Whew, it has been a packed past week of Christmas around here and I’m back today with the last of my three Christmas tours. I shared my living room and dining room last week, my entryway and guest room yesterday, and today I’m taking you through my mudroom and family room. Today’s post is part of a Christmas house tour hosted by Marty from A Stroll Thru Life, who also just happens to be the stop on the tour ahead of me. If you’re stopping by from Marty’s, thank you so much for joining me today!
Other than my kitchen, which you’ll also get a little peek of today, the mudroom and family room are the rooms that get used the most by my family. We drop boots and bags and gear in the mudroom every day and the family room is our most common landing spot towards the end of the day. I had fun staging the mudroom but I have to say…while we do ski and ice skate and trim clippings from the yard and leave our boots on the floor sometimes, I would never leave my skis and snowshoes in the mudroom for longer than about a minute! So while this may not be a totally accurate version of what my mudroom looks like most of the time (more backpacks and little girl shoes thrown about for sure until I squawk enough about things having a place and why don’t “we” put those things in their place please), it is a representation of some of the things we like to do around here in the winter. And it was just plain fun to put it all together :)
So come on in and kick your boots off!
Wide black and white stripe wallpaper
Red barn star
Basket with chalkboard labels
Birch logs
Gold bells (large and small)
Pom pom hat
Adjacent to the mudroom is the kitchen, where I made a garland for around the circular mirror from yard clippings. And the pie shown is to die for! You can find the recipe HERE.
Large round mirror (similar)
Campaign stools
Brass and wood candle lantern
Boxwood wreaths
Large round mirror (similar)
Campaign stools
Brass and wood candle lantern
Cranberry lime pie with gingersnap crust
The family room is what you see just beyond the kitchen and that’s where we added our second Christmas tree this year. The tree in my living room (which is covered in handmade paper flowers, and I think it is glorious, and I completely adore it) was all me. No little hands helped me decorate it, and that is just fine by me, but I also want my girls to grow up with memories of decorating the Christmas tree together so this one, fittingly for the family room, is our family tree. It holds old ornaments that were my husband’s and mine when we were young, it holds new ornaments we’ve gotten as gifts more recently, and I just loved doing this with my daughters. And save for one especially aggressive cluster of about nine ball ornaments hung on the same branch, I didn’t move a thing my girls hung on the tree.
Grasscloth coffee table
Spool chairs (similar)
Sequin pillow (similar)
Teal velvet pillow (similar)
Sequin pillow (similar)
Teal velvet pillow (similar)
Pom pom Christmas stockings
Christmas village houses (similar, small and large)
Mercury glass garland (similar)
Pom pom Christmas stockings
Christmas village houses (similar, small and large)
Mercury glass garland (similar)
Pom pom Christmas stockings
Christmas village houses (similar, small and large)
Mercury glass garland (similar)
Bamboo ladder (similar)
Pillow
Thank you so much for joining me today! I have loved decorating my house this year and I have loved sharing it with you too. Make sure you stop by and see my friend Summer at Simple Stylings for the next stop on today’s tour! And here is the full list so you can make sure to check out what everyone has done – there is so much inspiration you can take and put into action in your own home!
Common Ground
Life on Virginia Street
Decor To Adore
Haneens Haven
Hymns & Verses
Nesting With Grace
Cuckoo4Design
It All Started With Paint
Pink Peppermint Design
Remodelando La Casa
Simple Details
Decorating Delirium
21 Rosemary Lane
Lynzy & Co.
A Stroll Thru Life
The Chronicles of Home
Simple Stylings
Design Post Interiors
Thrifty and Chic
Our Southern Home
Setting For Four
Life and Home @ 2102
Dimples & Tangles
Our Fifth House
Making Home Base
Inspiration For Moms
Far Above Rubies
The House of Silver Lining
Duke Manor Farms
Rain On A Tin Roof
