Welcome to my 2017 Christmas Home Tour Part 2.  If you missed Part 1, you can catch up here.  I shared our Living Room - Dining Area and Tree.  If you like silver/gold/sparkle & shine, then you will love it.  Also take a peek at my garland up the stairs, that was a labor of love.

Today I would love to share our Kitchen and Family Room.  If you are new here welcome, if you have been following along then you remember the huge room makeover our kitchen went through right after we moved in last December.

Our kitchen and family room take up the back half of the house and is where we spend most of our time.  I thought traditional Christmas with red-green and plaid was fitting for this area.

  I love how our kitchen remodel turned out.  It is my favorite room in the whole house.
We moved in the week before Christmas last year so there was no way I could decorate this area.  I was lucky to get the boxes out of the way in time for my family to be here Christmas night.   Since we had lived far away from them for 12 years, I couldn't wait to have them all here and celebrate Christmas.  (In case you are new, here is what the kitchen looked like when we bought the house,)  
Huge transformation don't you agree.   The back of the house is where we "live".  The breakfast area, kitchen and family rooms run across the entire back of the house.  This is my view standing beside the coffe...