How to style a spookily good Halloween Mantel! Decorating your mantel for the fall season is easy and fun! Try using what you have around the house, and be creative!
It’s that spooky time of year! Halloween! It is sooo fun to create a Halloween Mantel with all your scary and creepy-themed decorations! This is especially exciting in your living spaces that have a focal point like your mantel. Dare to inject your personal style….whether it be whimsical, scary, colorful and bold, or neutral....even with Halloween decorations!
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Tips for Decorating Your Halloween Mantel
Start With A Blank Canvas and A Focal Point
Once you've decided on your personal style or theme for Halloween decorating, it's time to get started!
When we decorate, we find it easiest to start with a blank canvas. Here, that’s just the bare mantel with a rectangular mirror as the focal point.
We took everything off the mantel besides that one piece. You can use whatever you have as a focal point - a shutter, a picture, or a mirror - as long as it has enough presence to be the focal point. Whatever works in your space and goes with your theme is great!
From this point, you can go in any direction, depending on what you have for Halloween/fall decorations and what you want to add from around your home.
The hubby got the ladder and climbed up the storage shelf in the garage to pull out our Halloween bins.
We looked through for what I had in the way of neutral colors (the white pumpkins, black spiders and crow, and twig wreath) and searched the house for other basic elements that could possibly tie in, like the vases and candle holder.
Add Items With Varying Heights and Textures to Your Halloween Mantel
It's important to add items with varying heights, textures, and shapes. If possible, create a triangle using your focal point as the tip at the top of the triangle and decorate it from there.
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Great Halloween Decorations for Height:
- Candle Sticks
- Branches
- Vases
- Tall Skeleton or Spooky Figurine
- Tombstones
Great Halloween Decorations for Texture:
This year, I added a fun mantel spider web to our decorations and am loving it!! It's inexpensive. You can find the spider web decor here!
Out shopping, I found the burlap October 31 sign for $5; it had great texture, so I added that to the mix this year It fit next to the mirror and wreath well...and I like the look the numbers added. The Dollar Tree often has some great, inexpensive ideas, so look there!
Hmmm, it was missing something….the mantel really needed some height to fill in the sides, so a quick trip to Michael’s and I got the last of their seasonal black twigs, which flanked the mirror perfectly.
What are your favorite things to incorporate when decorating for Halloween? Pumpkins? Corn stalks? Spiders?? How do you decorate your Halloween Mantel?
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Nikki says
I don't have a mantel. I wish I did. Especially a mantel with a fireplace underneath! LOL I could really take a nap in front of the fire right now.
But, if I did have a mantel I would want mine to look just like yours. What a perfect combination of height and interest. Halloween is so fun, and it can be really stylish and cool too. You've definitely achieved that! Love it!
Erin says
You don't have a mantel?? No fireplace? I love cozying up in front of a roaring fire during the winter. We had one going last night at a friend's house. Anyway, do you decorate for Halloween even though you don't have a mantel?? I'm sure you do something with pumpkins...it is fun and easy to put a few of those out this time of year.
Debbie Kitterman says
Erin - I love your mantle and how it turned out. I am so glad you shared the tip strat with a blank canvas - it is so much easier that way. I love all the fun different things you incorporate in your mantle. I love how you utilized mirrors on your mantle too. I have plans to share my fall mantle soon on my blog.. I just shared my front porch fall decor, but my blog is usually more towards spiritual inspirational, but I thought I would step out of the box a little this season. Stopping by from #WayWow
Erin says
Hi Debbie, thanks for checking out the mantel! Halloween can be such a fun time to decorate and you can go so many different ways...scary, whimsical, whatever! I think it's good you are trying something new and sharing your porch and mantel. I bet your reader will enjoy getting to know another side of you.
Katrin says
Erin, your Halloween Mantel really got me in the mood to start with mine, although I don't have a mantel but hey, I'll find a spot! Love that banner!!
Erin says
You are so great at creating little spots in your home for seasonal decorations, Katrin. I'm sure you'll find somewhere that Halloween can come out beside a mantel!
Shauna says
Cute Mantel! I love your tips for laying out the space. I'm already planning my Christmas mantel and I plan on using your tips!
Erin says
Awe, thanks, Shauna! I love when a home is decorated for the seasons and the mantel is the best place to start! Good job already planning for Xmas.
Kim~madeinaday says
Very pretty mantle. Love that Chevron pumpkin!Thanks for linking up to Merry Monday! Sharing on FB! Have a great week!
Kim
Erin says
Thanks! Kim. I love that little Chevron pumpkin too! Halloween is getting way more fashionable!!
Kate says
Your mantel came out great! I love your banner!
Thanks for sharing this week at the Merry Monday link party!
We hope to see you again next week!
Kate | TheOrganizedDream.com
Erin says
Ahh, thanks, Kate. I used to not be a big Halloween decorator...maybe some pumpkins outside, but lately, there have been some great Halloween decorations I just couldn't resist!