A Very Vintage Christmas Decorated Kitchen
Vintage Collections bring Colorful beauty to this Christmas decorated kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of the home, especially at Christmas. It’s where the family gathers, wonderful meals are eaten and festive sweets are created. What better place to pull out all the stops when it comes to your Christmas decorating? Let me share the hub of our home, A Very Vintage Christmas Decorated Kitchen.
A Very Vintage Christmas Decorated Kitchen
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Decorating with Vintage Collections for Christmas
This year’s Christmas decorating was inspired by my collections of vintage dishes that have been packed away for a couple of years. We gave up on moving and decided to unpack the storage unit. Unpacking the boxes of all my pretty dishes was like going to an estate sale for free! I wanted to feature and enjoy all these pretty dishes for Christmas!
Milk Glass, Fire King, and Depression Ware were unpacked, and filled the glass cupboards with all their pastel glory. I’ve been collecting these pretty sets since I was in college. Styling with them again was like reuniting with old friends:)
When Displaying Vintage Dishes, Start with Color
When my kitchen island was completely covered in colorful dishes and I looked at the empty glass cupboards, I was a little overwhelmed. How to begin? Where do I start? I started with green. I placed the large green items first, balancing the color throughout.
Next I placed each color’s largest items first, trying to keep a balance of all the colors. White milkglass grounds all the other colors, too. As does the wood accessories sprinkled throughout. Don’t these pretty pastels look like old fashioned ribbon candy when they’re all together?
Last year’s DIY Repurposed Candlesticks that were on the mantel got spread throughout the house this year. The Scrabble Holiday Art worked it’s way into the displays, too.
Vintage Scales are Perfect in a Christmas Decorated Kitchen
My vintage scale collection has multiplied like rabbits this year! I wanted to enjoy them during the Christmas season, too. So I spread them out throughout the kitchen and created vignettes around them. Other vintage kitchen collections were a perfect pairing.
{You can get the adorable button garland HERE}
Vintage Shiny Brite Ornaments Fill the Christmas Kitchen
My vintage Shiny Brite ornaments were perfect to coordinate with all the pretty pastel dishes. I filled the tree with them and tucked them in here and there to add Holiday sparkle. Many of these are from dear family members, so are very treasured.
The little tree looks more impressive on an old wood box I picked up on the side of the road last year. Of course, my eye always spots anything green when it’s sitting on the curb. I did go knock on the door and ask before I popped it in my car;)
The coffee table is filled with my summer herbs, a plant from my mom’s funeral and a red poinsettia. I added a couple of the colorful repurposed candlesticks for a festive touch. Peppermint fragrant epsom salts look like snow under the candles. Hopefully I can keep all these plants alive through the winter; it’s so nice to enjoy fresh plants here.
Fiberfill Stuffing and Fresh Flowers as a Final Decor Touch
Honestly, all the stacks of pretty colored dishes were looking nice, but something was missing. Just like a fresh coat of snow makes everything look pretty, the bag of fiberfill stuffing was what it all needed. I added the white fluff to the tree branches, tucked it in the dishes and spread it everywhere. That was the look I was going for, ribbon candy in snow:)
With a few fresh flower bunches from the store, things are looking quite Christmas ready in this kitchen!
A Very Vintage Christmas Decorated Kitchen
If you were coming for a Holiday visit, you’d be greeted to my kitchen with a vintage pair of skis and a cute collection of vintage smalls. And of course a sign that lets you know there are plenty of Antiques here!
I hope you enjoyed our Christmas decorated kitchen! This year’s decor all through the house was definitely centered on my freshly unpacked vintage collections. I think this will be remembered as The Collected Christmas. It was fun to see and play with these old friends again!
To see the rest of this year’s Christmas home:
“A Very Vintage Christmas Decorated Bedroom”
“Sentimental Christmas Living Room Decor with Vintage Collections”
To see last year’s very different red and white gingham kitchen, “A Christmas Kitchen with Vintage Nostalgia”.
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Love all of your ribbon candy in snow decor! But honestly the part that blew my mind was the peppermint fragrant Epsom salts for snow in the dish!! Love!!! And I have that same ‘Antique’ sign:)
I love that sign! Total impulse buy at Joann’s one day:) Glad you enjoyed the tour!
Your kitchen looks beautiful decorated for Christmas.
Thank you, Paula!
Thanks for the tour, I love your kitchen and all the rest of your home and yard. I love how you decorate your home and all the Christmas’s you’ve spent in it making wonderful memories. I tried to sell my home just before I retired and nothing happened for 2 yrs., then one day when one of my grandchildren came over he went to the room and stood at the door, as if remembering all the times he spent here and I knew why God didn’t let me sell it. Have a wonderful Merry Christmas!
I love this story, Marlene; thanks for sharing! That is an encouragement; memories are important:)
Love it all, Lora, especially those little wooden molding Christmas trees. Have a Merry, merry Christmas!
Just picked those up at a local vintage shop; so simple!I told hubs this is why he can’t burn any scraps of chippy wood.
I always enjoy your decorating style, and it occurred to me as I was viewing your Christmas displays that you might be able to answer a styling question for me. I keep seeing vintage jadeite glass that was part of an electric stand mixer juicer attachment, but I can’t figure out how to display this bowl-shaped piece of glass that has two holes in it. Any ideas?
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Thank you for sharing your creativity throughout the year 🙂
I can’t imagine what it looks like, but sounds like it would be cute with a couple plants sticking out. Maybe even a little bird in some moss for the spring, sticking his head out the hole?
Thanks Lora! I knew that you’d be the one to have an answer for me. I wanted to upload a picture, but can’t find a place to do it in the comment area.
If you’re an insider, you can just reply to one of the emails I send out and attach it?
I love it all! Thanks for sharing all of your great ideas and inspiration! Sandra
I appreciate that, Sandra!
Loved this tour and all of your fun treasures. Your scales, the skis, the rolling pins, the trees and ornaments – everything! And the colors are so adorably different than the traditional colors. I could be quite happy working in this kitchen. Just how long does it take you to decorate one room anyway? There are so many beautiful things to put out and they are displayed so perfectly that I can imagine it takes days. :0 Hope your season is going well. Merry Christmas friend!
Is that a quantitative question? 😉 😉 Days, yes… but parts of days(and I enjoy every minute). And I can’t stop until the vision in my head comes to life! Probably why this tour isn’t being seen until today:) But the presents are wrapped and most of the cookies are baked…still need one more grocery trip! Merry Christmas, friend!
Absolutely charming! Have a very Merry Christmas.
Thanks, friend! You, too!