Home decorating ideas and tips: Learn how to decorate a Summer Beach Inspired Mantel with coastal colors and beach style accessories! Add pretty summer decor to your living room mantel with aqua blue candles, starfish, driftwood and capiz shell accents and a statement mirror.
Don’t miss the resource list of decor items at the bottom of the post to create the same look for your mantel!
Well summer is officially here and to celebrate I’ve decorated my mantel with a beach inspired, coastal theme!
I grew up near the beautiful sandy beaches of a sparkling clear northern lake and we used to live near Virginia Beach, so I have a huge love for sand and sea, shells and driftwood!
A Beach Inspired Mantel
Everyone in our family is a ‘beach baby’! Every summer since my boys were babies we spent days on the beach making sand castles, splashing and swimming, chasing minnows and collecting beach glass….we’ve even camped once on a beach for a week, that was so much fun!
Having a beach inspired mantel brings back all of those fun family summertime memories !
Some of my mantel decor you’ll recognize from my Spring Mantel and my Winter Mantel too! Changing up just a few items is an easy way to create a whole new look, so ‘shop’ your home first!
I kept several items from my spring mantel: the crystal votives, the white pillar candles and candlesticks, the mercury glass candlesticks and the mercury glass votives….my husband’s military pewter mug filled with dried boxwood clippings from our yard is staying too!
To add a touch of beach decor I ‘shopped my home’ and added some starfish, capiz shell spheres, some aqua blue and teal colored candles and sand filled candle votives. The only items I purchased were these beautiful driftwood spheres – I think they are pretty fabulous!
I love lighting the candles to give my beach side mantel a soft calm glow….
Decorating my mantel for summer has me dreaming of the beach and the sound of waves lapping at the shore! I hope it has you dreaming of the sand and sea too!
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Get the look of my Summer mantel! Click on the links below to see more about each item:
mercury glass pillar candle holders
How I painted my brown wood fireplace mantel to beautiful white
How I painted my beige fireplace tile to white
Wouldn’t it be fun to relax by the pool or on the beach reading the latest summer book release?
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Heather Luckhurst is an Interior Designer and owner of the Design and Lifestyle website 
I long for the beach…going in July thought! Super excited. I just love this mantel!
Amanda @ Dreamsicle Sisters
I’m glad you like my Mantel Amanda and have fun at the beach!
What a fresh, pretty Sea Inspired mantel. Love the beach feel, and the candle do glow so prettily!!
I love candles Shannon, they are just so relaxing and a mantel is a great place to place them! Thanks for your lovely comments!
Love it, it looks so pretty! Pinning!
This is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE that mirror. This whole theme makes me want to pack up the kids and head to the beach 🙂 So fun partying with you again. 🙂 Pinning and FBing
xoxo
Thanks so much for your super-sweet comments Angelina!! I agree it’s been fun to party with you again!! 😀
So pretty! I love that driftwood sphere too! Pinned & shared the beachy goodness!
Thank you Kim! The driftwood spheres are such a great touch of texture!
Such a beautiful coastal mantel, Heather … just looking at it makes me relax! I love your driftwood spheres and the candles all lit up is fabulous! (Kudos for including your husband’s military mug, too!) Where did you live in Virginia Beach? (And, sorry if we already chatted about this, lol.)
Thank you so much Becca for your sweet comments! We used to live in Chesapeake VA! We visited Virginia Beach, down the road from us, as often as we could! We loved watching the dolphins play and seeing the pods of them with their babies swimming past the beach was such a thrill!
Love this coastal inspired mantel~ soo pretty!! The silver mixed with the driftwood and candles- gorgeous. That mirror is perfect too! 🙂
Thanks Courtney! Coming from you those are such amazing compliments – tx!!
so so pretty, heather!!! love it! sadly, my mantel has been neglected since easter. heehee
Thanks Jocie – so glad you like it!
I love your beautiful mantle! It is so pretty and refreshing. If you get a chance, please share this on my linky party: http://suburbsmama.blogspot.com/2013/06/sunday-linky-party-12.html
Thanks for the invite to your party! I linked up!
Your mantle is beautiful, Heather and the paint color in the room is stunning. It is the perfect backdrop for your elegant summer mantle! Enjoy it! 🙂
Thanks so much for your lovely comments Kim! I love this wall color too – Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray!
This is beautiful, Heather! I love seeing your talent just explode!
Wow – what a beautiful compliment Marty! You just made my day – thank you so so much for saying that!! I’m so glad you like my mantel – it was fun to put it together and makes me smile when I look at it! Have a fabulous day!!
So pretty and so summery … I love it!
Thanks Randi!
So gorgeous! I love your mantel… the perfect mix of sparkle and rustic touches:)
Thanks Krista – I’m glad you like it!
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Wow! It’s so fresh and classy! Did you say Virginia Beach, like Virginia Beach, VA? I grew up in Norfolk and live in Hampton now! Small world! Where did you get those darling driftwood spheres? I may have missed it, I checked the comments too. I would LOVE a few for around my home!
Yes we lived near Virginia Beach, VA! Norfolk was close too! Hampton is a beautiful area you must really like living there! The driftwood spheres I picked up at HomeSense…it’s like HomeGoods..I’d check there! Thanks for your sweet comments!!
No beach nearby, but I adore the decor. For summer I love these beautiful colors and your husbands silver mug is a treasure. THANKS for not painting it!
I was so excited to read your post and to find that you have other lovely mantels for me to look at. There are 5 lovely mantels in the old house that I will be decorating for Christmas and so definately need some inspiration.
Thanks so much
Becky
You have 5 Mantels!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow – that’s so fabulous Becky!!!! And I must say I’m so jealous – lol – all those mantels to decorate sounds so great! Thanks for your lovely comments! I’m sure you will have so much fun decorating your home and mantels for the seasons and especially for Christmas!!
Hi, Heather. Love, love, love your mantel! As a Looksi Curator, I chose it as part of my beach/nautical themed collection for this month and I’m including it in a beach inspired round up on my site next week. No worries, everything links right back to this post. But I wanted to let you know how awesome it was! I had to choose 15 projects, and this was a “must have” in my collection!
I love your beachy thememed decor and especially the mirror what a stunning piece.
I LOVE the mantel Heather! Beautiful!
Heather I so love your beach inspired mantel! I had to feature it today. It’s simply beautiful!
Cheers to you and yours,
Therese @ Fresh Idea Studio
I love these stuffs. These are so adorable. These would surely bring elegance to one’s home.
WhiteLightProductions.com
I love these stuffs. These are so adorable. These would surely bring elegance to one’s home.
WhiteLightProductions.com
What a beautiful mantle! Can’t wait to see what you do this summer!
Beautiful mantel… I’d love to see you link it up at Off the Hook Monday!
Rebecca | Little Monkeys Crochet
Amazing! I recently had my bedroom painted Mindful Gray, I love the mirror. Where did you buy it?
Isn’t Mindful Gray gorgeous??? I imagine your bedroom is stunning in that color!! I bought the mirror at HomeGoods! 🙂 Heather