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How to Decorate a Fall mantel: with beans!

How to Decorate a Fall mantel: with beans!

22 Sep

This post was most recently updated on September 23rd, 2019

Hard to believe the title of this post is How to Decorate a Fall Mantel! But, have you heard?!? Tomorrow is officially Fall!   According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the first day of Fall in the Northern Hemisphere starts on September 23rd,  at 5:05am (EST).  And, around here, that means “no-more-feeling-guilty-about-Fall-decorating-while-it’s-still-officially-summer”!  So on that note, today I’m sharing my Fall mantel.  It’s actually been decorated for Fall for awhile now (tisk, tisk, I know), but I held off on talking about here so as not to rain on anyone’s attachment to the final days of summer!

I love changing up my mantel decor around the seasons, and Fall is no different. This Fall decor will hang around for a month or so, at least until Canadian Thanksgiving (Oct 1oth), and then it’s time to spook my kids out with a creepy Halloween mantel.

This year, I used a lot of natural items in traditional Fall colors; including real mini-pumpkins and dry bean filler for my glass vases/urns.  The cashier at the grocery store asked me what I was making with all my 10+ bags of beans, lentils and split peas. Soup? Chile? Stew?  I think I totally stumped her when I said they were for decorating!

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While I love the warmth of traditional Fall colors, their saturated hues can feel a bit heavy.  I tried to balance this with  lots of airy glass – including vases,  urns, and candlesticks.

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I posted awhile back about the maple seedlings you see on each end of the mantel.  You can see how I made them (soooo simple!) by reading the post How to make a pretty (faux) potted maple seedling for your Fall decor which was since featured by Beth at Home Stories A to Z, as well as the CSI Project!

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decorating tips for Fall

So how about you?  Are you seasonally mantel-addicted like me, or do you keep things consistent year-round?  I’d love to hear from you!

Until next time, happy Fall!

Kerri

Update (Sept 27th): I shared this post at The Lettered Cottage’s Fall Mantel Party!

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By Kerri, September 22, 2011 Filed Under: Fall Decor, Seasonal & Party Decorating, Seasonal Mantel Decorating

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Kerri Roche is the owner, editor and voice behind A Pop of Pretty, a Canadian home decorating blog, where she shares her love of modern coastal and cottage home decorating style, from beautiful Newfoundland, on Canada's east coast. Home decorating has always been in her blood, even while earning a Marketing degree and MBA, and working in strategy and planning in a busy ad agency for over a decade. She aims to inspire other style seeking home lovers to decorate their own homes with confidence, by sharing home decorating ideas, shopping tips, and DIY tutorials from her own suburban home and lakeside cottage - all l while juggling the schedules of a world travelling husband, 3 busy and energetic kids (including twins), and a scrappy little Havanese named Finnigan.

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  1. daawns says

    January 2, 2012 at 9:01 am

    I loved the IDEAS and STYLE you adopted. How long Do you think the Beans, lentils and split peas can survive and don’t get spoiled ? Is there need to PRESERVE with some sort of Spray etc to Place under my DINNING table Second glass tray attached.

  2. Nichole says

    October 13, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    That’s lovely! We bought our first house over the summer, and with it came my first mantel. I’ve been staring at it trying to figure out how to decorate it since we moved in. Want to do it for me? 🙂

  3. Jennifer Perkins says

    October 5, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    What a clever way to use beans, love it! I’d love to feature this post on Blogher DIY. Could you email and I’ll give you the details. Your contact button up top appears to be busted 🙂

    • Kerri says

      October 6, 2011 at 2:30 am

      Thanks Jennifer! I just e-mailed you. 🙂 Kerri

  4. Kerri says

    September 28, 2011 at 8:12 am

    Thank you so much for your lovely comments! I hope you’ll come by again! Kerri

  5. cstower.blogspot.com/ says

    September 27, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    The beans look wonderful! The colors are so perfect for Fall, I wish I had thought of it!:)
    The ribbons swagged along it look wonderful, too.

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