Your mantle is calling for your decorating prowess.

If you’re in proud ownership of a mantle this holiday season, Halloween is the perfect time to kick off your decorating prowess. A well-plumed mantle can set the holiday tone for the entire house. Get your mantle right and you might not even bother with the front stoop.

By our count you have exactly three opportunities to perfect your mantle before the end of 2011: now, as in Halloween; Thanksgiving; Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza. Here are 25 exceptionally well-executed ideas to get you started.

Word of warning, I’m about to delve in Addams Family kitsch. These mantles are creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky.

You get the idea.

via Boopsie Daisy

via Just a Girl

via Home Design Interiors

via Second Sister

via Homestories A 2 Z

via The Shabby Chic Cottage

via Langes Fädchen, Faules Mädchen

via Poetic Home

via How I Keep Sane

via La Beau Rêve

via Mandajuice

via Wendy Copley

via Shaggy

via Shelterness

via Southern Living

via Little Miss Momma

via The Shabby Nest

via My Insanity

via Home By Heidi

via Modern Homes Interior Design

via Pottery Barn

via I Heart Nap Time

via Martha Stewart

Images: Occulta Gemini; Boopsie Daisy; Just a Girl; Home Design Interiors; Second Sister; Homestories A 2 Z; The Shabby Chic Cottage; Langes Fädchen, Faules Mädchen; Poetic Home; How I Keep Sane; La Beau Rêve; Mandajuice; Wendy Copley; Shaggy; Shelterness; Southern Living; Little Miss Momma; The Shabby Nest; My Insanity; Home By Heidi; Modern Homes Interior Design; Pottery Barn; I Heart Nap Time; Martha Stewart

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