I am SO excited to partner again with Glade® to bring you this post on how I’m bringing fall decor into my home this year with decor and scent! There is such an emotional connection to scent (all it takes me is half a whiff of Dior J’adore perfume to be transported to high school!). Where could it be more important to be making these emotional scent connections than in our homes? Introducing seasonal scents at this time of the year is such a key (and simple!) part of getting your home holiday-ready.
About five minutes after we finished our new fireplace surround, I was itching to style it with all sorts of pretty seasonal accessories. But in the end I kept it pretty restrained on the mantel so that the autumnal garland could be the star (DIY tutorial coming tomorrow!). Though the votives, the small succulent plants and the Glade® Sense and Spray® Automatic Freshener play important supporting characters. There is a little color here, but mostly I wanted the mantel to be about texture.
I put two fresheners on the mantel for symmetry. I have the Cashmere Woods scent in both fresheners and they are making our large, high-ceilinged living room smell heavenly! Now it looks and smells like fall in here (a far cry from where we were just a few short weeks ago!).
Here’s a breakdown of how I styled our new mantel for fall, including a huge give away from Glade® to help your make over your own home for the holidays!
I think one of the best styling tips I could ever give is to elevate items you want to stand out or to make look more special. On a little pedestal, even an air freshener looks beautiful and sculptural! (well, it helps if your air freshener is as beautiful as Glade’s Sense and Spray!)
To make these pedestals for my fresheners, I stopped into the hardware store and found these little wooden post caps for a few dollars each.
I quickly spray painted them with this Aubergine color from Rustoleum – the perfect unexpected fall color.
I could have sanded the wood down a little more, but I liked the wood grain pattern and thought it would be pretty peeking through the paint. I think it looks cool and I’m glad I kept it!
The citron boxes the succulent planters are sitting on are just stationary packaging I picked up at Target (the boxes are actually really nice though – no noticeable seams on the corners)! Use what you got, right? :) The mercury glass planters are larger votive holders, also from Target.
The orangey mercury glass votives I lined up in the center of the mantel were clearance finds at Michaels from a few weeks ago. The color on these votives is seriously phenomenal – I’m loving them and wish I could had bought more to keep on hand for parties.
The herringbone basket we’re using for spare firewood is also a recent Target purchase (from the bath section). The little black tufted stool in front of the firebox is from Homegoods and the rug I’m trying in here for now is the same rug we had in our brownstone living room. I like how the neutral elements in the space (the rug, the floors, the fireplace and walls) all help the colorful accessories pop. This room was made for holiday decorating! :)
Now, for the fun part! Glade is kindly offering a beautiful give away package to a lucky LGN reader to help them bring a little seasonal flair into their home. Simply leave a comment on this post to enter to win a beautiful gray basket filled with a gorgeous striped throw, a deck of inspiration images and color palettes, a Glade® Sense and Spray® Automatic Freshener, an Apple Cinnamon scent refill, and a $200 Visa gift card!
Contest ends on Tuesday, November 26 at midnight PST. Winner will be chosen at random and contacted via email. Best of luck!
Love Glade holiday scents. Cheerful and fun.
Such a beautiful mantel! Love the fall decor!
Love, love the votives!
Looks great!
A long time follower of LGN.I have found much inspiration from your blog and love your creativity! May need to add some more fall touches before it's time to switch it all to Christmas decor.
I would love to win this gift basket! What a nice fall/winter thing to give away.
Your new mantel looks amazing! I can't believe the transformation from before. So much better.
I love how simple pieces can be transformed and combined to make a great display.
Can't wait to see how to make the garland…it is just gorgeous! I miss having a mantle…and a fireplace. Next house…
Ahhhhh, Fall is most certainly in the air! Love the scent of fall!!
Beautiful still life! Excited to make the garland when you post the instructions.
Love it. I have debated about putting out TV above our fireplace. It looks amazing in your home!
I actually really like the glade sense and spray containers-very sculptural.
carol
I look forward to all of your DIY posts- gives me the courage to think I can attack some of my own! Keep up the great work.
There is no prettier mantel out there than yours. nicoletreese@hotmail.com
love those sconces!
love the lights by the fireplace. GG lights?
I really love what you made with that fireplace ! It's beautiful, stylish yet very simple. I just love the warm feeling a fireplace brings, either lit or not !
Beautiful mantel!
I love how you take simple everyday items and make them elegant. It is really wonderful.
Thanks!
Living in a new city trying to make a cozy studio apartment feel like home…and scents do help! Your fireplace looks great!
I love the black fireplace!
What a great idea! I can't belive how far your house and fireplace have come. I'm truly inspired!
We move into a new house in a month and would LOVE to win!!!
Fingers crossed.
dee@delovesdesign.com
I love seeing the changes you've made to your house, so inspirational!
Hi Jenny! Love it all! Thanks for the chance to win this lovely package, just in time for the holidays! Martene
MGubler@lvnvlaw.com
Ooooo! I've been dying to try out one of these scent pods in my house! This gift would be such a treat and a perfect way to kick off Thanksgiving week!
What?! What a great give away! Looking forward to the garland DIY too.
Beautiful as always! I love the garland and styling.
Love the way you styled your fireplace. In our new house, we painted the entry dark gray and I've had trouble with accessorizing a dark colored area. Thanks for the inspiration.
Love the way you styled your fireplace. In our new house, we painted the entry dark gray and I've had trouble with accessorizing a dark colored area. Thanks for the inspiration.
LOVE this and can't wait to see the tutorial tomorrow!
The fireplace looks so cozy! I'm in desperate need of a mantel before the holidays so I could put the $200 to good use!
Anything that makes my home pretty & smell good is a win.
Oh, how I would love to win a basket like that! I will be decorating my very first, very own mantel this holiday season!
I love the contrast you're going for in these spaces! I can't wait to see what you do with the rest of the house! And how great is it that scent diffusers don't have to be so commercial and ugly?
Super excited to see the tutorial on the "garland"…I would never have thought to do that and it would look absolutely stunning in our home. Love your blog!
You amaze me! What an incredible transformation. I could use Glade's help in making our still-in-transition new house seem more homey!
I would love this gift basket! the fireplace looks great!
The citron boxes and votive/succulent containers are my favorite!
I would be so happy to win such a lovely basket full of goodies! I will be decorating my very first, very own mantel this holiday season!
The fireplace looks amazing!
Beautiful and inspiring. Thank you.
I love the garland! Looking forward to your tutorial.
What a lovely garland and beautiful display of accessories. Love the mercury glass votives used as a vase for succulents.
So pretty! Thanks for the giveaway.
Decorating for fall is always hard for me. With little ones we decorate for Halloween (ghosts and jack'o'lanterns) and then we decorate for Christmas on Thanksgiving weekend. Seems hard to motivate myself to change it out for the three weeks in between!
I love how you turned the wooden post caps into bright pedestal for the fresheners!
Love the fall mantel on the black backdrop. so dramatic!
I cannot believe you crafted a garland from plants you picked up on the drive home. Arizona must have much better roadside flora than South Carolina. Can't wait to see the DIY!
love it all!
Looks great! I have the same small woven basket from Target (I think) – it just looks soooo much smaller in your space than mine because of the monster fireplace and tall ceilings! Love it!