Christmas Fantasy

Enter a winter wonderland of pine trees and shimmering blue.

- Michelle Mastro

WHAT COULD BE MORE ENCHANTING THAN A WINTER WONDERLAND? As the days grow shorter and snowflakes fall in frosty gusts, many of us start dreaming of a white Christmas. Childhood reveries help make the holiday special. And for interior designer and blogger Breanne Doucette, decorating her New England home every Christmas means awakening her children’s imaginations.

“I want to set the stage for my children, so they’ll love the holiday as much as I do,” she says. Breanne still remembers what it felt like to be a kid at Christmas, she says, describing the magic of the season and how decorated pine trees transformed her parents’ house into a winter fantasyland.

Today, Christmas magic and wild forests mix in her home, where pine trees covered in glittering icicles beckon tiny feet into dreams of forests full of snowflakes and shimmering silver.

To set the scene, Breanne places several pieces of décor at various eye levels, so her children, a six- and an eight-year-old, can enjoy dreams of “woodland glam” and “rustic elegance.” She hopes her children will be inspired to carry on similar Christmas traditions.

RUSTIC SHIMMER

“I wanted the holiday feel without the traditional red and green,” Breanne says. “But everything I use stems from tradition.” Breanne mixed vintage mercury glass and shiny metals with softfurs, throwing in other natural elements like deer antlers and tree bark to highlight and play with texture.