After nearly a month of voting, it looks like the spirit of the season won the hearts of Western Living readers:

A Christmas Carol is your 2024 Western Living Home of the Year!

Congratulations to Kimberly Jones of Kimberly Jones Lifestyle, whose team renovated the Victoria-based home, and followed up with a heart-warming holiday decor scheme that, as writer Alyssa Hirose noted, celebrates that classic Christmas tale, A Christmas Carol. “Instead of getting caught up in current trends, this home keeps its halls fully decked in historic architecture, nostalgic materials and timeless patterns,” writes Hirose. “In fact, embracing some of the more old-fashioned details is what makes each room so stylish. ‘Classic is classic,’ says Jones. ‘It’ll always come around.’”

Wish Upon a Star The boys’ room is packed with adorable details (like the light-up star garland in the window, which glows from the inside out).
Photo: Tina Kulic

The home is so festive and welcoming, in fact, that Jones says the clients’ extended family flooded in to cele­brate Christmas. “The classic, layered, traditional feel really draws everyone in,” says the designer. “It was a nice compliment, I think, to know that everyone felt like this was the most fitting house to go to.”

Photo: Tina Kulic

Read all about the home below – and once again, a huge congrats to Kimberly Jones Lifestyle for capturing our 2024 Western Living Home of the Year!

Homes for the Holidays: A Victoria Family Home Gets Decked Out for Christmas Past, Present and Future

By Alyssa Hirose/Photos by Tina Kulic

Every guilty-pleasure Christmas movie has a character who loves tradition. Sometimes it’s the small-town heartthrob who’s destined to take over the family tree farm, or the cheeky grandma who won every holiday pageant in her youth. In this Victoria-based renovation story, the champion of tradition is interior designer Kimberly Jones of Kimberly Jones Lifestyle.

Photo: Tina Kulic

The city’s Uplands neighbourhood makes for a festive setting, too. “It has a classical, old-world feel—meandering streets, lampposts, deer walking across the roads—that just so naturally lends itself to Christmas,” says the designer. The clients, a young family of five, turned to Jones to transform the new-to-them 1947 house… but not to update it, exactly. Instead of stripping away the storied architecture, Jones and builder Novus Properties layered the existing design with elements that emphasized the home’s history—and created a cozy backdrop for traditions old and new.

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