Deck the Halls!

This past Sunday, I had some time to get our house decorated for the holidays!  My parents were over so my dad could help with some projects around the house; my mom decided to help me decorate.  Last year, I decided that I wanted to decorate with a theme of gingerbread so I bought several decorations at the end of the Christmas season and my mom has been getting me a few things here and there this season.  We put out all the decorations we plan to use inside the house, minus the Christmas tree!  So I figured I'd post some pictures of our house all ready for the holidays...

 

Welcome to our home!  We have a cute gingerbread boy and girl in the entryway...

 

We have another gingerbread couple hanging out on  one of the window sills in the living room!

And keeping with the theme, we have another gingerbread couple on the other window sill in the living room...

 

Check out the gingerbread doorknob hanger on the little closet door!

 

Here's a wide angle shot of the living room/dining room dividing area - check out the hanging garland and the mantel (complete with a fire roaring)!

 

This is the window in the dining room (by the foot of the stairs)...  Note the little bear hanging out on the thermostat! ;o)

 

Here's a close-up of the window sill for the dining room window - there's a gingerbread train and two gingerbread ceramic figures (one on each side) that open (not sure what you would put in them though)!

 

A bit closer view of the mantel - we kept the "Kalis" sign and added some gingerbread decorations and some little snow globes.

 

Another angle on the mantel so you can see the dangling-leg gingerbread man hanging out on the bookcase!

 

The wide angle shot into the kitchen so you can see how the gingerbread garland is hanging!

A close-up of the gingerbread garland! The hooks that are all over the house finally have a purpose...

 

The dining room table!  We found the gingerbread runner at Kmart and I just got a plain red tablecloth to go with it.

 

The "hot beverage" station!  I got a gingerbread mug for the spoon rest that came with it and I used the little gingerbread "bucket" to put out hot cocoa and tea bags.

Our kitchen gingerbread people...  With the chef's hat on the boy, I just had to use them in the kitchen!

 

The stove is ready for Christmas: it's got the gingerbread trivet as a spoonrest and the various gingerbread towels!

Even the windowsills in the kitchen got a little festive...

Since the last picture was hard to tell what was on the window sill, I figured I'd give you a close-up: they are actually tiny gingerbread shaped tea lights.

The door to the bathroom is decorated with a snowman hanger because the bathroom follows a different theme - can you guess what it is? ;o)

 

Here's a wide shot of the inside of the bathroom - note the snowman soap dispenser that matches the towel, plus the snowman on the windowsill and on the shelf above the sink.

This snowman is the exception to the blue snowman theme, but he's cute and he fits on the window sill nicely.

Even the toilet got in the spirit - the toilet seat cover is actually fluffy and the scarf sticks up a bit.



 

The upstairs bathroom got some of the straggler decorations - a little "Happy Holidays" puppy on top the shelf and a cute Santa on the back of the toilet.