Clever ways to hang stockings when one hasn't a mantle, please!

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So, the last couple of years in my house (no mantle...), I've just laid the stockings out under the tree, which I don't like. I want to hang them, but the wall (which probably has a Victorian fireplace behind it!) has been plastered over and it's just a solid wall...no shelf or anything across it. I toyed with getting a fire surround for that wall and then, I dunno, putting candles in it or something, but I don't have the funds to do it. So, any ideas for cleverly displaying/hanging stockings in my lounge when you don't have a mantle?

We hang them from the bannister going up the stairs.

We put them on beds, despite having two mantels.

Now I'm seriously considering constructing a faux mantle from pallets and/or wooden logs. Thanks, Pinterest.

Not ideal, but we hang ours on the curtain tie back hooks on the wall. Once the big man has been, they are stood up on the sofas next to their haul. We do have a bookcase and that sounds nice to use that but it's in the dining room so that doesn't seem right as all the other preps are in the living room.

I hang mine from a bottle on my wine rack. Fits on perfectly

Stockings go at the foot of the bed in our house.