Make Your Home “Christmas Tour-Worthy”

Christmas Home Tours of Texas List

As professional Christmas designers, we have a special appreciation for seeing a home decorated and transformed for Christmas. As a reader of this blog, you may have a special appreciation for a beautiful Christmas home too.

We’ve pulled together a list of 2016 Holiday Home Tours all across the state of Texas so that you can be inspired along with us, because some things need to be seen in person. This idea came after seeing the beautiful Atlanta Home for the Holidays Designer Showhouse & Marketplace (shown below).

 

 

We’re scheduling out the next few months to stay in Dallas and the DFW metroplex to custom decorate homes for Christmas, but we know many of you are planning to travel to other parts of the state for the fall and winter holidays. Stopping by a Holiday Home Tour during your travels or making the tour itself be a day-trip destination sounds fun to us.

If you are involved with one in your neighborhood or city, or love a tour that isn’t on this list, let us know so that we can add it. We loved seeing that Holiday Home Tours usually benefit a cause- whether that be a local elementary school, a woman’s club, or the city. If we can do good by feasting our eyes on interior design and Christmas design, we’re in our happy place!

• Lake Highlands– Holiday in the Highlands Home Tour presented by Lake Highlands Women’s League

December 2, 2016

“For 37 years, the Lake Highlands Women’s League has hosted Holiday in the Highlands, featuring a festive tour of homes in our neighborhood, a delicious luncheon, and marketplace brimming with everything you need to complete your shopping list for holiday gifts or entertaining.”

 

Baker Design Group Christmas Interior Design in Dallas

• Highland Park– Homes for the Holidays presented by ABPA Armstong Bradfield Preschool Association

December 2, 2016

“The 2016 will be the 18th annual tour. Armstrong Bradfield Preschool Association (ABPA) is a nonprofit that supports current and future families through social, community outreach, and fundraising programs to provide educational resources for the kindergarten and first grade classes at Armstrong and Bradfield in the Highland Park Independent School District.”

 

 

• Alexander Mansion on Ross Avenue– Holiday Elegance presented by Dallas Woman’s Forum

“In 2008, Forum past president Suzanne Palmlund spearheaded the first Holiday Home Tour, which gave the community an opportunity to view the historic Alexander Mansion in all of its Holiday splendor! In the following years, the Holiday Home Tour has grown into a true holiday tradition and a way of spreading joy for so many families!”

 

 

• Oak Cliff– Winnetka Heights Holiday Home Tour 

December 3, 2016

“The Winnetka Heights Home Tour is an important event for the entire North Oak Cliff community, as it showcases beautifully how the old and the new cannot only coexist, but can in fact thrive. As our neighborhoods juggle both the growing pains and benefits of development, this tour showcases that it’s the people who live in our historic neighborhoods that truly make them what they are today. We are defined by more than a proximity to the urban center and the amenities that it brings. We choose to be neighbors to one another and to be part of a community that respects the past but looks to the future and works to make it our own.”

 

 

• Colleyville– Holiday Home Tour presented by the Colleyville Woman’s Club

“Several homeowners graciously open their lovely homes to the public for one day only to help raise funds for CWC charities. The Tour attracts over 1,000 visitors to its prestigious homes each year. The Tour showcases a variety of homes and lifestyles, from magnificent mansions to homes with interesting interiors and unique architecture.”

 

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Baker Design Group Interior Design in Frisco

 

• Terrell– Christmas in a Small Town Sponsored by the Social Science Club of Terrell (est. 1894)

 

• Gainesville– Gainesville Holiday Home Tour Presented by Cooke County Heritage Society and the Morton Museum.

Proceeds from this event make scholarships and preservation of Cooke County history through the Morton Museum possible.

 

 

• McKinney- Holiday Tour of Homes 

“But the annual tour is about more than fundraising. Generations of North Texans have attended the tour, many falling in love with McKinney and returning to shop, dine and attend events. Many homeowners in McKinney’s Historic District cite their first Holiday Home Tour as they reason they moved to McKinney.”

 

• Grandbury-  Grandbury Candlelight Tour 

“Since December 1983, the community of Granbury has welcomed visitors to tour historic private residences and sites. Granbury, Texas, a place where Texas history lives every day, celebrates its culture this time of year in a truly magical way. During this event, the community bands together in an assemblage of lights, carriage rides, Christmas carols and treats. The city comes to life with an air of the days of old and the miracle of the Christmas spirit.”

• Jefferson- Candlelight Tour of Homes

“Experience the warmth of an old-fashioned Christmas during the 34th annual Candlelight Tour of Homes during the first two weekends in December —  Dec. 1 – 3 and Dec. 8 – 10, 2016 — in charming historic Jefferson, Texas. View lavish Victorian homes in the soft glow of candlelight. The fragrance of fresh fir trees, each glittering with tinsel, ribbon, and sparkling glass balls, wafts through rooms filled with sumptuous holiday decorations. Women in lovely hooped gowns and gentlemen in top hats and tails describe each home’s origins and finery.”

 

• Bastrop- Holiday Homes Tour presented by the Bastrop Historic Society

“For more than 40 years, the tour has showcased Bastrop’s historic past. This year’s tour is no exception. We hope you will enjoy this year’s tour of homes in Bastrop’s historic district.”

 

 

• Fredericksburg– Fredericksburg Holiday Home Tour benefitting the Pioneer Museum

“From 10:30 – 5:00. Christmas will be on display at seven unique homes in and around Fredericksburg. The homes on tour will all be decorated in their finest for the holidays. This is a self-guided tour; a booklet with the tour map and full description of each home can be picked up at the Pioneer Museum.”

 

• Georgetown– Georgetown Main Street Holiday Tour presented by the Georgetown Heritage Society

“The tour will feature five homes along Georgetown’s beautiful Main Street. Again this year the tour features a Saturday evening candlelight tour that will enable visitors to stroll along amid the warm glow of holiday lights and music. Grace Heritage Center will be the Hospitality Center. Hot cider and cookies along with tours of the historic chapel will be available on Saturday from 12 pm til 6 pm, and on Sunday, 11 am til 5 pm.”

• Houston- The Heights Holiday Tour

“Save the dates for a lovely holiday stroll down the 1300 block of Cortlandt and visit beautifully unique homes bedecked for the holidays during the Houston Heights Holiday Home Tour! Musicians and carolers will entertain visitors as they tour Heights homes decorated for the holidays.”

 

For even more Houston Neighborhoods and events, see this article by the Houston Chronicle.

 

 

We hope that you and your family can take advantage of the many Christmas home tours in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex or throughout the state! If seeing these Christmas decorating inspiration photos from some of our clients inspired you to make your own home “tour-worthy,” contact us today!