Holiday windows dressed in Christmas greenery, wreaths, floral arrangements, and even miniature woodland scenes are some of FLOWER magazine’s fan favorites. We’ve gathered the most “liked”, “shared”, and “pinned” holiday window decor for your decorating inspiration.
Holiday Windows: Indoors
“I wanted the window arrangement to look like it was scooped up in the forest and planted right in the box,” says Sybil Sylvester of one of FLOWER magazine’s most popular floral designs on Pinterest and Instagram. See more holiday decor from Alice and Bob Schleusner’s home in Birmingham, Alabama.
Photo by Laurey W. Glenn
In the home of Washington, DC event planners Rick Davis and Christopher Vazquez, an arrangement of amaryllis, pine cones, holly, and evergreens sits atop a circa 1800s trunk found at an antiques store. See more from this home filled with vintage-inspired holiday decor.
Photo by Jenn Verrier
Three simple wreaths hang in the farmhouse kitchen window under a pine-cone garland in Rick Davis and Christopher Vazquez’s kitchen. Bottles of greenery and feathers perch on the windowsill with four, small, vintage Christmas trees. See more of their home decorated for the season.
Photo by Jenn Verrier
In Jane Schwab’s garden room, concrete English urns overflow with a mix of greenery, and ribbon-wrapped wreaths adorn arched French windows. See more of the Schwab’s Charlotte, North Carolina home decorated for the holidays.
Photo by Laurey W. Glenn
The sun-drenched breakfast space at Christy and Scott Goudy’s home shows off a lively botanical print from Telafina on windows decorated with a classic Weston Farms Magnolia wreath. Diane Joyal of Bowerbird Flowers & Apothecary in Raleigh added a mix of white flowers in mercury glasses for the table. See more of the Goudy’s home.
Photo by Catherine Nguyen
Mila Hirsch enlisted two floral designers to help amp up the wow factor for her holiday decor—Katharine Davis of Offbeat Blooms, a new face in the local flower world, and Leah Hazzard of 3 Graces Design, an industry veteran who dresses houses in their Christmas best year after year. Davis and Hazzard made square wreaths for the dining room windows. See more from the Hirsch home.
Photo by Laurey W. Glenn
In the main staircase at Barry Dixon’s Elway Hall, a Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass window, original to the house, depicts flowers that Elway Hall’s first owner, Mrs. Baldwin Day Spillman, carried in her wedding bouquet. During the holidays a large wreath joins the flowers above a built-in bench on the landing. See more of Elway Hall decked out for the season.
Photo by Erik Kvalsvik
“Lafayette Botanical” fabric from Schumacher’s Colonial Williamsburg Collection creates a whimsical “garden” in the guest room of designer Heather Chadduck’s WILLIAMSBURG DESIGNER IN RESIDENCE property. As part of the holiday decor, she and Jimmie Henslee foraged greenery creating the three wreaths hung with a blue ribbon and other seasonal seasonal displays. See more of Heather’s Williamsburg Christmas decor.
Photo by David Hillegas
Holiday Windows: Outdoors
Festooned with cedar and Douglas fir garland punctuated with bright red bows, glass windows overlooking the courtyard of Stephanie Lynton’s home reflect the lights of a 13-foot blue spruce from Pine Hill Farm. See more of Lynton’s home in its holiday finest.
Photo by Hector Sanchez
Facing the terrace outside Jane Schwab’s garden room, a large holiday wreath of conifers and evergreens with with a gold bow hangs between a pair of narrow French windows. See more of Jane’s holiday decor.
Photo by Laurey W. Glenn
In a window box outside of Alice and Bob Schleusner’s home, floral designer Sybil Sylvester added cut branches of ilex berries that appear to grow among the winter plantings. See more Sybil’s holiday decor.
Photo by Laurey W. Glenn
“This was no small undertaking!” says decorator Mandi Smith T. She explains that it took four people, eight wreaths, and 150 feet of garland to decorate this home’s stately façade. See more of the Eckert home.
Photo by Laurey W. Glenn
A giant wreath—about six-foot tall—hanging outside a large window on the Hirsch home’s front facade, lights up as dusk approaches. See more Christmas decor at this Birmingham home.
Photo by Laurey W. Glenn
Floral designer Holly Carlisle designed this window wreath hanging outside the Spotswood house to speak to the colors inside with lunaria (money plant), an abundance of bronzed asparagus feathers, and flocked mitsumata. See more of artist Ashley Wiltshire Spotswood’s home.
Photo by David Hillegas
By Jason Burnett