Mantel Archives - Lemon Thistle

DIY Brick Fireplace Makeover

Colleen Pastoor — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:00:25 +0000

Sharing my DIY brick fireplace makeover with you guys! This weekend renovation before and after includes painting brick fireplace with a paint sprayer, adding a new chunky wood mantel, spray painting our gas fireplace insert, and tiling the hearth with a custom tile edge. I’m so excited to share our brick fireplace makeover with you …

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Modern Christmas Mantel Ideas

Colleen Pastoor — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:00:21 +0000

Sharing my modern Christmas mantel for the year! It’s got black, white, flocked greenery, fairy lights and tons of texture. Decorating a holiday mantel without garland has been a challenge since we moved to this house and have this funny stub wall to the one side of the fireplace. In our last place, my seasonal …

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Simple Fall Mantel (thoughts on less is more in home decor)

Colleen Pastoor — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:00:10 +0000

A simple fall mantel that embraces less is more for autumn decorating… and a discussion on how less decor has helped my sanity! We’re having a few rainy days here and it’s like magic, all of a sudden I’m in the fall mood. I was hanging on to summer. Wanting a few more weeks of …

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Minimal Spring Mantel

Colleen Pastoor — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:00:45 +0000

One peek outside and the snow will tell you that spring is still a little ways off, but the weather guy says it’s coming and now my mantel does too. Today I’m excited to partner with some amazing bloggers to share our spring mantels with you guys. BIG thank you to my friend Krista from …

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Personalizing the Holidays (Decor + Gifts!)

Colleen Pastoor — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:00:35 +0000

When I shared my mantel a last week I mentioned that I was waiting on new stockings to arrive but they were stuck in the mail strike… Guess what?! Here they are! That means all SIX of us have matching stockings. When I bought our last stockings (the year the twins were born), I’d also …

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Simple Frosted Holiday Mantel

Colleen Pastoor — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Today I’m excited to be joining up with some of my favourite Canadian bloggers in a week long Canadian Blogger Home Tour hop again this season! You can find ALL of their amazing homes at the bottom of this post. I sat out of the fall home tour with this fabulous group and was determined …

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