Halloween Mantel Decor: 14 Ideas That Look Elegant, Not Costumey
Fourteen Halloween mantel decor ideas with real dimensions, candle specifics and costs — plus how to keep classy Halloween decor elegant rather than plastic orange.Continue Reading
Quinn Parker is the pen name of a residential interior designer with around fifteen years in the field — more than ten in the Atlanta area, and the last five in the Pacific Northwest. Working with a home design company, she has worked on hundreds of homes, on everything from single-room decor refreshes to full remodels. She writes under a pen name because her day job makes publishing under her own name a conflict of interest; everything she describes here, she has actually done.
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