Metal Christmas Sign Personalized With Your Family Name And Established Year

A traditional farmhouse Christmas welcome sign printed on stretched canvas or aluminum, personalized with your family surname and your established year, ready to hang out of the box.

Every other decoration goes back in the box in January. This one has your name on it.

Red And Green Christmas, The Way It Is Supposed To Look

CHRISTMAS runs across the middle in deep red, set in an ornate hand lettered serif with long swashes curling out of the C and the S. Welcome to sits above it in a fine green script, your family name runs underneath in solid green capitals, and EST. and your year sit either side on the baseline. Green filigree scrolls into all four corners. The background is a weathered white painted plank with the grain and the wear printed into it.

It is the classic palette, red and green and white, with nothing modern or muted about it. If your December runs to real garland, red berries and a wreath on the door, this is the sign that matches what you already put out.

Rustic Farmhouse Christmas Decor That Is Not Generic

Most farmhouse Christmas decor is bought by the armful and thrown out by February. This is the piece in the room that has your name on it, so it comes back out every year and goes in the same spot. Put it with real garland, a galvanized bucket of pine, red berries and a wreath on the door and it reads as the anchor of the arrangement rather than one more thing on the shelf.

It suits a rustic farmhouse, a modern farmhouse with black hardware and white walls, a cabin, or any room that already runs to weathered wood and warm metal the other eleven months of the year.

What You Put On It

Two things, and we set them into the artwork before printing. Your family surname runs in green capitals across the bottom. Your established year sits on the right, balanced against EST. on the left. Use the year you married, the year you bought the house, or the year your family started counting. Nobody asks and the sign does not explain.

Short names sit large and open. Longer names are set a little tighter so the whole name stays on one line and stays readable from the far side of the room. Send the spelling exactly as you want it printed, capitals and all, and that is what we set.

The Poinsettia Spray

Across the centre, under the lettering, there is a gathered spray of red poinsettias, brown pinecones, holly leaves, red winter berries, pine and a pale sage foliage running through it. It is painted rather than photographed, so it sits with the hand lettering instead of fighting it. This is the detail that separates this sign from our coastal version, which carries a starfish and pearls in the same spot.

Where It Goes

It is a welcome piece, so it earns its keep where people arrive. An entry, a front hall, over a console by the door, above a mantel, or on a covered porch wall if you take the aluminum. It also does the job in a cabin or a rental, where guests should know whose place they have walked into.

Canvas Or Metal

Stretched canvas is the indoor choice. Warm, a little texture, right for a hall or a mantel where nothing is going to get rained on.

Aluminum is the one if it goes anywhere near weather, including a covered porch, a screened room or an exposed entry wall. It handles sun, cold and damp, and salty sea air is not a problem either.

What Arrives

✔ Personalized with your family surname and your established year, set into the design before printing

✔ Seven sizes from 16x8 inches up to 48x24 inches, in stretched canvas or aluminum

✔ Stretched canvas is gallery wrapped over a solid wood frame, with the artwork carried around the edges, so no picture frame is needed

✔ Aluminum is 3mm aluminum composite, rigid and weather ready, for porches and exposed walls

✔ Mounting hardware included, so it hangs straight out of the packaging

✔ Designed in Michigan, made to order in North America

✔ Free shipping to the USA and Canada

Honest About The Materials

The weathered plank background is printed artwork, not carved timber. There are no boards and no grooves in the surface, and nothing in the artwork can warp, split or need refinishing. You get the look of an old painted plank sign without the upkeep real planks ask for.

The canvas version is gallery wrapped over a solid wood frame, so there is real timber in that build. The metal version uses none. Our signs are made of aluminum. There is no embossing, raised lettering, or engraved lettering on our signs. They are graphically printed to look as if they have those effects.

Questions About This Personalized Christmas Sign

What exactly do I get to personalize?

Two fields. Your family surname across the bottom and your established year on the right. Tailor Made Rooms sets both into the artwork before anything is printed, so the type is part of the design rather than stuck on top of it.

How is this different from your coastal Christmas sign?

Same layout, different centre and different palette. This one carries red poinsettias, pinecones and holly in traditional red and green. Tailor Made Rooms also makes a coastal version with a starfish and pearls in that spot, and a beach version in sea blue on driftwood. Pick the one that matches the room rather than the one that matches the season.

What year should I use for the established date?

Whichever one means something. Most people use a wedding year or the year they moved in. There is no wrong answer.

Will a long last name still fit?

Yes. Tailor Made Rooms adjusts the letter spacing so the name stays on one line and stays legible. A longer name simply sits a little tighter. If you are unsure how yours will look, ask us before you order and we will tell you straight.

Can I hang it outside?

Choose the aluminum if you want to. It is built for a covered porch, a screened room or an exposed entry wall, and it handles sun, cold, damp and salt air. The stretched canvas is an indoor material and weather will ruin it, so keep that one in the hall.

Is it real wood?

The plank look is not. Tailor Made Rooms prints the weathered white wood finish onto the canvas or onto 3mm aluminum composite, so the grain and the wear are part of the image. The canvas version is stretched over a solid wood frame, so that build does use real timber. The metal version uses none.

What size should I order?

Measure whatever it will hang above and aim for roughly two thirds of that width in artwork. Over a standard console or mantel that usually lands at 30x15 or 36x18 inches. For a narrow entry wall, 16x8 or 20x10 inches is plenty. Cut the size out of painters tape and stick it on the wall first. It costs nothing and it settles the question.

Does it arrive ready to hang?

Yes. Mounting hardware is included with both materials.

NOTE: Measure your space carefully with a tape measure. We are not responsible for the wrong size ordered. Use our size guide here.

*Our design features a flat image, without any beveling, embossing, engraving, or raised letters.