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Magical Christmas Candlelight Home Tour

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‘Tis the season for holiday cheer and for enjoying the cozy glow of lights with a cup of cocoa by the fire. Join me for a magical candlelight tour of our home decorated for Christmas.

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This post was originally published on December 20, 2022. Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Magical Christmas Candlelight Home Tour

The shopping is done, the gifts are wrapped, and I finally crossed off the last of the to-dos on my holiday checklist.

It’s truly starting to feel like Christmas!

With less than a week to go until the big day, I’m trying hard to soak up every last bit of the magic of the season.

And today, I’m sharing some of it with you with a magical Christmas candlelight home tour.

Dining room tour in our home with wood Christmas Sign with Luke 2:11 Quote displayed on a buffet table with chunky white wood pillard candle holders and a dough bowl filled with greenery and red Christmas ornaments

I’m also joined by ten blogging friends from across the country who are sharing their cozy candlelight tours with you too.

You can find each tour linked at the bottom of my post, so I hope you take some time to stop by and visit them all. 

Now grab your favorite cozy holiday drink, and join me for my magical Christmas candlelight home tour

Table of Contents

  • Magical Christmas Candlelight Home Tour
    • Warm and Welcoming Christmas Entry
    • Christmas in the Dining Room
    • Cozy and Inviting Christmas Living Room
  • More Christmas Home Tours from Midwest Life and Style
  • Warm Wishes for a Joyful Holiday Season
  • Candlelight Christmas Tour of Homes
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Warm and Welcoming Christmas Entry

Welcome to our home, where we’ll start the tour in the entry.

Dining room at night decorated for Christmas with twinkle lights and a large Christmas tree in the corner of the room

In our home, the entry is combined with our formal dining room.

It’s also where you’ll see one of my favorite thrift store finds, this refurbished antique dresser.

I love the beautiful curves and details carved into the wood, and it doubles as extra storage for linens and seasonal dishes.

Small Christmas tree lit with twinkle lights displayed in a red plaid vintage lunch box on a dresser with a vintage typewrite and holiday sign in the background.
Small wood sign with a verse from "Silent Night" on it displayed in a vintage typewrite on top of an old dresser for a Christmas home tour

I styled the dresser with more vintage finds, including this old typewriter I bought at a barn sale several summers ago.

To add a touch of holiday decor, I dressed up the typewriter with some winter greenery and a sign with the lyrics from “Silent Night.”

In front of the typewriter, I scattered some old Christmas postcards.

Then I draped a small tree with twinkle lights and placed it in a rusty, old plaid lunchbox.

Because you can never have too many trees…or twinkle lights!

Tour of the entry of a home decorated for Christmas with ra ed and white stripe bow tied on the railing with garland, and gold bells and a shelf with vintage skates and a plaid blanket in the background

Just off the entry is the stairs to the second floor of our home.

This year I dressed up the banister with some of my favorite life-like cedar garland, large gold bells, and a red and white ticking stripe bow.

Oh, and of course, more lights!

Tour of an entraway in a home decorated for Christmas with a woven bag filled with a plaid blanket and vintage skates and garland with twinkle lights haning from a wood shelf on the wall

With no separate mudroom or dropzone, this area near the front door is a catch-all for all the backpacks, coats, and winter gear.

And it’s also where I hang these skates each winter on my old reclaimed wood shelf.

It wouldn’t be a Christmas

home tour if I didn’t share them. They are one of my favorite vintage winter decor finds.

You can also see a photo of my skates in the winter ’22 issue of Country Sampler Farmhouse Style magazine!

(You can read more on that exciting news and my first ever magazine feature HERE.)

Christmas in the Dining Room

Next on my candlelight Christmas home tour is our cozy and magical gingerbread-themed dining room.

Tour of the dining room in our home decorated for Christmas and lit up at night by the glow of a Christmas tree and the candles set on the red and white gingerbread themed tablescape.

I had been dreaming of how to style this whimsical gingerbread tablescape for a while now and was so excited to see it come to life.

Home tour with Gingerbread Christmas Tablescape with Red and White Ticking Strip Napkins at Night

With the garland, gold bells, brass candle sticks, and red and white ticking stripe accents, I think it may just be my favorite tablescape to date.

DIY Gingerbread Snow Globe Centerpiece
Gingerbread Christmas Tablescape with Red and White Ticking Strip Napkins at Night

The inspiration for this table started with a photo of a snow globe I saw on Pinterest, and I knew I had to make my own.

I used some brown craft paint to transform a few thrifted Christmas village houses into a DIY gingerbread snow globe centerpiece.

Dining room table decorated for Christmas with a large Christmas tree in the background with clip on candle lights and presents under the tree

In the corner of the dining room is one of the three Christmas trees in our home.

Christmas tree in a dining room lit up at night with a buffet to the left of the photo and the dining table to the right of the photo

The glow of the lights is so magical and greets me from the front window each day as I pull into our driveway after work.

Other than lights and some battery-operated candles, I left this tree undecorated, but the simplicity has grown on me, and I really love how it looks without all of the balls and baubles.

Night time views of a dough bowl filled with red Christmas ornaments, pinecones, and twinkle lights.
Close up view of wood Christmas sign with bible berse Luke 2:11 displayed on a buffet table with chunky white wood pillard candle holders and a dough bowl filled with greenery and red Christmas ornaments

Next to the tree is our buffet that I styled with some mercury glass trees and this beautiful script sign.

Tour of a dining room decorated for Christmas in our home with a doughbowl on the buffet filled with greenery, red ornaments and twinkle lights and flanked by small mercury glass trees

I also tucked some simple greenery, twinkle, lights, and red ornaments into a dough bowl to add a few more holiday touches.

Dining room decorated for Christmas and lit up at night by the glow of a Christmas tree

I’m going to miss this cozy view and the glow of all the lights once Christmas is over.

Cozy and Inviting Christmas Living Room

The final stop on my candlelight home tour is our living room decorated for Christmas.

View of Christmas living room at night with the tree lit up and stockings hanging from the fireplace mantel

The living room is home to tree number two.

Each year, on the day after Thanksgiving, we visit a local farm to pick out our family tree.

It’s extra special and holds all our most cherished family ornaments filled with memories of Christmases past.

I love to snuggle up here each night and just gaze at the glowing lights.

It’s the perfect way to relax and unwind.

Woven basket on a coffee table in the living room filled with a Christmas garland and a glass cloche filled with candles and a small gingerbread house sitting near by with a large Christmas tree glowing in the background

In the center of the living room is a chest that doubles as storage for extra blankets.

For Christmas, I added a large basket on top of it and filled the basket with some more of my favorite life-like greenery.

Then I added a cloche with some candles and another DIY gingerbread house to carry the theme from my tablescape into the living room.

Christmas mantel with garland, white knit stockings, and a basket filled with plaid holiday pillows and extra winter blankets

I kept our Christmas mantel simple with some more greenery, knit stockings, and twinkle lights.

Magical Christmas candlelight Home Tour with a close-up view of the greenery and red berries on a fireplace mantel

I also added a few springs of frosted red berries into the garland for a pop of color.

Fireplace mantel decorated for Christmas with a large wooden sign with a Christmas hymn, garland and red berries and chunky white knit Christmas stockings

Then, to finish the mantel, I added a few vintage brass candlesticks and this sign with lyrics from my favorite Christmas hymn, “Mary Did you Know?”

The song reminds me of Christmas at my grandparents’ and the midnight candlelight service at church.

I think of them and smile every time I see this sign.

View of Christmas living room home tour at night with a fireplace and tree in the background and a Santa picture and mini tree displayed on a table

To wrap up my cozy and magical candlelight Christmas home tour I’m leaving you with a few more views of our living room and a reminder of the reason for the season.

Large woven basket filled with Christmas greenery and a cloche with candles with a fireplace and stockings in the background.
Close up view of glass cloche with candles and ceramic gingerbread house displayed in a woven basket with garland and the glow of a Christmas tree and the fireplace mantel in the background

More Christmas Home Tours from Midwest Life and Style

Looking for even more Christmas decorating ideas? You might also enjoy these posts.

Bedroom decorated for Christmas with red and white decorations, Christmas bedding, and breakfast tray on the bed with a santa mug filled with coffee

Old World Holiday Home Tour

Classic and Cozy Dining Room Decorating Ideas for Christmas

Rustic Christmas Decor: How to Create a Cozy Holiday Home

Warm Wishes for a Joyful Holiday Season

Thank you for joining me on this magical Christmas candlelight home tour.

I hope it gave you some inspiration to create a warm and inviting holiday atmosphere in your own home.

Whether it’s with twinkling lights, glowing candles, or cherished decorations, it’s the little touches that make the season feel so special.

Don’t forget! There are still plenty of Christmas house tours to see!

You check out all of the other cozy Christmas candlelight home tours linked below.

Wishing you a holiday filled with love, laughter, and a little extra sparkle.

Merry Christmas!

Candlelight Christmas Tour of Homes

A home that’s decorated for Christmas always feels so special. When the sun has gone down and the lights are all twinkling it becomes so magical. Sit back and enjoy touring these beautiful homes by the glow of candlelight. You can visit each Christmas decor tour by clicking the links below.

Monday

Simply2Moms: Anne // Cottage On Bunker Hill // Bricks’n Blooms

The Ponds Farmhouse // Southern Crush at Home

Tuesday

Simply2Moms: AnnMarie // The Tattered Pew // Pasha is Home

Midwest Life and Style // Vintage Home Designs // Life on Summerhill

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  1. stacy says

    December 26, 2022 at 1:54 pm

    Absolutely love how your home looks all twinkled up with christmas lights! Hope you are feeling better and enjoyed your Christmas. Happy New year!!!

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:21 pm

      Thank you, Stacy. Happy New Year to you, too!

      Reply
  2. Cindy@CountyRoad407 says

    December 23, 2022 at 11:36 am

    Absolutely lovely Jen. I still haven’t figured out how to photograph my home at night. Merry Christmas!

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:22 pm

      I hope you had a Merry Christmas, Cindy! And wishing you a happy and healthy New Year!

      Reply
  3. Tammy says

    December 22, 2022 at 7:39 am

    Stay warm, Jen and Merry Christmas to you! Your home looks beautiful with all the twinkling lights. I love your gingerbread houses.

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:24 pm

      Thank you, Tammy. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

      Reply
  4. Melanie Ferguson says

    December 21, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    Jen,
    Wow! Everything is stunning! I especially love your gingerbread snowglobe centerpiece! So pretty and inspiring! Merry Christmas!

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:24 pm

      Thank you, Melanie. I hope you had a Merry Chrismas and wishing you a Happy New Year!

      Reply
  5. Wendy McMonigle says

    December 21, 2022 at 12:05 am

    So pretty Jen. I love all of your twinkle lights and your sweet gingerbread houses. I think this may have to be my theme next year.

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:25 pm

      Thank you, Wendy. I fell in love with the gingerbread houses this year. I’m already scheming up ways I can re-use them again next holiday season.

      Reply
  6. Heidi says

    December 20, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    Your home is so beautiful lit up with twinkle lights Jen! So cozy!!! Merry Christmas!

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:25 pm

      Thank you, Heidi. I hope you had a Merry Christmas, friend!

      Reply
  7. AnnMarie | Simply2Moms says

    December 20, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    Your Christmas home is just beautiful Jen and even more magical at night! I hope you and your family have a very merry Christmas friend.

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:26 pm

      Thank you, AnnMarie. I hope you had a Merry Christmas and best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year!

      Reply
  8. Linda McDonald says

    December 20, 2022 at 1:52 pm

    Your decorations for Christmas are so pretty! Thank you for sharing this candlelight Christmas home tour!

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:33 pm

      Thank you, Linda

      Reply
  9. Kim says

    December 20, 2022 at 1:13 pm

    Hey Jen! Your home looks so lovely and ready for Christmas! Wish you and your family a blessed Christmas!!! 🎄❤️

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:34 pm

      Thank you, Kim. I hope you had a very Merry Christmas!

      Reply
  10. Ethel+Alderson says

    December 20, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    Jen, Your home is lovely. Thanks for having me tour!
    What size glass jar with lid are you showing?
    What sIze cloches are you showings?
    You had me hooked v with the ginger bread houde.
    Happy Holidays

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:39 pm

      Thank you! I’m so glad you stopped by and enjoyed the tour.

      The glass jar for the gingerbread centerpiece is one-gallon. I purchased it on Amazon and removed the plastic ring around the lid. This is the jar I bought: https://rstyle.me/+3E7YBv42Xw1wdReDv610Hg

      The cloche in the living room is also from Amazon. There are several sizes available, but this is the one I have: https://rstyle.me/+S0GjWf2e_E5XjvQDP1W_LQ

      Hope this helps!

      Reply
  11. Kelly Radcliff says

    December 20, 2022 at 10:51 am

    Jen I love your home all aglow!!! Is that a word? Ha! Anyway it’s extra magical at Christmas and I can feel the coziness. Love you lots and want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas!

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:42 pm

      It’s totally a word. I hope you had a Merry Christmas, friend and best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!

      Reply
  12. Rachel says

    December 20, 2022 at 10:20 am

    It’s SO PRETTY, Jen!!! Your photos are just stunning. I LOVE all of the twinkle lights that you used throughout your home this season. This was so calming and peaceful to read. Merry Christmas to you!!

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:43 pm

      Thank you, Rachel! I’m so glad we have connected over blogging and I look forward to seeing all of the amazing things in store for you in the new year. Wishing you health and happiness in 2023!

      Reply
  13. Ethel+Alderson says

    December 20, 2022 at 8:21 am

    Jen, happy holidays!
    Your ginger bread houses have me hooked.
    What size cloche are you using?
    Where did you buy your framed hymn?
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:53 pm

      Thank you! I love how the gingerbread houses turned out. I can’t wait to find more next season so I can add to my new collection!

      The cloche in the living room is from Amazon. There are several sizes available, but this is the one I have: https://rstyle.me/+S0GjWf2e_E5XjvQDP1W_LQ

      Which framed hymn are you referring to? The Silent Night one is old…I think I got it online from Zulilly maybe. The “Mary Did You Know?” framed art is from a small shop maker ~ Currently Chic Boutique. I have several of her signs and love them all. You can find her shop online.

      Hope this helps!

      Reply
  14. Jennifer Howard says

    December 20, 2022 at 6:40 am

    Merry Christmas my friend!!! It looks like you are living in the North Pole out there!!! Stay warm!!

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:45 pm

      There have been times lately that I’ve definitely wondered with our crazy weather. ‘Tis the season! Hope you are staying warm and cozy. And best wishes for a fabulous new year!

      Reply
  15. Rachel Harper says

    December 20, 2022 at 6:03 am

    Jen,
    Your tour is lovely. Merry Christmas.

    Reply
    • midwestlifeandstyle says

      December 28, 2022 at 12:45 pm

      Thank you, Rachel! I hope you had a Merry Christmas!

      Reply

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