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samedi 19 décembre 2015

Tips On Decorating Rustic Fireplace Mantels

By Nancy Harris


An old look usually has a lot of inspiration and character to offer when featured in a room. A fireplace mantle is one of the possible areas in a house where such decoration blends in effortlessly. This makes the rustic fireplace mantels one of the most sort-after ways to spice up living rooms all over the world. This is because they tend to offer great character asides warming up the room and revealing to the eyes great elegance and beauty.

Old seasoned and rough edged timber taken from old barns and houses can be used to create a rustic feel when decorating a fireplace mantle with. They tend to look the rough and tough to the eye and touch making the mantle seems artless. Carvings can also be made in a bid to decorate the wood used. The wood can be of different varieties such as pine and white oak among many others.

A stone built mantle usually has much bucolic character. The earthly elements; bricks or stones can be loosely arranged in a pattern or random making the mantle look aged and a bit rough. The arrangement can also be made different shapes and patterns in order to achieve more traditional designs would give the fireplace a rustic look.

Pictures, art or portraits can also be able to transform a fireplace from a modern look-alike hearth to a pastoral one. Old paintings give a feelings old age to a walls and the mantle. They can be the cheapest way to decorate the mantle since they do not have to be expensive, only of the right color and texture and they will do just fine.

Color inspires the feel to a place or room. Therefore, color of paint can change the look from a normal to old and rustic looking wall or mantle. Painting techniques applied to some colors like vintage white oak, red oak among others have an effect to make thing look old, rough and tough. Therefore, if the painting is done in the right way, the final outlook would be nothing less from natural.

Sculptures and ornaments placed in a hearth mantle usually have a great effect in the look and feel of a mantle. Old age and unfinished sculptures inspire an impression of pre modern times to a place or thing. Therefore, having such aged sculptures would paint and impression of a mantel, unrefined to the eye. This includes wood carvings, metal sculptures and ornaments collected on the past.

A themed setting on top of a shelf or the mantle can make the hearth look more sylvan. A picture of a farm setting cut into stone or wood and artifacts from a certain place or country can make the mood be reminiscent to and old place. This will give a natural feel to mantle.

Therefore, since the rustic hearth mantels are sensitive and more characterized, it is important to be very precise while decorating. Overdoing the decoration makes the mantle look cluttered and messy. One should pay close attention to the looks while decorating. But since decoration is all about personal choices and preferences, there is also room left for innovation and creativeness.




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