Welcome to my Grand Christmas house tour!
I’ve been MIA for the month of November as I was busy decorating my house!! This year I had to think about how to decorate with a 1.5 year old running around. What I did was used lots of tabletop little trees and put breakable ornaments out of reach on them.
Let’s start with my chef tree! I’ve been collecting the Steinbach wooden chef ornaments for years.
My mora clock flanked by a few Christmas touches
The gingerbread Advent calendar
A mini tree full of mini German wooden and glass ornaments.
The little glitter house village sits atop the piano.
The pastel room! The tree has faux glass balls within children’s reach. This is the only tree the toddler has touched.
My other department 56 Christmas village, which children love! Lights up at night time. Instead of Department 56 figurines I tucked in some children’s favorite characters instead.
My big 10 foot tree! It is nature/woodland themed again this year. I put only non breakable ornaments on the lower part of the tree that are within a toddler’s reach. Only a few breakable ornaments are up high… even beyond my reach! Haha! Needed a ladder to put those up there!
The dining room I did a new dessert themed garland to match the sweets tree to the right.
I got a few new nutcrackers this year. They are the Kurt Adler Hollywood nutcrackers. I love how whimsical they are! Of course they are keeping with the dessert theme! The houses on their heads light up.
My favorite little sweets tree!
The dining room! It is so fun at nighttime. I added red and white Christmas lights to the garland to look like candy cane striping!
The main mantel. I hung stockings up and then realized someone could yank them onto her head…so for now, stockings will only be put up ‘til Christmas Eve.
I hope you enjoyed my Christmas tour this year. I’ll post a nighttime video on Instagram sometime before Christmas. Hope to show my Christmas kitchen too… frankly it is not clean so I did not take pictures of it!
Your decorating is always so beautiful and festive, no matter what the season. We have a two year old granddaughter so I totally appreciate your safety considerations. Thank you for the Christmas inspiration.
Wow, you have been busy! It’s all wonderful as always. I bet your precious little toddler is enchanted with each tree and mantel vignette. I certainly am.
Great cautious thinking about the stockings. My husband accidentally knocked one of our stockings off last year and the heavy stocking hook with it. It could have hurt him! This year I secured the hooks with museum putty. Hope that helps secure them.
Happy Holidays!