Your fireplace mantle is a focal point of style and elegance in any living room. Decorating your mantle is easy once you figure out the style you’re after, if seasonal décor appeals to you, and which color palette will bring your items together. Here are a few ideas for elegant essentials to decorate your mantle with:
Mirrors
A large mirror is a timeless centerpiece for a fireplace mantle. Circular mirrors provide a wonderful contrast to the sharp angles of the fireplace.
Frames
Small frames and large frames of art or personal photographs are great focal points for any mantle. Large-framed pieces of art can also work as stunning centerpieces above the fireplace.
Figurines
Small and large figurines provide an interesting visual on a fireplace mantle, especially if they are hand-carved or provide significant meaning to you or your family.
Vases
Large vases serve as weighted visuals on fireplace mantles of all sizes. Fill them with rocks, sand, sea shells, flowers, branches, or anything else you desire to display.
Lanterns
Place pillar candles inside artisan decorative lanterns, or fairy lights that you can turn on and off with a remote. Make sure to regularly dust these uniquely special items.
Greenery
Succulents and cacti are particularly popular and on-trend in home décor at the moment. Find a faux plant that works for your style year-round.
How to Style Your Mantle
Create a balanced and visually pleasing mantle by styling your décor thoughtfully and intentionally. Here are three tips for getting a stylish mantle without the help of an interior decorator:
Choose an Anchor
Pick a large centerpiece as the anchor for your mantle décor. This focal point connects the rest of your decorative accents without competing for attention. The anchor should be centered on or above the mantle. Mirrors, frames, clocks, wreathes, and art are popular anchors for mantle décor.
Add Weight to Both Sides
After centering your anchor, select two or three tall objects of varied heights for added weight to both sides of the mantle, preferably shorter than your anchor in height. Candlesticks, figurative sculptures, vases, and other items are stylish weighted décor. They don’t need to match, but they should follow a theme.
Fill It Out
Fill the rest of the mantle with smaller pieces that carry some interest but don’t detract from the rest of the décor. Books, photo frames, candles, and plants generate depth and texture. Overlap the objects to create additional interest and make it seem less like a museum display and more like a natural collection of your favorite objects.
About Willow Tree
Providing an intimate line of figurines and sculptures that speak in quiet ways to display the love of family and the quiet joy that love brings to life, Willow Tree has inspired gift-giving since 1999. Artist Susan Lordi hand carves each original figure from her studio in Kansas City, Missouri. Without facial expressions, these beautiful figurines depict emotion through gestures only… a tilt of the head, placement of the hands, a turn of the body. The simplicity of form and absence of facial features leave Willow Tree figures open for personal emotional interpretation. From her first figures nearly 20 years ago, Susan inspires meaningful gift-giving from the heart.
