Modern Mountain Holidays at HGTV Dream Home 2019
Discover HGTV Dream Home 2019 decked out for the holiday season featuring modern mountain flair, festive rustic decor, and stunning outdoor spaces perfect for entertaining.

Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Photo By: Robert Peterson, Rustic White Photography
Take the Long View
When you’re decorating a room—especially when it’s a large, open space like this great room—it helps to stand back and get an overview of the entire area before you decide you’re “done”. Let your eyes sweep the space, the way your guests’ eyes will. Your goal is to have a little something to surprise and delight everywhere the eye rests (without going overboard, of course).
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Seasonal Color Scheming
What if the colors in your year-round decorating don’t look great with red and green? No worries: It’s easy to find holiday baubles and more in virtually every color of the rainbow—even ones that work beautifully with the great room’s western-inspired shades of terracotta and taupe. Also, don’t feel constrained by “traditional” décor choices. Add personality with off-beat and fun elements, like a cowboy hat tree topper.
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Get Creative with Gifts
Choose wrapping paper, ribbon, and other gift-adornments that coordinate with your holiday decorating color scheme. Then, arrange presents beneath and around your tree so they’ll add an enticing design element until the big day.
Make a Match (But Not Exactly)
Triple Up
Sometimes, one tree just isn’t enough. In a space as grand as this one, a single tree might get a bit lost against the soaring glass backdrop. Flanking the main tree with two smaller ones that are set back a bit helps to make a big impact, and create a sense of depth.
Leave No Surface Behind
Go Green
One of the easiest ways to add holiday flair—fast!—is to use nature’s decorations: swags and garlands of fresh evergreens. They’re even a perfect choice for the dining table, where gracefully drooping branches make softly scented vase fillers.
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Make Every Seat Special
Go the extra mile to create an inviting dining atmosphere to elevate holiday meals. Soft cushions on the seats add color and comfort, and a mini wreath hanging over the back lends a “guest of honor” accent to each chair.
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Stay on the Level
Keep it Neutral
A palette of crisp neutrals—black and white, for example—can create a clean, modern backdrop for holiday entertaining. Layer on plenty of silver and gold, plus some hints of green or red for a look that’s seasonal, but sophisticated.
Get High (and Low)
Consider the Views
If you can see from one room into the next—or from a window or door to an outside entertaining area—it’s wise to check how your décor looks as viewed from afar. Here, the design team created a charming outdoor vignette, perfectly framed first by the indoor window treatments and then by a pair of bedecked trees.
Bring the Indoors Outside
Repeat a Motif
Warm it Up
Set a New Scene
Each separate entertaining zone is an opportunity to use a new color scheme. For the patio seating area, which is set off from the house, the design team switched from the terracotta and taupe scheme used inside and on the deck to a jaunty red, white, and blue combo. Greenery and that trusty cowboy hat tie the look to the indoor styling.
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Play with Patterns
Go for the Garlands
Balance Warm and Cool
Go Big
The holidays are the perfect time to go a little over the top with your decorating. Big statements like masses of baubles draped across a mantel or a reindeer figure standing in the middle of a seating area help create a truly special scene. Just keep your “wow” moments to one or two per room or area—otherwise your holiday fun could veer into “Santa’s Workshop at the mall” territory.
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Take it Outside
Bring the Informal Elegance
Let Nature Inspire You
When choosing your table decor, consider repeating some of the details of the natural surroundings. Here, the design team chose vertical glass candlesticks that reference the site’s towering trees, as well as the wintery gleam of icicles. Evergreen boughs add softness to the tabletop—just as they do to the view from each seat.
Plan for Evening
Make it Easy
Frame the Picture
Garlands are for more than mantels and doorways: Here, a large, flocked-evergreen garland with a cheery seasonal message helps lend a sense of “destination” to a covered balcony seating area.
Create Multiple Focal Points
Think of it First
Warm it Up with a Rug
To make an outdoor living area—porch, patio, balcony—feel more like a “room,” gather furnishings on an indoor/outdoor area rug. The color and pattern will add a decorative element underfoot, and the durable material will stand up to rain, wind, snow, and spilled cocktails.
Turn up the Texture
Varying smooth, soft, and rough textures makes any space more interesting, and it’s especially appropriate in a rustic setting. Here, a DIY framework of rustic branches anchors rough twine streamers from which smooth and shiny metallic holiday balls dangle. Luxe chenille throws draped over the backs of the counter stools add still more tactile style.
Use What You Have
Do It Yourself
Craft a Grand Entrance
Make a bold impression on your guests right away by establishing your decorating theme at the front door. Here, the pair of mini-trees, the ornate garland, and the wreath hanger all display the warm terracotta and gold color scheme that continues in the great room, inside.
Expand Your Entertaining Areas
With a little creativity, you can add gathering areas all over the house, inside and out. A couple of chairs (piled with festive pillows and layered with throws, of course) and a few decorative accents are all it takes to make an inviting nook right beside the front door.
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Holiday Decorating Pro Tip
Look for battery-powered faux greenery that you can re-use each year to reduce waste and extension cord hassles.
Keep Your Balance
Add Some Artwork
Make it Merry
Even the most utilitarian space (like an entryway bench) can sparkle with the season if you add some special touches. Here, a fleecy throw fancies up the boot bench; greenery and a row of sparkly white mini trees helps define the ledge a top a half wall, and a line of stockings is promise of the special night to come.
No Fireplace? No Worries
Remember Usability
Indulge in Creature Comforts
Pair Patterns with Ease
Highlight the Windows
Counter Color with Neutrals
To add holiday cheer to an already richly colored room, instead of layering on competing brights, your best bet is often to take the opposite tack, sticking with neutrals, metallics, or—as the design team did here—liberal dollops of crisp white.
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Welcome in Nature
Let it Snow
What better way to celebrate the season than with a little snow—indoors? Faux snow is inexpensive, and reusable, and perfect for transforming any surface into a mini winter wonderland. Here, the design team added a forest of flocked trees and a vase overflowing with baby’s breath to complete the snowy scene.
Go Vertical
Incorporate the Unexpected
Match the Room
Make it Modern
When choosing elements for holiday decorations, keep the style of your space in mind. In the bonus room, which has a sleek, contemporary look (despite the vintage ski-house accents), the design team layered on the holiday charm, but stuck with a cool palette of blue and white, with a few touches of black and gray. The result strikes just the right note for the room.
Dress Another Tree
Treat secondary living spaces to their very own trees—it’s a great chance to branch out from your main decorating color scheme and style to try something new and different. In the bonus room the design team used cool blues and swaths of silver create a glam look on the tree and at the window, with a large white wreath.
Swap Out the Pillows
Wrap Some Presents
Remember the Kids
Flock On
Greenery covered with white “snow”, or flocking, takes your holiday style over the top into winter-wonderland territory, no matter what climate you live in. If you want to apply your own flocking, look artificial spray snow at a craft store or holiday store, and follow the directions on the can carefully.