Cottage Christmas Home Tour 2022

Welcome, readers! My little elf self has been busy over the last two weeks, readying our cottage home for Christmas 2022. Last year we had only been in our home a little over two months so I didn't really pull out many stops for holiday decor. Not this year! Grab your favorite holiday beverage and snack, and be prepared for lots of photos. Please come in! 

I bought new swags and a wreath for the exterior (purged them all in 2019). I embellished with tartan ribbon bows I made.

Foyer inside front door: my favorite holiday rug and wooden goose with faux floral fill.

On the window ledge, my snowman came out to play this year with estate sale trees from last year.

I bought a new tree this year. It's a 6.5' slim, replacing the tabletop 4.5' tree we had since 2019 downsizing. The 4.5' tree went to my daughter with baby J. I placed the tree directly across from the front entry, in the dining room.

Looking to the powder room door from dining room. There's a tiny little cubby outside that door too, and it has a display of several of my sheep, as does the powder room itself. That's a new (estate sale) sheep painting on the powder room wall. It came from the same estate as the dining room landscape.

At the other end of the dining room is the fireplace. The garland is new this year with lights from last year. The tree is reflected in the mirror. 

The bookcase to the right of the fireplace features several of my nutcrackers and my nativity.

Bookcase detail, the bottom two shelves with little lights glowing. The MacKenzie-Childs compote (Stoke Gabriel) and Ethan Allen reticulated covered jar are recent estate sale finds.

The half table on the wall behind our dining table (not shown) features a small beaded tree and a favorite miniature oil painting, After the Bath by Paul Peel, 1890. The nutcrackers resting on books are hand-painted pointe shoes, created by one of the Charleston Ballet dancers for a fundraiser.

From the dining room to the family / great room.....(real life: shoes parked beneath the bench).

The bookcase in the family room is decked out with several Christmas vignettes. 

Bookcase shelves detail part one: (1) part of my Native American antique collection, interspersed with a couple Santas (the wooden one on right is hand-carved, new this year); (2) Santa and his truck (thanks, Jenna!) at the gingerbread house, and beaded Santa with sack of toys on right; (3) Santa and reindeer.

Bookcase shelves detail part two: (1) Snow people with two Blenko garden spires as trees; (2) Just realized I duplicated this shelf in my collage! Santa and his truck (thanks, Jenna!) at the gingerbread house, and beaded Santa with sack of toys on right; (3) more Santa scenes, including a hand-painted antique tile on right.

Great room entry bench with birch logs and faux florals. Real life: shoes are most always beneath the bench.

Family / great room looking toward both the kitchen and back toward dining room.

Kitchen counter Christmas vignettes detail. MacKenzie-Childs and M-C inspired items comingle, along with gingerbread gifts (thanks, Jenna!), and tartan accents. The Williams Sonoma Nordic Elf cookie jar is another recent estate find, matching mugs and dishes I already had. The antique bell cloche is filled with baby cups and little lights.

Just a few more vignettes around the dining and family rooms: (1) my collected silver and silverplate with Mark Roberts' fairies interspersed; (2) Light of the World by Charles Bosseron Chambers (1883 - 1964); (3) Song of the Angels by William Adolphe Bouguereau (1881); (4) birch logs with faux florals; (5) Old World Santa with MacKenzie-Childs cardinal tree.

Even going up the stairwell, I did a little bit of decorating. The WV artisan vintage quilted JOY hangs over the staircase from the second floor. The fox with filled dough bowl, and chair with side table are at each ascending landing, respectively.  

Lastly, my office has a few holiday touches. I took down Jacqueline's pack & play and set up one of the small bistro tables I bought this past summer. This is so I can play with more dishes.😉(stored in the wall cabinets behind the chaise and table/chairs). My computer is set up to the right of the bistro.  Across from the chaise and bistro set up is the TV and two reading chairs I bought earlier this year. A couple of small trees, and pictures hung are all I need in this area. The rest of the upstairs was left mostly undecorated specific to Christmas, other than a few toss pillows and guest towels in the bath. 

That's it for my cottage Christmas home tour 2022. I hope you enjoyed it, and perhaps saw a thing or two to inspire you. Thank you for visiting today. Please leave a comment and let me know you stopped by. If you notice your comment shows up as Anonymous, please let me know who you are. I try to respond to each reader personally if I have your email and know who you are!

Come back later in the week (Thursday) for a new Tales of the Traveling Tote adventure.

And on the 6th of December, I will be hosting a Christmas Tablescape Blog Hop. I hope you'll return!

Happy holidays!

Rita C. at Panoply

A special thank you to Suzanne of Pieced Pastimes Saturday Sparks Link Party #542 for featuring this post!

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