Living Room Christmas Decor

This will be our first Christmas enjoying our newly painted floor. I am very glad I made the decision to go ahead and paint it, instead of waiting to sand the repolish the floor, which seemed like it was never going to happen. I was also not sure of the condition of the wood flood, and if we would have actually beeen able to sand it down as much as needed.

The paint is now a few months old, and holding up very nicely so far. I was not sure what to expect, so that it has lasted even this long is good news.

I am once again using my tree form Best Choice Products this year. I think it is actually a very good size for our living room. A lot of the ornaments were purchased from Goodwill, which is one of my favorite places to shop for home decor items.

These poinsettias are faux, and I just purchased them from Goodwill for only $3.25.

I just put those flower vases on the end table while I was arranging things, but I ended up liking the "stacked" look, and left it.

I am not sure where I bought my wrapping paper, but it is a few years old. I thought it went very well with the colors of the ornaments this year.

This little, pink Santa is one I bought for under three dollars from Goodwill this past year.

I bought the two camels for just a couple dollars each a few weeks ago from Habitat for Humanity. One was unpainted, and the other has colors I did not like, so I decided to paint them both solid gold. I am happy with the way they turned out .

The pretty stockings are some that, you guessed it, I also bought from Goodwill for just a few dollars. I tought they matched the mostly gold decor of my living room perfectly.

You can see my little gingerbread house in the background. I purchased this kit from Walmart for $9.99. The house was already made, so all I had to do was decorate it! The gold chargers were purchased from Dollar Tree.

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