Creative Fireplace Mantel - Arranging and Wall Decorating Tips

Do you ever wish you didn't have a fireplace in your home, plainly because it's such a decorating mystery? A new mantel shelf could change your mind. It may not be the mantelpiece, but how to dress it up with inviting wall decorating and accessories that is so confounding. The following tips will help you arrive at that perfect arrangement colse to your fireplace..

Furniture Arrangement

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Furniture should write back the proximity of the fireplace, and never bar passage to it. An easy furniture arrangement is a U shape, with the fireplace at the top of the U. Though the fireplace is the focal point, you don't have to point every piece of furniture toward it. For instance, you can place wing back chairs on whether side of a fireplace, facing into the room at a diagonal. Place an occasional table in in the middle of for cozy fireside reading and board games. Position a small couch and loveseat opposite each other and perpendicular to the fireplace. In a small room, place a flat screen television over the fireplace mantel.

Creative Fireplace Mantel - Arranging and Wall Decorating Tips

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Topiary and the Art of Training Plants is a complete guide to the art and craft of creating increasingly popular and surprisingly low-maintenance decorative garden effects.

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Wall Decor

A peek inside an interior decorating book at wall décor colse to fireplaces will affirm the many ways pictures or art can be displayed on a wall. But not every arrangement and wall decorating idea is pleasing to the eye. For those of us who are not designers, here are a few suggestions:

• The simplest clarification is a single, large framed work of art, a print, or photo. Town it slightly toward the mantel.
• Position equally sized framed pictures close together to form a larger shape.
• Hang a attractive wall mirror in a frame that complements the motif.
• Install attractive wall sconces on whether side of the mantel to set off framed art.
• Line the fireplace mantel shelf with framed black and white photos of distinct sizes, with the unifying factor of a singular color frame.

Fireplace Mantel

Before you bedeck your fireplace mantel, consider what you want to show off, and the impression you want to give. Since the fireplace is your focal point, what do you want visitors to see? What do you want to enjoy seeing at day after day?

Your fireplace mantel should also reflect the general feel of the room. Is it:

• Formal? consider candlesticks, vases, a mantel clock, and brass wall sconces.
• Lived-in-casual? Use natural, eclectic elements like fresh flowers, a silk topiary, or drift wood. Merge glass in a less formal vein with lanterns, a clock under a glass dome, or a range of ancient bottles. Wrought iron wall sconces add a critical grounding color for neutral palettes and feature any wall decorating display above the mantel.
• Victorian? The Victorians were fond of their collections. Feel free to busy up your mantel with a doily runner, figurines, attractive plates, and maybe a vase with peacock feathers.
• Minimalist? Place a singular sculpture, whether centered on the mantel or on a side of the mantel that faces a angle while the other is open.
• Cottage-by-the-beach? arrange a range of similar colored but varying sized shells across the mantel. Or agree items you treasure, like a jar of sea glass or a cast iron anchor.

Follow the 3 plus 1 rule for easy mantel displays: Place 3 similar items close to one end, and one larger item on the other (as large as the collective 3, but no taller than the Town of the photo or mirror over the mantel). Another easy arrangement is to place one item in the Town of the mantel, and flank it with pairs of items on whether side. One of the pairs can be similar, but not identical.

Don't feel bound by rules when arranging your fireplace mantel. Experiment with some wall decorating ideas and arrangements and layer items so they overlap. The analytical mind will prefer symmetry, and the creative eye will prefer asymmetry. Both types need some sort of balance, so play with the items until you are satisfied. If you are ever in doubt, it is good to err on the side of simplicity. Begin with an inviting mantel wall art piece, and build colse to it.

A fireplace is an enviable architectural detail in any home. Properly adorned with a suitable mantelpiece, wall décor, and other accouterments colse to it, your fireplace will become a magnificent focal point and a popular convention spot in your home for family and friends.

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