Christmas Home Tour 2020

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Do you love new and fresh inspiration for your home? I’m sharing a Christmas home tour to give you ideas for how to display vintage Christmas decor you currently have and love! You don’t need new decor, just some different ideas for decorating your home with the pieces you already have.

Decorating for Christmas can be a lot of work, but I always enjoy the end result. My decorations look a little different every year, being staged in different areas and being added to each year. I love to add a bit of cheer to every nook and cranny of our home…even the mudroom closet! Hanging an easy DIy wreath and adding a bowl of vintage christmas bulbs is the perfect way to add a hint of cheer.

Even the laundry room drying rack got in on the fun. my mini Vintage santa mugs fit here perfectly!

Our christmas tree looks a little different every year, but one thing that stays the same is getting a real tree! As nice as it would be to have a fake tree (for decorating purposes), the tradition of getting a real one is just too important to us! We go the friday after thanksgiving every year. Once we get it home, we move around the furniture to make room, Jason brings it in and gets the lights on, then we let it sit overnight to allow the branches time to droop a bit and fall into place. on saturday, we decorate!

When we first moved into this house, i wanted to take this shelf down. it’s not totally my style and i pictured something different here. when we went to remove it, though, it was going to leave a huge spot on the wall to patch, so we left it. i’ve embraced it and actually like having it now! I may change it out in the future, but for now, it’s a great place to display some of my collections, as well as change things out seasonally. i love the light that this spot gets too, so that helps!

I got my first ever vintage melted popcorn character from a friend a couple of years ago and I love it! If you don’t know what a “melted popcorn” decoration is, they look like that big Rudolph on the shelf. They were made by melting little pieces of plastic together into different holiday or themed designs. I guess I hadn’t ever paid attention to them, but ever since I got Rudolph, I’ve been on the hunt!

One of my amazing followers on Instagram sent this melted popcorn Santa to me last year. I had to do a little surgery on him, but I love how cheery he is!! I still haven’t found any of these types decorations of my own, but 2021 is the year…I can feel it!

I collect vintage Christmas tidbits whenever I find them, like tiny Shiny Brite ornaments, bottle brush trees, and putz houses, then use them to create little decorative vignettes like this. The wooden box they’re in is actually an old cheese box! I love how packaging used to be beautiful, as welll as, useful. Do you ever think you were born in the wrong era??

The pops of color make me so happy! Looking at this picture right now makes me excited to decorate for Christmas this year—I just need to find the motivation…

Cooper the Corgi is thrilled with all the Christmas decorations, can’t you tell?? Surprisingly (and thankfully), he doesn’t really bother any of my vintage Christmas ornaments. I probably just jinxed myself, though…

This ornament wreath was so fun and easy to make! A friend gave me a bunch of Christmas decorations she no longer wanted, so I was able to come up with some creative ways to transform them! I created the wreath by hot gluing a bunch of her different ornaments onto a wreath form and then spray painting them all a matte pink color. It unified all the ornaments, since they varied in design and updated them!

THIS cordless glue gun will keep you crafting for hours!

Vintage “putz” buildings are something else I have been collecting for years. I can remember the very first one I found thrifting. It was at a Salvation Army store and I bought it for 59 cents!! I felt like that was even vintage pricing! It was enough to light a fire in me and I’ve been on a mission to find them ever since. I don’t mind too much if they’re a bit tattered and torn, since that’s the beauty of collecting vintage—the patina. I paired this putz church with a pretty champagne glass with a Shiny Brite popped in it.

I loved every bit of my Christmas decorating for 2020, but the tablescape might just be my favorite! Everything was so rich and colorful looking, plus I love the way my vintage Christmas ornaments blended so well with my new, store-bought melamine dishes. The icing on the decorating cake, though, are the beautiful felt leaf wreaths I bought secondhand from a friend. They were made for this tablescape and my green chairs…don’t you think??

It has been so much fun looking back on the highlights from my 2020 Christmas decorations. I can’t believe I waited so long to put this blog post together, but maybe it was a blessing in disguise, since now I’m getting motivated to start dreaming about this year’s decorations!

I would love to see how you use vintage Christmas decorations! Share a picture in your stories on Instagram and tag me! You can find me on Instagram at @hilaryprall.