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Inside 2 sumptuous Summerside homes decorated for the holidays

Sara Fraser | CBC News | Posted: December 11, 2016 12:00 PM | Last Updated: December 11, 2016

'I've always loved Christmas'

Image | Christmas home decor

Caption: The pineapple is the universal symbol of welcome, no matter what the season. (Submitted by Eptek Centre)

Love tours of homes decorated for the holidays? Let's take a peek inside a couple of stately Summerside, P.E.I., mansions that are part of fundraising home tours this season.

George and Estelle Dalton

This three-bedroom Summerside home on Notre Dame Street was built as a working-man's house, the Daltons said, but has seen many additions since 1866 and now resembles a spread from Country Living Magazine.
Estelle Dalton chairs the Friends of Eptek Centre, which supports programming at the local museum. She and an army of friends and volunteers decorated the house, which took several days.
"I've always loved Christmas," Estelle Dalton said. "George's mother did too, and she had an open-door policy. Everyone was welcome."
The group gathered moss and branches from the woods to add fresh, aromatic touches, she said.
"I get a lot of my stuff at the dollar store — it's how you put it together," she shared, crediting her talented friends.

Image | George and Estelle Dalton's fireplace on Notre Dame Street, Summerside

Caption: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care. This soapstone fireplace was moved from the original Lefurgey House nearby, which was the Dalton home from the 1920s through 60s. (Submitted by Eptek Centre)

Image | vintage decorations

Caption: This tree is decorated top to bottom in vintage ornaments borrowed from a friend, Claude Arsenault. (Submitted by Eptek Centre)

Image | George & Estte Dalton's house

Caption: The kitchen is decorated with George Dalton's late mother's Christmas dishes. (Submitted by Eptek Centre)

Comme Chez Vous B&B

Wendell Cameron and André Cormier have opened their Summerside B&B, Comme Chez Vous, for Christmas tour fundraisers for the last decade, so they've amassed a lot of decor items, including two full-size Christmas trees and several smaller versions.
"I do enjoy decorating," said Cameron, adding, "I sometimes go a little over the top."
This year, they've decorated bedrooms in their 1929 craftsman each with a theme of Santa, Frosty the Snowman and mice.
"We've spent a fortune on batteries," joked Cameron.

Image | Comme Chez Vous B&B Summerside, P.E.I., bedroom

Caption: This bedroom at Comme Chez Vous B&B is decorated in a Santa theme. (Submitted by Wendell Cameron)

Image | Stuffed Christmas mice

Caption: Three costumed mice read themselves a Christmas story in the mouse-themed bedroom at Comme Chez Vous B&B. (Submitted by Wendell Cameron)

Image | Dining room at Comme Chez Vous B&B in Summerside, P.E.I.

Caption: The dining room at Comme Chez Vous is merry and bright. (Submitted by Wendell Cameron)

Image | Christmas table decor at Comme Chez Vous B&B in Summerside, P.E.I.

Caption: Crystal and gold accent the dining table at Comme Chez Vous. (Submitted by Wendell Cameron)

Image | Bathroom decorated for Christmas at Comme Chez Vous B&B in Summerside, P.E.I.

Caption: Even the bathrooms at Comme Chez Vous got the holiday treatment. (Submitted by Wendell Cameron)

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