The living room in our Blue Cottage is coming together. We still need curtains and I’m keeping my eyes out for two small chairs I want in front of our trunk coffee table, but today I finished decorating out mantel.
I’ve never had a mantel before, and I’ve really been looking forward to being able to decorate it for every season.
I used a whole bunch of things to decorate our mantel:
- real pumpkins, big and small
- fake leaves
- a silver cup and tea kettle
- an antique book
- a clock
- 2 ceramic apples
- 2 fall-themed signs
- a fall-themed flag
- a milk glass vase
- 2 metal finials
I wish the lighting in these pictures would be better, but we’re surrounded by so many trees that the whole house is pretty dark, and I didn’t feel like dragging lamps downstairs.
There are many more pressing things that need to be finished first, but I’d eventually love to encase the top of our fireplace with wood to have a straighter surface.
It’s such a big fireplace, I think it will look great with a chunky mantel.
I’m deciding between white-washing the wood or dark wood, what do you think?
This wooden shovel is from Saturday’s tag sale — I paid $3 for it.
And this is what the whole fireplace looks like.
Do you decorate for fall?
