Quince Cottage: Quince Cottage Holiday Home Tour

Welcome to Quince Cottage!
We've been busy adding holiday touches to our home and we'd like to share them with you.
Let's begin with a few photos of our front porch.

Isn't that red and white metal picnic basket fun?

As you can see, we didn't hang the snowflake garland straight across, you know, the "normal" way. Instead we wanted to give the effect of a little snow flurry in one corner of the porch.

Once inside, we moved some of our milk glass to the cubby display, and added some greenery, cotton, plaid, and vintage Shiny Bright ornaments.

In the dining room, we hung a pompom twig wreath in each of the four windows. For the DIY, click here.

We also assembled our snowman collection on our buffet, and did a quick 'n' easy greenery arrangement in our $5 yard sale silver-plated champagne bucket.

And we've been playing around with various table settings. Here's one featuring more of our milk glass collection (and more pompoms).

Okay, Rhiann is a bit obsessed with pompoms.
On to the living room! We filled the basket on our coffee table with greenery, a candle, and a jumbo pine cone we picked up (literally) on the University campus in Wilmington (wish we'd taken some more).

As you can see, we've done a gallery wall behind the sofa. We have a plan for what to put in the picture frames, but for now we used leftover scraps of fabrics we've used for pillows in the room.

We were so happy to have this antique cabinet for a display space. We'll be doing a DIY post on how we freshened up its look. Right now it's playing host to our collections of white pitchers and mercury glass, and to a winter wonderland just for our Snow Babies. The greenery up on top is an ordinary fake evergreen garland, augmented with more artificial greenery, glass ornaments, an owl, and some wired burlap ribbon.

A close up...

Our mantel is always Rhiann's favorite part of the house to decorate.

The morning sunlight is really pretty, don't you think? Even better with the fire lit!

This is a close up of the left side. We just love using cotton, and this is the real deal, not the artificial version. We're lucky to have cotton fields in our part of North Carolina. For those of you who might not have seen what one of those looks like, here you go.

Magical isn't it?
Here's a close up of the right side of the mantle. We're totally in love with that rusty bird and vine garland. We got it at a shop called Affordable Chic in Raleigh.

Here's our house angel. Rhiann made a little seasonal crown for her. She looks pleased.

Finally, the piece de resistance, our Christmas tree! This year we took some branches from a nearby wooded area, gave them a "birch" look with some white paint, wired glass icicles onto them, and stuck them into the tree. The topper is paper. Our ornaments are mostly glass and have been collected over time.

Look what we found this year to add to the tree!

Here's a last little touch of Christmas - can you believe we scored these vintage Shiny Bright ornaments at a charity thrift shop for $1.79 (for all 15 of them!)?

Buster and Daisy have been VERY good doggies.

Quince Cottage Style mixes old and new, rustic and opulent.

Our goal is to make our new subdivision house look inviting, beautiful,

and as though it wasn't born yesterday!

4 comments:

UnknownDecember 13, 2015 at 3:56 PM
I just adore your style Rhiann and Ron. And the pooches are awfully sweet too! Merry Christmas!
Sunflowers With SmilesDecember 30, 2015 at 4:20 PM
Love the cotton fields too or they call it Wouthern Snow. I live in Raleigh and will have to check out the shop that you mentioned,

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