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 the publisher and owner of the Design and Lifestyle website 
Amanda says
June 14, 2013 at 1:08 pmI long for the beach…going in July thought! Super excited. I just love this mantel!
Amanda @ Dreamsicle Sisters
Heather SettingforFour says
June 14, 2013 at 9:07 pmI’m glad you like my Mantel Amanda and have fun at the beach!
Shannon Fox says
June 14, 2013 at 2:47 pmWhat a fresh, pretty Sea Inspired mantel. Love the beach feel, and the candle do glow so prettily!!
Heather SettingforFour says
June 14, 2013 at 9:08 pmI love candles Shannon, they are just so relaxing and a mantel is a great place to place them! Thanks for your lovely comments!
Jessi @ Practically Functional says
June 14, 2013 at 2:57 pmLove it, it looks so pretty! Pinning!
Angelina- JoJo & Eloise says
June 14, 2013 at 4:26 pmThis 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
Heather SettingforFour says
June 14, 2013 at 9:14 pmThanks so much for your super-sweet comments Angelina!! I agree it’s been fun to party with you again!! 😀
Kim Wilson says
June 14, 2013 at 4:47 pmSo pretty! I love that driftwood sphere too! Pinned & shared the beachy goodness!
Heather SettingforFour says
June 14, 2013 at 9:09 pmThank you Kim! The driftwood spheres are such a great touch of texture!
Becca says
June 14, 2013 at 5:39 pmSuch 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.)
Heather SettingforFour says
June 14, 2013 at 9:13 pmThank 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!
Courtney ~ French Country Cottage says
June 14, 2013 at 11:10 pmLove this coastal inspired mantel~ soo pretty!! The silver mixed with the driftwood and candles- gorgeous. That mirror is perfect too! 🙂
Heather SettingforFour says
June 15, 2013 at 4:25 amThanks Courtney! Coming from you those are such amazing compliments – tx!!
[email protected] says
June 15, 2013 at 1:29 amso so pretty, heather!!! love it! sadly, my mantel has been neglected since easter. heehee
Heather SettingforFour says
June 15, 2013 at 4:23 amThanks Jocie – so glad you like it!
My name is Rita says
June 16, 2013 at 2:13 amI 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
Heather SettingforFour says
June 18, 2013 at 2:17 pmThanks for the invite to your party! I linked up!
Kim M says
June 16, 2013 at 1:59 pmYour 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! 🙂
Heather SettingforFour says
June 18, 2013 at 2:17 pmThanks so much for your lovely comments Kim! I love this wall color too – Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray!
Marty Walden says
June 18, 2013 at 1:54 pmThis is beautiful, Heather! I love seeing your talent just explode!
Heather SettingforFour says
June 18, 2013 at 2:16 pmWow – 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!!
Randi~Dukes and Duchesses says
June 19, 2013 at 5:45 pmSo pretty and so summery … I love it!
Heather SettingforFour says
June 20, 2013 at 11:24 amThanks Randi!
Krista thehappyhousie says
June 25, 2013 at 4:53 amSo gorgeous! I love your mantel… the perfect mix of sparkle and rustic touches:)
Heather SettingforFour says
June 25, 2013 at 4:56 amThanks Krista – I’m glad you like it!
Joanna Johnson says
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For My Love Of says
June 26, 2013 at 7:10 pmWow! 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!
Heather SettingforFour says
June 28, 2013 at 7:28 pmYes 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!!
renée @ Singing With Birds says
July 8, 2013 at 12:54 pmNo 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!
One Shabby Old House says
July 8, 2013 at 11:02 pmI 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
Heather SettingforFour says
July 9, 2013 at 12:58 amYou 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!!
Carrie @ My Favorite Finds says
July 16, 2013 at 8:55 pmHi, 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!
Michelle says
July 17, 2013 at 5:03 amI love your beachy thememed decor and especially the mirror what a stunning piece.
Katie @ Creatively Living says
July 19, 2013 at 5:20 amI LOVE the mantel Heather! Beautiful!
Therese Feeman says
July 26, 2013 at 3:50 pmHeather 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
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malia says
April 17, 2014 at 2:48 pmWhat a beautiful mantle! Can’t wait to see what you do this summer!
Rebecca | Little Monkeys Crochet says
June 10, 2014 at 12:39 pmBeautiful mantel… I’d love to see you link it up at Off the Hook Monday!
Rebecca | Little Monkeys Crochet
Staci says
November 8, 2014 at 5:14 amAmazing! I recently had my bedroom painted Mindful Gray, I love the mirror. Where did you buy it?
heather says
November 10, 2014 at 7:49 pmIsn’t Mindful Gray gorgeous??? I imagine your bedroom is stunning in that color!! I bought the mirror at HomeGoods! 🙂 Heather