OUR MANTLE NOWADAYS

I have to tell you, after all the Christmas decor came down, I didn't have a plan. Nothing!

Had no idea how to decorate our family room and mantle. 

It did stayed empty for several days until I decided to stop making my life so hard and just use some of the 

decor items I already had in the room and work around it.

I did start by asking my husband to built me two small shutters with some old fence boards we had.

I painted them Natural Beige by SW because it was what I had on hand, distressed them a little and decorated them with two small wreaths I made using a pretty magnolia leaf bush I had bought at Hobby Lobby on sale a while back. 
I paid $9.00 for it and it comes with about 30 large and very good quality faux leaves. You can find it here.
 

The ribbon I used to hold the wreaths goes quite well with our buffalo check curtains in that room. 
It came from Michaels.

I also made these little greenery pouches using some burlap bags I had and some of the greenery from Christmas.

Otherwise and as you can see, the rest of the items I used are things I had for a long time like the red metal start 
and my old lanterns from Kirklands.

In the center of the mantle I placed the old "home" letters.

 And on the right side of the mantle you will find the old Fleur de Lis candle holders which I paired with 
another greenery pouch and the second shutter with wreath.

On the hearth you I am using one of the pillows I made back in December and our old metal basket 
filled with some acorns.

And that is it. Very simple, but it gives the family room a clean and fresh look. What do you think?
I will share the rest of the room soon. I didn't want this post to go on forever. :)

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Until next time!