Happy spring!!
Yeah just kidding. It feels pretty funny to be writing a post about spring mantel decorating ideas considering we got something like 10 inches of snow yesterday. Luckily I had planned to work from home all day anyway so I didn’t have to leave the house. Snow always looks so much prettier when you’re inside.
Anyway, we’re pretending it’s spring though because my friend Amy from My Life at Home is hosting a spring mantel hop today!
You can hop around to all the other ladies’ spring mantels by clicking the links below. I love all of the creative ideas! I swap out our mantel decor a lot, and I always love seeing others’ ideas.
I had a lot of fun with this one. I even took down the window turned picture frame that’s usually on the mantel to get a true blank slate.
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I basically just played around with a bunch of glass pieces until I liked how they looked all lined up. I used some old wine bottles (because of course I did), vases and a few bottles and jars I bought awhile ago.
I mentioned yesterday I’m more into decorating with blue than I used to be, so I even threw in some aqua wine bottles with the green and clear ones.
I feel like I need to mention our neighbors/friends save their wine bottles for me haha, we didn’t drink allll of this ourselves!
I used a few of our green glass candle holders, too to add some shorter pieces and keep everything looking kind of random.
I added some a bunch of flowers from my collection. I would love fresh flowers all the time, but it’s just not practical, so I have a little collection of faux ones going that I swap out throughout the year. It’s an easy, budget-friendly way to decorate for every season.
I turned on some country music and totally just played around with everything here, moving bottles and flowers around, looking at it, moving some of it around, looking at it again … until I decided I liked it. It was a fun little afternoon!
These dried hydrangeas are still one of my faves to decorate with.
The frames I used are both really old. I can’t even remember where that brown one is from. The white wood was an old wood one from Goodwill. I painted it for this Christmas project and kind of ended up with the distressed look on accident. Love when that happens.
So that’s my super easy spring mantel decorating idea, nothing too crazy! And if you don’t look outside, you might even believe it’s spring.
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Amy @ My LIfe From Home says
Meg, I think we had the same idea for our spring mantels! I love the bottles and the flowers. Thank you for joining in this hop!
GreenWithDecor says
Great minds think alike! Thanks for hosting!
Roxanne says
Meg I love all those vintage bottles especially the green ones! Pinning!
GreenWithDecor says
Thanks, Roxanne! I can’t get enough fun glass bottles!
Sarah says
all the bottles look so nice, Meg! I love all the flowers, too. I wish I could do fresh flowers too but faux look just as nice!
GreenWithDecor says
Thanks, Sarah!
Tara @ Lehman lane says
I just love all the bottles with the flowers Meg! Such a simple and beautiful idea.
GreenWithDecor says
Thanks, Tara!
Samantha says
I *love* your bottle collection! I have contemplated doing this with sea glass and now I’m really inspired to! Love how you paired them with flowers!
GreenWithDecor says
Thanks, Samantha! I really love bottles!
Bre says
This is such a great and budget-friendly way to update your mantel with each season! It’s a great idea to mix the dried flowers and faux flowers, too! Very pretty, Meg!
GreenWithDecor says
Thanks, Bre!
Ashley ~ 3 Little Greenwoods says
Absolutely love the pops of color from the collected bottles and vases! Great mantel decorating idea!
GreenWithDecor says
Thanks, Ashley!
Emily says
This is so fun, Meg! I love the mix of colors and sizes – so much great variety 🙂 Hopefully you’ll get some springier weather soon!
GreenWithDecor says
Thanks, Emily!
Jenny says
I LOVE those bottles!! Such a great idea to display them all together – they look fabulous!!
GreenWithDecor says
Thanks, Jenny!