Christmas House Open at San Rafael's West End Nursery

The famous Christmas House at San Rafael's West End Nursery is now open! We just checked it out yesterday, and it's a spectacular as ever. As a matter of fact, I think it might be there best effort to date! They've done a considerable amount of work to the layout of the house, making it more open and easier to explore.

The venerable West End Nursery has been operating in San Rafael's Sun Valley neighborhood since 1909. The Christmas House is located on the grounds of the nursery in a 100-year-old Victorian house. It's filled to the brim with Christmas trees and decorations, and it's pretty amazing. There are 50 lavishly decorated and lighted trees throughout several rooms, as well as candles, Santas, nutcrackers, angels, snowmen, and just about every seasonal decorative item imaginable. Each room has a different theme, including kitchen (located in the house's kitchen, naturally), baby's room, outdoors, and more.

Best of all, entry is free, but of course all the ornaments and decorative items are for sale. West End Nursery also stocks holiday wreaths and numerous other seasonal items, as well as a nice selection of cute children's gardening tools, gloves, watering cans, and games, all of which would make for great Christmas gifts.

The house itself is surrounded by and built in to the main West End Nursery building. To get to the Christmas House, walk in the main entrance, then turn left and go through the themed Christmas trees on display and up the stairs into the old house.

West End Nursey's Christmas House is always one of the nicest displays of its kind, so you owe it to yourself to go check it out. The West End Nursery and Christmas House is open daily from 8 am to 5 pm, and Sundays from 9 am to 4 pm, and will be on view until Christmas. They're located on the west side of San Rafael at 1938 Fifth Avenue between Eye and J Streets (see Google map below for directions). For more information, call them at (415) 454-4175.