Don’t you love all the rustic and organic elements available to decorate for the Fall season? Autumn decor with rustic and organic elements is perfect to evoke the feelings of the season. A mantel styling is a great way to maintain your home current and stylish. These eight different themed fall mantel decor ideas are inspired by the season.
Fall is my favorite season, and the mantel in the living room is one of my first stops for seasonal decorating around our home. It might seem too early to start decorating for fall, but it’s not too early to start planning, organizing, shopping, crafting and more. For some fall decor inspiration, here are some fall mantel stylings from around here through the years. I hope these ideas help you in some way.
The Gist
Rustic Fall Mantel Ideas
> Fall lends itself to rustic decor more than any other season
> Be inspired by nature to create Autumnal mantel stylings
> Find inspiration with 8 unique rustic mantel decor ideas
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Different Themes for 6 8 Rustic Fall Mantel Decor Ideas
Essence of Fall
Embrace the essence of Fall without jumping into the pumpkin patch and corn fields in a hurry. Leaning into the colors, patterns and emotions of the season provides a timeless and calm fall mantel decor.
This early Fall mantel styling reflects the essence of the season with colors, textures and emotions without using the usual suspects. This is a baby step towards the coziness and broodiness of the autumnal season.
Lush Fall
The green Fall harvest garland is the inspiration behind the fall mantel styling. It’s a favorite fall decor piece around here, and it creates a lush bed on the mantel shelf for Fall decor.
Decorating is about mindful layers, purposeful placement and attention to detail. The green fall garland is layered with dried gourds and thrifted vintage brass pieces while flanked with organic elements.
Wheat & Tortoiseshell Pumpkins
Wheat has fabulous texture and a beautiful golden hue. It adds warmth and organic touches for fall stylings. Wheat sheaths and some wheat candles DIY dance across the mantle shelf in this mantel-scape.
The wheat is paired with some tortoiseshell glass pumpkins. I love the combination of golds and browns. The mix of colors is not only a wonderful pairing, but the organic vibes from the wheat is a great compliment to the glam notes in the glass pumpkins. The pops of orange in the velvet ribbon and hearth pumpkins rounded out the vignette.
White Pumpkins & Dried Hydrangeas
When the real pumpkins aren’t on the scene yet, you can always use faux. This mantel is styled with a collection of white pumpkins and dried hydrangeas.
The pumpkins range from ceramic to velvet to DIY’d Dollar Tree pumpkins {5 easy ways to DIY pumpkins}, but they are all brought together by the white color palette.
Twig Pumpkins & Dried Hydrangeas
Fall seems like the most rustic of all the seasons to me. This rustic mantel styling is a great combination of textures and moody hues, using dried hydrangeas from the garden, twig pumpkins and foraged pinecones.
Organic items always add peace and calm to spaces. Whenever possible I like to inject nature into our home. It’s a simple styling with pieces piled high on the mantel in between some birch candled lanterns.
Amber Containers & Dried Hydrangeas
These amber bottles play nice with the French label brown bottles I DIY’d years ago. My list of fall crafts for this year is beyond long, and I hope to get to them all.
Once again the styling includes dried hydrangeas from the garden and rustic lanterns. It’s hard to tell, but mixed in with the dried hydrangeas there are beaded gem napkin rings, which add a bit of sparkle and glam to an otherwise rustic styling. I always love the juxtaposition of rustic and refined.
Woodland Theme
Adding wooden pumpkins and decor plus vintage books to the dried hydrangeas and French label bottles adds a woodsy feel to this fall mantel styling.
I love the texture and warmth the tattered vintage books add. They compliment the hydrangeas well. And do you spy the mushrooms I included in the mantel vignette? They add to the woodsy theme plus feed my obsession {my fascination with mushrooms | fungi | toadstools}.
Green Urns & Mercury Glass
This green urn collection is the star of the show for this fall mantel styling, plus pops of mercury glass pumpkins and votives give it some shine and dazzle.
Just like the white pumpkin collection above, all the green urns are different materials. There is resin, cast iron, fiberglass and metal, but the color palette keeps them cohesive.
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Closing Thoughts ~ Rustic Fall Mantel Decor Ideas Conclusion
As you can see by this fall mantel stylings round up, I have some things on repeat. Dried hydrangeas from the garden and the wooden lanterns are a constant.
Vintage pieces, pine cones and the French label brown bottles are also pretty popular for these stylings. I do not reinvent the wheel every time, but just create a new “theme” to inject with these favorite pieces for fall. This helps streamline the process, but it keeps it new & fresh every time. Hope this has inspired you for some fall stylings!
Ok, in all honesty it is a tad early, but it’s not too early to start “thinking” fall. Hopefully this post will start your juices flowing, and gears turning and help you plan Autumnal stylings for your home. It’s still plenty hot outside with loads of summertime left, but in the meantime, we can start sneaking some fall inside in our air conditioned spaces. It’s time for Fall Y’all!!
Au Revoir!
Q&A – Rustic Fall Mantel Inspiration
Q1. When should I start decorating my mantel for fall?
A1. If you are itching to get your Fall on, early September is totally appropriate to tip toe int the season, but hold off on the pumpkins. Once the first day of fall hits in late September all bets are off. It’s time to introduce all the autumn colors and textures.
Q2. How do I create a rustic look without cluttering the space?
A2. Stick to a cohesive color palette and use the odd number of design rule. Combine natural elements like wheat, pinecones, and mini pumpkins with weathered candlesticks or amber glass.
Q3. What natural items work best as fillers?
A3. Foraged elements in the Fall are plentiful including dried hydrangeas, leaves, branches, and pine cones, which play nice alongside velvet, rattan an vintage metal elements. Use what’s accessible in your particular region to feel authentic and intentional.
Get the Rustic Fall Mantel Decor Look
- Natural Wheat Bundle
- Curated Book Bundle brown | beige
- Faux Hydrangeas
- Mini Twig Grapevine Pumpkin
- Pheasant Feathers
- Vintage Style Lanterns
- Velvet Pumpkins
- Mercury Glass Pumpkins
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