The farmhouse fireplace mantel can be easily decorated to reflect the various seasons. Adding pieces from your collections adds personality!
Seasonal Fireplace Mantel Decorations
The farmhouse fireplace mantel provided the perfect spot to decorate for the seasons! While I generally kept both sides of the mantel balanced, you could decorate it in a more asymmetrical way if you wanted. Using some of my favorite pieces from my collections allowed me to reflect my personality.
Having a mantel to decorate is one of the things I miss most about the farmhouse. I had been trying to decide where I could put a faux fireplace mantel in the Florida house. I even toyed with the idea of putting one in the expanded lanai! I did have a spot picked out but Dave AKA Mr From Farmhouse didn’t agree!
I considered putting it here: Let’s Cozy Up the Lanai For Autumn!
I even found the perfect mantel! I just didn’t know where I could put it in our Florida home!
And then I spent a few days in Texas with a few of my blogging friends and viola! The talk turned to the One Room Challenge and my creative wheels started spinning!
All of the information about the Spring 2022 Challenge and my plans for my Rustic Inspired Living Room Refresh can be found here: Rustic Inspired Living Room ORC Week 1
and here: Rustic Inspired Living Room Refresh ORC Week 2
While we wait for the reveal of the “new” fireplace at the end of next month, let’s take a look back to the farmhouse fireplace mantel decorated for the various seasons!
Spring
The window hanging above the fireplace originally came out of the Methodist Church Parsonage in Bement, Il. My friend was the pastor’s wife at the time and she saved it when they replaced it with a different type of window. In some of the pictures it has a white NFS tag on it. The pictures were taken around the time of the first estate sale that I had as part of the Thyme to Let Go process.
Summer
Early Autumn
Late Summer/Early Fall
The matching corbels were originally part of a long linear piece of architectural salvage. My helpers found several large pieces of gingerbread in the barn when we were going thru the downsizing process. More details and more pictures of their amazing finds can be found here: Look What We Found in the Barn!
Christmas
The room that the fireplace is in was the kitchen when my parents first moved to the farm in the late 1940s. In the mid 70s, they tore off the summer porch and added a kitchen. Then they turned the former kitchen into a hearth room or a gathering room. The mantel is made of concrete. A friend of Mom’s made the oak cover for it sometime in the 90s I believe.
To learn more about other pieces of furniture I miss about the farmhouse house, please see this post:“Kim Style”:What I Wish I Would Have Kept
Thank you for joining me today!
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