Garden Style Spring Mantel Styling Tips

Looking for a little inspiration for Spring ? These tips for styling a Garden Style Spring mantel will help you get started!

Garden Style

Are you searching for inspiration or ideas on how to decorate a farmhouse fireplace or shelf for Spring? I have some styling tips for a Garden Style Spring mantel to share with you!

The finished mantel depicts a garden theme.  But before we get started, I have exciting news to share!  9 of my blogging friends have joined together this week to bring you lots of Spring inspiration!  All of the links to their posts are listed at the end of this post! Just click on the name under the photos and you will be sent directly to their post!  After visiting everyone’s posts, you are certain to be filled to the brim with Spring inspiration!

If you are joining me from my friend, Cindy from Cloches & Lavender, welcome!   I am happy to meet you!  Cindy did an amazing job putting this “hop” together for us!  Her Easy Daffodil Centerpiece is just precious, isn’t it?  I can’t wait to make one of my own!

Let’s get this Spring hop started! Here is how I  break the down the steps so you can create a garden style vignette of your own!

Gather Elements You Might Want to Work into Your Display

In order to start my Spring theme, the first step is to gather your elements together.  Since it was almost Spring and I love to garden, I chose items or elements that were garden related.  Don’t worry if you end up with more elements than you actually use!  Something might spark an idea for a future display!  These gnomes gave me an idea for a later display! You can see the results here: End of Summer Garden Style Mantel

Choose an Anchor Point for Your Display

Before decorating the mantel, I added this piece of old fencing.  It has the perfect gray patina.  I am finding myself drawn to shades of gray right now.   I placed the piece of fencing up on the mantel to see how it looked.  I decided the height and width were just perfect for the spot!

A set of black wrought iron gates act as a fireplace screen. These will serve as a backdrop for a display on the hearth.

Add A Focal Point

To decorate the fence, I added a Fresh Flower market sign.  In order to affix the sign, I brought the piece of fencing down from the mantel and propped it against the hearth.  After I got the sign in place, I was able to lift the gate back up onto the mantel.

I love old rusty things, especially old garden tools.  After getting the fence in place, I added a few old garden tools at the bottom of the fence.

Then I was ready to start adding things on either side of the fence.  I decided to keep this mantel scape symmetrical.   The actual placement is entirely up to you.  By moving the fence to one end of the mantel, you could easily make this an asymmetrical  display.

The old wooden gray box is filled with artificial herbs.  I decided that it would fit well with my garden theme so I added it to one end.  You can never have too many tool carriers or wooden boxes in my opinion!  More about my obessession with wooden boxes, rusty things and old carriers can be found here: Worn Wooden Boxes and Rusty Things! 

Next I added a pair of resin candlesticks.  The look like concrete but they are actually resin.  I love their look! In keeping with my garden theme, I used flowers instead of candles on top of them.  By using my bolt cutters, I was able to cut the stems off of two artificial white hydrangeas and used them as accents on top of the candlesticks.

With the black garden gates acting as a background, I filled an old lard bucket with artificial hydrangeas and other wispy greenery.  I made a hand tied swag of mixed white flowers and tied them with a basil green ribbon to hang next to the fireplace tools.  I added a long metal sign and propped in front of the lard bucket for this picture.  In some of the other pictures, it is actually behind the bucket.  In a few shots, it is missing from the display.  The sign fits our theme as well as being grayish green in color!

Here is how the whole vignette looks!

The farmhouse fireplace was in a room that I called the gathering room.  I did a lousy job cropping this picture didn’t I!  It is crooked! Anyway, the room was originally the kitchen of the farmhouse when I was growing up.  When I was 16, my parents expanded the house by tearing off the summer kitchen and adding a new kitchen as well as adding the fireplace.

One Last Look

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope I have given you some ideas on how to decorate your mantel for Spring!  Next on the “hop” is my friend, Susan from Hen and Horse Design.  She is sharing tips on How to Use Your Five Senses When Creating a Fabulous Spring Table!  I can’t wait to learn from her!

Spring Blog Tour

This is a great time to see to see more Spring Inspiration? Well today, we are sharing centerpieces, craft and DIY’S for the upcoming spring season!

More Pretty Spring Inspiration! 

Click the links below the images to go straight to their posts.  We hope this inspires you to create and get ready for the upcoming spring season!

Cloches & Lavender // From Farmhouse to Florida // Hen and Horse Design // Sweet Valley Acres

Shop at Blu // Gathered in the Kitchen // A Loverly Life //

White Lilac Farmhouse // Feet Under My Table // Bushel and a Pickle