Continuing on My Classic New England Christmas Home Tour

There’s lots to be excited about today – it’s really, really close to Friday, it’s my B-day (woo hoo!), and I get to share the rest of my holiday home with you guys as part of the 12 Days of Christmas Tour of Homes. Thanks so much to Jenny of Evolution of Style for hosting this great home tour and to Lisa of Shine Your Light for creating the graphics!

If you’re new here, welcome to our Connecticut home – I’m so glad to have you join me and my sweet readers. Come on into our home office where I’ve added a few simple holiday touches (post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here}):

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I made our advent calendar a few years back (you’ll find the how-to {here}) with numbered mini galvanized buckets (bought {here}) hung on a live tabletop tree. Each bucket gets filled with either a little treat or note to make the countdown to Christmas a little more special for my girls.

I gave my little brass elephant the important job of holding the Christmas day bucket (which is actually still empty – I need to figure out what I want to put in that one this year!).

A few wrapped presents, a poinsettia, and a festive ribbon on my horse head statue are the other quick and easy holiday additions.

Ready to move on to the living room?

I dressed up our large china cabinet on the far wall with a holiday wreath I found at Stop & Shop of all places (I love the little bundles of cinnamon sticks!).

Those of you who are regular readers know that I just finished a big makeover of our living room fireplace last week (see the before & after {here}). I had all sorts of big plans for holiday artwork and lanterns adorning the mantel but I couldn’t bring myself to take down everything I had just put up so I just worked with what I had, adding some berry branches to the floral treatment and backyard clippings of boxwood branches and berries along the length of the mantel.

A few other holiday details that were added to the room include a jingle bell bottle opener

a holiday bow on our girl “Hope” :),

a few wrapped presents,

and a bowl of apples mixed with boxwood clippings:

Our last stop is the kitchen! I’m late in putting together the hot chocolate bar that we set up every year so right now the only holiday changes are some red & green napkins and fresh greenery added to {my nesting herb crates}:

Do you notice anything missing in my Christmas tour? Maybe a Christmas tree?! Can you believe that we haven’t put ours up yet?! It’s been a busy month and I wanted to wait until all four of us had time to do it together so it’s on tap for this weekend – stay tuned for pics! And if you missed the first half of my Christmas home tour, I shared pics of our front porch,

our entry,

and our dining room – you can see more and find the shopping guide for those rooms {here}.

Now hop on over to my friend Lisa’s house {here} because she’s sharing her holiday home tour today too – I can’t wait to see it (her Christmas trees are always perfection!).

And if you want to catch up with the rest of the tours from the talented bloggers participating in the 12 Days of Christmas Tour of Homes, here they are:

Evolution of Style | Dixie Delights | Life & Home At 2102 | Provident Home Design | Simple Details | The Pink Clutch Blog | This is Happiness | Bless’er House | The Tale Of An Ugly House | Classic Casual Home | This is Our Bliss | Primitive and Proper | Shine Your Light |  Suburban Bitches | Our Storied Home |Simply Sarah Style | Rough Luxe

Enjoy the tours!

Home office: Paint Color – Benjamin Moore Nightfall | Gallery wall – Elephant print | Botanical – I found mine at the Country Living Fair but you can find similar ones {here} | Sunburst mirror – {this} is a larger, less expensive version | Wood arrow – no longer available – {this one} and {this one} are similar | Tree slice – found at HomeGoods – {this one} is similar | Lion head door knocker – HomeGoods | Woven mirror – HomeGoods | Octopus print – free printable from the Graphics Fairy {here} | Gold Cleat (holding wood slice) | Black and white bone frame – {this one} is very similar | All other frames were either thrifted or are no longer available where I purchased them from | Horse head – HomeGoods | Desk – no longer available but {this one} is very similar | Console: Craigslist Find | Chair – no longer available but {this one} is similar |Herringbone jute rug – no longer available but {this herringbone rug} with white woven in is a gorgeous alternative | Cowhide – {this cowhide} is similar

Living room: Paint color – a tweaked version of Sherwin-Williams Keystone Gray (see exact formula at the bottom of {this post} | sofa – IKEA EKTORP – more info {here} | green pillows – available in-store {here} |Linen swivel chairs – Lee Industries – {these} are similar | Ottoman – Lee Industries | woven tray on ottoman – no longer available | fireplace tile – Sterling Row Wingtip Charcoal c/o Walker Zanger | firewood basket | rattan bar cart |jingle bell bottle opener | side table – mine was a HomeGoods find but you can also find it {here} | |round mirror | china cabinet – Thomasville (no longer sold)

Kitchen: nesting herb crates