Give Your Mantel a Valentine’s Day Motif
If you’ve lived with a fireplace mantel for any length of time, you’ve figured out that it’s good for a lot more than just framing the fireplace. Mantels are great spots for seasonal, holiday, and designer decorations. This Valentine’s Day, consider infusing your mantel with a little love.
Advance Chimney Sweeps of Pittsburgh, PA, would like to share a few tips on decorating your fireplace mantel for Valentine’s Day. But don’t stop with our ideas – add your own touches to make it truly yours.
Thinking about colors
Traditionally, Valentine’s Day colors have been red and pink. The holiday usually includes flowers, so here are some red and pink varieties you could arrange on your mantel.
Reds
- Red Roses
- Bleeding Hearts
- Red Carnations
- Red Begonias
- Hollyhock
Pinks
- Pink Roses
- Pink Carnations
- Pink Hyacinths
- Impatiens
- Sweet Pea
You can use red and pink for other decorative elements as well.
Lighting your mantel
Strings of lighting and candles look great on or around a fireplace any time of year, but on Valentine’s Day, they add a touch of romance. Lighting can be hung off the mantel’s face or installed around it. When arranging candles, consider using a mix of shapes, sizes, and shades within the red and pink color families.
Valentine’s Day messages
You can purchase or create your own scripted messages to tape to or place on the mantel. Examples:
- Love
- Sweetheart
- Be My Valentine
- Happy Valentine’s Day
- True Love
- Kiss Me, You Fool
- Let’s Heat Up Our Valentine’s Day
Obviously, depending on who all lives in your house, you might want to temper your messages.
In love with hearts
Decorative hearts can be bought or made out of just about anything: wood, plastic, ceramic, paper, ribbon, lace, you name it. Gather a selection of hearts to string across or above the mantel.
Candy boxes
Valentine’s Day candy comes in a wide range of lovely containers. In fact, the boxes themselves are often as important as what’s inside them. If you’ll be buying candy as gifts this Valentine’s Day, consider placing the colorful boxes on the mantel shelf as part of the overall decorative scheme.
The rest of the fireplace wall
Beyond the mantel, you may have a bit of wall space on which to express your holiday creativity. You can use many of the decorations mentioned above on the wall around the mantel.
Planning your Valentine’s Day fireplace motif
You’ll probably end up with a more attractive finished product if you sketch out your design ideas on paper before you run out and buy supplies and start throwing things together.
Red and pink are lovely colors for the Valentine’s Day holiday. Still, you might want to restrain your inner decorator: too much of these colors around your fireplace and its wall may feel excessive and overwhelming. Sometimes, like with so many other things, less is more. Plan it first so it looks just right.
Valentine’s Day fireplace and chimney safety
You can do all the mantel decorating for Valentine’s Day, but you probably need help with making sure the fireplace and chimney run safely on this holiday and every other day of the year.
Advance Chimney Sweeps serves the greater Pittsburgh, PA, region with professional chimney cleaning, fireplace and chimney repair, and complete inspections for your entire system. Call us before Valentine’s Day to make sure your fireplace and chimney are in great shape.
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