Bringing Christmas Home to my Dining Room

I beloved decorating for the holidays because it makes my home feel then warm and cozy. All of the greenery and lights and candles and shimmery ornaments just instantly puts me in the Christmas spirit.

Today nosotros are touring my dining room, one of my favorite rooms in any home. The dining room table is where so many special meals happen, where countless board games are played, and where wonderful conversations are had with family unit and friends. Information technology's a special room to me, so of course I wanted to give it some decorating dear for the holidays.

I've joined upwardly with a group of blogger friends to bring you an entire week of holiday home tours, room by room. Nosotros toured my living room yesterday, and we're back today to take a peek around the dining room.

Here is your view when you walk into the dining room from the kitchen. In add-on to the traditional reds, greens, and metallics, I incorporated quite a bit of burgundy and blueish in this room. Since I have this vivid blue wall, I wanted to balance it out by adding some blue into my tablescape.

This is a cute dining room decorated for Christmas.

See my fun little chair bows. I half call back they're super cute, and I half recall they're super dorky. Oh well. I've apparently become i of those crazies that decorates the back of their chairs. I looped a piece of satin ribbon through the chair dorsum and so pulled the ends of the ribbon through the middle holes in these little plastic snowflakes that you've seen all over my rooms.

Our tabular array isn't very big, then there's not a ton of room to go crazy with decorations. Our centerpiece is simply a wreath with candlesticks and ornaments in the middle. This happened past accident when my wreath but got set here every bit I was unpacking decorations, just I decided it looked squeamish so I used it as the base of my centerpiece.

Good idea! Use a wreath for a centerpiece

I added in the blue snowflake place mats, and then topped each plate off with a sparkly snowflake decoration. The snowflakes would be neat for calculation little tags with names to use as place cards.

I also had a package of small jingle bells on paw, so I strung 3 onto a thin wire and wrapped it around the stems of the wine glasses for a special touch. It's kinda fun to drink out of glasses that jingle a flake. And yes, vino was consumed in the making of this photograph session 😉

Good idea! Use a wreath for a centerpiece

In that location is a built-in hutch in the corner of the dining room that goes all the way to the ceiling. All of its shelves are full of decorating possibilities. As I was editing these photos, the ugliness of that pino wood was actually getting to me, peculiarly next to my happy blueish wall. This room was completely wood paneling when we moved in, so I immediately repainted it and decorated so it wouldn't hurt my eyes. (See the room makeover here.) I didn't want to dive correct into painting the hutch, but I am now thinking I demand to add a hutch makeover to my 2022 house plans. What color should I pigment it? Any suggestions? Right now I guess I'k envisioning a crisp white?

I've had a hodge-podge of decorations on its shelves since we moved in a year agone, so information technology was fun to spend some time truly styling them. I take a lot of practicing to practice on styling all of these shelves, though. And I recollect I demand to shop for some more decorations to fill them 😉 The hutch was the last thing to go decorated, so it'due south filled with whatever vacation decorations I had left at the end.