Traditional Christmas Decorating with Colorful Global Accents and Greenery
Welcome to our global holiday home tour with traditional Christmas decorating in our living and dining combo.
Season’s greetings friend! Are you looking for ways to incorporate greenery into your traditional Christmas decorating this year? Check out our open concept living and dining area with plenty of ideas for displaying faux greenery with colorful accents.
Traditional Christmas Home Tour with Greenery and Global Accents
Welcome back to A Very Global Christmas series where my blogging buddy Casa Watkins Living and I love to share our globally inspired homes with unique Christmas decorating ideas and DIYs. We are wrapping up the twelve-day series this week with four more stories and I’m excited to invite you to part one of our holiday home tours today.
Check out A Very Global Christmas page to find all of this year’s and previous years in one place!
Our small open concept living area is feeling pretty cozy for Christmas with lots of faux garland in place and a DIY German smear fireplace. I wanted lots of greenery this year and I love how this side of the house could pass for all winter long!
I started by bending the ends of a five ft garland inwards to fit on top of the mantel with thicker and taller ends. I then added extra stems of eucalyptus and other stems to finish framing it around our beautiful oil landscape that was an antique store buy.
I shared how easy it was to turn a wreath into an Advent wreath centerpiece and really love it as our coffee table Christmas decor this year. It is the first time I’ve cleared that tabletop just for Christmas decor.
I decided to add to my collection of faux pine garlands from JoAnn‘s so that I could hang them around both sets of French doors. Black satin bows hide the nails and plastic ends at each corner. It really does wonder for the blank white wall and windows/doors. You’ll find the other French doors to my office when you scroll down. 🙂
In the corner of the living room is a glass display cabinet that holds all of the Japanese pottery we collected while we lived there. On top, I added my grandmother’s Italian triptych with a nativity lamp she gifted us and a fun red-beaded wire tree on the side.
You can probably tell from the pictures that our dining area is right behind the sofa. The space was meant to be a breakfast nook but our grand piano is in the traditional dining room (with the Christmas tree) so this small space is where spend most evenings eating dinner and the kiddos and husband do homework.
We also paint, play games, do puzzles, and where I love to set up fancy table settings like the one I’m sharing tomorrow. 😉 It gets used a lot!
Another great spot for faux garland is right on the chandelier. You’ll also find it draped on a few different mirrors in our house for the holidays.
Last year I had a big garland draped over my DIY cane cabinet but this year I kept it simple with a little DIY Christmas wreath I made years ago for this same series.
Here is the other pair of French doors framed with more garland. I’m excited to share my office with you later on this week. This year I decorated our tree with flowers and I used a few leftover stems for a table centerpiece between the living room and piano front room.
You can really see how maximalist or granny chic our house is in this view. I have a lot of areas for the eye to rest on but I love mixing patterns and colors.
Even though I used faux greenery and we have a faux Christmas tree I placed a lot of potpourris, scented pinecones, and burn scented holiday candles so the house always smells amazing!
Here’s a peek at the floral Christmas tree with the same cherry blossoms. Make sure to read the full story and see how I made the DIY potpourri pomegranate ornaments!
I can’t wait to see Casa Watkins Living’s home tour part one! Let’s head over.
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