This Georgia Cottage Is 2,000 Square Feet Of Holiday Cheer

For this home's architecture, Southern Living Editor-at-Large and interior designer James Farmer of James Farmer Designs was inspired by the old post office near his grandfather's family farm in Leroy, Alabama. The Atlanta design firm Spitzmiller and Norris, Inc., helped interpret the rural vernacular of that old pine- and cedar-clad structure and turn it into a home. (It's a Southern Living House Plan, so you can build it too!) This little cottage, in his hometown of Perry, Georgia, is a dream come true for Farmer. For the Christmas season, he puts a twist on traditional decor. Mixed in with the deep reds and classic greens of nandina and magnolia cuttings are festive jolts of citrusy orange, lime green, and—as his mama used to call it—"carl" (coral, to the rest of us).

Here, Farmer gives us a tour of his small cottage that's packed full of Southern holiday cheer.