With Halloween around the corner, the focus is often on scary makeup and fancy dress. However, if you’re lucky enough to have a beautiful fireplace mantel or log burner in your home this is the perfect place to bring some extra Halloween spirit into the household. In this article, we’ll help you elevate your spooky fireplace set-up to bring a chic Halloween design to your wood-burning stove or fireplace.

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Think Orange Accents for Halloween
Accessorise Your Fireplace with Pumpkins
Add Candles for Ambience
Spooky Scene Halloween Mantel Decor
Halloween Decor for a Media Wall Fireplace

Your fireplace is a great feature in your home and what better place is there to create a beautiful festive display to bring some spooky atmosphere into the heart of your home? Your fireplace works as a centrepiece area in your living room, a place of gathering every day and on important occasions. The presence of a fireplace or mantle and especially a working fireplace with a real fire offers the opportunity to create a Halloween mood with orange & white accents.

Decorating your fireplace with beautiful pastel orange colours isn’t difficult and you don’t need to spend much money to create a Halloween scene. Orange, green and white pumpkins are the best colours to flesh out your fireplace with on point accents, these decorations work very well on black cast iron surrounds or limestone fireplaces. Whatever your personality or taste in style Halloween gives you a great opportunity to go wild and create adorable decorations for your mantel, we’ve included some Halloween-inspired fireplace images below to help inspire you to create a creepy Halloween scene in your home.

The natural flame from a log burner brings its magical allure and almost gothic atmosphere which is perfect for the Halloween season. The most simple and effective way to bring Halloween into your living space is to introduce various size pumpkins onto your fireplace hearth. You shouldn't feel like you need to limit yourself to the round classic orange pumpkins either, you can pick various sizes, colours and odd shapes as the variation offers a ghostly theme and lends itself to a general autumn decor.

Candles and tabletop lanterns are some of the most important Halloween accessories used in decorating the fireplace and mantle. They offer a classic appearance but extra low level light helps to achieve the feeling of Halloween. 

If you’re looking for an eco friendly tabletop candle that will create an eerie flicker then a Tenderflame candle is a must. These small tabletop candles offer a captivating ambience by creating a smokeless & odourless flame. Table fire with Tenderflame is particularly safe thanks to the patented wick, the fire goes out immediately after the wick is no longer in contact with the fuel. These odourless table candles come in various designs, look for some of the copper and wood effect models if you’re wanting autumn or Christmas vibes.

To get into a spooky Halloween spirit, decorate your mantel with old portrait paintings, a mirror with cobwebs or silhouettes with witch hats, pitchforks and scythes to make for the ultimate ghoulish look. An extra bit of dim light on your fireplace hearth also adds to the atmosphere.

A simple and cost effective way to update your fireplace for Halloween is to add paper bats attached to swoops of black string or trimming held with black upholstery tacks. Creating a classy Halloween-themed home is all about balancing the spooky elements with sophisticated and elegant touches. Your wood burner is always the main focal point of your room even more so during the autumn and winter seasons. With your wood burner bellowing out cost warmth you’ll be embracing the the season but also creating an ambience that is memorable and like no other. Whether you’re hosting a Halloween party or just enjoying the atmosphere with family ensure your fireplace and home for that matter stands out this Halloween.

You can get moody this Halloween by purchasing a media wall electric fire with an LED mood lighting kit. You can easily adjust the settings to show green, orange or purple colours to further enhance your media fireplace.

Over this ghoulish season, we're giving this free lighting kit away when you purchase any Gazco electric fire that is compatible. We've included some of the electric fires eligible for the offer below.