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Holiday Home Tour: Part 3

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Welcome back for Part 3 of our Holiday Home Tour 2020! If you missed the first two parts of the tour you can catch up HERE and HERE. Today we’re covering two of the rooms I spend a lot of time in: my office and the master bedroom.

Office

My office is one of the first things you see when you walk in our front door, so of course I want it to be fun and festive! (that also means I have to keep it spotless pretty much at all times…but that’s ok, I’m OCD on organization so it’s not a problem 😉) This space is not only bright and pretty, but super functional for me. At the entrance to the house, it’s the perfect spot for me to meet with clients (when Covid is over, of course). When I do have clients in office, I fill the bar cart with treats and beverages…but for now I filled it with bottle brush trees and festive greenery. Check out the bottom of this post for links to shop this look!

Master bedroom & bath

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I should probably start off by telling you my husband may or may not think I have gone off the Christmas deep end with our master bedroom decor. We currently have 3 trees in there (not counting the 4 mini trees on the dresser, ha!)…but I just couldn’t help myself. In a year where we’ve spent 95% of our time at home, and ALL of our “date nights” have been at home, I wanted our room to be cozy and festive just like the rest of the house.

Also, my child loves to fire up the trees in the morning with Alexa. I’ll link to that awesomeness below too…my husband, even though he thinks I’m a little Christmas crazy, managed to automate ALL of the NINE trees in our house so that they can be powered on by my phone or Alexa. It’s pretty much amazing.

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You’re seeing our Master mid-makeover. We just got all new furniture, but still to come are paint, a new feature wall, curtains & new window treatments, bedside wall sconces as well as a big pretty rug. I’ll post again once we’re done!

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This year I also moved all of our “personal” ornaments from the main tree up to our bedroom, for a few reasons. We have accumulated quite a few sentimental ornaments over our 8 years of marriage…from all of our anniversary trips, some to commemorate special moments or milestones, and of course precious ornaments from our little man. They felt safer to me out of the main “traffic” area of our house, and I don’t care if any of the ornaments on our living room tree get broken! Plus, I get to see them every night and that just makes me happy. So I gave them their own little tree and added some gold balls in to tie it all together. As we get more, I’ll have to get a bigger tree, but that’s ok!

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By far my favorite spot in the room is this corner, where I can cozy up with a blanket and look out the window, while having the perfect view of all my bedroom trees!

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Here’s wishing you a cozy Christmas evening as well!

Stay tuned for our 4th and final installation of the Holiday Home Tour tomorrow!

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Holiday Home Tour: Part 2

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Today we’re covering those places where you’ll find all the good holiday food: the kitchen and the dining room!

Kitchen

And then comes my absolute favorite part - the coffee bar! I’ve always dreamed of having a legit, standalone coffee bar area in my kitchen where I could decorate all the things and the coffee maker wouldn’t take up precious counter space. So I was giddy to find this blank wall in my kitchen to make that happen!

We just literally got the shelves up about a day ago, so I haven’t even stained the wood yet, but I wanted to include it in this post anyway because it was so fun to style for Christmas! This space is so functional, as well - I bought the dresser years ago from an antique store and chalk painted it white. Because we don’t have a ton of upper cabinets in our kitchen, this serves as valuable storage for lots of my containers and cooking dishes. It also made a great space to store all of the k-cups for our Keurig machine to keep the top clutter free.

If your’re OCD about your k-cups like I am, you need to get you one of these foam organizers. My drawer is super shallow and it fit perfectly and helped me not twitch every time I opened it and saw a jumbled mess! Get your own HERE.

Finally we’ll wrap our tour today with the Dining Room! Even though this table has been empty for most of the year (thanks global pandemic), at least I got to dress it up for the holidays!

Dining Room

I don’t know about you, but my favorite holiday meal is Christmas breakfast. The bacon. the biscuits. The grits. The GRITS. I am a southern girl through and through, so late at night every Christmas eve I put my grits on in the crock pot and when we wake up Christmas morning the kitchen smells heavenly and they are ready to devour. Today, as a bonus, I’m sharing my Christmas crock pot grits with you! Enjoy!

Jamie’s Christmas Crock Pot Grits

INGREDIENTS:
3 cups traditional grits (not the quick kind)
12 cups water
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 stick of butter
6 teaspoons salt
1 block cream cheese
2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese (optional)

DIRECTIONS:
Soften the butter.
Lightly spray your crock pot with cooking spray, or add a crock pot liner for easy clean up.
Combine all ingredients into the crock pot minus the shredded cheese.
Cook on low in the crock pot for 6-8 hours stirring occasionally.
About 15 minutes before serving stir in shredded cheese if desired.
Enjoy!

We’ll see you tomorrow for Part 3 of our Holiday Home Tour!

Cheers!

 

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(DISCLAIMER: This post contains some affiliate links. This does not affect the price of the products you're purchasing, but I do receive a small kickback for any purchase made. I only link to products that I personally use and highly recommend!)

Holiday Home Tour

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Guys, I may have crossed over to the dark side. I’m usually the gal who is a staunch believer in no decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving…but this year I did, and I may never go back. Sure, it’s 2020 and we can all use the extra cheer - it’s why I pulled everything out early. But the few extra weeks of holiday joy made my heart so happy that I may just have to make it my new tradition!

We went under contract on this house during the Christmas season last year, so I’ve literally been dreaming for an entire year about how I would decorate it. I had my heart set on cozy, warm neutrals and a classic, timeless look. I hope you’ll enjoy! Stay tuned for the rest of the tour and posts coming soon with a few tutorials on how I pulled this look together!

Front Entry/Foyer

With the stairway as grand as it is, I knew I needed some hearty garland. I actually combined two different types - eucalyptus and juniper (artificial). Once I wired them together I added in the battery powered lights and ribbon. I carried the same garland throughout the entrance, living room and kitchen for a cohesive look. I just love the muted greens! I even added some eucalyptus picks into the flocked tree to complement the garland and bring the look together.

Living Room

This is my favorite place in the house now because we spend most of our time here and it’s just so cozy! I added in some new elements this year like black candles on the mantle. Normally I wouldn’t incorporate black into Christmas decor, but I loved the bold contrast to all the white! And one of my favorite DIY elements was the wall of Christmas gifts! It’s normally our family gallery wall, but I wrapped all the frames to give a nice neutral holiday touch. (tutorial coming soon!)

Powder Bath

Yes, even the bathroom gets decorated around here!

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Stay tuned - tomorrow we’ll continue our Holiday Home Tour with the kitchen and dining room!

Cheers!

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