Wanna See My House?! AKA, Annual Christmas Tour of 2015

It's finally time to show you guys all my holiday decorating efforts throughout the house! Starting with one of my favorite shots, which of course is of the new steampunk room:

 

Mmmm, glowy.

That's getting ahead of myself, though. Let's back up to the first room you see coming in:

There's the Harry Potter tree again!

The view from the front door:

  If this is your first look around our place, you'll notice we have a bit of a steampunk vibe throughout, not just in the back room. I like the dramatic, vintage vibe - and of course big pictures of fantasy airships never hurt.

This is a little 1960s ranch style house, but the open floor plan makes it seem bigger, which is nice.

 

The gear table between the sofas.

And the apothecary cabinet in the dining room.

(You can click any pic to embiggen - at which point you'll notice these pics are before and after I de-cluttered the cabinet top. :D)

Looking back into the steampunk room:

 

 Directly to the left is this buffet cabinet:

Almost the same as last year; just a little less cluttered.

I'm having a terrible time finding cheap greenery garland that doesn't *look* cheap. Even with coupons, all the craft store options this year were way too expensive, so I made do with what I had. Maybe there will be some after Christmas sales?

Ok, now on to the BEST part:

 I really love this room, you guys.

I hope saying that doesn't make me sound like a braggy jerk. It's just we worked so hard on everything in here, and it's so warm and lovely at night, and I kind of never ever want to leave it.

A closer look at various tchotckes:


I used a mix of things already in the room along with a few Christmas angels, a star topper, and some spriggies.  

Never underestimate the power of a few decorative ornament spriggies; they're perfect for tucking onto shelves, into displays, etc., and make it look like you decorated the whole room.

The cabinet over the TV:

Again, mostly the same stuff; I swapped in the reindeer & wooden carousel on the left, then added a few spriggies and some berry garland on top.

 

That's my favorite pillow over on the couch. Orange & teal with a vintage octopus? YES PLEASE.

The airship corner:

 

That's an owl under the dome; hard to photograph it without a glare!

Back by the room's entrance, we replaced Claptrap with the crank table that usually sits where the tree is now.

Don't worry; Claptrap will be back after the New Year.

I'll leave you with two warm night time shots:

And now with the circle shelf lights on:

There's still more, of course, but I think I've covered the most noteworthy bits, and I am BEAT after taking & editing all these. I hope you guys enjoyed!