Styling: 10 Ways to Decorate a Christmas Mantelpiece
Show your fireplace some seasonal love by decorating the mantelpiece with all things fun and festive
While the Christmas tree is often the focus of our seasonal decorations, it’s worth exploring the other, permanent features of our rooms to see which of them are ripe for a festive makeover. Shelves, front doors and staircase handrails look lovely dripping with decorations or swathed in evergreen boughs, but easiest of all to transform is the mantelpiece. From a cluster of twinkling candles to a more-is-more design of baubles, branches and berries, there is a style to suit any mantelpiece in any space. This roundup of Yuletide mantel recipes will get you started.
Ramp up the red
Red and white create a bold yet tasteful Christmas theme. Mix in a mixture of candles, baubles, lanterns and other ornaments to create a layered look with depth and interest.
Red and white create a bold yet tasteful Christmas theme. Mix in a mixture of candles, baubles, lanterns and other ornaments to create a layered look with depth and interest.
Go for baubles
This bauble-bedecked mantelpiece decoration is a great example of how to stylishly integrate baubles into your décor. The silver ornaments and white branches give the illusion of snow in a tasteful and understated manner that is both festive and perfectly pitched.
This bauble-bedecked mantelpiece decoration is a great example of how to stylishly integrate baubles into your décor. The silver ornaments and white branches give the illusion of snow in a tasteful and understated manner that is both festive and perfectly pitched.
Send it Scandi
Channel some chic Nordic style and deck your mantelpiece with a mix of white and silver pieces. Stars, bare branches and animal figures suit this kind of scheme (think deer, foxes and owls), and the potted branches add to the winter forest feel.
Channel some chic Nordic style and deck your mantelpiece with a mix of white and silver pieces. Stars, bare branches and animal figures suit this kind of scheme (think deer, foxes and owls), and the potted branches add to the winter forest feel.
Make it angelic
This simple design of warm fairy lights and glassware looks unobtrusive and does not distract from the main event — a set of feathery angel wings hanging on the wall above.
Enjoy some whimsical decorating ideas
This simple design of warm fairy lights and glassware looks unobtrusive and does not distract from the main event — a set of feathery angel wings hanging on the wall above.
Enjoy some whimsical decorating ideas
Beautify with bell jars
Arranging even humble objects inside a bell jar, cloche or glass jar helps to order them and give them impact as a display. Here, baubles are contained inside a bell jar, while tiny present decorations are heaped inside a lidded glass jar, turning them into a very simple but stylish Christmas mantel decoration.
Arranging even humble objects inside a bell jar, cloche or glass jar helps to order them and give them impact as a display. Here, baubles are contained inside a bell jar, while tiny present decorations are heaped inside a lidded glass jar, turning them into a very simple but stylish Christmas mantel decoration.
Celebrate with salvaged style
Salvaged pieces and homemade decorations give a mantelpiece a warm, homespun feel. Here, repurposed metal baskets line the mantel and walls, filled with festive decorations. Holly and seasonal branches complete this easy, unpretentious look.
Salvaged pieces and homemade decorations give a mantelpiece a warm, homespun feel. Here, repurposed metal baskets line the mantel and walls, filled with festive decorations. Holly and seasonal branches complete this easy, unpretentious look.
Reserve for Santa’s stockings
The fireplace is Father Christmas’s route into your home, so big this up by hanging stockings, ready to be stuffed with presents, from the mantelpiece. They make a great decoration on their own, although a row of fairy lights running along the mantel, too, never goes amiss.
The fireplace is Father Christmas’s route into your home, so big this up by hanging stockings, ready to be stuffed with presents, from the mantelpiece. They make a great decoration on their own, although a row of fairy lights running along the mantel, too, never goes amiss.
Spell it out
Here, some festive bunting emphasises the season in hessian and black. There’s certainly no missing the fact that it’s Christmas in this home. Decorations on top of the mantel are the cherry on top of the icing, creating a warm and glowing festive feel.
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Here, some festive bunting emphasises the season in hessian and black. There’s certainly no missing the fact that it’s Christmas in this home. Decorations on top of the mantel are the cherry on top of the icing, creating a warm and glowing festive feel.
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Share your suggestions for seasonal mantelpiece decorations in the Comments below.
Candles are a key ingredient of Christmas, providing atmospheric, flickering light that really warms a space. So feel free to make candles the heart of your mantelpiece design. Mix up the sizes, and use a combination of pillar candles that stand alone and small candles and tea lights in decorative holders for a simple design that creates a glowing welcome.