How to Decorate a Fireplace: 20 Fire Tips to Heat Up Your Home
Get fired up about these decor ideas.
Turn up the heat and give your fireplace new life with these easy decorating tips. From adding a couple books to completely recovering your hearth, learn how to decorate your fireplace for year round style.
1. Light Some Candles
Substitute real wood logs for candles in your fireplace to cast the same glow without all the chopping. Neatly line up candle sticks of various heights for an organized lighted display. When you're finished with your ancillary fire for the evening, simply snuff out the flames.
For an alternative way to add flames, put some candles in lanterns to keep a glow around the fireplace. As an added safety precaution, swap out candles for flameless ones to keep them "burning" in the lanterns all night long with no worries.
Strands of garland and swag aren't reserved exclusively for the holidays. You can decorate your fireplace with garland threads year round with embellishments like twinkle lights, pinecones, or even miniature Easter eggs for other holidays.
Optimize the space over your fireplace by hanging a large gallery wall with your favorite wall art. Choose large canvases to take up more space and then supplement with smaller frames for a variety of a shapes and sizes in a gallery.
Enlarge the appearance of your living room with a wall mirror. Center a round mirror over the fireplace to anchor the space or a rectangular mirror to elongate the area. Personalize the area with an eccentric mirror with a mosaic edge or sunburst shape.
Elevate your kids' school pictures and wedding portraits by propping them up on your mantel. Use single or double frames to group family members and certain memories together.
Show off your eclectic collections around your fireplace. Proudly display busts, figurines, and statues without worry of them being too low to the ground or potentially being broken.
Keep fresh-looking flowers on your mantle all the time with unique vases filled with faux flowers. Choose slender floor vases with long pampas grass or top the mantle piece with table vases and colorful floral bouquets.
Position your living room furniture around the one piece that doesn't move. Mount your TV over the fireplace and surround it with couches, recliners, and a coffee table to seat the whole family for entertainment. If you don't have a built-in fireplace, choose a TV stand with an electric fireplace center and ample storage on the sides.
Change out your mounted TV for an oversized wall clock. Choose from modern styles with sleek chrome faces or rustic options with shiplap and metal numbers and hands. If you still want to keep track of time in a subtler way, you can opt for a small mantle or tabletop clock with a charming hourly chime
Turn off the harsh overhead lights and flip on some soft ambient lighting. Complement the warm glow of the fireplace with wall sconces flanking either side. You could also choose floor lamps with long arms that hover over the mantle to offer a focused light.
Incorporate realistic touches with decorative logs and faux branches. Offer the look of a working fireplace without the work of having to maintain one.
Add practical, decorative elements with stylish fireplace accessories. Add a fireplace screen with an ornate design to offer an additional visual element. Keep all your tools handy and coordinated with matching toolsets and wood holders.
Show off your extensive literary collection by displaying your favorite novels right on your mantle. If you're not much a of a reader, use the book spines and covers as decor and cap off the stack with some kitschy book ends.
Use your fireplace and mantel as another surface for seasonal decor. Gather groups of chicks and bunnies for Easter, arrange stacks of pumpkins in the fall, and line up a row of stockings for Christmas Eve. Swap out seasonal garland wraps for the mantle for an easy festive addition to your living space.
Just start from scratch to make the fireplace and its decor all your own. If you don't want to completely chip away and replace the hearth with new tile, you can cover the preexisting tile with decals. Available in several colors or patterns, transform your fireplace into a unique room accent.
Use the function of the fireplace to double as decor. Trade in your old fireplace for a new gas logs system for a quick way to set the ambience of the room. Remember to always have a professional install gas logs as it requires extensive knowledge and training.
If your home doesn't accommodate to real fires, or simply doesn't have a fireplace, install an electric one and use it as decor. Available in several sizes and electric fireplace offers the same warmth and coziness as a real one, but takes up less space and requires little to no maintenance.
Eliminate a messy hearth by installing your fireplace directly into the wall. Create a captivating wall display with the gas flames glowing like a live piece of art.
Elevate the look of any electric fireplace with firepit glass. Compatible with any electric fireplace, these tempered glass rocks come in a wide array of colors like blue, orange, and red, and reflect the light of the fire for a mesmerizing display.
Don't settle for a boring living room, now that you know how to decorate a fireplace, you can make it the focal point of your space all the time.
