The mantelpiece really comes into its own over the holidays. It's prime real estate for holiday decor and the perfect surface to add a festive flourish. We'd go as far to say that a beautifully decorated mantle can even rival the Christmas tree.
The mantle is also a nice place to start with your Christmas decor ideas. You can start giving it a holiday feel as soon as Halloween is over, bringing in touches of festive foliage and candles just to nod to the upcoming holidays. Then you can get bolder and more decorative as the weeks go on, adding more fall decor for Thanksgiving, and then upping the Christmas decor at the start of December.
