Hello and welcome to our Christmas Home Tour and our annual 12 Days of Holiday Homes!
Thank you to our hosts 11 Magnolia Lane and Evolution of Style and this year’s sponsor, Lynch Creek Farm!
This year, I’m sharing something different and very special to me. Instead of sharing my own Christmas home tour, I’m sharing my next door neighbor’s home that I have helped decorate over the last few weeks for the CASA Christmas Parade of Homes that is held in my town.
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) watch over and advocate for abused and neglected children and the organization and volunteers do amazing life-changing work for children in my East Texas community. When my neighbor Brittany asked me to help decorate her home for the Parade of Homes this year, I was beyond thrilled to say yes!
I also want to tell you guys that today’s post is actually “Part 1” of the tour. We decorated every room in the home and it’s way too many images for me to share in just one post without having trouble with the post loading. You can see Part of this home tour here.
Meet Brittany and Justin, my next door neighbors and they are the cutest and sweetest couple (and the best neighbors) that you could ever meet!
Their home is a beautiful modern farmhouse style with a mix of stone siding, metal roof and a dreamy wrap around porch.
The CASA Christmas Home Parade was actually just last night and after about three weeks of planning and fluffing, Brittany and I finished up decorating early in the morning yesterday.
The Porch
When Brittany and I first came up with our decorating plan, we both share a love of incorporating naturals into our Christmas decor and we also love the bones of a space and layering based on that. We share an amazing backyard area that is basically a forest of every kind of East Texas tree, bush and berries that you can imagine, which is where we clipped greenery for all of our Christmas decor.
Brittany’s porch is exactly what you would think of when it comes to a Southern modern farmhouse and we knew we had to have a grand natural garland layered with cedar, magnolia leaf and long leaf pine.
Brittany owns a beautiful home decor shop in our town of Lufkin, Texas called House & Clay and she sells so many beautiful things including beautiful garden pots and urns. We used these gorgeous urns filled with narrow trees for the front door.
Brittany recently had her trim and wood window panes painted black and the buffalo plaid silk ribbon mixed with the sage wreaths with berries on the window came together exactly as we envisioned and really pop against the black.
For the front door wreath, Lynch Creek Farm gave us a beautiful fresh noble fir and salal leaf 26″ Silver Deluxe Wreath that we added gorgeous silk buffalo plaid ribbon and fresh eucalyptus. We also slipped in bundles of sage.
Here’s a closer look of the wreath.
We decided that we wanted garland on the swing on the porch wrapped and hanging from the chain. We weren’t sure it would look good but we decided after adding the fresh cedar that we love it!
Entryway
For the entryway, we did a tabletop tree in a pewter champagne bucket that I found a few years ago at Homegoods.
Main Living Room
Brittany and Justin’s home is completely open with the most beautiful pine beams and a church-like ceiling that is breathtaking when you walk in.
Just look at those beams and beautiful stone fireplace!
For the main Christmas tree in the living room, we did a flocked tree with beautiful blue/gray velvet ribbon and a mix of metallic ornaments.
Eucalyptus was the only greenery that we bought and did not cut from our backyards and we loved the idea of a very simple eucalyptus garland on the mantle mixed with the stone.
The stone fireplace is so beautiful!
Brittany and I had so much fun decorating and it’s such a joy to be able to do it for such a worthwhile organization. Now it’s time to finish the rest of this home tour here for Part 2!
Thank you so much for stopping by today and be sure and check out the other bloggers on the 12 Days of Holiday Home Tours linked below.
The 12 Days of Holiday Homes TourÂ
December 1st
December 2nd
December 3rd
11 Magnolia Lane(Amy)
December 4th
December 5th
December 6th
December 7th
December 8th
Less Than Perfect Life of Bliss
December 9th
December 10th
11 Magnolia Lane (Christy)
December 11th
December 12th
Holiday Tour Recap
Cheers!
Cyndy
Amy says
Cyndy, this is breathtaking! I love that it is for the CASA tour (that organization is amazing) and you all did a fabulous job with all the decor. I am so grateful you shared this for the tour! I am waiting anxiously to see more 🙂 XO, Amy
Vel says
Wow, you live in a fabulous neighborhood Cyndy! Love this home and all the fabulous Christmas touches! Thank you for sharing this couple’s abode! As always, honored to share this home tour with you! Cheers!
cassie bustamante says
i am SO glad you shared their home- it’s beautifully decorated and i love the style, but i am also totally smitten with the architecture of the house as well! thank you for sharing! oh, and they are just adorable!
Jenny says
Oh my goodness, Cyndy – this is absolutely gorgeous! I love the exterior and the interior is beautiful as well! I need to use my champagne bucket for a(nother) Christmas tree! I love that you decorated her home for an awesome cause, and I can’t wait to see the rest of the tour. Thanks again for participating in the tour this year my friend!
Christy @ 11 Magnolia Lane says
Cyndy–Brittany’s home looks amazing! You guys did a great job and I know she must be thrilled. One of my mom’s good friends was a CASA volunteer when I was growing up so I have long known about the wonderful and important work that they do. I’m so glad you were able to use your talents for such a good cause! Thanks for joining us on the tour again, and Merry Christmas! XO, Christy
Tammy says
So incredibly beautiful, and for a cause that is very close to my heart.
You crazy-talented ladies did an incredible job!
May I ask where the blue-gray ribbons could be purchased?
Thank you for sharing this stunning home.
Cyndy says
Thank you so much Tammy! It was such a joy to decorate for such a great cause! 🙂 The blue/gray velvet ribbon is absolutely amazing in person and it came from Craftex in Houston. If you’re not in Texas, you may be able to call them and have them ship it to you. Thank you again for such kind words! 🙂
Tammy says
Oh, bless you for replying! I appreciate it!
And truly, I hope y’all know how much it means to so many of us, to see you supporting CASA.
Thank you a million times over,
Debbie says
What a gorgeous home and I love the beams and the stone. Y’all did a beautiful job decorating.
Jen says
Gorgeous Cyndy! I’m sure your neighbor was so grateful for your help! I wish I lived near you, that sounds like something I would love to visit!
Julie says
Everything looks fabulous, starting with that porch! Great job!!
Becky says
Amazing! Such a beautiful home. Merry Christmas!
Paula says
Thanks for sharing. Everything is gorgeous! Where did you get the pillows on the porch swing and the plaid ribbon on the wreaths? Love, love them! Thanks again for sharing:)
Catherine Szabad says
Hello – Loved the tour – Just beautiful! I loved the black/white ribbon on your front porch – I loved the red trim! Where did you buy that – I would love to order myself. Thank you and Happy New Year from Buffalo, NY
Morgan Lang says
This is all of my Christmas decoration dreams come true! Beautiful!! Could you tell me where the buffalo check ribbon with the red trim on the wreath game from? Thank you!
Cyndy says
Thanks Morgan! The ribbon came from Craftex in Houston! I hope that helps! 🙂
Debby Burroughs says
Thank you for sharing this beautiful home. You have decorated it beautifully with such perfect colors! Are the tall trees by the front door real plants or faux? I’d love to find something like that!
Amy says
This is simply gorgeous. I am desperately trying to find the Buffalo plaid ribbon with red trim. Any ideas?????
Melissa Disher says
Hello! Simply beautiful! Could you tell me where you got your front door?! Style & brand!