Open your doors to warmth and style whether you have a timeless and traditional, hearth mounted, multi-fuel stove or a stylish and contemporary wall-mounted gas fire, tis the season to jazz up your living room!
From minimalist trees and coordinated accessories to traditional stockings and vintage decorations, here’s our take on styling your fireplace this Christmas.
Big and bright.
Using pale or white festive accessorises not only helps keep your room bright during the darker days but helps to accentuate the dark framing of most fireplaces drawing to eye to your centrepiece. White trees and colourful baubles brighten up any dull day while fluffy rugs and fireside wines make the living room a place to stay. Add plain fairy lights to your tree or mantel for extra sparkle.
A Natural Approach
Furnish your fire mantel with foraged foliage. Pine cones, ferns, birch twigs and evergreen branches create a subtle earthy theme. Wooden letters spelling out a seasonal word or message complete the look. Add a little extra glamour by replacing these with opulent gold letters and incorporating some gold baubles into your foliage. Adorn your sofas with faux-fur throws and knitted blankets for the ultimate cosy retreat.
Timeless traditions.
Enhance your mantel with seasonal plants such as poinsettias, holly and ivy. Finish the look by placing a candlestick on both sides of the mantel, red candles mimic the flames even when not lit and cinnamon candles fill the room with seasonal scents. Why not take it further and add a garland and stockings, keep to traditional patterns in red and green to maintain a complimentary and striking classic scheme?
Minimalist Moments
Alternatively, if you’re not into glitzy Christmas decorations, there’s nothing wrong with keeping it low-key. Keep it minimalist with a wooden star decoration and a sprig of mistletoe on the mantelpiece. Hang a simple green foliage wreath above the mantel with a white ribbon and continue the theme to your tree.
Whatever your style, whichever your fire, it’s sure to brighten up the living room with its warm glow. Watch as magic fills the room when the flames dance, decorations capture the light and sparkles appear. Get ready to snuggle up in style and get your living room ready for cosy nights in.
However you decorate, make your fire the centrepiece to gather around and make memories this season.
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