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!
Can't wait to see the DIY on the garland. So pretty.
I love the look of that air freshener. I keep forgetting that's what it is when I see your styled spaces. This looks like a terrific giveaway!
Love it!
Wow, that garland is beautiful! I love that you've kept the rest of the mantle simple. Gorgeous!
Love your fireplace – and Glade products!
I love the garland, can't wait for the tutorial!
Really like your mantel and I bet it smells good!
That garland is beautiful, can't wait for the tutorial to customize one for myself!
This is perfect! We just moved and our house is in need of some warm fall goods.
I love the shape of that air freshener!
I love how your mantel turned out! So simple and chic!
I am loving how your sconces look on your mantel. As for the glade I ind a like the dispenser, might have to give it a try.
Hi Jenny! Love the black mantel, anything you put on there really stands out!
Beautiful as always. I actually went out to Target and purchased the Glade sense and spray after I read your blog post about it on the mudroom shelves. I love it and no one ever believes that it's an air freshener!
So pretty! You are so talented!
Great looking mantle! Love the impact of each of your color choices and also like the design of the Glade product. Thanks for the give-away! Fun!
Your blog is THE BEST!! My favorite one to read, for sure. Love the garland, can't wait for the post about it.
Great looking mantle! Love the impact of each of your color choices and also like the design of the Glade product. Thanks for the give-away! Fun!
I love the Glade Apple Cinnamon scent. Thanks for a great giveaway. Your mantle looks perfectly fall!
I love the target basket, and mercury glass votives!
So beautiful! Can't wait for the garland tutorial!!
Loving this black fireplace. Can't wait for the tutorial!
Loving this black fireplace. Can't wait for the tutorial!
So beautiful! Can't wait for the garland tutorial!!
Thanks for sharing your decorating tips and tricks! My personal home style (do I even have one??) doesn't exactly match up with yours, but I love it all the same! I keep coming back for more and cannot wait to have a house of my own someday! Your blog just makes me appreciate variety and creativity in a whole new way. Again, thanks for sharing! :) -Stephanie P
Looking good!
I never thought an air freshener could be so pretty!
You never cease to amaze me! Thanks for a great giveaway! Crossing my fingers!
Can't wait to see the whole space.
I am headed to Target to get those mercury glass votive holders. They will look great on my Thanksgiving table. LOVE the stone around the fireplace!
I didn't think your fireplace needed a makeover in the first place, but WOW, you have completely blown me away. It is gorgeous!
I would have NEVER guessed that was an air freshener! We just bought our first house with a fireplace and mantel and I am so excited to decorate it
What a fabulous give away! Your mantel is beautiful and no doubt, smells wonderful!
This is why I should go to Home Depot more often…Lowes didn't have those post toppers in untreated wood. Could have made my stair project much easier!
Oh my goodness that garland is gorgeous!! Can't wait for the DIY tutorial!!
Love everything about the new fireplace Jenny!
That swag is killer!!! Love it!
The fireplace looks fantastic! Looking forward to that garland tutorial, too. Thanks for the great giveaway!
That swag is killer…love it!!
How fun! Looks gorgeous!
The fireplace is gorgeous! I love the sconces.
Wow, I had no idea they were making such cute sense and spray devices now!
Your mantel looks great! Thank you for the giveaway opportunity.
fun way to bring the outside colors in!
LOVE the post cap idea!
What a beautiful mantel! I love how the fire place project came out, I am trying to talk my fiancé into a new mantel right now, I doubt it'll happen before this Christmas but I am so excited at the thought of decorating it next year!!
Love fall scents! So much better than actually going outside to rake the mountains of leaves that are covering my front yard…
Stunning! I love those orange votives – what a great find!
LOVE the garland! Can't wait for the tutorial. Also, I can't believe those are air fresheners! Much better than the white obvious plastic things that every dog owner is forced to have.
I like that striped throw! So gorgeous! Glade really makes some awesome scents. Very unique holder that looks fancier then a regular candle.