GIVE YOUR MANTEL A SUMMER MAKE-OVER
Want to freshen up your décor for summer? Celebrate summer by giving your mantel a 15-minute summer makeover, it really takes just minutes to re-decorate your focal point in the room.
We have quite a lot going on here at FrenchGardenHouse, in between the usual summer buying trips, trips to market to source fall and holiday collections, working with our floral wholesalers to design and create our fall and holiday faux botanicals line, our youngest daughter is getting married late July!
You can only imagine how excited we are! I'm saving up antique handkerchiefs as we speak, because, just between you and me, I cry at every wedding. So I can only imagine how much I'll cry when my beauty marries her darling love!
Needless to say, this summer my decorating is all about easy. simple. and quick!
Redecorating your mantel for summer has huge payoffs. Every time you walk by your mantel, you’ll get a little summery spark in your heart! Your mantel display is the eye-catching focal point of your room, so decorating it in a fresh, light and breezy way is the name of the game.
It doesn't take too much time, as you can see in my super-easy mantel in the living room here at FrenchGardenHouse. The weather is too beautiful to fuss with things inside, go outside and enjoy the sun! I hope my easy mantel will inspire you to create something alluring in your own home.
You don't have to clear your mantel and start all over when decorating for summer. I have these antique candlesticks on my mantel almost year round, so I just build a seasonal display around them. Because they are a little heavy visually for summer, I decided to only add just a few light, summery things along with them for this mantel.
Delightfully simple, I began by placing an antique transferware plate in a delicious color of soft lavender purple on a clear lucite stand in the center. It's the perfect choice, since it's the same lovely color of our new Les Belles Fleurs lavender topiaries that I placed on each side.
The topiaries are perfect, a touch of outdoors but without the need to water!
Then I tucked a few seasonal elements into the display, that's how I change areas in my own home. To further heighten the "summer" feel of the mantel, I added a few white shells we found at the beach a few weeks ago with our little people.
Do lavender and seashells go together? Not necessarily, but I like it! {and they hide the base of the lucite stand that holds the plate.} That's the beauty of making your home reflect your own style, you can do whatever you love and ignore stuffy rules that others might take into account!
Soft and serene, this traditional symmetrical display is intriguing yet delightfully simple. Along with the candlesticks, the center plate, the lavender topiaries and a sprinkling of shells , they make the perfect summer statement.
You can easily make your own version of this, using a center decorative plate, and two topiaries or live plants. Done! How easy is that?
Because right across from the mantel, I have this grand bouquet of our Les Belles FrenchGardenHouse Fleurs faux Columbine! These are so gorgeous, wild, and looking just like they do when cut from a garden in the south of France. I love these, sadly, I think we are down to our last few sets....I can't get them anymore as they are too costly to reproduce.
DO YOU REDECORATE YOUR MANTEL FOR THE SUMMER SEASON? WE'D LOVE TO KNOW HOW!
Shop for the best in French Antiques, furniture with the patina of age, vintage accessories to delight you and your family & friends, and French Country utilitarian pieces. Treasures that make your home fresh, beautiful, inspirational and uniquely yours. Visit our shop FrenchGardenHouse.com
We have quite a lot going on here at FrenchGardenHouse, in between the usual summer buying trips, trips to market to source fall and holiday collections, working with our floral wholesalers to design and create our fall and holiday faux botanicals line, our youngest daughter is getting married late July!
You can only imagine how excited we are! I'm saving up antique handkerchiefs as we speak, because, just between you and me, I cry at every wedding. So I can only imagine how much I'll cry when my beauty marries her darling love!
Needless to say, this summer my decorating is all about easy. simple. and quick!
Redecorating your mantel for summer has huge payoffs. Every time you walk by your mantel, you’ll get a little summery spark in your heart! Your mantel display is the eye-catching focal point of your room, so decorating it in a fresh, light and breezy way is the name of the game.
It doesn't take too much time, as you can see in my super-easy mantel in the living room here at FrenchGardenHouse. The weather is too beautiful to fuss with things inside, go outside and enjoy the sun! I hope my easy mantel will inspire you to create something alluring in your own home.
You don't have to clear your mantel and start all over when decorating for summer. I have these antique candlesticks on my mantel almost year round, so I just build a seasonal display around them. Because they are a little heavy visually for summer, I decided to only add just a few light, summery things along with them for this mantel.
Delightfully simple, I began by placing an antique transferware plate in a delicious color of soft lavender purple on a clear lucite stand in the center. It's the perfect choice, since it's the same lovely color of our new Les Belles Fleurs lavender topiaries that I placed on each side.
The topiaries are perfect, a touch of outdoors but without the need to water!
Then I tucked a few seasonal elements into the display, that's how I change areas in my own home. To further heighten the "summer" feel of the mantel, I added a few white shells we found at the beach a few weeks ago with our little people.
Do lavender and seashells go together? Not necessarily, but I like it! {and they hide the base of the lucite stand that holds the plate.} That's the beauty of making your home reflect your own style, you can do whatever you love and ignore stuffy rules that others might take into account!
Soft and serene, this traditional symmetrical display is intriguing yet delightfully simple. Along with the candlesticks, the center plate, the lavender topiaries and a sprinkling of shells , they make the perfect summer statement.
You can easily make your own version of this, using a center decorative plate, and two topiaries or live plants. Done! How easy is that?
Because right across from the mantel, I have this grand bouquet of our Les Belles FrenchGardenHouse Fleurs faux Columbine! These are so gorgeous, wild, and looking just like they do when cut from a garden in the south of France. I love these, sadly, I think we are down to our last few sets....I can't get them anymore as they are too costly to reproduce.
19th CENTURY MULBERRY TRANSFER GARDEN SCENE PLATE
FRENCH COUNTRY LAVANDE ABEILLE TOPIARIES
Happy summer mantel decorating to YOU!
DO YOU REDECORATE YOUR MANTEL FOR THE SUMMER SEASON? WE'D LOVE TO KNOW HOW!
à bientôt
Shop for the best in French Antiques, furniture with the patina of age, vintage accessories to delight you and your family & friends, and French Country utilitarian pieces. Treasures that make your home fresh, beautiful, inspirational and uniquely yours. Visit our shop FrenchGardenHouse.com
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Shirley@Housepitality Designs
June 27, 2018
Oh the definition of simply elegant! … I am sure you are so very excited about the wedding. With you helping your beauty, it is going to be the most gorgeous wedding! Those Columbine are exquisite!
Have a fantastic week Lidy!!!! xoxoxo’s