A Very Merry Vintage Christmas Home Tour

Hi Friends, thanks so much for coming by today, as I'm joining a group of friends who are sharing our Christmas Homes and décor with a Merry Christmas Home Tour. If you're coming from visiting Christy at Our Southern Home, I'm so glad you've hopped on over to join me. And a big thankyou to Amber from Follow the Yellow Brick Home for putting this group together!

The farm table in the Garden Room is usually one of the first places I decorate for any season or holiday. We only use it when family comes over, so it can sit undisturbed for awhile. That means I can do a little more "decorating" when it comes to the tabletop as I love creating a tableau or larger vignette in this easily seen space.

It's easy for me to fall into the habit of using the same elements on this table top. I have a wonderful old ice cream bucket that I most often use with a whitewashed breadboard, but this season I thought I'd start off with a reproduction vintage garden tray. I usually don't have a big plan, I just start pulling things together, then swapping them out until I can get a feel for what I want. My olive bucket with faux paperwhites hadn't been used for awhile, so they were the first to be placed.

I love using paperwhites throughout the winter and spring. I used to plant multitudes of them, but haven't for awhile. Our kitties would eat them and the "aroma" was questionable at best. I found faux ones several years ago and really love using them; much easier although I adore the look of real ones. 

Next came one of my smaller Pottery Barn white wooden lanterns raised up on an old cigar box for height. Inside, I have a small iron urn in which a candle fits perfectly. My small concrete outdoor urn from the 30's holds a small evergreen tree in front of the lantern. A white metal house, other small evergreen trees, and my white "sitting Santa" fill in. Two of my paper mache Nordic white reindeer graze and nibble.

I have a red Tartan plaid tablecloth that I often use, but this year I went with an antique white vintage European grain sack tablerunner with burlap grain sacks on top. That gave me my unplanned "White Christmas" garden tray. 

Because the farm table features white elements, the old white desk under the window needed to be decorated with white too. I don't use my big sculpted wood goose often, because he's reaaaallly big and doesn't fit most settings. But next to another larger iron urn with faux evergreen tree, he fit right in. 

It's hard to imagine, but because of the warmer late fall we had, I was able to keep my plants outside sheltered under the roof of the porch until the beginning of December. I had to cover them with sheets and towels several times, but we didn't have a real "killing frost" until late November / early December. 

The asparagus fern usually does well inside. Actually, it sends out long sprouts (that grab you as you walk by) I also brought in my mint and a few special pink geraniums that were in smaller pots. I've tried wintering ferns but they lose most of their leaves and make a huge mess. 

Good thing for a tiled floor, it gets pretty messy in here with plant debris. 

A white painted console table holds a galvanized plant tray for smaller houseplants, and underneath are my white vintage stacked suitcases from the 30's and 40's.

My very vintage rusty white metal fence gate is behind the white desk for a fun backdrop. 

Here's a fun post that our group shared with our wheelbarrows, carts, and wagons from November. It's always filled with something fun and seasonal.

Here are a few looks from the last few years:

Christmas Centerpiece Basket with Guest

New and Old Finds for Christmas in the Garden Room

Christmas Farm Table Vignette

French Country Lantern Centerpiece

Thanks so much for coming by and I hope you'll follow the Linky List below and check out the other friends with their Christmas homes. Please be sure and visit Laura from Decor to Adore next with her wonderful kitchen décor this Christmas. I hope you're having a beautiful Christmas Season. Be sure and come back for more Christmas fun these next few weeks!

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