Christmas Dining Room Tour

0:03 hello my dears this is sarah from she holds daily.com and today i will be taking you on a christmas dining room tour of our farmhouse [Music] this is for the person that's kind of running out of ideas for their decorations for christmas this is second to the last room that i'm decorating i still have some really cute things to do in the kitchen and i'll be showing you that later this week but the dining room was kind of like end of the line with my decorations and my inspiration and so i kind of felt like i was like running out of steam a little bit so i thought okay just talk about that what do you do when that happens right

0:48 so when i feel like i don't have quite the decorations that i want or i just am like tired of decorating i really hone in on key areas and i explained this a lot in my behind the scenes group we have a design school that actually you can get on the wait list for if you're interested i'll put a link in the description but we just recently did a whole class on seasonal decorating and one of the things i'm adamant about is not getting overwhelmed by it because it totally can get out of hand especially at christmas so you want to really focus on key areas and don't worry about the rest of the stuff so for me um in this room it's going to be the banister

1:34 the tabletop and then a couple of things on the walls and like a pillow that i tucked in behind me here so i'll just walk you through the room it's pretty simple but hopefully that is inspiring to you to see that it doesn't have to be a big deal it can be super simple and you still can bless your family with what your house looks like and have a little bit of a celebration in your space so first of all i have a school i got this huge wall scroll from cottonwood shanty alyssa is my friend over there and i love her oh i like all of her products are wonderful but she's i think she really started her company making these scrolls for people and there's a whole bunch of them but um

2:20 she also has added on and she has a storefront and everything so i got this christmas tree farm i actually got it after christmas last year and got it um you know reduced price because it was after the season i picked up this little cedar it's like a frosted cedar garland to add to that and that wall is done so simple wall decorations done fast then on the table i'm like low on decorations so i had one tree left a little frosted tree and i added a candle done it's fine i liked the tree because it was next to the sign that said tree farm so then we come over to the bookshelf and i just did a collection of white dishes i tucked a couple of little things in

3:06 there but the main thing that i like with this setup is the mercury glass garland so i got these last year it was my big splurge and i left them they make me a little nervous i hung them on the tree last year and they're so heavy and they're glass and i did break one so i don't love hanging them on the tree they just make me nervous like if one of them starts to go they're all gonna fall and crash so this year i just put i put my mercury glass garlands in soup terrain one of them i kind of have like spilling out the side a little bit but that is a really simple idea if you want to do ornaments simple centerpiece idea no-brainer then here's another idea so using pictures that you just always

3:52 have on your wall that are usually there you just tuck a little bit of greenery behind it and give it a little sweet festive touch and it's not hard at all you can't screw this up so i did that but for the picture um over by the stove then i went ahead i moved out i used a basket with firewood in here and i just i'm getting tired so i moved it out and i put this cute little stool here that i have a tutorial on how to make this stool but i thought it was cute next to the stockings it kind of made me feel like like a little kid would climb up the little stool to look in their stocking so anytime you can kind of create like a story scene is good i grouped my stockings together this year and they were looking a little lost so i

4:38 brought in some gold i had some gold glittered letters and i added in a little ribbon and some greenery and then those are my kids first initials so i really do love the stockings this year i feel like they're super cozy over there in the corner by the wood stove and then i had some garland i got this at hobby lobby has eucalyptus and some i think sedum and holly in it and then cedar i love the greenery at hollywood for the garlands and i love the uniqueness of garlands at michaels those are my two stops i would suggest for garlands and so i just wired this on and i kind of did a like a lot of s shapes going along and then

5:26 wrapped it around the newel post at the bottom i i like that that look this year so um banister is done pretty simple but i feel like it's just enough sweetness in here then i had already added some teacups up here on the shelf beside me that i really liked but it was looking a little skimpy and so i brought in this photograph and it's i just hung it straight on the wall just real low like it's kind of like it might be sitting on the shelf but it's not it's actually hanging and if you look closely it's not just a black and white picture it is a black and white picture of my grandpa in the army at christmas they're having it's his christmas party and he all the soldiers are in uniform and there are trees in there and it's from world war ii so it's such

6:13 a sweet picture and then lastly i just tucked this little simple believe pillow behind me i feel like i know we've talked a lot about me and using red this year and i i do like touches of it i do so um this was this wasn't too much for me so i put this here let's see behind me and this room's done so you don't have to go all out if this is all you can do is just do a bowl of ornaments and a pillow and just tuck a greenery behind a picture nothing to apologize for i think that is a great way to go if that's what you got to do this year thank you so much for stopping by and if you're new here please consider hitting that subscribe button i do post regularly and i share my professional design advice for the diy

6:58 home life i'm also over on pinterest and instagram and facebook if you want to follow me along there and i'll see you in the next video i'll be showing you my kitchen all right take care i'll talk to you