HOLIDAY HOME TOUR: THE KITCHEN

 With every holiday I try to simplify and streamline my decor.  No tree this year, again.   Instead, I added pops of Christmas around the house. Follow me as I travel around my home adding holiday decor.  In the kitchen I used preserved boxwood, fresh magnolia and cedar cuttings.  I really wanted to add a garland to my hood.  I thought I'd use magnets to attach it.  I was disappointed when I realized that it wasn't magnetic.  It remains unadorned.

MY HOLIDAY KITCHEN

I added some velvet ribbon and gold ornaments under my demijohn.

DEMIJOHN WITH VELVET RIBBON AND GOLD ORNAMENTS

My Santos only needed some magnolia.  The print joined the holiday decor with a bough of cedar.

SANTOS AND VINTAGE PRINT READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS

All my bread board needed was some ribbon and a Magnolia sprig.

BREAD BOARD WITH RIBBON AND MAGNOLIA SPRIG

PRESERVED BOXWOOD WREATH IN MY KITCHEN WINDOW

I swapped the dried artichokes around the base of the boxwood topiary with some golden pears, then added a ribbon to get it in to the holiday mood.

BOXWOOD TOPIARY IN THE HOLIDAY MOOD

Are you keeping it simple this year or going all out?

If you missed my gold and copper mantel post, go here , or click on the image to be directed to the post.

HOLIDAY MANTEL

Next holiday room will be my entry.  I used a garland there and added some oversized ornaments.  Check it out this weekend.

Any suggestions for attaching a garland to a hood without creating any damage would be greatly appreciated.

HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE AND RE-BRANDING

Yes, it's the way too early Holiday Open House again.  

At the same time that we were preparing for the Holiday Open House, we totally changed up the showroom and re-branded.  We're now Hygge Co @ Buckeystown Design Co-op.

As part of the the store change up, I painted the walls black.  It's Benjamin Moore Wrought Iron and is more charcoal than black.  I think it's the perfect back drop for my style.

HOLIDAY DECOR AT HYGGE CO

I love using decorator paper and always make sure I have a dog or two in the mix.

DOG AND DECORATOR PAPER

WONDERFUL SECTIONED MIRROR WITH REFLECTION OF CHRISTMAS TREE

The beaded chandelier and the gold deer and mirror really pop against the black wall.

DEER, BEADED CHANDELIER, PAGODA, AND LAUREL WREATH MIRROR

I layered another deer in front of a row of preserved boxwood topiaries.

DEER AND BOXWOOD TOPIARIES

There is a gallery wall too.  I've mentioned many times that I don't like red.  I do like the framed print of the girl in the red dress.  She forced me to add some red accents.

GALLERY WALL WITH RED ACCENTS

How wonderful is this hammered metal bar cart?

BAR CART AND GALLERY WALL

FEATHER TREE ON THE BAR CART

CLOSE UP OF LAUREL WREATH ON STAND

Dough bowl and gold orbs.

GOLD SPHERES, BEADED GARLANDS IN A LARGE DOUGH BOWL

Not everyone will decorate for the holidays with these bohemian ornaments.  I love them and the turquoise color and the sparkle.  They remind me of a sari.  I displayed them on a bottle rack.

BOHEMIAN HOLIDAY DECOR

Another section of the store has a huge ceiling tile.  It breaks up the large black wall and showcases the blue and white chinoiserie decor.

CHINOISERIE DECOR IN BLUE AND WHITE

Are you ready to start decorating for the holidays?

What's your plan?

COTTAGE GARDEN SUCCESS PART TWO

I recently wrote about my cottage garden.  The post got so long that I had to divide it.  You might want to take a peek at Cottage Garden Part One before you start this post.  Just click on the highlighted words and you'll be directed there.

I think you'll  agree that my Limelight Hydrangea stole the show.

I've found that ornamental grasses are a perfect way to add texture to your garden.  

They're very low maintenance too.  

CARLY ROSE ORNAMENTAL GRASS

I planted another variety of ornamental grass around the lamp post.  

I repeated this grass along the fence on the other side of the house.

ORNAMENTAL GRASS MIXING IN WITH MY PERENNIAL HIBISCUS AND BLACK-EYED SUSANS

My perennial begonia likes shade, so it fills in a bed in the shady back yard.

I'm looking forwarding to enjoying my blooms until frost.  My garden is sparse during the Winter.  It's a totally different and more tailored landscape.  The boxwoods, pines, lirope and nandina are the new features.

Landscaping With Seed Packets

This is one of my absolute favorite garden posts.  I'm sharing it again during my August garden month.

 I've been searching for a non-invasive climbing vine.  I learned the hard way that perennial climbers like to take over, so I decided to select an annual for the geometric trellises in my garden.  I'd never heard of a Cardinal Climber vine before, but I loved the picture on the seed packet and decided to give it a try.  Here it is in bloom.  I love it.

Cardinal Climber in My Garden

The leaves look very much like palm fronds and the bright red flower surprised me

 with the tiny white bud in the center.

If you missed last year's post, my dilemma was a large expanse of wall along the driveway with an extremely narrow bed.  I planted some Japanese Pencil Boxwood in the space.  I chose them because they were tall and narrow.  I'm not sure about the choice.  They look scraggly and thin.  

Expanse of Wall to Fill

I found some geometric lattice at Home Goods and added it next.

Geometric Lattice

Lattice Panels and Dog Photobomb

I planted some small boxwoods and the Cardinal Climber seeds in front of the panels.
The boxwoods haven't grown much, but the vine climbed and covered the trellises.

You can see how narrow the bed is from this angle.  This is the view from the street.

Side Street View of Narrow Bed

Divided liriope from another bed fills the space between the brick and the driveway.

Liriope Fills the Space

This was the perfect vine for the trellises.

Climbing Blooms

Blooms and Japanese Pencil Boxwood

It was impressive when the vines reached out to each other, intertwined, and formed
 a garland between each trellis.  I told my son that they were holding hands.

Intertwined Vines

The vines are holding hands and forming a garland across the wall.

Holding Hands

The vines left just enough open space for the geometric lattice pattern to peek through.

Vine, Lattice, and Japanese Boxwood

I'm so happy with my vine choice.  I bought my seed packet from a display in a hardware store,
but I checked and you can buy Cardinal Climber on Amazon too.  They're supposed to attract hummingbirds, but I haven't seen any yet.

If I do this next year, I definitely will start the seeds indoors first to get a head start.
 It took a long time for them to grow to this size and bloom.

My Other Mantel

Sherry, who writes the blog,  No Minimalist Here, invited me to participate in her Christmas Blog Hop.  I usually share my family room mantel, but for this holiday hop,  I'm featuring the faux mantel in my sun room.  

My Holiday Mantel

Have you noticed that for years silver seemed to be the metallic of choice for holiday decor?  

 This year I'm noticing that golds and especially copper are showing up for the holidays.

Chinoiserie Chairs with Copper Pillows

My copper demijohn left the foyer to be part of the mantel decor.  I draped it with a copper wreath and a garland of copper ribbon and beads.  It's next to a cloche filled with feather trees.

My French Demijohn

I placed preserved boxwood orbs on top of my houndstooth hurricanes.  To give them some height,

 I used some black and white books as risers.  I dangled some copper garlands too.  

 The Santos Angel traveled from the foyer to be on the mantel. 

 (The reflection in the mirror is my pull down classroom reference map that's on the opposite wall).

My MCM greek key mirror is always on the mantel.

Greek Key Mirror

I thought these chippy finials were just the right color.  

My chinoiserie faux bamboo chandelier is reflected in the mirror.

Gold Finials and Chinoiserie Chandelier

There's a third finial on the opposite side.  The mini sunburst mirror is actually an ornament.

Another Finial and a Sunburst Mirror

Santos Angel

I still have another mantel to share, my holiday tree, and some outside decor.

I hope you'll come back and see me again.

Kathy

Thank you Sherry for organizing this Hop.

Please visit all the participants for some great holiday decor ideas.

Click on the highlighted blog title and the link will take you to their blogs.

Enjoy.

Links to Participants
Please visit them all to see what fabulous holiday ideas they've shared.


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