How to Decorate your Fireplace with Christmas Ornaments

If you have a fireplace in your house, the best thing you could to do to it this holiday season is to decorate it. By doing so, your fireplace will be able to provide more warmth during the cold winter season. Also, it will set the mood for the room and can serve as a nice background for you and your family if you want to take a family portrait.

There are so many things you can do with your fireplace; you can decorate it differently every year or traditional holiday decorations. Thus, before decorating your fireplace, you should decide first on what you want to do with it.

Before going on a store to buy new decorations, you should go over the decorations that you already have at all. Decide whether or not it will fit with the theme you have in mind for the fireplace. You can reuse the same decorations you always use on the fireplace. However, if you want something different, you can use the decorations for your Christmas tree on your fireplace.

1. It will be better to make a base for your decorations so it is advisable to put a long but narrow lace doily or a simple but beautiful table runner over the holiday fabric that is covering the mantel of your fireplace.

2. Adorn the fireplace with a garland. Make sure that both ends of the garland will hang at both sides. Also, include Christmas lights on the garland so that it can add a bit of a life. If you want, you can also use fresh pine garlands because it can enhance the mood of your room because of its scent.

3. Hide the ends of the garland with holiday ribbons. You can also add ribbons on the two ends of the fireplace’s mantel and another one in the center. To easily attach them on the garland, use a florist wire.

4. Add small decoration on the garland. Design the mantel with pinecones and nuts as well. To give your fireplace a formal appeal, color the pinecones and nuts with silver or gold metallic spray paint.

5. Have some Christmas stockings dangling from the mantel. This will be a good idea especially if there are children who are going to be in your house

6. Since most of your decorations in the middle of the mantel are short, it will be nice to put tall decorations at both ends of the mantel to give the arrangement the balance in needs.

7. Put pillar candles that are on candle holders suitable for the holidays on the mantel and light it up along with the Christmas tree and the fireplace itself. Then, gather around on the room with your family to savor the relaxing ambiance of the holiday season.