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Decorating our Holiday Mantel Living Room Christmas Decor

Decorating our Holiday Mantel Living Room Christmas Decor

Hi everyone and welcome back to decorating with a happy hot home. I'm so happy to have you here this is part two of a decorating video that I started last week where we were decorating our sunroom slash living room um this could be obviously any room in your house but I am showing you how in my previous article.

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Decorating our Holiday Mantel Living Room Christmas Decor

I decorated our Christmas tree and in this article, I'm going to show you how I decorate our mantel again, I'm so happy to have you here let's get started in Prior years when I decorated our mantle I had the Garland sit on top of the cover but this year I'm trying something a little bit different because I wanted to sit more on the face of the mantle on the very front of it and have a cascading look and that's really not that easy to do without having something for it to catch for it to attach to and in this case.

I am using chicken wire and I am using Command hooks to attach it to the mantle so our mantle is rather large it's about an eight-foot long mantle maybe about a foot deep but it also has those two bump outs on the side that I'm sure most of your mantles don't have so it does make attaching the chicken wire a little trickier for me but I think in your instance it would probably be a little bit easier so I'm going to start my mantle design by putting on my first layer of Garland I have two six foot long pieces of uh green Garland and as you can see it Cascades down really nicely it hangs and it has this droopy look it's why I love it so much I'll try to link it if I can find it if it's still available it's a little on the pricey side but I think it's worth it the color is beautiful and I use it all over my house and I love the way it just drapes down the center the front on each side and it is draping a little nicer because I do have that chicken wire for it to stick to usually.

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Decorating our Holiday Mantel Living Room Christmas Decor

I can't Cascade it like that using green floral wire I am attaching the first layer of Garland to the chicken wire on the left middle and the right sides so the second layer of Garland is frosted and I am attaching two nine-foot pieces one on each side of Garland on top of my first layer of Garland so what I do like about this frosted Garland is that it is very flexible and pliable but as you can see it wasn't fully cooperating with me and I'm not going to pretend that I didn't struggle to be you know a single person having to handle two nine-foot pieces of Garland by myself it wasn't being terribly Cooperative but I did get it to work and I think the end result looks great but there was a little bit of struggling going on so this is what we have so far um but I am going to need to attach it as I'm showing you right there it pops up so it does need to be secured down so using the floral wire.

I attach the two pieces of Garland to the chicken wire just to make sure that it's really secure and I do that throughout the Garland in several areas on the left and the right side and as I'm doing it I'm fluffing the second layer of Garland so at this stage I decided that I wanted an additional first layer of Garland to hang down the side under the second layer of Garland so I decided to add a couple more pieces one to the left and to the right just so that the piece pieces that hang down over the sides also have that beautiful Green Layer of Garland behind it and I am securing it with chicken wire because they do tend to separate as they hang over the sides, so I just think that adding just looks really nice not necessary but I just thought it looked really nice so I've attached that second layer of greenery or the first layer of greenery sorry to the left side of the mantle and now I am just securing the two pieces together with some floral wire.

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Decorating our Holiday Mantel Living Room Christmas Decor

So the Garland is looking great I'm loving the way it's looking and now I'm adding some embellishments to it so I have these frosted uh Berry picks and they have these really long stems so I don't need to secure them with any wire into the Garland they just very easily stick in and stay there and I just love the look of them they have a little bit of snow on them and they just look so natural and they add that Perfect pop of red to the Garland and they just look like they belong with a Garland as something you would see in nature as if if you were walking outside during winter time thank you so what I'm going to do now adds a little bit of Garland to the top of the design so I have that beautiful green cascading layer on the bottom I have the Frosted Garland in the middle and now I'm just adding a little bit on the top just to give the top of it a fuller look similar to the bottom.

Decorating our Holiday Mantel Living Room Christmas Decor


I'm not going to add a lot of it because I don't want it to take away from the cascading effect that it has and if I do add too much of it it'll look too linear so I'm just going to add a little bit in select places to the top of it so the Garland I'm adding to the top is different than the one in the bottom it is the same type of Greenery it is Cypress but I have taken a bunch of it and I've just cut it into little pieces and I'm adding it very selectively foreign and now I'm going to add three red bows they are velvet bows and velvet I just find to be the richest material you can use in Christmas decorating and I always use it if possible it's just so bright and vibrant and always looks beautiful I also have a bow tutorial on how to make these beautiful bows that I will link here in case you are interested in making your own bows so you've probably been wondering this whole video how on Earth am I going to hide that chicken wire well very easy since it is a very thin gauge.

Decorating our Holiday Mantel Living Room Christmas Decor

I can just very easily roll it up so that it's not visible under the Garland the pieces that are hanging just roll them up it's very flexible and it works great another option if you want is you can cut it away cut off the pieces that are visible but again it's not necessary all you need to do is just roll it up and it it doesn't show and no one will ever know so now for the mantle Decor it really needs very little because the Garland is so beautiful and probably too much would just take away from the look so I'm just adding a couple of reindeer with a little velvet tied around their decks to Elf or not to elf some people love them some people hate them I happen to really like them so I'm going to add a couple little guys underneath of my lamps so I'm going to add the finishing touches to the mantle design and then I'm going to turn on the lights and let you enjoy the mantle fully lit if you like the video I hope you will like share and subscribe and I will be back on Thursday with a full room reveal I have a couple things that I'm still working on I'm going to do a full reveal on Thursday along with an evening view of the room.