Decorate Your Mantel for Winter
One favorite holiday tradition is to decorate your fireplace mantle. Create fun displays that last though the cold months by focusing on winter colors, flowers and motifs. Here are a few ideas from HGTV.
Let It Snow
Andrea Schuneman makes an enchanting snowy display using framed photo prints and white vases. After layering a large mirror, the vases and picture frames, Andrea still had space to fill, so she found a quote she liked and put it on a lattice-framed chalkboard. A teeny hourglass is a reminder that spring is right around the corner.
Sleek, Shiny and Silver
Silver often plays second fiddle to its more audacious golden cousin when it’s time to break out the holiday decor, but don’t overlook this shining shade. In this display from Pottery Barn, just a few candles are enough to create a gauzy glow, thanks to silver’s reflective sheen. It’s all about brightness here: Crystal spheres, shimmering snowflakes and delicate white flowers shooting from etched-silver pots add up to create a warm and wintry fireplace focal point.
Sparkling Snowflakes
Snowflake candleholders, decorations and scrapbook-paper snowflakes make Gina Martello’s mantel a charming display. Inspired by cold, snowy weather, Gina keeps the arrangement simple with two hurricane vases filled with silver berry garlands and a white metal container filled with pinecones collected on a trip to Maine. An empty wooden frame creates the perfect backdrop for the arrangement’s centerpiece — a large shimmering star from Pier 1.
Borrow From Nature
Decor Adventures’ Jessica Wangelin dreamed of lush greenery, so she adorned her mantel with thick pieces of faux garland layered with real evergreen branches and glitter-tipped pinecones. Instead of buying the antiqued mirror, she made one by cutting a door mirror, distressing it and then piecing it back together inside a poster frame.
