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    <description>Christmas decor includes a Christmas tree, ornaments, Christmas textiles, and string lights. Get into the holiday spirit with charming homes and festive decorating ideas!</description>
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      <title>Christmas spirit fills this Finnish wooden home, adorned with Annika’s handmade evergreen decorations: “There must be candles everywhere”</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Annika and Kalevi bought their wooden house when they were young and have completed many renovations. As Christmas approaches, Annika starts crafting wreaths and garlands and dresses the home with flowers and candles. You’ll find Annika’s ceiling wreath tutorial at the end of the story!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Villa Vappu’s candy-colored Christmas—“I’d always dreamed of a pink kitchen, and now it’s here”</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Minttu Mattsson bought a near tear-down in Hanko, Finland, as a second home for her family. The renovated Villa Vappu will now host the family’s Christmas for the first time.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>14 Christmas-ready wood stoves—peek inside cozy Finnish homes</title>
      <description><![CDATA[An old wood stove is the pride of the kitchen—and it simmers the very best Christmas porridge. It’s beautiful on its own too, as a serving surface or a base for holiday vignettes. We gathered 14 beautiful wood stoves from real homes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>This season’s hit: the mandarin Christmas tree—make an easy, showstopping centerpiece for your Christmas table</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A mandarin Christmas tree is a beautiful, fragrant table decoration best made with small, firm mandarins. Arrange the fruit on a pedestal platter in the shape of a tree using wooden skewers.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Christmas for nine in a former coaching inn where the tree glows across the whole downstairs</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A former coaching inn and care home in Jyväskylä, Finland, is full of lively, bustling life. For the Eskelinen family of nine, the magic of Christmas comes from tradition.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Make a show-stopping napkin flower—watch the easy folding tutorial!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Fold a napkin into a beautiful flower. Tuck a bloom made from a large cloth napkin into your place setting beneath the soup plate. Watch the video for the instructions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>This tree won’t drop a single needle: Marsa crocheted a Christmas tree from about 300 granny squares</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A real Christmas tree and asthma don’t quite go together—and the dogs wouldn’t leave the tree alone either. So what’s the solution? That’s what Marsa Valtonen, 70, was pondering a couple of years ago. And that’s how the idea for the granny square Christmas tree was born.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A blue-and-red Christmas inside a former infants’ ward—“The entryway chaos doesn’t matter, because none of us spends Christmas there anyway”</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Finnish interiors writer Seija Killström loves Christmas. For her, it’s all about cherished traditions, loved ones, and ever-changing decorations. This year, the family’s Christmas is blue.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>“There’s just something about a home like this”—3 Finnish Christmas homes that enchanted our readers</title>
      <description><![CDATA[An ocher-yellow log house, a new single-family home built in a traditional style, and an old Ostrobothnian house complete with classic Finnish rag rugs. These festive homes charmed our readers!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Roll your own beeswax candles: 6 easy projects</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beeswax candles come together easily by rolling and stacking beeswax sheets. Set up a little craft station and make the most eco-friendly candles of the season! You’ll also find instructions for fun candle holders.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>In Fiskars, a historic steward’s house brings Charlotta’s children and grandchildren together for Christmas: “The tree’s twinkle is visible all through the home”</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Interior designer Charlotta Savander has renovated the family’s old house, blending Scandi style and antiques. The Christmas decorations are thoughtfully black, beige, and white.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A new house that cherishes the old: seven kids, a church pew, and a 100-year-old floor</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It doesn’t take much to set the mood, even if this busy entrepreneurial couple leaves Christmas prep to the last minute. The kids get to decorate two trees, and the forest around the house is a treasure trove for evergreen decorations.
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.kotona.com/articles/vahajylkka-family-christmas-home</link>
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      <title>Make it a blue Christmas: 5 inspiring ideas for table settings and decorating</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Blue is an elegant color—and a Finnish favorite. It’s perfect for Christmas, too. Gather your prettiest plates and cups into a wreath or table setting, and flip a cup upside down to hold a candle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Tsaikka glasses are a Christmas classic—so what does a zipper manufacturer have to do with them?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Say “Tsaikka” and you can smell the spicy scent of Christmas. The classic mulled-wine glass might never have existed without a meeting between a zipper manufacturer and Timo Sarpaneva.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>4 charming cottages—peek inside Finnish homes where Christmas feels a little more like Christmas</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We picked little red cottages and gray log cottages where Christmas is celebrated by candlelight and the glow of the bread oven.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>14 beautiful Christmas decorating ideas to set the mood at home</title>
      <description><![CDATA[When it comes to Christmas decorations, more is often more. Add pieces little by little until your home wakes up on Christmas Eve morning in full splendor. Start setting the mood by lighting a candle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>6 inspiring ideas for a red Christmas table</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A red table setting completes the best moment of Christmas. Choose checks, stripes, or frills—or all at once.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>When Christmas moves in: 9 enchanting Finnish homes to delight and inspire</title>
      <description><![CDATA[An evergreen bouquet on the table, a decorative deer vignette, and a cluster of paper rosettes—the magic of Christmas springs from small details. Take a peek at photos of gorgeously atmospheric Finnish homes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A house that sat empty for 35 years stopped Salla in her tracks: “I was only thinking about how to make it mine”</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Salla and her family gave the abandoned farmhouse a second chance. At Christmas, aesthetics come first, just as they do on every other day of the year. “If you get your hands on a 175‑year‑old house, don’t ruin it” is Salla’s guiding principle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Mia snagged her dream rental in the Lappeenranta fortress: “This really is a dream come true”</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mia and Olli live in a former barracks building in the historically significant Lappeenranta fortress area, located in Eastern Finland. A home in this very building had been Mia’s dream for years and the result of persistent effort.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>“Oh my goodness, how beautiful!”—3 festive homes our readers fell for</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Alli’s traditional wooden house, the fairytale-like Villa Tilda, and the 100-year-old Marjamäki cottage. Our Finnish readers fell for the atmosphere in these festive homes and cabins—step inside!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Inside their 100-year-old cottage, this couple finds Christmas peace: “Sometimes we feel like time has gone backward”</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a small red cottage in the middle of the forest, candles flicker at Christmastime while old, familiar Christmas carols play. Marjamäki cottage is the fulfillment of Katri and Jarkko’s dreams.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A “perfectly scruffy” tree, a candy buffet, and great-grandfather’s gingerbread recipe—this family’s Christmas is full of fun traditions</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Suveka’s Christmas tree has to have character—it should never be too perfect. The same spirit flows through the family home, where natural materials meet secondhand finds.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Over 50 Aarikka wooden elves set Johanna’s Christmas mood: “I can spot a real Aarikka elf in an instant”</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Johanna Lahti started collecting wooden elves after receiving one as a Christmas gift from her sister-in-law. Now her home holds at least fifty elves—plus a few forgotten in the basement. “Every elf has its own story, and I remember them all.”]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Nutcrackers are trending: 7 inspiring ideas for the classic decoration</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In a Finnish log house, Christmas preparations begin well in advance—Meri, a cancer researcher, wants to bask in the atmosphere whenever she’s home. That’s when mulled wine is poured, and the mulled wine season lasts for half the year.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This family home sits a stone’s throw from Porvoo’s historical Old Town in Southern Finland. In the red-ochre-hued house, the Christmas tree arrives already at the beginning of December. The wood surfaces that define the home’s character were left untouched in its renovation.]]></description>
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      <title>Make a charming paper star in five minutes: the easiest Christmas decoration</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This super-easy star decoration is quick to assemble from simple paper bags. Hang it in a window or adorn your home with a cluster of stars!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kati and Sampo’s farmhouse is getting ready for Christmas in the midst of a renovation. The barrel stove warms the house, and the plank floors creak as the family celebrates Christmas in the countryside.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A spruce top grown in a nearby forest is the most environmentally friendly choice among Christmas trees. Still, there are several other factors to consider when choosing a tree, reflects Elisa Miinin.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[For many Christmas seasons, 68-year-old Riitta Koistinen has built a Christmas elf wonderland on her outdoor terrace, featuring various elf characters.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Craft a durable perpetual advent calendar using laminated veneer lumber. Move the chimney to count how many days are left until Christmas!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Make room for elves, and don't forget the color red! Grab these red Christmas ideas that come with a touch of elf magic.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Finnish Kirsi Tenhunen turned a former farmhand’s house into a delightful DIYer’s cottage. This inventive decorator keeps the winter gloom at bay with candles and star lights hung in the windows.]]></description>
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