So here we are back for part 2 of our home this Christmas!Can I be perfectly honest here before we get started"This was a really hard area to photograph.  It's our basement, and you may or may not be able to tell, but it was a cloudy wintery day and so the lighting is not ideal.  It was about as good as I could hope for, so there's excuse #1.#2 is I am not overly thrilled with how this came together.  It is our first year in our new home, and so figuring out the decor and what I want this to look like will take time.  The Old Me would have started editing this, and then been so disappointed with the end result that I would have scrapped it and said maybe next year.The New Me is saying, let's see how things evolve over the years, and these will make for some great "before" pics down the road! Christmas is expensive, and while I add a few new things every year to our decor, I'd rather spend our money on gifts instead of what I think is pretty.
I just love our fireplace in this room.  It's very dramatic, and I hope to add more greenery to it next year.    One goal is to add some curtains in here that can be used in the evenings.

I searched for some affordable fern prints, but couldn't find exactly what I wanted, so I made these specimen foliage artwork with some oversize color copies and wood trim.  They were about $10 a piece, and works for now to add a little coziness in here.  I'm still deciding on what to d...