Quick & Easy Coastal Summer Mantel Decor

Add a little nautical charm to your living space with these simple coastal summer mantel ideas. With DIY beach canvas art, blue & white starfish, a textured sailor’s knot and cheerfully striped sailboats, this mantel is perfect for anyone in a seasonal mood.

Whether you live near the beach or simply dream of setting sail, you’ll love how a summer mantel brings coastal character to your living space.

Add a little nautical charm to your living space with these simple coastal summer mantel decor ideas. Featuring DIY beach canvas art, blue & white starfish, textured sailor's knot and cheerfully striped sail boats, this mantel looks great for the seasonally inspired.

Maybe it’s the crazy end of the school year, or the fact that we’re home between two trips, but I haven’t had much time to decorate my summer mantel. Sure, I could wait until things settle down in a few weeks. Haha!! Who am I kidding? Things never settle down in summer. They ramp up!

So I decided to grab what I already had on hand and decorate with that. A big disclaimer: several items on my mantel are new. I just either didn’t buy them this week or didn’t buy them for this summer mantel. It just worked out this way.

A coastal summer mantel decor ideas. Add a little nautical charm to your living space with these simple coastal summer mantel decor ideas. Featuring DIY beach canvas art, blue & white starfish, textured sailor's knot and cheerfully striped sail boats, this mantel looks great for the seasonally inspired.

The items I bought for summer were purchased a couple of months ago and have been sitting in my summer decor stash. I happened to pick them up while already out shopping for something else. (The collection I bought them from is called the Sand and Sea Decor Collection, and I really want it all!)

And the bay leaf topiaries have been sitting in my checkout cart for months. I finally had the cash to buy them, and they were on sale this week, so they’re new. And because they’re new, I wanted to use them in my newest decor spot!

Summer is when I fully embrace all things turquoise and coastal, which are my favorites, but they don’t exactly go with Christmas in north Alabama. So I go all out in summer and don’t even care that I live a good 6 hours from the nearest ocean.

I made the DIY framed canvas art last year from a photo I took, a canvas and some extra wood I had lying around. I loved it so much that I decided it would be the best mantel anchor again this year! See the full tutorial here.

I hope my mantel inspires you to break out some summer decor of your own! I’ll have more photos in my summer home tour in just a few weeks, so stay tuned for that!

Have a great day!

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