Our Hopeful Home: Farmhouse Christmas Decor in the Dining Room

farmhouse Christmas decor dining room minnow bucket stencil

Welcome, friends! Come right in and look around -- it's my newly renovated, finally-decorated-for-Christmas dining room! Many of you probably remember when we were in the throes of the construction mess -- ugh, right? Well, those days are now just a memory and I'm moving forward with the fun job of holiday decorating. This year my motto has been "less is more" and I'm loving it. Let's look around, shall we?

The first items I added were two boxwood wreaths, one hanging in each window with red striped ribbon. I love the look so much I might just have to keep them up year-round! And yes, that's still some fall decor you see on the dining room table. I love that vintage toolbox and was sad to have to move it. In years past I've filled it with greenery to create a gorgeous Christmas centerpiece, but not this year.

I used some of my ironstone collection to hold a few pink bottle brush trees. I thought the large silver tree went well with them here. I usually fill some ironstone tureens with vintage ornaments but that hasn't happened yet this year. I know, better get on it!

Another favorite, and oh-so-simple holiday addition, is the red buffalo check pillows. I move them back and forth between the living room and the dining room depending on the look I'm going for. They are actually inexpensive pillow covers I got from Ikea a few years ago. The down inserts are also from Ikea.

I've always loved decorating at Christmas with bubble gum machines, usually as DIY snow globes. This time I chose a simpler idea -- I just filled one with vintage red glass balls. Then I filled the trophy with pine cones I collected from the yard in years past.

I'm somewhat of a pillow fanatic. A few years ago I picked up this pillow cover, or "wrap." You just wrap it around the pillow and close it in the back with velcro. Simple. It worked perfectly with this vintage lace-covered pillow I picked up in a thrift store. I like placing pillows and blankets in baskets. This basket was a DIY stencil project. I move it around the house depending upon my decorating needs.

I meant it when I said I might just have to leave the wreaths hanging in the windows even after Christmas. This picture shows a different Christmas pillow that I also use in the dining room -- it's featured in my From Place Mats To Pillows -- In 3 Easy Steps tutorial from a couple years ago. I might even be making a few more place mat Christmas pillows this year yet!

The vintage tool caddy was eventually removed and I replaced it with these vintage minnow buckets. You can see how I painted them to resemble much more expensive farmhouse buckets you may have seen on Pinterest. I turned them into my own DIY Holiday Greens and Mistletoe Galvanized Buckets that are so versatile for Christmas decorating. I filled them with small burlap- wrapped faux Christmas trees.

I love how the paint came out just the right shade of red -- faded and old-looking, just like the vintage buckets themselves.

Tree Farm Mistletoe 25¢

Holiday Greens 75¢

farmhouse Christmas decor dining room minnow bucket stencil retro camper

For the piece de resistance I added a metal lantern that's filled with a bottle brush tree and an adorable retro camper!

farmhouse Christmas decor dining room lantern retro camper

Isn't it adorable? The real kicker is that it's decorated for Christmas!

Gotta love the wreath and those Christmas lights!

So here's the table without the lantern.

And here it is with the lantern. Either way I think it's a simplistic enough design to fit my "less is more" decorating motto for this year.

farmhouse Christmas decor dining room mini red pick-up truck bottle brush tree

I also decorated the other buffet table but I'm saving just how I did it for another day! (I know, the Christmas clock is ticking!) So stay tuned!

Well, that's it until next time, friends!

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my Understated Christmas Decor

in the Dining Room.

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