A Wintry Home Tour

I'm not complaining at all, but it feels kind of weird to write a post titled "Wintry Home Tour" when today's high is projected to be 52 degrees. I know some people are not too happy that our precipitation this weekend is coming in the form of rain rather than snow, but I am absolutely delighted. I'll still take sun any old day of the week, but I still hate driving in snow, so I'll take 50 degrees and raining.

Weather aside, I wanted to show you our winter décor! When we took down our Christmas decorations before the new year arrived, I pulled out my traditional January snowman decorations, but I decided to mix it up just a little bit this year. I kept out a few of our smaller plain trees (sans ornaments) and tried to keep the winter feeling alive in a new way. And I have to say...I love it! All those Pinteresty people were right when they said that these evergreen trees make great winter décor.

Christmas is the only season I go crazy with redecorating the house. My decorations for other seasons are just sparse accessories around the house. I try to pick the areas that are lived in the most so they can be seen! I say this because I feel like we're constantly pushed to decorate every corner of our homes for every season. That can get overwhelming! Less really can be more.

I did add a little bit of wintry joy to our bedroom this year:

Those two trees were part of our Christmas tree farm, and they don't have lights on them. I paired them with regular pictures and signs we keep in our bedroom and sprinkled a few pinecones in the mix for good measure.

This is a little corner of our living room:

The tree was a new one we bought this year - and I'd had it in my office during December. I took off all the ornaments and just left it plain (with lights). The base has a sign on it about a Christmas tree farm, so I wrapped it in burlap to hide that. I stuck a snowman from my stash in front of it and made a little new year corner with sparkly stuff everywhere. (I've had all those pieces for several years.)

I left a few things out on the sun porch, too:

 The tree above was another new find for this year, and I left the lights strung through it, too. I added some pinecones and faux birch branches I had on hand and called the corner done!

 From the fireplace area, I removed all the red/Christmassy stuff and just left the basics.

 It seemed appropriate to leave the snowballs out, too!

 We found this porch sign at Hobby Lobby (on sale) and we had to get it. I had the snowflakes already but strung them on ribbon and hung them from the hooks that held our wreaths in December!

Here's another little corner of the living room. Ryan found this ice tree at Hobby Lobby on clearance and liked it, so we got it. It was a great find! I love it, too!

I added a couple little pieces to the guest bathroom, too! This print below and the canvas above are both pieces of Lindsay Letters art that I already owned.

It's simple, and it doesn't take over the entire house, but it does bring a little glow and winter cheer to our house in these (beautifully balmy) days of January!

How about you? Did you leave up any Christmas décor that could double as winter décor?