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    Home » Holidays

    A Vintage, Rustic, Industrial Holiday House Tour

    Published by Pam Kessler | 799 words. · About 4 minutes to read this article. - 36 Comments

    Have you looked at the calendar? Christmas will be here before you know it, so I thought I'd better take you on a holiday house tour before the big guy has a chance to mess up the place. And by "big guy", I mean Santa.

    Not talking LeBron James here.

    Warning: I never met a photo I didn't want to post on my blog, so run to the bathroom and then grab a cup of coffee. This is going to be one of those long ones.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    OK, you're back? Let's get this party started!

    Our home is an open, great room concept. This is looking from the entry hallway into the living room and out the back door.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    No, there is not an alien spaceship landing in my backyard. This room is so hard to take photos in, so it just looks a tad bit bright out there.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    Just in the last few months, I moved the couch away from the wall and have it floating in the middle of the room. I think it makes the room feel more cozy.

    This view is from standing in the kitchen/breakfast room area.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

     

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    And this should be no surprise to my regular readers, I managed to get a thermos in the Christmas decor! Because really people, a plaid thermos just shouts Christmas.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

     

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    In years past, I always hung a wreath of some sort from this printer's box. In my attempt to create a new look this year, I made a Christmas tree out of bells instead.

    You really don't want to know how many trips to Michael's it took to make that thing.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    You may have noticed that Santa likes to move around quite a bit in these photos. When I told him he could stand next to the Skotch Kooler I purchased this fall, he thought I meant "scotch" as in the adult beverage and he ran right over there.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    He's made out of a hard plastic and has a hole in his back to put a light in. Apparently he is not that rare, since when I posted him on facebook and instagram quite a few people commented that they had the same one.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    You'll always be special to me, Santa! Even though you can party like it's 1999.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    Is this not the cutest microphone to talk to Santa with? My son is sooo past that age of believing, so I got it more for it's cute vintage look. I bought it last year at Hallmark.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    No self-respecting vintage Christmas home tour would be without a bottle brush tree tied to a toy car.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

     

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    This was my mother's bobble head Santa bank. He comes out every single year and it just wouldn't be Christmas without him 🙂

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

     

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

     

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen . . .

    I really don't see why people question why he can travel the world in only one night?

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

     

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

     

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    My deer takes his shots with a camera, not a gun 🙂

    Although with no hands/feet, I'm not sure how he presses the shutter.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

     

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

     

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    I tried to pretty up the dog toys with a red Coke crate.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    Speaking of dogs, Sheba, the Shiba Inu, is getting a little bored with this whole thing, so maybe we should wrap this up.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    Oh, almost forgot the Christmas tree. A Christmas home tour is not complete without a Christmas tree.

    A holiday house tour with lots of Christmas decorating ideas, including many vintage Christmas decorations and easy DIY projects. via houseofhawthornes.com

    I don't do a "themed" tree. It's red, green and white balls (no blue balls this year) with ornaments we've collected over the years and ones my son has made. Nothing wrong with a themed tree. Just not my thing 🙂

    I know you're going to ask "Where are the Shiny Brites, Pam?" "Did you forget about your blow molds?" "What happened to your putz houses and train around the tree?"

    Well, I tried to put my whole house in one post, but it took me forever and a day just to whittle down the living room photos to a manageable amount, so come back later in the week and I'll do a separate post on the kitchen and the porch. Who knows, maybe even the dining room if I get energetic.

    If you're new here, you may want to check out my Holiday Front Porch For The Picnicking Ski Bums, Christmas In The Kitchen, my chalk painted skis, how to make cloved clementine oranges or my mason jar luminarias.

    OK, if you're still with me. And haven't wet your pants (I told you to run to the bathroom first). Stop on over to the other bloggers on the home tour and give them some love.

    I'm also linking up to Jennifer Rizzo's Holiday House Walk

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    Comments

    1. Kristen @ Pursuing Vintage

      December 11, 2014 at 7:38 am

      I love all your vintage touches! Santa on the globe is my favorite!

      Reply
    2. Leslie Stewart

      December 11, 2014 at 9:44 am

      I just love your style Pam! The santa on the globe is the best!
      Happy Holidays!
      Leslie @ House on the Way

      Reply
    3. Virginia

      December 11, 2014 at 11:26 am

      LOVE all your vintage trinkets!

      Reply
    4. Shanna Gilbert

      December 11, 2014 at 1:24 pm

      I love all of your pretty vintage decor! It makes a home so much more interesting! It all looks gorgeous and you even have a pretty pup!

      Reply
    5. Jen @ Girl in the Garage

      December 12, 2014 at 12:22 pm

      Pam you have so many great ideas for your Christmas decor! Love the Santa on the globe, dressed up deer head (which usually makes me creeped out, but not yours... lol), all the vintage Santas, plaid thermos, and the fact that so many of your decorations have been passed down to you. Thanks so much for joining the tour - Merry Christmas!

      Reply
    6. Anne

      December 12, 2014 at 6:01 pm

      I love that you decorated your deer head! Very cool vintage touches! I love your tree made from bells! Your tree is gorgeous! Awe Sheba is so cute <3

      Reply
    7. [email protected] at the Crossroads

      December 12, 2014 at 7:08 pm

      Pam, I thoroughly enjoyed the tour. My favorite things have to be Santa on the globe and the microphone! You have such an interesting collection of vintage goodies!

      Reply
    8. Christy Little Our Southern Home

      December 13, 2014 at 9:47 am

      Pam,
      I love your vintage style. You had me at that amazing globe with Santa traveling it. So creative!!!

      Reply
    9. Artsy Chicks Rule

      December 13, 2014 at 11:56 am

      I love all of your rustic vintage touches Pam!!! How wonderful!!

      Nancy

      Reply
    10. Honeybee

      December 14, 2014 at 8:36 am

      Love the pine boughs in the top of the thermos. I have that same one. Such a brilliant & charming idea! Such a festive home, thanks for sharing & inspiring.

      Reply
    11. avery street design

      December 18, 2014 at 3:07 am

      This is so cute...I just love the deer head! Stopping by from dwellinggawker 🙂 Amazing job! xo, Laura

      Reply
    12. morethanhungry.com

      December 24, 2014 at 2:04 pm

      Oh Darn! I used to have a round plaid cooler and thermos just like that and thought I'd never use it. Such a cute idea with the greens!!! Great post packed with inspiration. Thanks!

      Reply
    13. Linda

      September 04, 2016 at 4:19 pm

      First of all I really like your decor. Love all the plaid too. We're Scottish. I'm glad to see that you used chalk paint on the skis. Good idea. Might be doing that to an old set of ours. We're from Georgia but we used to drive EVERY weekend to Sugar Mountain in North Carolina to ski. That was mid 70s. Our kids were young then and often we accompanied 30 or more high school kids. What a wonderful but exhausting weekend. Last time we skied was late 80s or early 90s. Went to Montremblant in Canada. But also Skied Snowshoe a lot before that. In summers we water skied every weekend. Usually with a pile of teenagers then too.
      Miss those good times but old body can't hang with it anymore.
      I can't believe it but I spied 2 items that I have. The fat plastic Santa (not the bobble head one). He used to hold something in his left hand but don't remember what. I glued a plastic green lantern from some other broken ornament. Looks like it was supposed to be there. Plus. The Santa Sleigh with reindeer on the globe (Great Idea!!!) I still have from way way back. Plastic poinsettia and all. Our youngest...son who is now 45 (daughter is 50)...used to "drive" it with his matchbox cars when he was little. (He races now !!). I had to keep gluing the red reins and whip back together. I can't believe it survived at all !!!! Daughter tried to get me to trash it several times. Oh No!! I had it before she was born.
      Well keep up the good work and postings. I'm enjoying it all. Thanks. And Merry Christmas. It's just around the corner!! Linda

      Reply
    14. GG

      November 24, 2022 at 12:39 pm

      I don't usually read blogs but your's made me laugh out loud, especially the traveling scotch loving Santa! How have I made it to 72 without any plaid decor for Christmas? I see some flea markets in my future. Your house is so fun. Love it all.

      Reply
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