merry & Bright Holiday Home Tour.  This year I’m joining 6 of my blogging friends to share lots of holiday decor and entertaining inspiration with you.  There’s a list of all the participating bloggers at the end of this post.

Before we get this party started, I want to give a shout out to Boho Luxe Home who is sponsoring the holiday home tour again this year.  Kellie and Melanie have an amazing company with some of most personality packed home decor items I’ve ever seen.  This year, each of the participating bloggers received products from Boho Luxe Home to include in their decor.  I know you’re going to love the pieces I picked out and I hope you’ll pop over to their shop to see their full product offering.

 If you’re coming over from Positively Southern, welcome.  I always love seeing Tamyra’s holiday decor and this year she’s really outdone herself.  She has a beautiful home and come Christmas time it’s even more gorgeous.

 

Every year I start my holiday home tour by sharing the inspiration for my decor.  This year the jumping off point for my theme was all of the blue & white accessories I have in my home. I love blue & white and have curated quite the collection ever since I started decorating with it about 5 years ago.  The color theme is now the foundation of my decor and I don’t see getting tired of it anytime soon.

I also wanted to add some vibrant color to my holiday mix so I chose green and pink as accents.  I’m so happy with how everything looks and can’t wait to share all the details.  But before we do that, let’s take a look back at the inspiration boards I created earlier this year. I think I executed the plan pretty well.

THE INSPIRATION

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A Blue & White Christmas

Decorating my Christmas tree is a labor of love and it’s all about the details. I kept things pretty simple this year and decorated with just ornaments and ribbon.  The tree 7 1/2′ tall and there are close to 250 ornaments on it.  The blue & white ginger jar ornaments are my absolute favorite and set the tone for the tree. I also used different shapes of solid colored ornaments along with crystal and glass ornaments that I’ve had for over 20 years.  It was so fun pulling them out of the box and remembering where and when I bought them.

Every year I use two or three different styles of ribbon on my tree.  This I combined a gorgeous velvet and a shiny satin.  The navy velvet is from Frontgate and the emerald green satin I found at a discount store for just $3.00 a spool. The ribbons billow in and out of the tree adding softness and visual movement.  And you can’t tell in these photos but there are twinkle lights on the tree which make it magical at night.

Most of my blue ornaments came from Hobby Lobby and the white ornaments are from Ikea. If you didn’t know that they carry Christmas decor, they do and it’s great.

CHRISTMAS GIFT WRAP

I’ll be sharing my DIY Holiday Wrapping Crate and more gift wrap inspiration later this week, but here’s a sneak peek.

Now let’s move over to the fireplace.  We have a mantel sitting in our garage and I had planned to get it installed this year but it just didn’t happen. So without a mantel, I draped my garland around the fireplace using Command Hooks to hold it in place. I wove the satin ribbon throughout garland and added clusters of ornaments throughout.  And I made a big bow to highlight the center of the garland.

I shared this holiday decorating tip last year but it’s worth sharing again.  Clustering ornaments in groups of three or four is a great way to add impact on a tree or garland.

The only decor I added to the bookshelves flanking the fireplace was to hang a wreath at the center, on each side.  And I hung a Boho Luxe Home Christmas stocking above each cabinet. Aren’t these stockings just gorgeous?  The bottom fabric is the Neela Blue fabric and the top collar is a navy velvet.  The finishing touch is the long handmade tassels that’s wrapped around the hanging loop.  These stockings have definitely become some of my most treasured holiday decor!

green wrapping paper //  holly leaf from Hobby Lobby

The stocking were hung…

mini Christmas tree from Target dollar spot

The wood rocking horse that I found at HomeGoods last year is all dressed up for Christmas too.  This little horse just puts a smile on my face.

I replicated the mantel garland along the stair rails which run from the 2nd floor of our townhouse to the third floor (aka–lots of garland and ornaments)!  I’ll share more of my stair decor next week in the holiday home tour finale.

With my mom now living in Atlanta and my house fully decorated for the season, I’m planning on sitting back and enjoy every bit of this Christmas season.  I hope you enjoyed the tour.  Be sure to come back next Wednesday for the final of the Merry & Bright Holiday Home tour and more decorating inspiration.

Next up is Love Your Abode.  Yuni is an absolute sweetheart with design talent oozing out of every pore.  I love following her on IG stories and love her style.  Don’t delay, head over to Yuni’s blog and check out our holiday home.  And be sure to stop by the other bloggers on the tour and show them some love.

 

 

Merry & Bright Holiday Home Tour Participants:

Tamyra @Positively Southern

Me @ConfettiStyle

Yuni @ Love Your Abode

Wendy @Farmhouse Therapy

Meg @ Green With Decor (blow kisses to her new baby)

Kate @Chic On A Shoestring Decorating

Marsha @M. Jones Style

 

 

disclosure:  I received products from Boho Luxe Home to use in my Christmas decor.  I am a big fan of this company and only share products and brands that I love and think you’ll like too.  All opinions are my own.