Polished Casual Christmas Mantle

by Nicki Parrish @ Sweet Parrish Place

Today, I wanted to show you some up close and personal details of our mantle all decorated for Christmas. I thought the mantle was complete, but after a couple of days, I decided to add just a little more to it, and I am in love with the end result! It is my favorite mantle I have ever done for Christmas.

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I didn’t really have a vision for how I wanted this mantle to look. I got started by laying out all of my Christmas décor that I brought down from the attic (that is how I started the entire process of Christmas decorating). And then I just started playing with different shapes and textures and putting things up and taking them down until I saw a clear direction for how this was going.

I filled my lantern with colorful ornaments (some glittered, some not) in red, two shades of gold, green, and three different shades of blue. This gold foil tree was also purchased at Target’s after Christmas sale. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was going on my mantle. I think it adds the perfect touch of kitsch.

I purchased the stockings and the stocking holders at Target last year on the day after Christmas. LC bought me this rustic barn beam mantle for Christmas last year, and I thought the tweed and red stockings would look pretty hanging from it. I hung these fancy initials on each stocking. One for each family member.

And here is the final version of my mantle. I decided to add a string of white lights. I just laid them all across the mantle, kind of messy like. And I have to say, the glow they give off both during the day and at night is perfect!